Andrew Richards
@andrewwr235.bsky.social
Energy, mathematics, forecasting, analysis. Wine, cooking, reading, music. Generally curious. Hopeful that my country, the UK, will one day come to its senses again
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It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Prescott memo which sparked chaos at the BBC was in no sense a rigorous, systematic or scientific document. All it did was cherrypick a few examples of alleged bias, as well as a couple of mistakes. So why isn’t the memo being put under greater scrutiny, asks @stephencushion.bsky.social?
BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands
The Prescott memo contained no research questions or objectives, method, sample, time frame or, crucially, analytical framework for examining output.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The Prescott memo which sparked chaos at the BBC was in no sense a rigorous, systematic or scientific document. All it did was cherrypick a few examples of alleged bias, as well as a couple of mistakes. So why isn’t the memo being put under greater scrutiny, asks @stephencushion.bsky.social?
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If you’re around, I’ll be talking at the Highgate Lit & Sci on Monday (17th) 2pm, about my latest book. The Undesirables tells the story of the lives impacted by a terrible piece of UK legislation (which operated for 46 years)
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
November 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re around, I’ll be talking at the Highgate Lit & Sci on Monday (17th) 2pm, about my latest book. The Undesirables tells the story of the lives impacted by a terrible piece of UK legislation (which operated for 46 years)
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
hlsi.org.uk/courses/hist...
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What a gloomy, yet foreseeable outlook, all as a result of Labour chasing the votes of racists, or at least supporters of racist parties.
I cannot see any scenario in which Labour retain power in 2029.
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
Net result of their 5 calamitous years will be:
- A diminished horrible inward looking country which promotes cruelty to immigrants as a virtue
- A series of half-baked half-started initiatives
- Reform government
- End of Labour
November 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
What a gloomy, yet foreseeable outlook, all as a result of Labour chasing the votes of racists, or at least supporters of racist parties.
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Listen to Katie Johnson’s deposition before her life was threatened.
November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Listen to Katie Johnson’s deposition before her life was threatened.
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My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
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The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The BBC is the biggest thump of soft power the UK has and its reach and influence to the benefit of the country is extraordinary. Destroy it, hugely damage the UK. The same people who helped weaken us over Brexit are seeking to do it again.
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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I honestly struggle to believe that any compassionate person can believe this Labour government is the best of our options when it comes to how we treat those seeking asylum.
I've been very soft on this Labour government. They inherited a booby-trapped nightmare and even though they're even now probably still the best of all our shitty options, the immigration thing is draconian, stupid and deliberately cruel.
Starmer and McSweeney must go. Now.
Starmer and McSweeney must go. Now.
November 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I honestly struggle to believe that any compassionate person can believe this Labour government is the best of our options when it comes to how we treat those seeking asylum.
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The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
November 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The first episode of The Clangers was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
Some of the most horrific adult content I have seen.
I dare you.
I dare you.
La vie privée / Private life
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113255
https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3113255
November 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Some of the most horrific adult content I have seen.
I dare you.
I dare you.
It's a shame Andrew Neil isn't the intellectually honest person I'd hoped he was, even if we disagree on politics.
If he were, he'd have admitted how wrong he was on Brexit, on Jan 6th, on Truss's budget.
He has given a partial apology on Trump, but he says he's better than Harris would have been.
If he were, he'd have admitted how wrong he was on Brexit, on Jan 6th, on Truss's budget.
He has given a partial apology on Trump, but he says he's better than Harris would have been.
Had a flashback to an Andrew Neil speech in favour of Brexit where he said that trade barriers would no longer matter because the 4th industrial revolution would mean we'd all zap weightless intellectual property to each other and just locally 3d print everything solid that we needed.
November 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's a shame Andrew Neil isn't the intellectually honest person I'd hoped he was, even if we disagree on politics.
If he were, he'd have admitted how wrong he was on Brexit, on Jan 6th, on Truss's budget.
