Working in the M&S Café while my wife and daughter do some final school shopping. I am getting the evil eye from pensioners, whose regular spot I have probably accidentally occupied.
The slow erosion of the democratic norm
Rachel Sylvester makes an important point in The Times:
Democracy is about persuasion rather than obliteration and there are rules underpinning political conflict that don’t apply in military combat. The prime minister seems to have forgotten that, far from being the nation’s commander-in-chief, he is only “first among equals” in the cabinet and depends for his power on the House of Commons. The scorched-earth approach being pursued by No 10 will make it almost impossible to unite the Tory party, let alone the country, when the skirmishes are over.
There is an autocratic streak in a lot of current politics that should concern anyone who values democracy.
Spending a lot of time in spreadsheets today. Not something that happens a lot in my work, but weirdly satisfying when it does.
A nice reminder that blogging was always a complicated and often unpleasant community. Shakesville’s unravelling and the not-so-golden age of blogging - The Outline.
On the other hand, it wasn’t a vast multinational company harnessing all the value, either…
Does anyone else use FeedBin? Considering trialing a switch from Feedly - but would like some informed experience before I make the jump.
This is a fascinating theory (based on a source) on why Apple’s sudden change in beta releases happened: iOS 13’s beta split is down to Trump’s threatened tariffs, not missed features