Currently reading: Bessie Smith by Jackie Kay 📚
Implement a genuine progress index in place of GDP
At the moment, every attempt to create a greener and fairer country is hampered by the way we measure progress. So my third big policy is to dethrone our use of GDP as a general indicator of how well we are doing, and replace it with more appropriate measures.
Sunak leads a government that has introduced the most draconian anti-protest laws in our democratic history. These laws are deployed exclusively against official enemies: environmental campaigners, republicans, feminists, Muslims. If you belong to one of these groups and you block a road, you might go to prison. If you are a farmer and you block a road, the prime minister might join you.
The protest the prime minister attended displayed the banners of No Farmers, No Food, a group convened by a notorious conspiracy theorist, James Melville.
Microbrewery 🍺
Lunch at the Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd 🍺
Sharper, 2023 - ★★★½
Watched on Monday March 4, 2024.
The Hunger Games, 2012 - ★★★½
Watched on Sunday March 3, 2024.
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Location check in 🗺 — Hay Distillery, sampling gins
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Staying at The Old Black Lion, Hay-on-Wye. They do excellent Wye Valley Smokery kippers for breakfast.
Starter
Main course
Dessert
(I got distracted midway 😊)
Captain on deck 🫡
(A little upset that AI alt text generator didn’t recognise Kirk or Picard 😆🖖)
Retro 🖖
Someone spent too much time sorting books by spine colour 😡📚
