Kenneth Freeman

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Somehow seems apt today

Another odd feature was that the Tory winner was pretty invisible - just the one leaflet and no door-knocking. I guess he knew where his voters were. Reform sent so many leaflets (must have spent a fortune) and had a lot of door knockers - a very visible campaign. Lib Dems also made quite an effort

and I'm very glad that they did

Hextable usually returns independents - or certainly has done in recent years. The Kent County Council division that the village sits in (which includes a part of Swanley) has a Reform county councillor. I wouldn't say this was a traditional one-nation Tory area, to be honest

Seems like the turnout was pretty high for a district council byelection

There were hyper-local issues in Hextable, mainly about a mothballed school site that Reform-led Kent CC might want to sell, but all other candidates wanted to protect. Reform and Green candidates weren't local, all others live in the village.

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[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

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I've just found out that there is a curling club in Tunbridge Wells - I might sign up for a lesson. I play bowls in the summer, so I wonder how many skills may be transferable. Not too many, would be my guess

I'll check that out. Thank you

My mistake. 22 stones as substitute snooker balls in my hybrid ice game

We need more #curling on TV. It's only ever shown at the Winter Olympics but it is, arguably, better than snooker. It deserves much more coverage.

I also think there is scope for a hybrid snooker-curling sport played on an ice rink. Ice hockey goal nets as pockets and 23 curling stones as balls

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Oh this is brilliant from Victoria Derbyshire!

If only all journalists were like this with Reform (i.e. highlighting the truth, holding them to account, pointing out their hypocrisy and attempts at gaslighting the voters)...then they would be back down in single figures in the polls.

The next election won't be cancelled, but the one after might be.

Once fascists are given power, they rarely give it up peacefully.

Happy Darwin Day to my fellow humanists

#biophilicdesign is usually about making buildings a 'bit more like nature'. I think we should start from the premise of making them a 'bit less UNlike nature'. Nature is where we perform best, because that is where we are biologically adapted to be.

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Which is why Labour needs to be more assertive and go on the attack and stop being so mealy-mouthed and timid.

I don't disagree.

Farage is doing almost daily press conferences. The government could do that too. They should seize the news agenda, not react to whatever crap comes out of Farage's gob.

Yes, foreign interference and bots on X are clearly there, so Labour should go on the attack, not roll over.

The product might be good (some of it, at least), but the marketing is terrible. Policies are not the same as politics, and Starmer and his team are woeful at politics

I remember the speeches, can't remember the follow through, though.

To an extent, but they were also governments driven by principles and ideology. The first Wilson govt. included members that served in the Attlee govt (as Wilson did, in a junior role, I think). They also had skilled politicians in them - charismatic people who knew how to campaign.

Don't forget the first Wilson government - transformational in a way. Abolished the death penalty, white heat of technology, equal pay, employment rights, race relations legislation, legalising homosexuality, keeping Britain out of the Vietnam war, etc. Second Wilson govt. built on those

Then stop being so frightened of Reform and the RW press, take the fight to them and start using your huge majority to do some brave and progressive things like Labour governments used to do