Tim Roll-Pickering
@timrollpickering.bsky.social
Just a random dull person who never sees the point in writing something elaborate for these.
When did LLM start meaning something ofter than Master of Laws?
August 13, 2025 at 8:02 AM
When did LLM start meaning something ofter than Master of Laws?
Perhaps send an anti-reference to the senior management recommending they sack the HR team?
July 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Perhaps send an anti-reference to the senior management recommending they sack the HR team?
What would happen to these statistics if those obsessing over them spent less time online and more time breeding?
July 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
What would happen to these statistics if those obsessing over them spent less time online and more time breeding?
It surprises me that the nickname DOGgiEs hasn't caught on for the people there.
July 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It surprises me that the nickname DOGgiEs hasn't caught on for the people there.
Contemporary polls found this was a very minority position and in no way accounted for the heavy defeat. Nor was #No2AVyes2PR a significant force (Nobody seriously believes It's David Owen Wot It except, maybe, David Owen). Anecdotes say more about one's circles.
June 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Contemporary polls found this was a very minority position and in no way accounted for the heavy defeat. Nor was #No2AVyes2PR a significant force (Nobody seriously believes It's David Owen Wot It except, maybe, David Owen). Anecdotes say more about one's circles.
The 1975 referendum was thrown back at Eurosceptics for decades, even those who hadn't even been born then. Perhaps the precedent is to wait 41 years and 18 days?
June 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The 1975 referendum was thrown back at Eurosceptics for decades, even those who hadn't even been born then. Perhaps the precedent is to wait 41 years and 18 days?
Once you take an issue to the people (and the issue is the Westminster voting system before anyone tries to deflect about something being different from AV) it is near impossible to take the decision-making on that issue back. The time to say no to referendums was pre 2011.
June 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Once you take an issue to the people (and the issue is the Westminster voting system before anyone tries to deflect about something being different from AV) it is near impossible to take the decision-making on that issue back. The time to say no to referendums was pre 2011.
I seem to recall during the Truss weeks MPs were doing so much that the Chairman of the 1922 Committee had to consider nailing up his letterbox.
June 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I seem to recall during the Truss weeks MPs were doing so much that the Chairman of the 1922 Committee had to consider nailing up his letterbox.
Meanwhile the ERS & other groups make little effort to persuade the right on this & on a rare occasion when the then ERS chief executive made outreach she was forced out of her next job for it
And time & again the examples of "better politics" are left-wing dreams. Where are the right-wing examples?
And time & again the examples of "better politics" are left-wing dreams. Where are the right-wing examples?
June 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Meanwhile the ERS & other groups make little effort to persuade the right on this & on a rare occasion when the then ERS chief executive made outreach she was forced out of her next job for it
And time & again the examples of "better politics" are left-wing dreams. Where are the right-wing examples?
And time & again the examples of "better politics" are left-wing dreams. Where are the right-wing examples?
Are they ones who actually teach Public Law or Human Rights Law year in year out or are they in a totally different field but have social media bios that obscure their lack of actual engagement?
June 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Are they ones who actually teach Public Law or Human Rights Law year in year out or are they in a totally different field but have social media bios that obscure their lack of actual engagement?
Is it going to result in the most beautiful space in the White House car park?
June 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Is it going to result in the most beautiful space in the White House car park?
I recall that Corbyn's chances of winning could be seen in polls even before he was nominated in 2015, though the only live link I can find is me rather jokingly calling for Conservative MPs to step in and get him on the ballot paper just before Toby Young began #Tories4Corbyn x.com/timrollpicke...
Tim Roll-Pickering on X: "Please can 20 Conservative MPs defect to Labour for a few days, nominate @jeremycorbyn for leader then defect back. http://t.co/fwsFobSd1j" / X
Please can 20 Conservative MPs defect to Labour for a few days, nominate @jeremycorbyn for leader then defect back. http://t.co/fwsFobSd1j
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June 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I recall that Corbyn's chances of winning could be seen in polls even before he was nominated in 2015, though the only live link I can find is me rather jokingly calling for Conservative MPs to step in and get him on the ballot paper just before Toby Young began #Tories4Corbyn x.com/timrollpicke...
There was also a significant block of voters who supported full independence, out of both the UK and the EU, a combination that hasn't had a significant party backing it in modern times (although it was once SNP policy) and leaves that block hunting around for whichever is the more immediate option.
June 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
There was also a significant block of voters who supported full independence, out of both the UK and the EU, a combination that hasn't had a significant party backing it in modern times (although it was once SNP policy) and leaves that block hunting around for whichever is the more immediate option.
...get a say.
(Hague was also weakened by contemporary polls of sections of the party - peers, MEPs, National Union officials and constituency chairmen - though IIRC actual members were not polled - that all firmly chose Clarke. That made it hard to resist the case.)
