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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 34m

Glad I have seen it before... even if the last time was thirty years ago. Think I'll wait until it's back in Bayeux before trying to see it again...

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 5h

The problem with IHT is the way it delays probate and thus prolongs the grieving and moving on period. Better to tax legacies, which also encourages testators to distribute their wealth more widely.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 20h

Indeed. Maybe if politicians had to work for membership income rather than schmoozing billionaire donors. And charge the Electoral Commission with maximising turnout as well as ensuring integrity.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 22h

We do have Australia as an example and can look at how the issues @legalclaret.bsky.social raises are dealt with there. FWIW I think there are less illiberal, but probably more expensive, ways of increasing democratic engagement. .

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Chinese will get there first.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

and clear the table and put the things in the dishwasher and empty the dishwasher and pick up clothes and put them in the wash and change the bedsheets.... this is what we want. Not something to do our fun stuff for us.

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KateAL @katieal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I rather ENJOY reading books rather than reading being some dull task I’d like AI to do. Now if AI could vacuum our cluttered tiny place with awkward stairs; lift up and down all the shoes 👞 and things, and vacuum under them back tidier… and empty itself with no dust.. and sell stuff on Vinted..

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Grenfell and our polluted rivers

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Tories have had over two years to come up with a broad set of new policies and they've reverted to their same old mean spirited small minded ones they have had for decades. More austerity and the type of deregulation that led to Grenfell.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One word beginning with R - is it a new even more boring Radio 4 programme or a new even more fascist political party? You never know these days...

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If I knew when, I would be shorting the shit out of the relevant stocks.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It bears ALL the hallmarks of a major financial crash. Asset inflation, over-gearing (leverage), circularity - buying your customer's stock so they keep on buying your kit. The only uncertainty is when it will happen, but happen it will. Tulips and beyond.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

which begs the question as to why or how this particular motion got as far as it did. It can take ages - years - for a motion to make it to the Conference agenda.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is absolutely right. If chatbots have agency, it is because a programmer game them agency (or allowed it to emerge). AI operators, human or corporate, are responsible for ALL of what the AI does.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Green motion is an abject failure for so many reason but it is also exactly how online debate styles transfer to real political spaces. We're increasingly in times where everything is black or white and everything in between is a screaming match that takes the entire progressive movement down.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm certainly considering leaving. I think this vote will certainly have cost us any chance we had in Thursday's byelection. But also, I also don't think flouncing is the right solution. Stay and fight the entryism.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

hmm. 400 online attendees left immediately after that vote. Twice the majority by which it passed. Not sure online attending is actually working to prevent entryism

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes. We do loads of online voting for candidate selection and positions in the hierarchy. No reason we couldn't use it for policy too. A conference vote for a big (or controversial) policy change should trigger a membership poll.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Where to begin? I'd make conference votes indicative, not binding, for a start. And key policy decisions decided by the membership as a whole.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Anyone can attend who can afford the time, the travel, the acommodation and the conference fee. And who can tolerate interminable procedural motions from the floor of the plenary sessions.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Agree with everything you've said, but the main constitutional weakness of GPEW is conference supremacy on policy. As a member I did not get to vote on this motion (although I am constantly asked to vote for positions in the hierarchy).

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I am considering my membership as a result of this monumentally stupid vote. Unfortunately, it has been coming our way since the collapse of Corbynism.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is a desperate and failing state led by a desperate and ageing tyrant. The wounded bear.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Of all the various Sunday morning substitutes for @cerysmatthews.bsky.social, Bobby Friction is the only one to keep me listening. Great stuff, and I shall certainly be following up The Excise Department...

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI artslop is definitely evolving. The giveaways used to be weird or additional body parts. Now it's that focus thing, where the whole image is in impossible focus, unconstrained by any depth of field.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The other benefit of EEA-only is that we wouldn't have to join the Common Agricultural Policy. Although underfunded, the current nature-focused UK ag support schemes are streets ahead of the (current) CAP which is still too beholden to big agribiz.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Okaay. It wasn't that long ago that I read that America had ordered more chips than it had datacentres to put them in (or energy to power them). Supply and demand leading and lagging, nothing unusual here, as you were.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

also, tourists. Soho is full of them. And office workers' lunches - cheaper than a caff, more interesting than a sandwich. Rent on a market stall is much more affordable for traders than Soho b&m, and cooked food margins higher than veg.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

walked along Berwick St the other day. Still a "street market". But no veg, and only one over-priced fruit stall. Just loads and loads of takeaway food stalls.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Don't know about ULEZ but I do know my regular journeys round the South Circular have got much easier since the whole route switched to the 20mph limit.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rivalries within BL between all the different companies and design offices ended up producing so many half-arsed failures that could have been spectacular - like the Stag..

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have a theory that the terrible industrial relations of the post-war period had a lot to do with many of the managerial cadres being ex-military officer class too uptight to address their personal wartime trauma and subsuming it into confrontational management practices.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Instant arsehole powder. But far from being a drug only of the thuggish rabble. I'm damn sure that most of Johnson's Cabinet was often nose-down over the shiny surfaces. Not Sunak though.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

See also NYC. And even London and Paris.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For sure, they want to vote on principle. Don't we all. But engaged voters understand the importance of tacticality. And for most young ppl, anti-racism/Reform is a pretty strong principle.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

For me, specifically STV with multi-member constituencies. I think list-system PR is nearly as bad as FPTP.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think tactical voting has become pretty ingrained already. Be interesting to see how long it will take after fair votes are introduced for habits to change.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wouldn't be surprised if at least half of the proposals it gets were themselves mostly AI generated....

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

aah yes memories of trying to do so in 1975 while interrailing before going to university.... to send a postcard home. At the time there was a severe shortage of coinage in Italy. No one ever had any change. Least of all post offices.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God how depressing this whole thread is. the stupidity of so many of my fellow progressives.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They have, I think, yet completely to disavow the Orange Book.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Exactly. Never forget that Labour is responsible for legitimising illegitimate concerns.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On a a GWR train to Cornwall. No buffet. Trolley service unable to get through due to baggage in the aisles. The luggage racks are way too small and ppl have forgotten about the overhead racks. Gagging for a cuppa.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/09/2026

This feels like something we should be asking right wing politicians about, but I appreciate the media is busy demanding every leader on the left individually parse and disavow each chant overheard at a uni protest.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not just its own TV station. It's also got its own daily flagship national morning radio news magazine show with about 6 million weekly listeners.

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It’s extraordinary how much the world worried about the ethics of genetic advances like cloning & how little is done about the ethics of genAI now. Look at our institutions- a persistent wildly enthusiastic uncritical call for AI adoption in everything. Where is the call for ethical scrutiny first?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In their wildest dreams Hamas couldn't do as much damage to Israel as Netanyahu and his government has.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Meatgrinder tactics and a disregard for the lives of their infantry have a long and ingrained history in Russian warfare. 21st century demographics must change the calculus somewhat.

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Edward Barrow @ejoftheweb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why not EEA membership like Iceland?

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