peterrhwood.bsky.social
Sustainability, mobility, devolution, government reform. OU Assoc Lecturer & Freelance Researcher. UCU Climate and Ecological Emergency Ctte & OU Branch President. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterrhwood
👤 Joined on 28 October 2023
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@peterrhwood.bsky.socialIn all honesty, likely a lot of sneaky pissing
Show PostWith the proviso that many seats are still left to declare, I'm going to begin bringing the charts out, to put these results into some broader perspective. In terms of seats defended, absolutely dire results for Labour and Tories. Not as bad as last year, but high on the board for worst-ever.
Show PostIn the beginning, the gaps between British food discourse were lasting 24 days, then 12, then 6, then every 2 days. The last post, on whether catfish and chips was antisemitic, was a day. In 4 days, we could be seeing a new topic every 8 hours. We should witness a double discourse within 7 days.
Show PostMid 19th century Britain was very religious, part of the cause of the Indian mutiny was British missionaries and the army officers being muscular Christians.
Show PostThe usual pattern of "something weird and idiosyncratic in a colony" actually reflecting where the motherland was a century ago. I think most obvious disjunction on this in the UK is the perspective *among parliamentarians/people close to them* that conscience votes on religion are an entitlement.
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