Edd Hamon

Gaming, Football and other banal thoughts....

[Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram]

Similar to joining the Green Party

[Lord WarGit of Superlative Value @WarGit]

As followers will know, I'm not at home to the Kirpan Discourse, I don't see owt in this to make me think we need to reorder relations with the broader Anglo-Sikh community. But the people saying "just imagine the reaction if the races were reversed" - hard to argue agin that.

[Damian Counsell @DamCou]

If it all kicks off with space aliens, there's an RAF guy at SPACE FORCE called Paul "Godders" Godfrey who will co-ordinate operations between the USA and the rest of the World. If the Martians EMP us, he also literally knows how to fly a Spitfire or a Hurricane.

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@OcBen For me, watching Emery’s team in the Prem is much, much better value than watching Bruce’s in the Championship.

Cost me waaay more than £703 to watch every round of the Europa League, worth every penny.

[Adriano Del Monte @adriandelmonte]

Ollie Watkins just scored a double to beat Man City, away, after a 3 day session in Istanbul.

[Out of Context Football Manager @nocontextfm1]

Aston Villa at the end of a five day bender playing while drunk

[Sunday Sport @thesundaysport]

'If I cut tax on visting Alton Towers, more people will go. If I increase the tax on employing people...no, hold on...'

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@avfc_stef “xG nonce” 😂😂😂

[Tim Newman @whitesundesert]

Activists successfully got the highway code rewritten in 2022 to give cyclists priority in situations which are 1) counterintuitive and 2) stupid, putting them at considerable risk. The response of many cyclists is to ignore these risks. Zero self-preservation. Darwin fail.

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@cjmavfc He’s the president of the FA… probably doesn’t have to go through the ballot…

[No Context Keane @NoContextKeaneo]

Enzo Maresca’s first day of training after he takes over from Pep at Manchester City 😆

[John Duffield @jfwduffield]

British supermarkets are vastly better than American ones & much cheaper than those in Australia & NZ. If you think food prices are the cause of inflation in Britain today you are beyond economically illiterate. Energy, land, housing & immigration are all far bigger issues.

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@FabrizioRomano Both Villa and Arsenal have more…

[Bear @BearJFK]

So the British Empire;
Her somewhat retarded eldest but most successful chad son;
Her banker;
And her rather wacky, but terribly lovely distant cousins.

Win

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@JUSTIN_AVFC_ We need to win any 1 of our last 3 games to get CL - don’t deserve it if we can’t!

[@anugent51 @anugent514]

Swinney will work with SinnFein, but won’t meet with Reform, says all you need to know about Swinney

[Damian Counsell @DamCou]

To be fair, the Palestinian town will also have holes in its roads and erratic bin collections because the people running it squandered its residents' money on extremism.

[Edd Hamon @e_hamon]

@NLondonCAMRA @OldLondonW14 @CAMRA_London @ProtectPubs @PubsSaving @LondonPubMap @KensalGreenRA @StKensal What are you proposing happen instead?
I’ve seen CAMRA try to block development of dead pubs and the land just sits vacant, benefitting no-one.

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

A reminder that Harriet Harman's political report "The Family Way" advised:

"it cannot be assumed that men are bound to be an asset to family life or that the presence of fathers in families is necessarily a means to social cohesion”.

She should be nowhere near political power.

[Ellie Rofe @eliotranch]

This graph is one of the most successful pieces of populist propaganda I've seen on this app in recent times.

It flatters left-leaning voters into thinking they are super smart because they vote left, while the thickies vote right.

But one of the most basic rules in data analysis is that correlation does not equal causation.

In other words, this graph means approximately fuck all.

"Most educated", for a start, is not a meaningful category. Not any more.

As Colin Wright put it:

"Grade inflation and university ideological capture means that a bachelor’s degree is no longer an honest signal of competence. In some woke fields, a PhD is an honest signal of incompetence."

(@SwipeWright often shares PhDs being given on the basis of the most farcical/inane 'research'. Take a look. It's fascinating. And depressing.)

"Educational attainment" may also, for example, correlate with an inability to get on the housing ladder, employment or even just your home town having been completely reengineered by immigration in your lifetime.

Anyway, all that aside we just don't vote based on our level of education.

We vote based on identity, issue salience, leader evaluations, perceived party values, tactical considerations and local candidate incumbency/loyalty (although that's rare these days). Sometimes we even vote on policy.

And yes - messaging and occasionally propaganda have a lot to do with all of that.

But if you think only the right engages in propaganda - or that only 'uneducated people' fall for it - have I got a Polanski for you.

The man who created this graph knew exactly what he was doing. It worked.