(Hague was also weakened by contemporary polls of sections of the party - peers, MEPs, National Union officials and constituency chairmen - though IIRC actual members were not polled - that all firmly chose Clarke. That made it hard to resist the case.)
June 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
...get a say.
(Hague was also weakened by contemporary polls of sections of the party - peers, MEPs, National Union officials and constituency chairmen - though IIRC actual members were not polled - that all firmly chose Clarke. That made it hard to resist the case.)
(Hague was also weakened by contemporary polls of sections of the party - peers, MEPs, National Union officials and constituency chairmen - though IIRC actual members were not polled - that all firmly chose Clarke. That made it hard to resist the case.)
...uphold the supposed divine wisdom of MPs when vast swathes of the party were disgusted with the way the parliamentary party had behaved in the Major years. The media and other parties pilloried the Conservatives over this and just about every leadership candidate conceded that members would...
June 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
...uphold the supposed divine wisdom of MPs when vast swathes of the party were disgusted with the way the parliamentary party had behaved in the Major years. The media and other parties pilloried the Conservatives over this and just about every leadership candidate conceded that members would...
...public and make the case against - most articulate MPs were on leadership campaigns. Sir Archibald Hamilton, the 1922 Chairman (and apparently my then-local MP but I never saw him in the local office and only once met him on the streets) was atrocious at countering the arguments, trying to...
June 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
...public and make the case against - most articulate MPs were on leadership campaigns. Sir Archibald Hamilton, the 1922 Chairman (and apparently my then-local MP but I never saw him in the local office and only once met him on the streets) was atrocious at countering the arguments, trying to...
Started listening. One point that is now forgotten - the shift in the Conservatives wasn't a Hague idea but was actually a grassroots campaign that got a voice in 1997. Activists, especially those suddenly without a local Conservative MP, were calling for a say. Very few were willing to go in...
June 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Started listening. One point that is now forgotten - the shift in the Conservatives wasn't a Hague idea but was actually a grassroots campaign that got a voice in 1997. Activists, especially those suddenly without a local Conservative MP, were calling for a say. Very few were willing to go in...
It will be very difficult to amend the party constitution to do that.
And many members feel the real problem are the MPs a) only selecting two names and b) engaging in silly tactics that result in the members getting a poor choice. It wasn't the members who rejected Penny Mordaunt or James Cleverly
And many members feel the real problem are the MPs a) only selecting two names and b) engaging in silly tactics that result in the members getting a poor choice. It wasn't the members who rejected Penny Mordaunt or James Cleverly
June 6, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It will be very difficult to amend the party constitution to do that.
And many members feel the real problem are the MPs a) only selecting two names and b) engaging in silly tactics that result in the members getting a poor choice. It wasn't the members who rejected Penny Mordaunt or James Cleverly
And many members feel the real problem are the MPs a) only selecting two names and b) engaging in silly tactics that result in the members getting a poor choice. It wasn't the members who rejected Penny Mordaunt or James Cleverly
That's a handle?!?!?!
June 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
That's a handle?!?!?!
This strikes me as one of the problems the EEC/EU was always going to have with the UK. For most countries membership was seen as a result of success, of having made it and overcome 20th century history.
For the UK it was seen as a result of failure and it's hard to be deeply enthusiastic about that
For the UK it was seen as a result of failure and it's hard to be deeply enthusiastic about that
June 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This strikes me as one of the problems the EEC/EU was always going to have with the UK. For most countries membership was seen as a result of success, of having made it and overcome 20th century history.
For the UK it was seen as a result of failure and it's hard to be deeply enthusiastic about that
For the UK it was seen as a result of failure and it's hard to be deeply enthusiastic about that
My not-too-well-researched instinct is that the big shift occurred around about 1990 when variouslt the Delors TUC speech, the Bruge Speech, Factortame, the fall of Thatcher, end of the Cold War, the ERM and Maastricht all occurred and modern Euroscepticism was born. Did your research bear this out?
June 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My not-too-well-researched instinct is that the big shift occurred around about 1990 when variouslt the Delors TUC speech, the Bruge Speech, Factortame, the fall of Thatcher, end of the Cold War, the ERM and Maastricht all occurred and modern Euroscepticism was born. Did your research bear this out?
Wasn't Vanguard proposing a Yes vote?
June 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Wasn't Vanguard proposing a Yes vote?
Farage doesn't even live in Kent. No idea about Yusuf.
June 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Farage doesn't even live in Kent. No idea about Yusuf.
Regardless of everything else, that letter should be brutally rejected for the needless use of the serial comma. I always feel one of the greatest achievements of the Truss Government (okay not a high bar) was the Deputy Prime Minister's style guide deprecating it.
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Regardless of everything else, that letter should be brutally rejected for the needless use of the serial comma. I always feel one of the greatest achievements of the Truss Government (okay not a high bar) was the Deputy Prime Minister's style guide deprecating it.