The Patch
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| Originally published | November 13, 2018 |
| Authors | John McPhee |
| Genres | Quotation |
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| ID | 2984451 |
About The Patch
John McPhee's The Patch is just that: patches of work across a writer's lifetime that come together to form a quilt of essays, reflections and reminiscences. Ranging across a variety of genres and styles, subjects and moods, his patches are collected from writings that have not previously appeared in any book. . . .
UK inflation falls sharply to 4. 6% as energy prices ease
... " Dave Golding, manager of The Patch food bank charity in Milford Haven in Wales, said people were still under pressure from higher food and energy costs, with the charity set to have provided 150,000 meals this year...
Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth by-elections: What to expect from Thursday's polls
... The Patch has been Conservative for so long, none of the parties began with very much precise data about previous voting patterns, beyond the obvious - which is most voters voted Conservative last time out...
The Patch: BBC radio show's postcode lottery unearths stories in random places
... Each episode of Polly Weston s BBC Radio 4 series The Patch starts with a random postcode generator...
Losing Dominic Raab is a bad day for Rishi Sunak
... Party leader Sir Ed Davey was there in The Patch in the blink of an eye to make that case...
Taiwan bear badge punches back after China drills
... Taiwan s air force told the Reuters news agency that it did not " particularly encourage" its members to wear The Patch, which is not a part of their uniform...
Ocean plastic: How tech is being used to clean up waste problem
... 2% of the 100 million kilograms of plastic contained in the world s largest patch of plastic rubbish, he said it was still worth it: " Everything big starts small, right? " The team believes it will have collected 1% of The Patch by the end of this year using its current system - but they are scaling up their operations to try to clean up patches faster...
Scotland 'snow-free' for fourth time in six years
... Just six days ago he had made the climb to check on The Patch and described it as " hanging on for dear life...
By-election: Tory wobbles in true blue Bexley?
... One minister who has visited The Patch points out that governing parties historically used to get a hammering at mid-term by-elections - so the fact they ve even won some, like Hartlepool, is reason to be optimistic...
Losing Dominic Raab is a bad day for Rishi Sunak
By Chris MasonPolitical editor, BBC News
Dominic Raab arrived to meet me in his constituency in Surrey, the trappings of office gone.
No ministerial car, no aides, no title, beyond backbench Conservative MP.
There was little in The Way of contrition, although he did say he would
Three very striking words - striking, as they do, at the very essence of this whole affair.
How the behaviour of someone feels to Someone Else .
It is in The Eye , the mind, the stomach of The Beholder .
Remember, complainants across three government departments thought his behaviour was unacceptable - and sufficiently so to provide testimony to this inquiry.
The Report , in the round, is complex, caveated and nuanced.
, Mr Raab sought to defend, to justify his manner and conduct - and, moreover, argue his experience was an important case study in what he saw as The Failures of The Relationship between that engine room of government, a Civil Service duty bound to be impartial, and its political masters.
'Activist' civil servantsMr Raab's description of some civil servants as " activist" is, in this context, explosive.
Sufficiently so, some civil servants see it as a conspiracy concocted to distract attention from the criticisms he's faced.
His account, too, will provoke a wider national conversation - About what is appropriate behaviour at work in 2023.
And from The National to The Local : one intriguing titbit in The Interview was Dominic Raab repeatedly refusing to say if he will stand at The Next election in Esher and Walton, the seat he has represented since 2010.
The Liberal Democrats are desperate to snatch the seat from him.
It is one constituency in what one party strategist described to me as a " yellow halo" of spots around London that the Lib Dems see as potential gains at The Next general election.
Party leader Sir Ed Davey was there in The Patch in the blink of an eye to make that case.
Back at Westminster, curiously, the Prime Minister - on The Day he lost his long-standing ally and Deputy - hasn't managed to find any of our cameras.
Would Rishi Sunak have sacked him?
Does he agree with Mr Raab's analysis?
I Am told the Prime Minister had a busy diary,
PM loses his Number TwoAvoiding questions now won't mean they disappear.
The Day a Prime Minister loses their Number Two is a bad day in Downing Street.
But Mr Sunak is inoculated - to a degree - from outright Conservative insurrection, after The Party 's recent flirtation with oblivion last autumn.
Plenty of Conservatives are not surprised that After All of this Dominic Raab is out of government. They had predicted it for months.
But plenty have sympathy with his point of view.
But, taking a step back, the Prime Minister can't afford many days like this.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com