Friday [7 to 11]

(1002) When you get this sort of backlog, before going to NOWP again or doing the blog rounds:

… then it’s going to be a long day … have to just take them one by one. (1103)

11.  This 👇🏻

10.  Drinking

9.  Sam Vega at AKH

There is a serious problem with younger voters, which is that they can't remember a time when things were different from now. Explain the Seventies and the 3-day week to them, and they would think it sounds great compared to more rule by the Tory scum they have been taught to despise. Lots of middle-aged remainers were like that: deeply conservative due to fear of what they don't personally know.

Have you noticed how Labour are keen on enfranchising 16 year olds and recent immigrants?

8.  AKH

https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/04/lets-repeat-hs2-success-story.html

Labour knows it isn't going to work, GBR cannot compete successfully with the budgetary demands of the NHS, education and other loud voices on the political stage. It isn't going to work and Labour knows it. We may as well assume that there is an internal calculation suggesting that enough voters don't know it, particularly younger voters.

Incidentally, hope AKH understands I had to distance myself from any talk of dentistry … not a pleasant topic. :)

7.  The three letter sites

Now this thing Toby’s getting his knickers into a knot over … call me obtuse but is there something … er … wrong about oil and gas? Nuclear? Fracking? 

Our Steve:

Chris Packham is a complete tool - the BBC will never push back on him because he's a valued member of their 'settled science' groupthink that includes David Attenborough. Some years ago I was doing a spot of fly fishing in the Itchen with my nephew when he passed behind us with a camera crew in tow. He's local so I wasn't that surprised to see him. If I saw him again today I'd ask him how a trace gas that is 0.04% of the atmosphere is overheating the planet - bearing in mind that this same gas is at historically low levels when compared to the past. It's no good looking at a few hundred years with climate: a few tens of thousands of years will tell you that the Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age. That is all.