He has given a partial apology on Trump, but he says he's better than Harris would have been.
If he were, he'd have admitted how wrong he was on Brexit, on Jan 6th, on Truss's budget.
He has given a partial apology on Trump, but he says he's better than Harris would have been.
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Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp chose to side with Trump over the BBC today.
True patriots should be united in standing up for Britain against Trump's bullying.
True patriots should be united in standing up for Britain against Trump's bullying.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp chose to side with Trump over the BBC today.
True patriots should be united in standing up for Britain against Trump's bullying.
True patriots should be united in standing up for Britain against Trump's bullying.
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The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
Unprecedentedly corrupt.
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"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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Concerning Muskopedia
A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to…
A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to…
Concerning Muskopedia
A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to a dump of Wikipedia, with a focus on article similarity and citation practices. Although Grokipedia articles are much longer than their corresponding English Wikipedia articles, we find that much of Grokipedia's content (including both articles with and without Creative Commons licenses) is highly derivative of Wikipedia.
telescoper.blog
November 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Concerning Muskopedia
A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to…
A colleague send me this arXiv paper. The abstract reads: Elon Musk released Grokipedia on 27 October 2025 to provide an alternative to Wikipedia, the crowdsourced online encyclopedia. In this paper, we provide the first comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia and compare it to…
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Numbers talk❗️So why doesn’t Labour/MSM consider the numbers of counter protesters each time there’s an anti migrant March❓🤔
In Bristol yesterday about 75 anti-migrant protesters faced about 350 counter-demonstrators, often be the case now..
Anti migrant = small minority that gets all the attention
In Bristol yesterday about 75 anti-migrant protesters faced about 350 counter-demonstrators, often be the case now..
Anti migrant = small minority that gets all the attention
Anti-migrant protest dwarfed by counter demonstration in Bristol - BBC News
Four people are arrested on suspicion of assaulting police officers, and one officer is in hospital.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Numbers talk❗️So why doesn’t Labour/MSM consider the numbers of counter protesters each time there’s an anti migrant March❓🤔
In Bristol yesterday about 75 anti-migrant protesters faced about 350 counter-demonstrators, often be the case now..
Anti migrant = small minority that gets all the attention
In Bristol yesterday about 75 anti-migrant protesters faced about 350 counter-demonstrators, often be the case now..
Anti migrant = small minority that gets all the attention
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They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen
November 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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'Falaises de Normandie.' (1907)
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
'Falaises de Normandie.' (1907)
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
Gustave Loiseau’s paintings of the Normandy coast are as enjoyable as those by Monet. Like Monet, he painted like a man who can hear remote frequencies of perception, and clearly see faint colours, contrasts, and radiances that most people can’t.
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Aside from the negative human impacts, this whole package of policy announcements is going to make the system even more complicated than it is now. The longer the policy is in place, the more reviews the Home Office will need to do - in 15 years time there will be 15 years of reviews being done
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Aside from the negative human impacts, this whole package of policy announcements is going to make the system even more complicated than it is now. The longer the policy is in place, the more reviews the Home Office will need to do - in 15 years time there will be 15 years of reviews being done
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Once upon a time the Labour Party believed it should develop new progressive ideas and policies that would enthuse and inspire the public into the belief that a better world is possible even if if needs some effort now to achieve it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Once upon a time the Labour Party believed it should develop new progressive ideas and policies that would enthuse and inspire the public into the belief that a better world is possible even if if needs some effort now to achieve it.
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Reform-led Kent County Council have repainted the ‘School Keep Clear’ markings on both sides of the road outside Halfway Houses Primary School on the Isle of Sheppey. It’s clear that they are taking the safety of children incredibly seriously. The school closed down in October 2016...
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reform-led Kent County Council have repainted the ‘School Keep Clear’ markings on both sides of the road outside Halfway Houses Primary School on the Isle of Sheppey. It’s clear that they are taking the safety of children incredibly seriously. The school closed down in October 2016...