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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 14-05-2015

May 14, 2015 12:00

Some gossip about Ed Miliband
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Could Indie Filmmakers Use Robots As Camerapeople? Maybe, Yes.
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Earth’s Mightiest Monsters: The Character Arcs Of Avengers: Age of Ultron
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Tories and civil liberties: the fascinating appointment of Dominic Raab
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andrewducker May 14 2015, 11:03:22 UTC

That's more like it. I've been worrying about the amount of politics lately (not that I don't want to be political, but I don't want to be "all politics, all the time"), but I'm back to having a bunch of funny, interesting things from elsewhere too!

Miliband. rhythmaning May 14 2015, 11:19:42 UTC

Fascinating.

What I can't help wondering is how could someone so ill at ease with themselves both decide to stand for leader (maybe a bit of fraternal jealousy?) AND get the unions to support him in that bid. I can't imagine him wooing them with his wonkery.

Re: Miliband. andrewducker May 14 2015, 11:24:41 UTC

"Woo me with your wonkery" sounds like the kind of thing you'd hear at a Lib-Dem singalong...

Re: Miliband. rhythmaning May 14 2015, 11:30:46 UTC

*laughing*

Nothern Party danieldwilliam May 14 2015, 12:05:22 UTC

I may be becoming hyper sensitive but any allution to Braveheart just makes me think the alluder is a total tool.

On a serious note. I'm not sure setting up a New Party is the way forward in a FPTP regime. Makes me think someone hasn't read the small print properly.

Setting up a Mayor of Manchester is exactly the right next move for anyone interested in Northern Devolution. It gets some actual power and it can act as political focal point for what ever cultural and social elements there are to gather round. That's the process of nation building I observe from Scotland.

Re: Nothern Party cmcmck May 14 2015, 12:23:07 UTC

Oy!

Don't get my other half going on 'Braveheart'.

He's both a mediaeval historian and a native of Stirling!

Re: Nothern Party danieldwilliam May 14 2015, 13:04:55 UTC

There's a time and a place for William Wallace - mediaeval history in Stirling sounds perfect.

I'm just a little dismayed that some of the politial discourse around independence is being portrayed in Braveheart terms.

I'd like to hear people taking about Watt driving a steam hammer through the political establishment or Sir Walter Scott scribbling his way to full fiscal autonomy and deficit reduction.

Re: Nothern Party cmcmck May 14 2015, 13:33:16 UTC

Trouble with the 'well known' Wallace story is that Blind Hary was making a lot of it up as he went along- it's a darn good yarn, but...........

It drives him nuts to see his identity framed in such terms!

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kalimac May 14 2015, 13:45:36 UTC

Two points on Ed Miliband:
1) He sounds like an introvert: comfortable in settings of his own choosing and with people he knows, ill at ease elsewhere.
2) Journalist is incredulous that someone so "strange" could become leader of a major party. By these standards of "strange," not half so much as Edward Heath.