Christopher Head

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

If Scotland isn't the most beautiful Country on Earth, then it's right up there!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Falls of Falloch (Sony A7C 20mm (cropped) F18, ISO 50)
and two views of Loch Kinardochy taken with a Mavic Air 2 24mm F2.8 (no ND)

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

Quote of the day:

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

Great analysis here

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

The strange thing about Starmer is that both sides can be true. If he goes, the record is not empty: NHS waits are down, rail is moving back into public hands, worker protections have had a serious upgrade, non-dom is gone, childcare has expanded, & Labour is at least trying to tackle child poverty with the machinery of government rather than just another slogan.

Strip away the noise & that's a very textbook LABOUR record.

Under Andy Burnham, most of this would probably be sold as Labour renewal, but with Starmer, it feels more like necessary, ugly surgical debridement on a neglected Tory wound: useful, painful, absolutely needed, but nobody is going to clap because the tissue looks healthier.

That's partly his fault & partly the age we live in. Politics has now become content shaped by public spectacle, conflict & daily drama, & with Trumpism & the Boris years it's not enough to sit in the back room cleaning up the mess as a leader, b/c if you cannot make the clean-up feel like a future, pple will start treating the cleaner as part of the decay.

Maybe Starmer was always going to look better on paper than he felt in real life. He can clean up parts of the Tory wound, steady bits of the State, & still leave people cold b/c nobody wants to be told that the big promise their leadership offers is basically

"Remember that Tory injury? the bleeding is slower now."

People believe that Andy can make repair sound less like surrender, & if he can, that's not a small thing. Politics has always needed feeling as much as it needed delivery. But Britain has a deeper illness than Starmer’s personality. Everyone wants long-term repair, then the country starts reaching for a new leader before anything has had time to settle. If that short-termism itch isn't fixed, then it'll soon be 8 PMs in 11 years.

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@BenZaranko And yet the service is terrible compared to the EU counterparts. I travel regularly across Europe and enjoy high bandwidth 5G in all towns and cities I visit - similar story on public transport.
In UK - I can't even read the news on my commute from Basingstoke to London

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@adyjl1981 @rawespresso Who was in power from 1997 to 2010 to create that period of relative stability on a modest salary?

Cue 15 years of austerity (Tories) poor capital spending decisions (Tories) and unlucky economic shocks and fiscal drag (mostly Tories) but yes let's blame Labour

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

The eyes of history are on all of us right now. #GazaStarving

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

20 years of sub-standard capital investment (since 2008 crisis / austerity). If you don't fix the roof, the leaks will cost you more over time.

[Christopher Talbot @Lord_Talbot64]

In the UK we simultaneously have record levels of tax, record levels of borrowing and cuts to services. Where is the money going?

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

Heddychris11#3741369 #VerdanskReplay @CallofDuty

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

Lugged my PS4 on a work trip to Scotland so I could play in my hotel in the evenings 😂
Won first game from atop stadium roof 🎯
2 weeks later we were locked down!

[ModernWarzone @ModernWarzone]

Call of Duty Warzone and Verdansk turned 5 years old today.

Original release date: March 10th 2020

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

Do you take the same view on @Saudi then?

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

Unfortunately, until there is an election, no one has a voice in Ukraine.

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

There should be a law (a la Murphy's Law or Moore's Law) that describes the gravitational pull between the small number of pre-planned, as hoc calendar activities I have within a work week (doctors, dentist, vets etc) and critical work meetings that mean I have to reschedule.

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@RealJessica05 My bank still owns 70% of my house but they don't get to tell me when I sell it.

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@JamesMelville The BBC

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@elonmusk Who is funding the Trump transition? Because it isn't the GSA....

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@AvaSantina And joining Reform #PlotTwist #Imagine

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@elonmusk Not on my bingo card for today

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@elonmusk

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@DrRebeccaTidy And we haven't even talked about stamp duty (£28k) and other moving costs. Our current full-time nursery cost is £1,500 p/m for 1 child, so we wouldn't even be able to afford to fill the 4 bedrooms! We're in a better position than most, but we'd require windfall or lottery (2/2)

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@DrRebeccaTidy My wife and I are comfortably in the top 5% of UK earners (>six figures), and have £120k of equity in our current (first) property.
We could sink all of that into a £795k property for 85% LTV and pray we could find a lender who'd take >£4k a month from us for 30-years... (1/2)

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

This innocent error prompted a non-negotiable re-scan of all 64 items in my shop, a process that took nearly 25mins and completely defeated the object of self scan. Naturally all of my items were present and correct, but a terrible experience (2/2).

[Christopher Head @chris__head]

@Tesco you've got to empower your self-scan checkout monitors a bit more. A colleague was asked to scan a few of my items and I'd inadvertently picked up a Coleman's Cheese Sauce and & Extra Mature Cheese Sauce, scanning both as the former... (1/2)