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Winston Churchill (1951–55) Anthony Eden (1955–57) Harold Macmillan (1957–63) Alec Douglas-Home (1963–64) Harold Wilson (1964–70) Edward Heath (1970–74) H
by simonswords82 4y ago
Winston Churchill (1951–55)
Anthony Eden (1955–57)
Harold Macmillan (1957–63)
Alec Douglas-Home (1963–64)
Harold Wilson (1964–70)
Edward Heath (1970–74)
Harold Wilson (1974–76)
James Callaghan (1976–79)
Margaret Thatcher (1979–90)
John Major (1990–97)
Tony Blair (1997–07)
Gordon Brown (2007–10)
David Cameron (2010–16)
Theresa May (2016–19)
Boris Johnson (2019–22)
Liz Truss (2022 (two days ago) - current)
Quite the reign! Can't help but feel a bit sad really.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoHeard on the BBC that Liz Truss was born 101 years after Winston Churchill.
- ricardobayes 4y agoCan't believe Brexit was voted 6 years ago, time flies so fast.
- IncRnd 4y agoAlong those lines, Britain joined the EU a year after Smalltalk-72 and K&R C were introduced. Smalltalk inspired Objective-C, which is still used today in Macs.
- origin_path 4y agoThe British Constitution can be seen as a large piece of legacy code which has never been tossed and rewritten from scratch, just incrementally patched and refactored over a really long period of time. Downside: lots of bizarre complexities, bits of dead code, stuff that works as long as nobody touches it etc. Upsides: it's really stable.
- neilwilson 4y agoMuch like our DNA. As I get older I have more and more respect for Chestertons Fence.
- bregma 4y agoSounds like it's time to rewrite it in Rust.
- that_guy_iain 4y agoYea, it seems like yesterday it got announced. I was working in Berlin with an English guy, he took it super hard. We went out for drinks after work and at the end of the night he was telling one of the Germans they were lucky - because they were still in the EU.
- teamonkey 4y agoCounterpoint: it feels like it’s been going on forever
- Hamuko 4y agoI feel slightly bad for Liz Truss, since I imagine that one of the things she will be remembered is that the Queen died less than 48 hours into her government.
- laumars 4y agoTruss wouldn’t care about that. If anything she’ll spin this to her advantage. It’s pretty common for governments to release embarrassing documents or unpopular changes during busy news weeks, or at the weekend, knowing that peoples attention is elsewhere. You don’t get to become a PM by playing nice.
- NoFingerprints 4y agoShe’s already been busy: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/tom-scholar-permanent-secretary-to-the-treasury-sacked-by-liz-truss https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/08/tom-scholar-...
- mhh__ 4y agoShe's got much bigger things to worry about.
- datavirtue 4y ago
- andrepd 4y agoOh I'm sure she at least appreciates the opportunity to bury some unappealing news. News broke e.g. of her decision to rescind all restrictions on fracking (and – just a funny coincidence – of the fact that her campaign's biggest donation came from the wife of a BP exec), at about the same time as news of the Queen's deteriorating health.
- laumars 4y agoI really wish lobbying and campaign donations were made illegal because in practice it’s little different from bribery.
- ddlatham 4y agoIndeed she reigned for about 30% of U.S. history. (credit for observation goes to Matt Glassman)
- logicchains 4y agoAnd she was queen of Australia for over 57% of its history.
- rozenmd 4y agoPretty sure she wasn't around for over 30k years
- wl 4y ago30,000 years veers well into the realm of pre-history.
- kixiQu 4y agoFor anyone wondering: > The Tjapwurung, an Aboriginal people in what is now southern Australia, shared the story of this bird hunt from generation to generation across an unbelievably large slice of time—many more millennia than one might think possible. The birds (most likely the species with the scientific name Genyornis newtoni) memorialized in this tale are now long extinct. Yet the story of the Tjapwurung’s “tradition respecting the existence” of these birds conveys how people pursued the giant animals. At the time of this particular hunt, between 5,000 and 10,000 years ago, volcanoes in the area were erupting, wrote amateur ethnographer James Dawson in his 1881 book Australian Aborigines, and so scientists have been able to corroborate this oral history by dating volcanic rocks. ... > What are the limits of such ancient memories? For what length of time can knowledge be transferred within oral societies before its essence becomes irretrievably lost? Under optimal conditions, as suggested by science-determined ages for events recalled in ancient stories, orally shared knowledge can demonstrably endure more than 7,000 years, quite possibly 10,000, but probably not much longer. https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/ https://www.sapiens.org/language/oral-tradition/ So, anyway, be it 10k or 30k, definitely within an era of "history" and not "pre-history"
- ectopod 4y agoTruss was two days ago.
- Scoundreller 4y agoToo much to handle
- dym_sh 4y ago
- Terretta 4y agoPut another way, her Prime Ministers saw the world from 1874 - 2022, nearly 150 years.
- ddlatham 4y agoAnd counting!
- huhtenberg 4y ago> her Prime Ministers I suspect that you don't realize how bizarre this phrasing is for the vast majority of the world.
- telotortium 4y agoWhy? Constitutionally the Prime Minister is just the "first" minister to the monarch. These days, of course, the monarch defers all governance to the Prime Minister, but the origin of the role is as an advisor of sorts to the monarch. It shouldn't sound any worse than saying Merrick Garland is Joe Biden's Attorney General.
- amachefe 4y agoThat is not true. There are many countries in the world who run different system of governments, and many as doing it quite successfully.
- huhtenberg 4y agoWhat is not true? That phrase implies that she had PMs subservient to her. That's not how the UK monarchy is generally explained, at least not outside of the UK.
- flumpcakes 4y agoShe is the head of state. The UK isn't the only country she is head of state either. She has the power to dissolve UK government.
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- missedthecue 4y ago16 prime ministers came and went across her reign? Wow. Sounds like a year in the life of an Italian.
- whoooooo123 4y ago15 - Wilson served non-consecutive terms.
- scaramanga 4y agoBefore she put an end to him :)
- timeon 4y agoIt will be hard to define Second Elizabethan architecture.
- koheripbal 4y agoYou're illustrating the difference between a monarchy and a democracy. The regular rotation of power is a feature, not a bug.
- karlzt 4y agoFeatures are bugs with clothes on.
- dredmorbius 4y agoFeatures are bugs with established workflows. <https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/>
- kennywinker 4y agoTechnically the UK is a constitutional monarchy, which is a form of monarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy
- kesava 4y agoFrom independent India’s first PM Jawaharlal Nehru to current PM Narendra Modi - she met with a lot of them too.