Peter Shep

Cyclist, runner, insolvency and economics nerd, accountant, lawyer, cantankerous classical liberal and political dilettante. 🇦🇺🚵🏼🎼🐼🐶And fond of doggos.

[Peter Shep @Sheps71]

@GrayConnolly Beg to differ: it is awful. But quite consistent with what many find ‘sporting’.

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@GrayConnolly If we can define unconditional surrender as ‘negotiation’, I say … bring on the negotiations with Moscow and Teheran.

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@jeremy_gans And how to stop the ‘complaints agency’ becoming an indirect means of collaterally attacking judges, with the likely prolongation of often long-standing litigation.

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@jeremy_gans Judicial privacy isn’t the only contrary argument: what are the standards and how are they to be enforced? Who will do the policing? What is the role of the parties before a judge about whom complaint emerges? 1/n

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@SincDavidson A graphic novel treatment of Smith’s discussion of bullion and foreign currency?

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@DrFrancisYoung @exceeding_love You need to travel to the dominions Dr Young. Even in deeply evangelical Sydney there are large parishes where kneeling is the norm (specifically the high and dry St James King Street and Anglo-catholic Christchurch St Laurence)

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@GrayConnolly Confirmed the virtual dissolution of Poland while leaving Alsace and Lorraine in the hands of the French. What was the point?

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@AnonymousFrypan @AaronDodd Still, @parnellpalme is also right that it’s crass

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@GrayConnolly @RichardEdinger The Jeremy Brett Holmes, I trust

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@worstall Kemi should get the customary earldom when she retires, as Stockton eventually did. Now that the hereditaries have been thrown out of the Lords, what objection can there be to the creation of more hereditary peerages?

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@mattbencole How can an undergrad do economics or politics without touching on the socialist calculation problem?

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

It pains me to say this but… Tony Blair is right; absolutely spot on. Depressingly the Labour Party is more likely to listen to my cat than Tony Blair.

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@VictorGischler Battle of the River Plate

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@SincDavidson The Palace German Film Festival has a 45th anniversary showing of Das Boot coming up

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This is correct.

[James @jhallwood]

The French Revolution did not lead to the beheading of the King of France because HM George III of France was resident in London at the time.

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@GrayConnolly @HumphreyBohun What use was it by the time it was finished? In the long tradition of government procurement, an excellent weapon for the war of 1935. Delivered after the end of the second war.

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@clairlemon Very pro manufacturing and anti-migration: what is ‘wrong’ with the outcome of market processes?

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@tomhfh @Dougmcg1 Ireland always has, both before and after the breach in 1920

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@Steeplemaster It’s a complaint from Speakers going back at least to the 1980s

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@SincDavidson Oxford has a few of those. If Austria’s greatest diplomatic triumph was to persuade the world Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian, Oxford’s was to attach Cambridge’s to Soviet espionage.