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Stefan Stern
@stefanstern.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
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Raining here but...things can only get better?

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Yes, him and Lee Strasberg have been helping Kamala.

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That bitter-sweet moment when someone who says something nice about your work also turns out to be a bit of an idiot.

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How much happier to be able to declare, as Melanie Griffith does in "Working Girl": "I have a head for business and a bod for sin."

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The Latinate verb sometimes sounds more pompous than the Germanic/old Norse options. But not always. Eg commence versus begin, und so weiter!

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I think the Cons will struggle to win back many of those c70 LibDem seats, especially if they go off in search of Reform voters. So Lab could lose up to 100 seats next time and still be in government. I think!

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Thank you!

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Yes, I'm still wrestling with "sick" as a positive term, and "peng", and one or two obscene ones that I also don't wish to besmirch BlueSky with.

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(Erm, what does "mid" mean?)

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Some of them might find Gibraltar quite appealing. Or the Falklands.

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Stefan Stern
@stefanstern.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
662 followers265 following70 posts