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Good thread. Valuable perspective and evidence.

PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very good. But it doesn't make sense. She's happily eating salad and sausage while he's dishing up blancmange and jelly or something. To whom and why? Please explain.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As you say, the terms are not in competition, with 63% of Yorkshire’s ‘snicket’ users also regularly using ‘ginnel’. But there's a subtlety. Any snicket can be a ginnel. But in a row of terraces, the route to the backs of houses, it's always a ginnel. Never a snicket. In my bit of W Yorks anyway.

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Very pleased to share this special issue of Critical Quarterly on "The Art of Failure -- Disruption, Loss, Decline", edited by Benjamin Kohlmann and Joseph Rosenberg. 4 of 6 essays are open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

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Gregory Davis @gregorydavishnh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fantastic research from my colleague @dlhnh.bsky.social here, blowing a secret plan wide open and naming the key nazis behind it.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This looks good. And if you miss the bargain, full price is still cheap.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very interesting. I read recently that the Haymarket in Leicester had to be outside the city perimeter—because haycarts couldn't get through the East Gate.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations. Many happy returns.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fortress being the English word for Kremlin.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Either way he can't go home. Doesn't have one, apparently.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Er, what does it do? I think ordinary people will need to know a bit more precisely than "its usefulness for routine tasks is growing by the day". Seems v. speculative to call it an iPod moment. What sales are you reporting?

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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 24/09/2026

BREAKING 🚨: 100% of Barnsley nursery workers back move to strike vote over pension threat 💪💪 Outsourced company Limetree wants to slash their pensions and remove death in service payment 🙅

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think a note clarifying that would be helpful.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

That a response from the local vicar is hugely relevant because the parish council is calling for stuff. As a couple of people have said, this confuses two separate bodies. Parish council is civil. Parochial church council is something to do with the Church of England and vicars.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's very odd. I hope he'll notice and acknowledge you soon. (None of my business and could seem trivial. But I think not spreading misinformation on socials is kinda important.)

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

But you didn't get any likes for it. Whereas Mr English got four likes for misstating stuff. Is this how things work?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Probably wise. But now I've searched & come across the fine-sounding Magnús berfœttr. Wikipedia says there's a "Magnus Barelegs festival" held near Downpatrick. So much to learn, so little time.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Well grounded. Makes sense.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't know he was here. Thank you. Superb on YouTube. Suspect he's got boots too.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Mock mock mock, she thinks deceased people are working people. I, otoh, think that inheritance tax is paid by dead people. Not sure who comes out best.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is from the newsletter which has done most to uncover what's going on.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Good analysis, important distinctions.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Brilliant. You look very happy. Deservedly. Keep up the great work.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I like the subtle sell. On the wishlist, thank you.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"The party’s annual conference was not overshadowed by the latest money scandal: it was illuminated by it." That's a much more helpful and accurate summary than the lazy overshadowy stuff from Chris Mason.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Jargon & technical language has a bad press, but it exists in all professions because it's needed. Communicating with the public is part of what that statement needed to do. It also needed to do other things, importantly avoid prejudicing any legal action. Loose paraphrases are not an option.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm glad police statements use precise language, even if some of the technical terms can be misread. It might help if they were issued with "notes to editors/lay people". Lacking that, the onus is on readers to think a bit and get help if something seems particularly perplexing or absurd.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Strong agree. Flavour, rinsability, storage, bounciness...wins all round.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Excellent reporting, thank you.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As confirmed by James Johnson who ran the polling and says he was called by Dan [Jukes], "who's always been my main contact in Reform, Dan". Not sure they've got proper deniability on this.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Excellent thank you. Though I'm sorry about your experience. But as you say, there seem to be compensations.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why two? Is it a double dose? (I think I might qualify soon.)

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When the going gets weird...

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's an awkward phrase. That's why you stumble. Going for an doesn't help and is non-standard. Recast it, I'd say.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Or maybe hers was, as overheard after one of her shows, I don't find humour funny. Even better.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Think that was a Victoria Wood joke. Brilliant.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The BBC's Chris Mason says Farage failed to turn up to his own political wedding. What scrambled weirdness is this? Who is the other party? What do they feel about being jilted? What will be the consequences of this last minute breach of contract. So many questions.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thank you for writing this. It's been annoying to see the bandwagon decrying of "DEI" in the UK. It's clear that those doing it know less than nothing about well-enshrined mechanisms for promoting equality in the UK. Including the actual name. (And of course, it's not just universities.)

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Good point. You didn't say, 'which professional communicators ought to be aware of'. Very restrained.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Stop clarting about, the pair of you.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

And from a business pov, disastrous. Who argues with their customers? People with not many customers, I figured.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I picked up this early in my freelancing life. Seems so obvious. Hardly needs pointing out, you'd think. Later on I found freelance forums full of people who hadn't got the memo. Endless moaning, indignation, complaints about editors, arguing. Weird.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Just watch the clips from Coronation Street. That'll help figure how normal it is.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very interesting, thank you for making it freely available. As you say, poetry isn't theology. Also, I'm never sure how eccentric for the time Milton's theology was. Or how to read the blurring, say between Jove & God in Comus. Maybe that's just standard convention. But it is a bit odd.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I wonder if there's no apparent alarm because they are quietly planning a merger with Reform.

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Fascinating and vital points about democracy & media. "It has taken years for me to even roughly understand the labyrinthine public-private web of finances in the Tees Valley"

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Good spot. Interesting. But why do you call it a typo? It's not a printer or typesetting mistake. Or does typo now mean any kind of error?

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

V. helpful, thank you. There's a phrasing you might want to fix, about Badenoch "warned that it cannot be funded through tax cuts."

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PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Most likely. As do adults generally. Doesn't make a lot of sense. If you're going to offer something to those weirdos who do want to read poetry, give them something good. Giving them pretend stuff risks turning them off, surely. Sorry IANIP.

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