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podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan… This is a fascinating podcast to anyone with any interest in medieval, English or French history.
To write a magisterial, readable (indeed page-turning) multi volume history of a hundred year conflict involving not just England and France but also Castile, Flanders, Scotland, Burgundy and beyond
while also having a stellar career at the Bar and then being a Supreme Court judge is quite some achievement.
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Whether or not the ideas are “half baked” isn’t perhaps the main concern (all manifestos contain half baked ideas: the civil service/government lawyers/Parliament turn them into something edible). My main problem is the lack of any real sense of which of them are priorities.
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The tragedy of the Brexit referendum. A mandate for Brexit. But no mandate for any of the painful changes it requires.
Even pro-Brexit politicians know that. Which is why they end up ducking and postponing those choices.
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The Pope is Catholic.
It’s an inherent feature of FPTP that most votes in most seats don’t count. In my seat in 2017, only ~22% of votes went towards electing an MP: the rest went to candidates who lost or to adding unneeded extra votes to Labour’s majority. No wonder there was hardly any campaign.
Voters aren’t stupid. They work out that in such seats no one is bothering how they vote.
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