Tag Archives: Friday Links

Friday Links: If you think everything is fine, you’re not paying attention

Posted on January 20, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I don’t know about everyone else but it feels like 1992 (I’ve been saying that for a while), back then, things felt awful but I’d not really known anything else, Thatcher came to power when I was five, … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Enough Already

Posted on January 13, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I’m tired of everything at the moment! Here are this week’s links Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to Rishi Sunak v Keir Starmer: battle of the … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: More Maths

Posted on January 6, 2023 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! The first week back to work has hit with a bump, the country is in chaos and the Prime Minister is going to solve it by making children do more maths! I’m not sure that Keir Starmer is … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Strikes

Posted on December 16, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! From antibiotics to eggs, this is the age of inconvenience. We’d better get used to it. I’ve had a mindset shift on this because of the allotment but yes, I’m now a person that has a toilet roll … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: December

Posted on December 2, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! It’s been a while. Here are some links… Facing eviction, I’ve learned that relying on ‘good landlords’ is a feudal throwback. So much this… In Buckingham Palace and outside it, we know what it means when people ask … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Everything is Chaos

Posted on September 30, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! There are words for the state of the country right now, but I don’t have them right now, but isn’t this so much better than chaos with Ed Milliband? Here are some links: The era of low interest … Continue reading →

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Friday Links:

Posted on September 16, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Ukraine Is Waging a New Kind of War Britain likes to consider itself the cradle of free speech – until someone heckles Prince Andrew Champagne and cigars are just fine. It’s Thérèse Coffey’s views on abortion that worry … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: London Bridge

Posted on September 9, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I started this post on Tuesday, and at that point the new Prime Minister was the big news, then the new government’s energy bill would have been the the news and then yesterday, the Queen died. I remember … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Everything is terrible

Posted on September 2, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! I know it’s the last week of the summer holidays (well in England and Wales, Scotland went back in August and I think N. Ireland went back this week) and so the news cycle is slower that it … Continue reading →

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Friday Links: Things are not improving…

Posted on August 5, 2022 by nicdempsey

Happy Friday! Spiralling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10 reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain Rent strikes and bill boycotts in the UK are great in principle – but I’d end up with no electricity … Continue reading →

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