ID stands for Identification Document or is it just a quirky, policey way of shortening 'identification'?

funny in a way seeing the Tories who wanted voter ID made compulsory flinching at authoritarian socialist ID cards

Another question for Sir Keir or anyone else, will ID cards make the process of doing a DBS any easier? I don't think many of us of have hard copies of bank statements with our postal address available, etc.

Have there been examples of persecution &/or injustice via ID card in the EU? Genuine question...

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I'm condemning him too.

Before wokeness, your university professor would try to recruit you to spy for Stalin/fight Franco/join MI6/fight the republicans; nowadays they just make you read stuff.

how is wokeness getting on at your university campuses?

I really really wish that climate change were a con, I really do.

I love Trump, but I can get a bit of a feeling of overdose. Does anyone else feel the same way?

is the word 'woke' still used positively?

Had one of my periodic dreams about the coup d'état of 2 December 1851. Nasty feeling of something very wrong happening.

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Excerpt from #AdvanceBritannia which is released in the UK on 6 November, preorders appreciated! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/adva...

Lovely fluff-thought: I've been aware of Trump for a longer period than most Germans were aware of Hitler.

Even though she is right on this, I don't want Polly Toynbee telling me what to do. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tempting thought: a Sonderbund War (1847) tour of the six cantons & battle sites, at huge expense (if those Federalists hadn't won, then it would have been cheaper of course).

Do you ever feel that if you had more common sense, you could have a lucrative career as a right-wing podcaster?

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Younger colleague now knows that German is spoken in some parts of Switzerland.

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I know he's a terrible man, but I'm impressed how Sergei Lavrov fits in being Russian Foreign Secretary with presenting Pointless & writing cosy crime novels.

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More freedom of speech BBC News - Trump says TV networks opposed to him should 'maybe' lose licence www.bbc.com/news/article...

New chocolate teapot: economy holiday in Switzerland

And in other news, the canton has voted funds for the new library in Zurich!

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I'm about to go on the Elizabeth line, so I'd better say how wonderful it is, as otherwise someone will find me and euthanase me.

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we should just make podcasts be like Wogan

If Jack the Ripper had been in his twenties at the time of his bloody deeds, he could, in his dotage, have enjoyed Muffin the Mule

I suppose but don't know that Franz Ferdinand wasn't a household name in e.g. Britain, France & Belgium before 1914. (Yes, the thought has occurred to me because of Kirk's death, but I'm not going to do a geopolitical tour d'horizon.)

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how very French

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If you get trolled by a podcaster, does that make you victim of a smugging?

Free verse. Tough on rhyme. Tough on the causes of rhyme.

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The historian's job is to do painstaking research & present it in pain-giving prose.

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Yesterday I visited St Matthew's church in Coldridge in Devon, the reputed resting place of King Edward V: the Ricardian Rennes-le-Château!

2nd anniversary on Bluesky

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