Richard Bartlett

HalfEmpty: life's last 6 secs feeling? Full: Give GOLD not RUST begets.. RELATIONSHIP needs goldilocks tension: ROMANTICISM is antithesis to tension: LOVE=both

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

Plenty-well versed in how to fling half a barrel of fountain pen ink in one fell swoop, then? Or to lock the power figure (Speaker of the House equivalent?) in the resources cupboard when they want to change back out of their P.E. kit before morning break?

To balance the triangular cheese grater on the inside of the kitchen classroom cupboard door so that every next opening would have them all crashing in a random cavalcade into the mixing bowls in each.

For every child with a wristwatch to direct the sun’s beam into the teacher’s resting eyes for when they awoke in the latter closing minutes of English.

Or to have a ruddy good ‘walk out’ demonstration, if a teacher verbally dressed-down one of the kids down for something they hadn’t done (that wasn’t their homework not being them not doing).

And to never be quick enough when a fire drill was performed, resulting in a need for a repeat ‘skive’ being organised, soon after.

To be up to all antics for strikes over teachers not supervising discipline during school lunches, or to be a bit wild on inset days where parents left you as a latch-key kid.

Or, to find pleasure in that strangest of punishment, the isolation room.

I do not think that anyone I met at college or polytechnic that went to private school had anything like as much of a laugh and character building experience as we state school bumpkins out in the rural establishments had. Much as these days the fun is ruined by continuous practice exams in the hope to game the system that a great education has been had.

Perhaps that goes hand-in-hand with maximisation of political capital through connection with the wider public, especially when you compare with oppressed spirits with the coathanger left in the suit being worn, from the likes of like JRM!

Good stats, AC.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

If this consumer leccy VAT offering, announced today, had not been done then prices would have gone up even higher with the cap rise , and related tariff changes predicted in autumn/spring

Just in case anyone else sees this thread and thinks Paul Lewis is being somehow deceitful, or disingenuous.

I think people forget that the capped tariffs were not out there to make life better first and foremost. It was instead because people didn’t not shop around and hoped their loyalty would be recognised, and perhaps warmed in the eyes of their retailer by paying the variable rate partly too.

The govt decided to intervene and force an industry-sustaining maximum. But nothing out of kilter, by many ways of measuring fairness from energy generator, through the networks and then the metering and usage.

We are still better to look for deals as and when they exist, but like understanding government interventions in all their glory, people choose to look for the bad news. Or the strained part of the good news… ‘Twas ever thus.

Thank you for putting up with us impatient and demanding rabble, PL.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@HowarthCharles @mikeysmith Maybe only if half-cut and with help from the family pet…!

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

Miatta recognises that we need to move forward on multiple fronts, all with different imperatives and with different economic drivers. She seems befitting to this department for its next stage.

It will be good to adopt more Chinese implementations such as thorium-uranium hybrid reactor programmes, and ones that suit our baseload fulfilling geography aspects such as saline-gradient, tidal, wave, and geothermal. Then, the newcomers such as domestic and distribution layer RFB storage (ESS), and impending developments in fusion reactors.

We may well drill for gas and get some multi grade oil too, but ultimately we need that for non-burnt applications such as for asphalt to the tune of a UK consumption of 120 million tonnes per year, 6% fresh and about the same of recycled bitumen, and for polymer component of uPVC construction profiles, TL keep our hands off softwood stock, that invariably is greenhouse gas net positive in the first 15 years of growth.

Getting our energy response right is not an old non-details person’s industry, as is becoming quite obvious with the Grievance Goblin clan of the extreme serving Right, and post-Clacton, the impending #ClashOfTheTight_ones.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@paullewismoney Packet instead maybe, like seeds would arrive in?

[Lorena Knobchopper🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Gypsypup13]

Who can remember the flowers that moved like that when they heard music?

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@Gypsypup13 https://t.co/zEuIEn4pzp

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@mikeysmith Guess it is about carrying the memory of his brother that perhaps he did not truly face whilst living with day to day red boxes. But why the motion tracking passport photo?

#HalfManHalfBiscuit

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

Excellent retort, and I stand informed and corrected.

Nothing quite like the bobbles on the Corona bottle neck, or a grandparent stocking up on those bright colours for Christmas.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, AJ.

We may have our fillings in the same places, despite being separated from where we bided by hundreds of miles.

Black and white photo was Southampton’s bottling factory/plant in what is now an area absorbed by the city, called Millbrook. One of 87 across our land, as I am led to believe.

Good days, eh!?

[Times Radio @TimesRadio]

Andy Burnham might be a more successful PM than Starmer "because his name doesn't rhyme with stuff", says comedian @GeoffNorcott.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@TimesRadio @GeoffNorcott Usually, the 'B' Team offers a pleasant surprise. —Against other options that are similarly ranked.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@TimesRadio @GeoffNorcott Burn🔥 'em bit is mostly complete.

Will he burn us, or those who employ us?

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@ajjolley @fleetstreetfox @andyburnham Slightly more likely to be Alpine Soft Drinks' company wares in the North.

It was Corona where I was dragged up, as it happens. Saw 2p all the way up to 16.5p refundable bottles if with cap. But around Midlands upwards, the patch changed.

