Jacob Rothschild Appreciator

2 pints at luncheon. 4 g&ts before dinner, a bottle of red at dinner, a magnum of red after, then 2 pints to follow, and I still feel sober. I may be immune to this alcoholic business…

Schon wieder #Manulermittwoch oder wat? Wie die Zeit rennt, kannst keinem erzählen

Tickets for the first Bayreuther Festspiele in August 1876

“For me, it’s the taxi rank outiside Leuchars station”

Not so much as a surplus of yobs and posh people around, but a surge in frauds and insecure people pretending to be so.

it’s hole filling season

Based

every day this sick world assails me

King's College accused of 'dumbing down' after overlooking poor grammar to be more 'inclusive' trib.al/RTYjnDO

Being a tradcath nonce who wears 1940s suits is NOT COOL! Stop doing this!

Povo who takes first class on the train because he wants people to think he’s not a povo.

Owning a home is FAR more difficult for young men and women today than it was for my generation. That’s just a fact. Average earnings have not kept pace with average house prices - to suggest otherwise is ignorant. The gap has grown at an astronomical rate. The young have every right to feel pissed off, I’m angry for them. And I detest this patronising attitude of people my age that we just happened to manage it all so much better through ‘common sense’ and fewer avocados. There are millions of young Brits who work hard, take care of their money and dedicate themselves - and yes, they are struggling to find a proper home. They have done nothing wrong. In fact, they’ve done everything right but the system still failed them. I am ensuring that there is a political party to finally represent them - Restore Britain is that party. A party that supports the aspirational and committed young British men and women. Scrapping interest on student loans. Stripping back the power of empire-building planning bureaucrats who cruelly prevent sensible house-building in fair locations. Crushing the overbearing regulations that make building anything so very cumbersome. Overhauling leasehold rules which trap owners with mutating service charges. Ending the vindictive war on landlords to make sustainably renting a proper option. Slashing tax to hand back financial control. Entirely abolishing stamp duty for Brits. Because we will not tinker with the status quo, we will not conserve it, we will not reform it. We will fundamentally change how this country operates. The model must break. I will make you one promise. Restore Britain will break it.

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They may be qualified, but “educated”? I think not.

“Britain is not broken” — Random Nigerian Bint

@aodanhill *campaign haha

@aodanhill Discussed this with Offord last Friday; great to have non-politicians, but only if they have political instincts. No point in some retired police sergeant running if he’s going to be run around like a wet hen in an election champagne…

This isn't actually a bad thing to be honest. The % for the larger parties is boosted by their incumbents and the councillor -> MSP pipeline. It would be nice to see more people from other occupational backgrounds but it doesn't really matter.

Unsustainable. Will be our ruin if we don’t sort this issue out. May very well be too late.

Deux photos que j'aime beaucoup de Pompidou, deux facettes de sa personnalité

Why Scots care about immigration, and what can be done in Holyrood about it. My piece in the Scottish Daily Express: