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Author of "Data Munging with Perl" and a co-author of "Perl Template Toolkit". Dreams of writing a book that normal people will read. ...more

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Why Did Keir Starmer Resign?

[I really don’t consider myself a political pundit, but a few (ok, two) people have asked for my opinion on this, so I thought it was worth writing something.]

Keir Starmer may be the first British Prime Minister to resign because he was better at governing than he was at politics.

When Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister, reactions tended to fall into two camps.

His supporters ar

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