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This is worth reading, or at least paging through for the constituencies you’re interested in. Worth the free trial, if you’re not a subscriber.

It's done I've finished previewing every seat in the country. All 650 in this post, with my final predictions. It's 77,000 words long. I need a lie down. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/a...

All 650 seat previews in one placeopen.substack.com With final predictions

It is done

Sajid Javid to become partner at investment firm Centricus

Sajid Javid to become partner at investment firm Centricuswww.theguardian.com Former chancellor cleared for role by body examining propriety of ministers taking jobs in private sector

A couple of years ago I looked at how old Glastonbury was getting. Turns out it's: old. dhanendran.com/is-glastonbu...

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DEVIL: And this is the lake of lava that you'll be spending eternity in. ME: Actually we're underground so it would be magma. DEVIL: This is why you're here, you realise.

Obviously you just have to colour in the bit between the r and the n.

Given that I can't find an 'm' anywhere in 'California,' I'm gonna go with "Not great, Bob."

Sherry is people drinking Harvey’s, right, not hipsters on a Pedro Ximenez/Oloroso kick? The white wine one is interesting.

I love this polling by More in Common (via @Luke Tryl on Twitter)

There's a flight to New York leaving Georgetown airport in an hour. Do we think England are trying to make that? ✈ #ENGvsIND #T20WorldCup

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Rishi Sunak's Facebook. Occasionally you see something and you go 'I hope you kept the receipt for the focus group that came out of', and the weird use of 'surrender' as a synonym for 'freely vote for' is one of them.

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oh my god there's a chinese knockoff of the cybertruck and somehow the cybertruck looks like a cheap knockoff of it www.carscoops.com/2024/05/dong...

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Apparently I’ve had this image on my phone for seven years

For the last four years I’ve been cultivating a practice of critical thinking and decision making. It may be the key skill to good product management. It seems to me that all the last three PMs have been exceptionally poor decision makers.

I love Rishi Sunak, a man who simply cannot do anything right.

Tories withdraw support from candidates accused of election bettingwww.ft.com Rishi Sunak pulls plug on Craig Williams and Laura Saunders after standing by them for several days

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They've done this again and again during this parliament - "maybe this will all blow over", usually accompanied by some noises about waiting for an investigation to run its course, then after a week or two of damaging headlines decide it's not going to blow over after all.

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It’s entirely possible that, within a week of the election, we have England in the Cricket T20 World Cup final, England in the Euro quarter-finals, and British players doing well at Wimbledon. Also the former US president is being sentenced the following week.

Living in the LD leader’s constituency has meant this time around that absolutely everyone is absent, campaigning in neighbouring constituencies, or in Davey’s case on his continuing early summer holiday tour. The most visible candidate is Chinners, the longstanding local Monster Raving Loony cand.

Local manifestation of the decline of the Conservative machine: we usually get someone impressive, diligent and, while not campaigning hard, clearly giving Tory voters across the seat some good to vote for. This time we have a candidate who seems to be campaigning solely for Charedi votes, poorly.

Interesting line of succession for the role of Father/Mother of the House on July 5.

In order: Edward Leigh (tossup), Corbyn (tossup), Roger Gale (forecast to lose), David Davis (tossup), Diane Abbott

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To any recently converted American cricket fans: yes, this is what it normally feels like. The lengthy periods of despair make the brief sparks of hope that much sweeter; that hope in turn enrichens the flavour of the subsequent return to despair.

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Rare cop who does his job well slammed in media for inconveniencing rich people who threaten pedestrians and other drivers

I’m glad two people in the replies said Mash. He’s great in that film.

so bluesky, what are we watching tonight in memory of donald sutherland? i’ve narrowed it down to invasion of the body snatchers, animal house, & SPACE COWBOYS

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When the Danes are controlling the middle and shooting accurately

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Patiently waiting for the reveal that bets were placed on what time Sunak would leave the D Day celebrations

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There hasn’t been a poll since D-Day/Farage got back in that hasn’t spat out “LOTO Davey” in the FT’s election prediction tool.

New Deltapoll: Labour lead by 27 points. Con 19% (-2) Lab 46% (-) Lib Dem 10% (+1) Reform 16% (+4) SNP 2% (-2) Green 5% (-) Other 1% (-1) Fieldwork: 14th - 17th June 2024 Sample: 1,383 GB adults (Changes from 6th - 8th June 2024)

One big reason the world as a whole is suspicious of new management techniques, some of which have true value, is that journalism and the creative arts have opted out wholesale from proper management of any kind. What people have never experienced, they view with suspicion. bsky.app/profile/nora...

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

That software, service, product or feature that seems incredibly obvious and “why don’t they just” is always more complicated, too expensive, or blocked by internal politics, or is not representative of what the wider user base wants or will pay for. bsky.app/profile/nora...