Jonn Elledge

I am very pleased with my book indeed.

We've done this in a smaller scale at @winchester.gov.uk. Much of our recent council housing is S106 obligations, but some is so-called "additionality" where we buy new market housing for council use.

been on Andrew Keen talking about cities and Inventions and so forth substack.com/@keenon/note...

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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I now intend to turn up to interview Jonn with a series of placards and a megaphone.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Mourinho was once asked to come up with the saddest five-a-side team ever. This is what he wrote: Forssell, Bebe, Schuurs, Neville, Warne

wow, shocked to hear James call for the resumption of capital punishment, but it's a cogent argument

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If the Republicans lose big, Trump may not be gracious in defeat. Here's 18 things that will definitely happen if Trump is whopped in the midterms 💥 👇 ✍️ @jonnelledge.bsky.social

been on Andrew Keen talking about cities and Inventions and so forth substack.com/@keenon/note...

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

It's easy to laugh at Liz Truss

A brief look at two very different reviews of Doctor Who by the two very different men who reviewed it for The Spectator at the turn of the 1970s. Free to read on the site, but you can always pick up a free or paid subscription while you're there. buttondown.com/cooray_smith...

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The British syndrome, summarised: 78% of us say our high streets are important to us. But only 28% of us actually use their local high street even once a week – and only 53% of people said they used theirs *once a month*. We won't use it, and we won't lose it.

Interesting thread

Counterpoint: CEOs should look at their companies as if they needed to provide a service for every citizen, constantly renew their social licence to operate, and plan for the long term wellbeing of the whole country. www.ft.com/content/8255...

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

The Economist indulging in playground insults? Classy.

can't sleep, skimming old posts, call this one right didn't I

All of which means that the answer to the question “why is Portugal a nation” is, basically, “because it is”. You can see points in the story where it could have been otherwise – but none of those things happened.

you’re the government! you figure out how to store water for emergencies and how to get it to people! that’s your fucking job!

sorry, but the British government now apparently envisages a scenario that would require me to keep forty eight litres of drinking water in my house for emergencies? oh right I’ll just shove it in the reservoir I’ve got in the back bedroom then

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All of which means that the answer to the question “why is Portugal a nation” is, basically, “because it is”. You can see points in the story where it could have been otherwise – but none of those things happened.

It is a mark of how far politics has fallen that, when a prime minister says he wants to make the argument for something potentially unpopular, there's a chorus of gasps and cheers. He's not done anything! This is not a high bar to clear! And yet.

hanging out with @garvanwalshe.org and he pointed out the woman at the next table was reading my book in Polish. peaked

Weren’t you the guy who wrote that book I listened to about, umm let me think, maps.

this painting reminds me so strongly of a novel I read recently that I genuinely wonder if the author has seen it (yes I am being vague to see if anyone gets it thus demonstrating this is not just me)

The border geek in me loves when Jonn does this stuff but this particular one I knew already :-D What was fascinating to the linguistics geek in me was the British to American translation at the bottom: we learn the actual objects, pavement/sidewalk, jam/jelly but colloquiallisms can be weird

Don't listen to Jonn - we did this in Edinburgh & I can't tell you how damaging it was. At the time i assumed the warnings - from Airbnb lobbyists who cared nothing for the city - were a load of hysterical shit but it turned out they were right. No one comes to Edinburgh now - it's a ghost town.