David Bowden

@davidbowden
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Chartered Building Surveyor
London and Lisbon
The BBC confirming the revolution will not, in fact, be televised
And why is there no backlash on Fiona Bruce, and as a woman she was allowed to go bbc live and basically say, its ok for a man to beat his wife as it was a one off?!
"Look, sir, it's easy. You subtract the bankers' bonuses and add them to the #NHS budget. Then you have more nurses to divide the work between and we multiply the standard of healthcare. That's maths, that is."
#EnoughIsEnough #SupportTheStrikes

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In 1948 the NHS was created. A universal health care system. The best in the world. Free at point of use. Now, a tiny group of rich people WHO DON'T OWN IT want to sell it, make a killing, and force us to pay to use it. It is outrageous. #ToriesDestroyingOurNHS #NHS #followback

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“In 1948 the NHS was created. A universal health care system. The best in the world. Free at point of use. Now, a tiny group of rich people WHO DON'T OWN IT want to sell it, make a killing, and force us to pay to use it. It is outrageous. #ToriesDestroyingOurNHS #NHS #followback”

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Useful term I discovered this week: “toxic mimicry”. It’s the pattern of substituting systems/organisations/services that look superficially like they fill a core societal need but in fact act to take up the space that a genuine system would fill, and only provide virtual nutrition.

Examples:
- 6pm TV news mimics public discourse
- Malls mimic public spaces
- Daycare mimics collective child rearing

I like the term as it suggests something predatory and insidious.

You're not supposed to have enough prime ministers in a single year to run a "best of" competition.
Two, if you have an election, maybe.
We've already had three. And there's still time for another...
#GeneralElectionNow #EnoughIsEnough

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“https://t.co/SijhUYlIQg”

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We propose to reduce the alphabet to 23 letters as successive governments have been ignoring N, H & S for years.

#Manicfesto #AutumnStatement

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Partridge in a pear tree.
The rant before Christmas.
Call it what you will but enjoy and share Richard Madeley interviewing himself!
#SupportRailWorkers

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“Partridge in a pear tree. The rant before Christmas. Call it what you will but enjoy and share Richard Madeley interviewing himself! #SupportRailWorkers”

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They should call themselves “alfalfa males” because everything about them is pretty much eventually horseshit.
Did you know that if holly (Ilex aquifolium) finds its leaves are being nibbled by deer, it switches genes on to make them spiky when they regrow? So on taller holly trees, the upper leaves (which are out of reach) have smooth edges, while the lower leaves are prickly. Info and photo from u/dirtybird971 on Reddit.