The #Endeavour series has now reached the curious point where, as a prequel, it is now not only overtaking the number of episodes of the original #Morse series...
...but its also now rapidly approaching the time point - the mid 1970s - when the original Morse books were set.
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So soon we will be faced with 2 possibilities, the sequel #Endeavour will either:
1. Overtake its own original
or
2 Adapt the original #Morse books anew
Either way this would thus create two parallel lines of Morse reality.
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Another thing I always find strange is that Lewis always seems far further away in time from Morse - than #Endeavour does #Morse.
Lewis - is all computers, shiny offices, graduates & female bosses - yet its only supposed to be a couple of years afterwards.
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Once again some people are being very illogical about PR and the Labour party.
So ask yourself:
“what is the best way to get PR into the U.K. political system?”
The answer is of course….
The best (& only plausible) way is:
1. Labour/LibDem coalition 2. People who want PR joining the Labour Party
So if you are saying you won’t vote Labour until it’s guaranteed PR before the debate/coalition/election is sorted you’re sabotaging the only way this can be achieved.
I want PR.
Thus I want as many people who also want PR to join the Labour Party.
This shouldn’t need explaining.
Again.
It’s literally how politics works.
The LibDems are even more pro PR than labour so a coalition with them increases its lobby power.
In 10 years time people on both sides of the current “debate” are going to be very sheepish about how they turned a complex evolving subject into a nuance-fee bloodlust culture war.
Due to my family I spend 3 months of the year in an Asian country with a long history of trans people & culture.
The contrast between how this subject is treated there and in the UK is staggering.
I always think it would be beneficial for westerners who’ve now “discovered” trans issues and have gone full culture war inside weeks to spend a bit of time in Thai/Lao culture.
It’s what is called “performative nastiness” - a concept dating from 1930s.
The point is not necessarily just a bad policy but to encourage the population to “enjoy” the performative element, to encourage complicity.
Whether the policy has any practical merit isn’t important.
Students of fascism will recognize “performative nastiness” but many people won’t get it at first.
The thrill is in the “transgression”. The enjoyment of being encouraged to be complicit in what was formerly understood to be things that are “considered wrong” or “taboo”.
Priti Patel has recieved £100,000 one of the largest single donations by an oil trader - Pierre Andurand - who is not made any donations to British political parties before nor to have shown any previous interest in UK politics.
Pierre Andurand made some of his biggest profits betting on the effects of Covid-19 pandemic and predicting a world oil price slump.
He then reversed this decision prior to the Russian invasion.
Andurand has close personal ties with Russia through both his former & ex wives.
Indeed Andurand got special permission to marry his previous wife - Yevgenia Slyusarenko - in a lavish ceremony in St. Petersburg at one of Catherine I Russia’s former palaces.
Use of Lebedev family residences by Boris Johnson “much greater than previously known”.
Total time spent by the prime minister & former foreign secretary at these homes now thought to run “into months” not days.
All time spent there without security detail or sweeps.
The use of Lebedev’s multiple homes in Italy and UK supplied by the Putin-near former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev is now known to have been - contrary to earlier reports - regular events with Johnson taking the time to visit Italy alone on at least 5-10 occasions.
While on some occasions parties were involved this was not the case every time. In some cases a much smaller more group attended.
Johnson was transported on several occasions via Alexander Lebedev’s private jet.
The same jet the Lebedev family use for their business in Russia.