aengusart

A classically trained artist who talks about famous artworks and occasionally his own.

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@JohnRadoux @izakaminska @KonstantinKisin @triggerpod @francisjfoster More interesting is the fact that the ‘moron’s intellectual’ completely unzipped Campbell and revealed there are a number of issues on which the man has unwavering opinions and simultaneously not the faintest clue.

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@TheRugbyIssue I like Quinnie, but he's more and more out of date. Banging on about honesty, passion and anger while the game gradually transforms itself into a complex spectacle of pattern recognition, decision making, wizardry and skill-sets doth butter no parsnips.

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@Dreamchaser4132 @boconnorchest @ChalynRugby Maybe. But sneaked wins are still wins. Your lot were getting murdered by the French at the last WC, and but for Kolbe's dodgy early charge down we're on the way out. The ref favoured you and you sneaked a win. Just as legit as any other. Including Ireland's win over you.

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@JohnSmithfszj @ChalynRugby Exactly. What scrum. Lineout too for that matter. Not going to topple Eden Park without a silky smooth setpiece, and over the last fortnight that really doesn't look to be on the cards.

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@ChalynRugby 2023 Ireland maybe, yes. On the basis of the last two weeks though, 2026 Ire will be arriving with no scrum, no lineout, an optional mid field defence and an attack that will pose zero surprises. Anything can happen of course, but it's genuinely hard to see an upset.

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@CoffeeLover1882 @samuel_leeds @haidar_bassim @channelstv @garyseconomics That 4m kids figure has been equivalised by the DWP. It's not absolute. And billionaires have nothing to answer for re NHS waiting lists. That's on a gov and a completely unaccountablepublic sector that spends a stonking 1.2 trillion p.a. about as wastefully as you can imagine.

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@mcaudiojunky @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle 2-3%? You genuinely think this is the current cost of private capital for, say, a 5-8 year London property project? Senior debt, mezzanine, etc. Perhaps you could introduce us all to these fantasy investors of yours, because in the real world they're looking for 7-11%.

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@RustyCart @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Presumably you're on crack. With 3.2 Trillion owing in UK debt, if GDP goes down much further, what everyone will win will be a bigger portion of a unserviceable national debt bomb. It'll cripple a generation. And removing a few billionaires will improve zilch. Utterly mad.

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@SthCoastRed @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Capital controls, you say? Wonderful! No one else has tried this latterly but for China and India, both of whom got through by offering profit repatriation deals to the largest most ruthless corporations, while screwing the sh*t out of everyone else. That's exactly what's needed.

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@FFStephenK @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle The French Revolution replaced a shy out-of-touch king who enjoyed a bit of locksmithing with a lunatic emperor who bathed a continent inblood. Revolutions have one fix only for inequality: ensure everyone is trampled underfoot equally. I'd rather put up with a few billionaires.

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@physics_and_god @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Disagree. Gary argues for a tax that will add an extra 24 billion (. . . as if) to the 1.2 trillion p.a. the gov already spends. This at a time when the tax burden is at its highest since King Canute. He's not offering help to anyone at all. He's calling for more poison.

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@Bankofyousmith @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Niedle quoted verbatim from pp. 2 of the report (https://t.co/apuMIe44Cm) 'Non-starter' is exactly what was written. The dishonesty, then, is on your side of the ledger, not his. Although I'm sure you'll try to recontextualise and wriggle off in another direction.

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@AtlanticBaron_1 @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle Nope. You're wrong there. https://t.co/apuMIe44Cm pp.2 O'Donnell's foreward. 'Annual wealth tax is a non-starter'. Niedle quotes verbatim. Stevenson's response was to pretend that quote didn't exist and pluck another from a seperate context. That's very weak. That misses nuance.

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@Lisa75983669 @samuel_leeds @DanNeidle @garyseconomics https://t.co/kfqlqqIFuz Page 2. Gus O'Donnell's foreward. 'Annual wealth tax is a non-starter'. Niedle was absolutely correct and Stevenson's response was to immediately deny. He was - to put it charitably - wrong. Sorry to burst your Gary-bubble, Lisa.

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@Oxfordite @OldRomanTV @CalMcN1 @andrewdoyle_com We'll have to agree to differ. All I'll say in parting is that using a sledgehammer twice to banjax someone takes serious violent intent. The august judges of the crown courts may not grasp that. But everyone else does, whatever the legal chicanery around definitions.

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@Oxfordite @OldRomanTV @CalMcN1 @andrewdoyle_com Yes, violent intent. I say that because it is impossible to strike someone twice in quick succession with 7Kgs of iron without it. That is a fact, not an opinion. The judgement merely revealed the judge had no idea. Lilkely because he never picked up a sledgehammer in his life.

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@Oxfordite @OldRomanTV @CalMcN1 @andrewdoyle_com If you're suggesting a taste for activism is a mitigating factor in striking an individual twice with a sledgehammer, you're a psychopath. If violence is excused by a cause, then everyone with a cause is entitled to be violent, including those whose politics are opposed to yours.

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@Oxfordite @OldRomanTV @CalMcN1 @andrewdoyle_com Yes, clear intent. I say that because no one ever has brandished a sledgehammer by accident. It's not a stick. It's a heavy unmanageable chunk of iron. Bashing someone twice in the back with it takes a deliberate and focussed effort. Hence, clear intent. Judge went easy on them.

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@Keir_Starmer @GirkinGirkin Translation: you despatched the cast of a pantomime to sea on some pallets held together with twine, having equipped them with a 2nd hand walkie-talkie and some binoculars that fell out of a Xmas cracker. The Russians did whatever they wanted. Giant success.

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@lewis_goodall How much of that trillion is liquid and can therefore be converted to cash without tanking Space-X, Neural-Link, etc? I ask, Lewis, because you - along with many others of a similar outlook - have very clearly thought this through, and dug into the numbers. You have, haven't you?