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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And functions as an elite bonding ritual. Corporate America loves a bunch of debt ridden graduates who have proven able to practice omerta

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He mentions that, and says the issue of whether this was cruel and unusual has risen higher as a result, but says that the pre-ban non-botched ones were agonising but that no-one ever consulted actual doctors in making the cocktail, but they did speak to vets. As in animal doctors, not ex-services

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Did you listen to Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on the guy who came up with the 3-drug cocktail and the 'science' behind it? Was utterly jaw dropping, and blows apart the 'they don't feel a thing' BS

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(That's just where they normally detail the names of the panel, their signatures and the dates, rather than anything substantive)

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every LRB reader I know (sample of 6 so as useless/helpful as you prefer) never reads the literary stuff. Apologies to Adam Mars-Jones etc. Though I would like to know where to dispose of used Jext epi pens which neither Brighton hospital nor pharmacists will accept, so landfill it is...

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When he was FA Chair, David Triesman told me he was more concerned about state ownership of football than anything else - at the time mainly for its ability to drive and absorb inflationary pressures on player salaries beyond what was reasonably able to be competed with

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Philip Stafford @staffordphilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"As far as I'm concerned, the first thing you can do for me is to chuck all your medals into the biggest bin you can find, because you've never won any of them fairly."

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They’ll solve Junker’s ‘we know what needs to be done but we don’t know how to be elected afterwards’ problem by banning elections

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not so much - MDMA played a major role in driving down hooliganism in the late 80s. Euro 2000 massively aided by incredibly strong weed from Netherlands. Notable that most trouble in Belgium where a) less drugs and b) more incredibly strong beer c) policing much more antagonistic

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Though it was always curious that the one department they never had _anyone_ in was DCMS. Never worked out if this was Coulson preparing the ground for NewsCorp's bid for Sky, or that Don Foster wasn't seen as reliable, but the LDs has MPs who could have handled the brief

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

M60 9EA - Granada TV, as used at the end of every episode of the on-air CAB 'This is Your Right' presented by Lord Michael Winstanley. I had no idea what was going on, but felt the 'Your' in the title meant it was aimed at me, so I should watch it

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🥚 You know those days that we're all glad to mostly see the back of, when women had no choices, and we had even less? Those days which governments have been increasingly apologising for? Let's bring those back, yeah, says a Shadow minister in the UK www.neilobrien.co.uk/p/bring-back...

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Bring back baby adoptions

More people could achieve their dreams, more women could get what they want, and more people could get to live - isn't it time to give women more choice?

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

and soon after, why by 19 year old students being groomed/targeted/assaulted/headfucked or just fucked by senior faculty members isn't an abuse of power but a normal - nay essential - part of a glorious long tradition of western pedagogy

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is a great podcast episode from Brian Reed (who did Shit Town and The Trojan Horse) on section 230: www.kcrw.com/shows/questi...

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Mario Gotze will treasure his goal here as much as the winner in the World Cup Final

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That way, the community can focus its efforts on buying the bricks and mortar of the old pub/finding new space for a pub without also having to buy the licence at the same time

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

You could counter its effects - slightly - whilst not 'interfering' in the market to the extent that it would collapse the pensions/balance sheets of existing licence holders. Create a new 'community licence' which only gets used once the community's last licensed pub has closed, and isn't tradeable

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Aw man. Such a lovely photo. Your dad is clearly your Dad, and everyone looks like they have a lovely, lovely time.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've just read the synopsis on wiki, and it feels like it would maybe land very differently for an adoptee? I mean, it's got all the things adoptees struggle with and non-adopted people are fascinated by (identity secrecy! genetic bewilderment! estrangement! reunion gone very bad! Oh, and incest!)

