Westminstenders: Run Forrest Run

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Need i say more?

History and biography are good.
DH reads a LOT of European History 1500 to 1900
he often starts on Wikipedia and then falls down rabbit holes.

Things like Freakonomics and some of the classic J K Galbraith are good
they also help give the maths and stats grounding so lacking in the 52%

Jeremy Clarkson tried to chat me up in a pub in Notting Hill. He wash shhhdrunk. I was actually quite offended he thought he the remotest chance

@yoikes

pretty you are the only other person I know who has read it!! I read it years ago on a trip to New York...couldn't put it down! Have you read any of his other stuff?

I haven't - I really should.

I have an admission to make - even though I used to be a real bookworm, I haven't read many proper books recently . Mainly because once I start a book, I almost literally can't put it down - so will annoy dh by reading until 3 or 4 (or later earlier? ) on consecutive nights until it's finished . I therefore do most of my book reading on holiday - and as we haven't been able to go on holiday for 4 years..... We were due to go to Oz in May for 3 weeks as a last big "family" holiday

yoikes if you meant either Dissolution or Winter in Madrid I've read both too! DH's uncle is the only person I know irl who has read Dissolution and raves about It and the other Cj Sansoms as well. Guessing I've missed a more recent one or two though, young DC don't make reading all that easy any more. I've gone from a commuter who consumed books to someone who's still been on the same one for the last 6 months

I've read both :)
Love CJ Sansom

I'm a scifi addict, 10+ Kindle books per week
I only v occasionally read non-fiction

Another MM Kaye fan here.

I am also partial to Agatha Christie and Poirot. I am not very struck on Miss Marple, although a television series of one of her books did use some shots of the solicitors offices local to where we used to live. I thought "I know that street" and got quite excited.

Why has Clavinova got the huff - her side won, we have left the EU, she should be knocking back the champagne (or a nice English equivalent!)

I also love sci-fi/fantasy. I really enjoyed Iain M Banks The Algebraist - plus, a long time ago, Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas the Covenant (title and author from memory )

I am confident that I didn't minimise or normalise NHS worker deaths
@Clavinova
Your posts definitely say otherwise.

Especially the one where you decided to split hairs on the definition of healthcare worker instead of just admitting that even one healthcare worker's death is one too many, and that shortages of appropriate PPE, thanks to government ineptitude, was a major cause of the infections which resulted in the hundreds of deaths which have occurred.

Careful math! I think it is like Beetlejuice, say the name three times...

Morning
I'm finding the biographybs bit dry so I might move onto something else...

An observation:
Firstly, it was the remoaners that were preventing a fabulously successful fictional brexit.
Then the hung parliament and "traitors" (or as I call them patriots using our own sovereign laws to stop the govt breaking said sovereign laws.....)
Now the cummings govt have their 80 seat majority who, exactly, is to blame for the utter clusterfuck brexit has become???
You WON! Time to deliver on the New Albion!
I'm agog to know who will get the blame next....immigrants? The disabled? The poor?
Oh, hang on, they've already been victimised for other propaganda reasons (UC)...silly me!
Running out of scapegoats, eh?

Labour have called for a investigation into the contract for £50m for unusable ppe....

Sad thing is...no one cares much anymore.

Like brexit, most people think Covid-19 is over.

can I recommend a book too?
picked up purely because it was in the £1 box in Oxfam -
'Gutenberg's Apprentice' fascinating fictional (woven around facts) account of the invention of the printing press & politics in Mainz in 1450. Good for facts about ink, paper, guilds, politics and the Church.
It's led me down a rabbit hole which found me scouring for copies of facsimile bibles on t'internet as a displacement activity for other stuff :/

I know a couple of people who think Brexit is over and this is it. Makes my mind boggle. And nobody really wants to talk about it.

Story on the radio about Facebook and Twitter disabling social media accounts of Russian bots interfering in elections etc.
Goodness me, I wonder if any were on here? And if they've gone away now?

I read and re-read Terry Pratchett to cheer myself up. Makes me laugh even if I've read it five times before.

Or they just groan if you even mention the word.

As for Covid, it would be nice if it was over, I think this winter is going to be hard. I believe vthe uni where I am a student will be routinely Covid swabbing all students who have face to face lectures. (Entirely possible it is just the faculty I am in.)

Now the cummings govt have their 80 seat majority who, exactly, is to blame for the utter clusterfuck brexit has become???

The EU. It's all their fault, they are meanies, they won't let us have all the benefits without paying our dues. The spoilsports, wah, wah, wah.

Brexit itself is over. We left at the end of January - thankfully I was out of the country (deliberately) to avoid the 'celebrations'.

I don't count it as being over yet. (Although I suppose it is) in that it isn't over until there is a deal. That is my way of thinking about it though.

The fault will be the EU, because they are bullies or something.....

Although that could mean it is never over.

Brexit itself is over. We left at the end of January

We've repeatedly been told here recently, by "reasonable" Leavers, that we still haven't fulfilled The Willy because Reasons, and thus Remoaning is Very Bad And Wrong because all must support Brexit until The Willy is fulfilled.

@TheElementsOfMedical

Brexit itself is over. We left at the end of January

We've repeatedly been told here recently, by "reasonable" Leavers, that we still haven't fulfilled The Willy because Reasons, and thus Remoaning is Very Bad And Wrong because all must support Brexit until The Willy is fulfilled.

Indeed. We are apparently still not a sovereign state and not in control of our own laws

And the BBC is at fault for not reporting the positive news stories - but none could be described that had actually happened

How will the Willy be fulfilled? Trick question, it never will.

The Willy is a dick