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Fast forward to 2026 your words are hollow @NickTorfaen @cabinetofficeuk
#Haemophiliac Children infected with #HIV #HEPC in the 1970’s 1980’s & used in unethical research known as PUPS .
A crime which still has not been acknowledged !
Has been deemed to be worth £10k to £15k in compensation by Sir Robert Francis

How did he come to this conclusion ?

Cherry picking the compensation to fit your agenda

Decades of denial & cover up lives destroyed due to the state

Being infected as a Haemophiliac child infected with #HEPC affected the rest of our lives through lost education extreme tiredness , loss of concentration , brain fog ,
Jaundice , & Pain !

How can the guilty dictate the compensation

“It was no accident”
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Chair of @bloodinquiry

The injustice goes on …@NickTorfaen

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[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

My dad did it by post all my younger life, but when I first came to the town I live in still today, we had a door collector for the pennies who would indeed chat and make the gambling more fun than spot-the-ball.

Simpler times, and you can spend twice as much as the ante for the football pools with a tap of your finger today.

Susie, you have interests in music that predate mine, but you are still a young woman. Do please seize it more than you already do whilst you have your spriteliness, and, if you listen to other old farts of 1970 who are not saddled with the levers power to do much good.

Small entry bets always seem like a reason to apply a silver lining to the daily mundanity of life. —Diametrically unlike SA100 tax returns and all the rest. And Andy’s tale is a bit like the 5% back on VAT on the leccy (announced today), being like The Pools in reverse, ironically from the same man who said there was no modern day corollary to his old pre-uni job.

Ho hum…

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@fleetstreetfox Totally absorbed in total denial.

Thinks that someone like Burnham cannot turn his wounded planks into irrelevant ones. Kemi wants his space, she is a fool to do so, and Lowe wants that space too.

#ClashOfTheTight_ones

Hopefully, Labour have sharpened their abacus.

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

Dear David Lloyd,

We are not previously acquainted. Please accept my directness as being entirely in consequence to the matters at hand.

Local provision is the epitome of the public good to not leave people living lives that are both in physical solitude and of emotional abject loneliness.

The argument goes the other way with World Service and BBC World/Worldwide. Our soft power and 500 million attendees.

Local service, and when it is Internet-derived, there is the association with it being either free or stealable, has to have a backbone where people can receive it through an old coathanger, and a second hand radio.

It seems like a recent piece of news that the BBC was considering making the licence levy also apply to radio, as once it did.

Presumably, the hooliganism of them Conservative Party’s last term where then enshrined the ability to make a declaration for inapplicability of the TV receiver, with or without live-streamed, and BBC streamed on-demand usage, has corrupted our Matalan society to opt-out with risk of being found to be a fraud.

The Barb stats and likely the extrapolated spread of Internet terminals, save for the millions coming in via VPN from nations with Big Firewalls perimeters, almost certainly prove that the BBC’s budgetary hole is caused by direct criminality or the amorality of ill-spirit at the very least.

But, we are told that the solution is to move forward, when in the FreeView and FreeSat means of receiving some radio and the TV via one fairly affordable device that needs no Internet contract, would need encryption to give a subscriber access, and apart from some fringe use for adult channels, this ship sailed with the death of onDigital terminals.

We do need a fresh start to the Royal Charter offer.

I have felt that due to the wish to sell the TV spectrum to the cellular mobile networks, that a £5 per month levy for fixed and mobile Internet services for business, consumers, and inbound tourism would be the most ideal. And to appease naysayers, to provide an opt-in service for those subscribers to have their Internet traffic mapped into a BBC bureau service run for under 25s by Bitesize ethics of varying category protections and for the vulnerable adults too. Giving a vestige of the Internet and an understanding of why things were inaccessible or why scams were blocked.

£5 per month would equate to about £6bn total take per year, funding the restoral of the latter years of the BBC’s great project and with plenty of scope to run a transparent protective edge so that each user could not harm their equivalently served subscriber and where VPN worksrounds were enabled only on a per-service basis through the bureau.

For technically savvy minds, the opt-in access would be at layer-2 and with only a requirement for operating system providers to lock DNS and how new networks like public Wi-Fi and international roaming as UK-leaving entities would work.

But, Ms Nancy MP only seemed to get so far with assuring the BBC’s immediate future and how future extreme governments not wanting to be shown up by kind hearted servants would come back to take more chunks out of our fabulous service that is for all frames of mind, dispositions, and ideologies.

Hopefully, in all this modern day kerfuffle, the national content maker feeders of local radio provision will become more sacrosanct, and not by way of excuse for the click-economics of modern media, that offers impersonal and hammers home someone’s loneliness in ways that many of us in our more active parts of our lives could ever imagine,

Best wishes to you and your comtributors, in your most admirable quest.

Apologies for the long reply and to TL;DR-ers. I have an innate propensity to do this.

[📻 David Lloyd @DavidLloydRADIO]

Last week's BBC Annual Report indicates 43% of people consume BBC local content in England. Before the BBC's grand plan to 'improve' local provision overall - and the local radio changes - it was at 50%. Is it time for the BBC to hand over the provision of 'local'? BLOG:
https://t.co/FXGRCiAyS1

[Richard Bartlett @BartyMcBartface]

@1mthattwitch @supertanskiii @Mizaru33 Most 70s and early 80s hooliganism was anti-establishment in ways other than nationalism singling out minorities as to why there were no jobs and dwindling hope. NF was a subset of bigotry that most fair-minded abhorred, effectively legislating against it, and CND, strangely.