Pawel Swidlicki
Currently clean on OPSEC
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- I always thought the stability premium was essentially another way of shoehorning in another Truss reference but yes, in the context of an ongoing war in Europe and Trump 2.0 looming on the horizon it was a hostage to fortune
- Starmer swinging his dick at Plaid might have carried more weight had he not been a year from becoming the first Labour leader to lose Wales
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- Cameron had a bit of an unpleasant streak which occasionally poked through but he could also be charming and magnanimous, Starmer doesn't have that range
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- That too, but more generally the idea that he was in any way an interesting, original and credible thinker, getting invited onto Newsnight etc
- Starmer describing the situation in Gaza as "intolerable" suggests we will not tolerate it, whereas I expect we will, in fact, continue to tolerate it
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- One of my foundational political beliefs is that Brown should never have apologised to Gillian Duffy
- Love the replies to this that are saying things like “this is getting traction because the right and centrists want to attack the Greens”. No. It’s getting traction because it is, above all, funny. It’s funny that someone in their 30s would have this as their business!
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View full threadI do find it funny how this debate invariably gets characterised as being about 'middle class' cocaine users when its use is prevalent all across society, e.g. see Figure 6 here (I know income is not perfect proxy for class but it is correlated) www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
- But even so, assuming people will still buy drugs anyway, then yes, doing so in a way that doesn't otherwise facilitate crime would be an improvement
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- Fair point, but you could still cut out a lot of the stages of the current process at which criminality is compounded
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- Depends on the design of any specific scheme but in principle it should be the opposite, i.e. the current model facilitates cartels, e.g. consumers can't just buy direct from producers
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- Is Hinkle the one who used to get ripped for his imaginary experiences at hipster coffee shops?
