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George Orwell died 70 years ago tomorrow - which means his works will be out of copyright. Suggestions please (inspired by @mePadraigReidy) for the best/worst sequels/spinoffs that might result...
(Nineteen Eighty-Five: Winston's Revenge is already at the commissioning stage.)
Apologies all - copyright holds till 2021, as per RTs. So write it now, but publish later...
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Am perennially fascinated by the public's optimism/pessimism bias, and how it applies to politics. Quick thread follows.
As I've pointed out before, people in the UK are generally pretty happy - and getting happier. See for example this from @ONS wellbeing stats
Yet at the same time, they're pretty pessimistic about both the future and politics. If you ask people 'Are you satisfied with how the govt is running the country?', you have to go back to 1999ish to get a consistently positive answer ipsos.com/ipsos-mori/en-…
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Some big news for us at @CPSThinkTank - am delighted to announce that Michael Spencer will be taking over as Chairman, with Lord Saatchi stepping down after 10 years in charge telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/…
@CPSThinkTank This is extremely exciting for all of us. Michael is someone who lives and breathes the CPS's founding values - eg he's the only Briton to be named World Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young.
@CPSThinkTank But I'd also like to pay tribute to Maurice Saatchi for being an inspiring, demanding and invigorating boss to work for - he devoted so much time and energy to the CPS and it was his vision that drove its success, not least the creation of @CapX and our annual Thatcher Conference
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So @CPSThinkTank is signing off 2019 with one last report - one of our most important. Thread (with graphs!).
@CPSThinkTank 'Resentful Renters', by Graham Edwards, is a new analysis of the housing/ownership crisis, arguing that the mortgage market has been one of the main drivers of the problems - and could potentially be a big part of the solution. You can read it here cps.org.uk/files/reports/…
@CPSThinkTank The starting point is that, as we all know, home ownership has been falling.
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Rick Shera
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The danger of false intellectual property infringement accusation - a thread:

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) recently provided more detail on its “Building Respect for Intellectual Property” (BRIP) Database Project wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/en…
The BRIP database will list websites that “Authorized Contributors” from WIPO member states *allege* to be infringing #copyright and other IP rights.
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I am not making any judgement for or against Maduro.

Any government that approves (let alone overtly or covertly supports) regime change coups in other countries is asking for trouble.

Please explain to me what is materially different in the ructions in Venezuela vs France.
Let the people of any given country sort their govt out
👉🏼without direct or indirect fomenting of revolutions and civil wars by foreign governments

Normalising regime change coups and civil wars in order to install puppet govts, and enable corporate raiding is asking for trouble
What’s the difference between Venezuela and France (bar Macron being a western approved neoliberal globalist)?

Do you think it could possibly be - oil and gas?😏

Isn’t it odd how regime change wars occur in countries w oil and gas and other resources wanted by foreign interests
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

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