Ewan Hunter
@ewanhunter.bsky.social
Entrepreneurial Scot interested in how everything hangs together. A lot of sport, politics & philosophical chat is likely on my timeline 😊
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Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
July 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Astonishing story. Huge questions over the company culture that allowed this. www.ft.com/content/c0e6...
Excellent & deeply accurate. This quote from Starmer is telling - what he exposes is that he's entirely unmoored from principle.
Being pragmatic isn't a problem - without being guided by clear principles, it becomes EXACTLY the mess it's been for the last 12 months.
#Scotland - we have a choice: 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇳
Being pragmatic isn't a problem - without being guided by clear principles, it becomes EXACTLY the mess it's been for the last 12 months.
#Scotland - we have a choice: 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇳
July 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Excellent & deeply accurate. This quote from Starmer is telling - what he exposes is that he's entirely unmoored from principle.
Being pragmatic isn't a problem - without being guided by clear principles, it becomes EXACTLY the mess it's been for the last 12 months.
#Scotland - we have a choice: 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇳
Being pragmatic isn't a problem - without being guided by clear principles, it becomes EXACTLY the mess it's been for the last 12 months.
#Scotland - we have a choice: 🏴🇪🇺🇺🇳
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🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
June 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.
....and assume (under the current system) there will be Barnett consequentials too? Let's see...
This investment, with trams as a welcome focus, will make a big difference to transport across these regions. But capital spend alone won’t see the revival in local public transport that’s needed; day-to-day spending on local buses will have to rise too.
Chancellor to announce £15bn for transport projects
Money will be spent on tram, train and bus projects in England across the Midlands, North and West Country.
www.bbc.com
June 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
....and assume (under the current system) there will be Barnett consequentials too? Let's see...
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@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for a defence expert to join its research team.
Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇
buff.ly/jy96HOs
Deadline for applications 06/05/25
London or Brussels
Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇
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Deadline for applications 06/05/25
London or Brussels
April 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@centreeuropeanref.bsky.social is looking for a defence expert to join its research team.
Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇
buff.ly/jy96HOs
Deadline for applications 06/05/25
London or Brussels
Please see the #job description and details on how to apply below 👇
buff.ly/jy96HOs
Deadline for applications 06/05/25
London or Brussels
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Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data
Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security
www.ft.com/content/a928...
Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security
www.ft.com/content/a928...
Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data
Announcement follows recommendation in UK government-commissioned review last year
www.ft.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data
Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security
www.ft.com/content/a928...
Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security
www.ft.com/content/a928...
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If natural changes in the sun were the main driver of recent global warming, we would expect the stratosphere to warm along with the troposphere. But the stratosphere is cooling. This is a telltale sign of an intensifying greenhouse effect. From new paper by @edhawkins.org et al.👇
April 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If natural changes in the sun were the main driver of recent global warming, we would expect the stratosphere to warm along with the troposphere. But the stratosphere is cooling. This is a telltale sign of an intensifying greenhouse effect. From new paper by @edhawkins.org et al.👇
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Watching the aurora in Denali National Park, Alaska
April 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Watching the aurora in Denali National Park, Alaska
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Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fear has a way of being contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
But courage is also contagious.
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We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
April 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
We wouldn’t be here if SCOTUS had allowed the January 6th trial to go forward as scheduled.
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$9.5 trillion has now been wiped off global shares prices, Bloomberg calculates.
April 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
$9.5 trillion has now been wiped off global shares prices, Bloomberg calculates.
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I've noticed the same thing here in Finland: that the right-wingers only *assume* they know about economics.
Let's keep in mind Oren Cass is supposed to be a leading "intellectual" of the new right and he just straight up doesn't know what comparative advantage is, a concept taught in every undergrad economics survey course.
I don't think I've ever seen someone destroy their own career with such elegant simplicity.
April 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I've noticed the same thing here in Finland: that the right-wingers only *assume* they know about economics.
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I think this one is my favorite!
April 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I think this one is my favorite!
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Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected Northeast Corridor elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a well-qualified & credible Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
WELKER: The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan?
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.
April 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Congrats again to the well-credentialed & well-connected Northeast Corridor elites who told us that Scott Bessent was a well-qualified & credible Treasury Secretary because he also had the right credentials & elite connections:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Lucky for Starmer most people have forgotten his 10 pledges he made when running for Labour leader, given he's abandoned so many, including: free movement, higher income tax for top 5%, higher corporation tax, abolish UC, common ownership of rail/mail/energy and water, no more NHS outsourcing, etc.
April 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Lucky for Starmer most people have forgotten his 10 pledges he made when running for Labour leader, given he's abandoned so many, including: free movement, higher income tax for top 5%, higher corporation tax, abolish UC, common ownership of rail/mail/energy and water, no more NHS outsourcing, etc.
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There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics
FKA Twigs has announced she is canceling a series of live shows she was scheduled to perform after experiencing what she described as “ongoing visa issues": cnn.it/44hJdjJ
FKA Twigs cancels Coachella appearance and remaining tour dates due to ‘ongoing visa issues’ | CNN
British singer FKA Twigs has announced she is canceling a series of live shows she was scheduled to perform after experiencing what she described as “ongoing visa issues.”
cnn.it
April 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There is absolutely no way the US can host the World Cup or the Olympics
No, it isnae....🙈
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
No, it isnae....🙈
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These are frightening times. Your courage and tenacity are desperately needed. They will be needed for the rest of this year and next, and the years thereafter. Which is why you must also take care of yourself. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
Sunday thought
The importance of taking care of yourself
robertreich.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
These are frightening times. Your courage and tenacity are desperately needed. They will be needed for the rest of this year and next, and the years thereafter. Which is why you must also take care of yourself. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
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Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
April 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Quite literally whitewashing the purpose of the Underground Railroad www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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on this; something I find disturbing is this assumption that if enough people want something then they should be able to get it - was that belief always there? understand no one wants to come across as overly patrician but if 60% of people wanted a cat as president, would we let the cat stand?
there's apparently now a view in every right-leaning British publication that nothing ought to be done about the far right, ever - they should be able to say whatever they want and do whatever they want, yet remain untouchable, and it's becoming increasingly hard not to parse it as outright support
April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
on this; something I find disturbing is this assumption that if enough people want something then they should be able to get it - was that belief always there? understand no one wants to come across as overly patrician but if 60% of people wanted a cat as president, would we let the cat stand?