Barney Trimble

Fulham fan, antiquarian advocator, cricket connoisseur, occasional writer, greedy old gobble gannet, mostly tweet at night... mostly.

[Barney Trimble @baptrimble]

End of year summary time! Here's a quick round-up of all my writing from the last 12 months https://t.co/KYWY8NeU0b

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23. Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung. A perfectly entertaining set of eerie short stories, although none have really stuck with me. Some fun subversion of expectations though.

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Kicking off this year's reading list like last year's: with a Japanese author.

1. A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami. Such an easy read, but with such a complex mystery at its heart. Wonderful start to the year.

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Time for another book list, or bist if you will.

1. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. A tidily crafted mystical fable that draws you in from the get go - also set in that early medieval period that scratches just the right spot for me.

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22. Feeding the Monster by Anna Bogutskaya. Thought-provoking but unsure of what it should be: analysis of the emotionality of horror or horror as seen through the female lens? Serious critical work or pandering to the cool crowd? (FWIW the analysis is strong & highly perceptive)

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@s8mb One day, when you're older, you'll make your way down to the Falmouth sea shanty festival and realise the folly of your youth.

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Words to live by. RIP David Hockney

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@MJ_Smithy There is another available manager with a proven PL track record...

[quibble @quibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

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@StuWatts73 @SomersetCCC And Lehmann has been very precise with his 2x100s + 5x50s for 453 runs

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I'm back! ❤️

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Brian Update ❤️
➡️ https://t.co/Bx0QGITBRP

#YouAreSomerset

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@kunley_drukpa

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@whippletom Labour making good on their promises at last

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@WestminsterPup See also the "Literal Democrats" in the 1994 EU elections https://t.co/QNlFPVYUAm