The idea that attendance at the founding conference is going to be done by “sortition” (lottery) - except, of course, for the select self-chosen important people - is another sign that Your Party is not the organisation the left are looking for.

It’s a choice between ear-defenders for neurodiverse children or having your bins collected, according to Tice. He’s a choice one, eh?

I’m interested to know if anyone is using a Cloudflare tunnel to stream audio? It breaks their terms but I’ve read that they tend to ignore it.

And yet much of the organising has been done in private by the Sultana and Feinstein factions who have held secretive competing rallies and meetings up and down the country which have definitely been done behind closed doors. But that’s not what I’m talking about. The fundamentals of what the party stands for (is it socialist? left-of-centre? federalist? whatever) and how it’s run must be sorted out before supporters get to participate. These sorts of lessons - as well as going too far in the centralist way - were learned the hard way with Occupy. The passion and energy of a movement is easily dissipated by politicking. Which, I fear, is what has happened. Plus my usual belief that the state is usually involved in dismantling left groups from within.

It was foolish to think that some allegedly anti-socialist MPs and councillors could be won over to a left-of-Labour party.

It’s not what many people want though. A sense of a unified left. These sorts of rows have to happen well out of sight behind closed doors - which, to be fair was probably happening until Sultana jumped the gun and went public. People I know who were so enthused about the party seem pretty disillusioned already.

Why do we need anything “far worse”? Why not just remove them constitutionally and let them do their own thing? Smaller state and all that.

That sounds fantastic. Journiv has kick-started me into journalling before bed again. Thank you for uour work.

I’ve been running Journiv since Monday and really liking it. I’d really like to see a straightfoward means of exporting/restoring journals, though. The export says coming soon.

One of the reasons I stopped using Memos - which I thought was good - was because the devs were telling users on Discord that there was no need for backups because you should have the skill to manually locate and open up the database and export entries yourself. I think that sort of stuff makes or breaks apps like this in which people put aspects of their lives into.

Boris leading it? With an oven-ready plan to destabilise the BBC?

And yet how often do we see people who make blunders like this promoted? I work with people who’ve made catestrophic errors and been rewarded by more pay and seniority. It’s the British Way.

Ah! the old spectre of the 70s with the wailing piles of uncollected bins and rattling power cuts! Those of us who grew up then seem to have fonder memories of a happier Britain. Price controls have been used successfully in the past (particularly in the post-WW2 period up until 1954). Other countries - significantly Singapore - use price controls to manage their economies efficiently.

Ok ok I’ll accept all this “explanation” but what I’d also like to know is when fruit like apples - grown in the UK - have shrunk in size, increased by something like 100%+ and begin to rot as soon as you get them home. You could (just about) put up with massive hikes in prices because of “explanation” but prices plus increasingly worse quality of food is beyond unacceptable. We’re being ripped off here in the UK.

You mean there’s a chance I won’t be a multi-billionaire?

Nothing wrong with DNF-ing. If a book doesn’t suit you, move on. If I watch a tv show that everyone raves about I give it a maximum of 3 episodes and then move on if I don’t like it (eg. Andor Season 2). Not for me at this point and maybe come back some point in the future. Same with books. If a book hasn’t held my interest in 30ish pages I put it aside for something that will. Sometimes I go back. Too many books and too little life to spend time fretting.

To counter that: we need to stay in NATO and fulfil our commitment to increasing spending on the military and nuclear weapons to 5% of GDP. That’s something like £140-150 billion a year. A massive increase that everyone important says we need because war is coming. What’s more we need to further cut services, spending on education and NHS, social security and increase taxes. Why? War is coming. We can’t have the threat of China and Russia driving tanks, sailing boats and submarines all the way to our little country, can we? Do we want to live in Little Beijing-on-the-Thames or St Petersberg-on-Tyne or what?

Until Your Party nails down some policies it’s only a coalition of well-intentioned individuals. Nothing wrong with that but they could probably win the same sort of support by forming a broad popular front with the Greens, current Labour local branches and even some Lib Dems. With the rise of Reform and the fascist far-right it may even need that. Why, after all these wranglings, fallings out and rallies, they haven’t issues a short statement of fundamental beliefs, I don’t know.

I was a long-time user of One Note and about 8 years ago tried to export some of my notes - which was nigh-on impossible to do regardless of whatever MS says. I realised that I didn’t like feeing I didn’t have full control or ownership and that set me off on a course if self-hosting and linux. I’m not completely there but certainly further on than I was then. I like using linux much more than OSX and certainly Windows (which I stopped using about 2012).

I wanted to do the same so I used an AI to help me write a python script that does that and publishes a static site. It was really useful and introduced me to Jinja2 in the process.

I read them from time to time. Can you give an example of where they “straight up lie or spread conspiracy theories”? They report on rumours or gossip - but that’s little different than a mainstream journalist citing “sources”. I take into account their political slant when I read them, though.