Nick Barlow

@nickjbarlow

PhD politics research and teaching , actual politics . Trying not to cross the streams too often. Also walking, Who and Wolves.

Colchester
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    Feb 5

    Have had to shutter (hopefully temporarily) my website because of a malware issue. Will hopefully get it fixed soon, but until then you can find my blog posts on Medium (and older ones on the Wayback Machine).

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Entirely accurate.

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  3. 19 hours ago

    And I know we all have good reason to consign it to the memory hole, but is there anything more Tory sitcom than a wealthy middle aged man getting paid to turn his moans about elf'n'safety into a TV series?

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  4. 19 hours ago

    To use Telegraph logic if Britain needed a Tory sitcom, the free market would surely have provided one by now.

    Roseanne's huge ratings show how badly British TV needs a Tory sitcom
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  5. 19 hours ago

    A great bit of forgotten/unknown aviation history: “The Long Way Round: The Plane that Accidentally Circumnavigated the World” by

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  6. Apr 4

    Even in the unlikely event that Boris Johnson did resign over getting something wrong, it'd only take about 3 seconds before we'd get the first piece from one of his commentariat friends insisting he'd served his time on the backbenches and needed to be brought back.

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  7. Apr 4

    And today's 'no Google, that's not a spelling mistake' discovery - when you search for 'brass eye heroin' the first result is Doon Mackichan.

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  8. Apr 4

    Inspired - my tweet, if not the post itself - by Chris Morris on Brass Eye

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  9. Apr 4

    Shorter Lib Dem Voice post on FOBTs: "Luckily, the amount of gambling I do is harmless, I bet about once a day on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me?"

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  10. Apr 4

    In today's round of 'I'm getting old', Oskar Buur scoring on his debut for last night reminded me of Robbie Keane scoring on his debut...and then realised that Buur wasn't even born when that happened.

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  11. Apr 3

    If you've missed it, my blogging is on Medium for the time being, and there's a bunch of Lib Demmery in my latest posts:

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    Apr 3

    Talk again today of a new centrist party. But it is the authoritarian left who are most likely to feel unrepresented.

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  13. Apr 3

    I just published “All Liberal Democracy is divided into three parts (or, some thoughts on the party’s past, present…”

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  14. Apr 3

    Anyway, are there any broadsheet comment writers who haven't done the 'we need a new party that agrees with me on everything, and we'll call it centrist' article yet?

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  15. Apr 3

    If you're eagerly awaiting the return of David Miliband to solve everything, this is your reminder that one of the arguments that swung the Labour leadership contest to his brother was that 'Ed speaks human'.

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  16. Apr 3

    Further prediction: Every academic they think of already has far too much on their plate to deal with the REF to even think of writing a book like that.

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  17. Apr 3

    Related prediction: Everyone who reads that prediction thinks they know who that academic is, and they've all come up with different names.

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  18. Apr 3

    Prediction: A British academic is currently attempting to pitch a book to a publisher that he claims would make him the British Jordan Peterson.

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    Apr 2

    Regardless of your feelings about Corbyn, if anyone following me considers Guido Fawkes a news site which is worth taking at all seriously on literally any subject, please unfollow.

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  20. Apr 2

    Time to end the disastrous democratic experiment.

    An Oasis song has been voted best British song ever
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    Apr 2

    Partially inspired by

    I posted On the Lib Dems' broken policy process to my dreamwidth blog
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