Davey in Melbs
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I'd love to know the difference in legal liability between a) freely cancelling a festival due to public uproar and b) cancelling it after the government has revoked your headliner's visa.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
📚The Secret History: Dark Academia, Greek Myth, and Murder📚
😶🌫️The invention of 'Dark Academia'
🤔How do you talk yourself into murder?
🪿 The bizarre true story of a Byzantine empress who covered herself in grain… and let geese do the rest
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@umichvoter Eat here in Stras. tripadvisor.com.au/Restaurant_Rev…
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Hi! My European folks
Do you have any advice for what to do in
-🇱🇺 Luxembourg (4 hours between trains)
-🇫🇷 Strasbourg (1 day)
-🇩🇪 Heidelberg (1 day)
-🇩🇪 Munich (4 days but thinking day trips to Salzburg, Neuschwanstein and Garmisch-Partenkirchen for 3 out of 4)
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@campbellclaret @lewis_goodall The News Agents is just better though. TRIP has just become a bit dull, a bit aimlessly angry, and Rory is becoming increasingly’if politicians listened to me it would all be a look better.’ The News Agents is just more engaging.
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The only thing i can afford in this video is the salt.
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@PatsKarvelas Not hearing much about decarbonisation of choke points like fuel for vehicles? The nats and lib have gone really quiet on it, and the press isn’t saying why don’t we decarbonise quicker to limit the impact?
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In today’s @ftweekend I write about the wider significance of allegations against Rene Redzepi of @nomacph. He’d set himself up as the head of a movement which portrayed high end restaurants as a social good, instead of just places feeding rich people
ft.com/content/f3ddd3…
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@TheNewsAgents @maitlis @jonsopel The Queen was only on the AUD5 note. Nothing else. The issue in Australia and Canada isn’t the doing away with the monarch it’s what do you replace it with. It’s a complexity of the federal system of both countries.
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"Journalists were never really allowed to ask questions."
"The idea was to preserve the mystique of the Royal Family – but what mystique is there to preserve right now?"
Will Andrew's "shame" change the Royals forever?
@maitlis | @jonsopel
thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-thi…
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@WalkerMarcus Have you thought about giving up social media for lent, and using the time to reflect?
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Can we lay aside the pretence that the ‘Newsagents’ are fluffy centrist dads? They’re now pursuing the nichest of hard-left niche - and boy is Lewis Goodall pursuing it - republicanism. This isn’t centrist by any definition of the term: it is hard-core, hard-left, revolutionary.
LBC@LBC
‘The Royal family has never even asked!’ @lewis_goodall condemns the monarchy’s 'lack of inquiry' into the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal.
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@PatsKarvelas No idea why you think Tim Wilson is so good. His performance in this parliament has been demonstrably bad and added to that he just comes across as insufferably smug. He clearly has an appeal to the blue rinse brigade but is there a broader appeal?
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"There are lots of MPs who are 𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧𝘧 with Starmer, deeply frustrated by the performance of his government - and who also think this is 𝘯𝘰𝘵 the issue over which he should resign."
Will Keir Starmer survive the week?
@maitlis | @lewis_goodall
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@lewis_goodall Australia has a similar student finance system. The difference is that few students leave home to go to university, most have part time work.
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The system we have now quite literally embeds the income and wealth inequalities HE is supposed to alleviate. It is outrageous and incredible that a progressive govt could describe it in any way as “fair.” Too many senior politicians today think we have Plan 1 loans. They just don’t understand it.
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Three years ago we made an early @TheNewsAgents on the student loan scandal and the sky high marginal tax rates it leaves. Three years on, govts since have made it all worse still. We’ve made a special follow up, centred on our listeners own experiences.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…
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@BBCNews listened to @BBCRadio4 news at 11 am. If you are going to have a dog trainer talk about why shock collars are needed you might also talk to fear free dog trainers and more importantly vet behaviouralists. Every vet association in the world rejects shock collars as cruel
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@PoliticsJOE_UK Going to ask people outside Goldsmith’s is the equivalent of click bait.
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"I'd serve crack before I'd serve my country."
A young Brit explains why he wouldn't fight in Ukraine.
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The top 9 stories on the @guardian website are about the Sydney killings.
They were appalling. But when has the Gdn ever dedicated anything like this much space to the daily slaughter of Palestinian children in Gaza?
theguardian.com/uk
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@AaronBastani In several states in Australia power cost will be zero for some hours during the day
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The wholesale price dropped to zero, not the retail price.
Still, absolutely crazy.
We should…try it?
NEXTA@nexta_tv
Electricity prices in France temporarily dropped to zero — consumers got power for free On December 8, electricity prices on France’s day-ahead market fell to zero, meaning that for several hours power was effectively free. Bloomberg reported the development. The reason was a rare energy surplus: an unusually warm winter sharply reduced demand for heating, while strong winds boosted output from wind farms. At the same time, nuclear plants were running at about 85% capacity, adding even more excess supply to the grid. The agency notes that Europe is seeing such situations more and more often: growing renewable generation during periods of low demand increasingly pushes electricity prices down to zero — and sometimes even into negative territory.
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@AaronBastani The whole interview was pretty grim. As an actor you can tell he has whole set pieces that he responds to any question. He’s pretty good at avoiding the question. Which is ironic when you hear him talk about other politicians.
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“Who are my favourite economists? My favourite economist is actually an accountant, Richard Murphy. Very smart.
I’m a big accounts guy. When you think about it, they are helping the tax dodgers - they might have good ideas about how to get some of that back”.
When in doubt…
Steve Loftus@LoftusSteve
His favourite 3 economists are, A PPE and African studies grad who's not an economist An accountant from Norfolk who's not an economist And a former forex trader who's not an economist Explains a lot
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@meganekenyon @NewStatesman Is the revolution being televised?
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It’s the moment British politics has been waiting for: Your Party conference kicks off this weekend.
I wrote about the final few days before the conference, conference organisers’ concern that disruptors could storm the stage and my speculation of what could replace the name “Your Party”. @NewStatesman
newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…
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