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Repositioning the altar and priest at the centre, rather than the front isn't _merely_ architectural. This is revolutionary stuff, set in concrete, about the role of the church versus the laity, and the point of the Priest as servant of the people to intercede with the divine, rather than gatekeeper

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They also represented the same spirit which would rewrite doctrine and liturgy in the Second Vatican Council in bricks and mortar. They did very _incredibly_ radical things in the context of an institution which sees a golden thread of tradition lasting nearly 2 millennia

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

or to a lesser extent my own school's church on an overspill estate in North Manchester, Our Lady and St Paul's. (all of these are northern; dunno about southern English and Welsh churches). All signal an ease with modernity in the church - or at least a few go-ahead dioceses at any rate

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There is an astonishing flourishing of modernist and almost avant garde architecture in post war Catholic buildings which lasts about 30 years. There's obv Liverpool cathedral, but also places like St Mary's Church in Leyland, St Augustine's, St Peter's Seminary in Glasgow,

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

oh, no, that's the plan in my head, not that of the council!

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

In a pre-DVD era I had fond memories of the Goonies. Watched it about 8 years ago with kids and was horrified. How had I missed the fact that the dialogue is mostly people shouting ‘hey guys’ incessantly. Though locations are beautiful and main theme is superb.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

There’s a regen plan built around Bruccianis and the Midland which would be glorious

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My mind always returns to this letter to the Guardian from 1997 from renowned gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell which I wonder if he still subscribes to

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Well, it sounds like a dream of what an education system could and should be, which my daughter would have been a thousand times better served by than she was by a mainstream comprehension. I am loopy for not being pleased my kid went through the reality of the actually-existing system she did?

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

June : it’s hot. buy a fan! Amazon: fan will be with you mid July! June-July: melting but having bought a fan it would be silly to buy another! July: fan will arrive Aug 18th July-Aug : melting but having bought a fan it would be silly to buy another Aug 18th : your order has been cancelled 😡

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is exactly what the community-owned model does brilliantly. Over 300 pubs owned as community co-ops, with 99% success rate.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

True dat. Thankfully, its a good job that's what not a single person is actually proposing this

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Could you perhaps restate that in plainer English, please.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The pubCos are mostly selling the estate off to fund bonuses and boost profits, rather than using them to pay down the loans they took to buy the pubs in the first place. It's less that pubs are unprofitable as that they are not _as_ profitable as pubs as they are as development opportunities

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thousands of communities who have lost pubs because the test of viability is really 'is the asset value significantly more than the profit margin' and former will always trump latter in anything but the long term, unless planning reform forces the former off the table.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Infantino's mistress scandal blew up in UEFA in 2011. I remember being told about it by a senior UEFA staffer who I met when they were all in town for the 2011 Champions League Final at Wembley. Good to see it finally get the light of day.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Are they catholic or protestant Tayto?

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

(obv in reality you'd be not for profit in reality because there shouldn't be any profit knocking about for decades because any spare cash is for renewing the infrastructure. But that's the biggest issue-the cost of renewal is only achievable by the state, which should own it & capture any savings)

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The fact that it's not-for-profit is a red flag too. Co-ops aren't NFP! One way to cohere a polity and make this resonate is to give dividends in the form of discounts - we made a profit and we pay it you as an owner in the form of a reduction in your bill next year.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As a co-operative policy and practice nerd, I'm incredibly sceptical and more than a little afraid of any solution which proposes to build the polity after the economics. The polity never gets built, and the model never works and never resonates with citizens, but does brand toxification of co-ops

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I can kind of see how it would work, but huge devil in the detail. For mutualisation over time to work, you need informed & engaged representatives to control the mutual shares, but the model proposed is finance-friendly and incredibly top-down. Why and how would ordinary folks get involved?

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is basically how I feel about the trading floor scene in Trading Places

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He once pitched up on the When Saturday Comes message board as he’d been googling himself and found out he was being called names. So add narcissist to the charge sheet.

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The people who design these things need to be as embarrassed by their work as designers and engineers of weapons

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Dave McGrath-Boyle @theboyler.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We had a games teacher who would hit boys who didn’t bring PE kit and had to wear stuff from the leftover bin. He’d been in Rhodesia but ended up in our school in north Manchester thanks to wondrous power of Jesus.

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