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Sean Kenny
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Mostly grumpy.
Quite likes climbing rocks.
London.
Also we have had a go at pulling the bad levers.
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
But also, going by memory, she was really unpopular in her first term. The Thatcher of popular imagination takes quite a bit from her later terms when the oil and privatisations had kicked in.
November 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Presumably Thatcher pulled the easy* lever marked “liberalise labour markets” which is now not available.

* Not at all easy but easier than whatever needs to happen now.
November 12, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Look how happy the grey brigade were at losing winter fuel allowance. If young people must suffer so the old can luxuriate, that is how it must be.

(I totally agree with you obviously.)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Bluesky has a lot of posters who live in London. The good people of Morecambe, or Scunthorpe, etc who do have spare bedrooms have better things to do.
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It absolutely is. Amazingly I flew Juba-Nairobi-Bangkok and my bag did too. That pile of bags in the middle of departures seemed to function…
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The airside departure “lounge” smelt of kerosene and when the flight was called, everyone ran to the plane because they were usually overbooked. Luckily I am quite fleetfooted.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
He basically stole this idea from Iain Banks’ Culture novels. It’s completely unoriginal. In the books the robots are intelligent boxes with weaponry; Musk can’t make a car whose doors open when you want them to.
November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
In the modern world it is somewhere like Chad or Afghanistan, and even they fluctuate! Most Europeans have no idea of the gulf between a middle income country like India or Thailand and the really terrible failed places.
November 11, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Did William Gibson warn us about this?
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
He has been insane about the UK for ages, as you say it puts a big question mark over his other writing about not-America.
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A well known US climber - a real Yosemite tough guy type - just came to London en route to some European climbing and was raving about it on instagram. It really does have broad appeal.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If the Era of Stupid were to abate a little it’d be curtains for old Jolyon.
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
But being triggered beats being busy! ;) As we all know. May your day be productive and enjoyable.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Indeed. Though I would be interested to see how one could describe this ideology as an ideology without being offensive, since it is apparently possible yet never seems to occur.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
But my reading of Steven’s post was that he totally was using ideology in that sense, and that it was completely inoffensive. I struggle to see correctly describing an ideology as such is really that politically charged. Lots of identities come with adjacent ideologies! That’s just how it is.
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We know there is a “trans ideology” because there are trans people who hold views opposed to that ideology, ie it is separate to their identity. It is not unkind to point this fact out…
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Same here, I can remember getting double glazing. We didn’t have central heating until the late 80s either. Lots of homes were cold back then.
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM