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"Senator Pete Ricketts (R), who pardoned a rapist" sounds like one of those joke political archetypes like Holden Bloodfeast

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I truly believe London is the greatest city in the world but it would be 18% better if riding the Victoria line didn't mean being lightly roasted throughout.

*Slams this voter profile on the table* This is what we believe

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I do very much look forward to the Green Manifesto in 2029 being titled "Whatever you reckon after thinking about it for three seconds, that's what we also reckon"

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I am someone who is genuinely very knowledgeable about British politics but agnostic about the ideal voting system - Andy, put me on the commission pls.

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Have you considered that instead of watching the leader's speech you could instead be in Spoons at 3pm on a Tuesday, for work

I should mention that given the task of coming up with a logo for all of East and South East Asia without making anyone mad, I made the logo mark very roughly in the shape of Asia, a fact *nobody* has picked up on in the five years since.

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Do we think Liverpool goes on about the Beatles more than Vancouver goes on about the Expo and the Olympics?

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Realised two thirds of the way through my train to conference that I'm sitting next to Robert Peston. He's hogging the plug socket.

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Somehow, Star Wars returned.

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disabledchildrenspartnership.org.uk

Annoying AI side-effect is any kind of digital tool now has people assuming the data is generated. Anyway here's one I made this week (no AI involved) for the Disabled Children's Partnership, with constituency-level data on SEND needs: disabledchildrenspartnership.org.uk/constituency/

How many children need SEND support in your constituency?

Enter your postcode to find out now.

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Ana is on an earlier train to conference than me along with the entire British voluntary sector

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 26/09/2026

As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable; and humored thus, Comes at the last and with a little pin Fucks through his castle wall, and farewell, king!

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One question I have started asking at job interviews which is a bit full on is "what's the most difficult thing about working here" and if nobody gives a non-bullshit answer I don't want the job.

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Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me · 26/09/2026

If I were a low propensity white voter I would simply respond to the fucking pollster

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*1.3 beers in caveat* I wish in about 2012 I'd decided to get really into falconry or Korfball than politics. It'd make me happier and I'd probably achieve more.

Tonight's random bit of London

Labour Conference Services really really wants me to know my application for a pass has been successful. So much that they've emailed me four times to say so. And I already have the pass.

The Canadian Minister of Finance is apparently called Francois-Phillipe Champagne. I hope he shows up to the G20 smoking a Gauloises and wearing a beret.

Only PowerPoint could make the phrase "pie explosion" boring.

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Despite Amazon being terrible, the fact that nobody there evidently cares about Audible has left it weirdly un-enshittified. I had a billing issue and was able to a) find a way to call them and b) didn't get held in a queue and c) actually got my issue resolved within five minutes. Madness!

Going to Labour conference? See if you can get a full house in Labour Conference Bingo!

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A bunch of us should gang together and help the Manx Labour Party get into power, as a bit.

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Will Cole-Hamilton running for NDP MLA Courtenay-Comox in snap provincial election - Comox Valley Record

Lol, I'm reasonably confident the NDP candidate for my old seat of Courtenay-Comox is the cousin of the leader of the Scottish Lib Dems: comoxvalleyrecord.com/2026/09/23/w...

comoxvalleyrecord.com

Cole-Hamilton has served as CVRD chair and on Courtenay city council

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Of course she's running in Kelowna, the most cursèd city in the province

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Finished some projects I'm very proud of this week just for the level of effort involved. They are however an unfortunate reminder that when you become a certain level of designer it starts involving lots of spreadsheets and code.

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Interesting data I found at work - there are 12 local authorities where kids with an EHCP are *less* likely to be NEETs than those without: Bournemouth Cornwall Derby Gloucestershire Kent Lincolnshire N. Yorkshire Northumberland Redcar and Cleveland Shropshire S. Gloucestershire W. Sussex

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I did a very easy Masters Degree so the government would give me a loan that I then spent on setting up my business (and have now repaid tbf)

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We are maddeningly inconsistent about when we translate the names of political parties. Like we'll call India's ruling party the BJP, not the Indian People's Party, but Japan's ruling party the Liberal Democrats, not the Jimintō.

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Blocked, blocked, you are all blocked

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I was living in Seattle at the time but mostly getting paid by British clients and the pound going down to $1.03 was Not A Fun Time.

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I learn from my emails that insomnia Robin paid off some of his credit card at 4:34 in the morning, an event I do not remember. Good work, though.

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Thought I might start my day by doing my emails in the café for a change of scene, but then I heard the opening bars of Imagine so it's off to the co-working space for me.

One difference between here and BC is that if your name was that close to Lauren Dorkson you wouldn't get put in charge of a raffle.

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Weirdest Half Man Half Biscuit song title

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The lesbian bar story is the most Vancouver thing to ever not happen in Vancouver

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I've remembered that a fairly senior British politician once told me his favourite pizza topping was carrots.

Fond memories of the Lib Dems in 2015 attacking Oliver Coppard as a carpetbagger for not living in Sheffield Hallam (he lived literally across the road from the boundary)

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Someone help me with a mnemonic to help remember the difference between Colchester, Chelmsford and Cheltenham.

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