Finn
@finn86.bsky.social
Humble hewer of wood and bearer of water. AI/ML architecture, innovation & digital transformation. Former UK civil service nat sec policy analyst. Recovering macro hedge fund guy. Graduate of KCL War Studies and UCL Computer Science. Big on land value tax.
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One thing everyone knows about British people is that we never ever talk about the World Wars or winning the World Cup
July 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
One thing everyone knows about British people is that we never ever talk about the World Wars or winning the World Cup
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And as JFK didn’t quite get around to saying: we choose to change at Acton Town not because we have to but because we can.
July 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
And as JFK didn’t quite get around to saying: we choose to change at Acton Town not because we have to but because we can.
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I think an underrated problem in most countries is that lockdowns drove around a quarter of the country crazy, this quarter is pretty well-distributed across the population, and it makes going 'look, these guys are NUTS' much harder a political attack than it used to be.
Reform has, for various reasons, a core base of cranks. So far, they have managed to keep them and more ordinary voters within the tent. Breaking them requires forcing a split between these groups.
July 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I think an underrated problem in most countries is that lockdowns drove around a quarter of the country crazy, this quarter is pretty well-distributed across the population, and it makes going 'look, these guys are NUTS' much harder a political attack than it used to be.
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This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is a very fair criticism of the prime minister from @samfr.bsky.social and therefore really quite devastating open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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This is the depths to which the US has sunk, globally. We are now defending a “Nazi-light” party-in Germany of all places. FFS. It will take a generation, if ever, before the world looks at the US again as the bright shining city on a hill. It is infuriating- and embarrassing.
Top officials of the Donald Trump administration have lashed out at Germany after the country’s domestic intelligence agency classified the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a 'proven right-wing extremist organization.'
Trump team clashes with Berlin over AfD designation as right-wing extremist
The heavy criticism from top American officials comes days before a new coalition government is set to take power in Berlin.
www.politico.eu
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
This is the depths to which the US has sunk, globally. We are now defending a “Nazi-light” party-in Germany of all places. FFS. It will take a generation, if ever, before the world looks at the US again as the bright shining city on a hill. It is infuriating- and embarrassing.
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"There is no democratic element to the House of Lords and it is by far the most effective part of British system.
This is not a popular view, as you can imagine.
But you have to go on the evidence in front of your eyes." –
@iandunt.bsky.social
More: bsky.app/profile/robe...
This is not a popular view, as you can imagine.
But you have to go on the evidence in front of your eyes." –
@iandunt.bsky.social
More: bsky.app/profile/robe...
May 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"There is no democratic element to the House of Lords and it is by far the most effective part of British system.
This is not a popular view, as you can imagine.
But you have to go on the evidence in front of your eyes." –
@iandunt.bsky.social
More: bsky.app/profile/robe...
This is not a popular view, as you can imagine.
But you have to go on the evidence in front of your eyes." –
@iandunt.bsky.social
More: bsky.app/profile/robe...
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❤️🔥💥🙏
Men are facing a loneliness epidemic. So why do Dems want to stop group chats where guys bond over shared military interests?
By Ross Douthat
By Ross Douthat
March 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
❤️🔥💥🙏
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John Denham: “Devolution will not work until we actually have a legally and constitutionally embedded layer of devolved government, which is not quite what we’re being offered at the moment.”
March 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
John Denham: “Devolution will not work until we actually have a legally and constitutionally embedded layer of devolved government, which is not quite what we’re being offered at the moment.”
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It's finally happened. An American political cartoonist has written something that isn't massively over-elaborated and unnecessarily annotated.
March 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It's finally happened. An American political cartoonist has written something that isn't massively over-elaborated and unnecessarily annotated.
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Sombre note from Citi on UK.
Gist is - we're locked in a bad dynamic and a painful rebalancing looks in order: breaking election vows and a period of slower growth.
Likelihood is that there will be a period of "muddling through" before we get there, which will make reckoning more painful.
Gist is - we're locked in a bad dynamic and a painful rebalancing looks in order: breaking election vows and a period of slower growth.
Likelihood is that there will be a period of "muddling through" before we get there, which will make reckoning more painful.
March 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Sombre note from Citi on UK.
Gist is - we're locked in a bad dynamic and a painful rebalancing looks in order: breaking election vows and a period of slower growth.
Likelihood is that there will be a period of "muddling through" before we get there, which will make reckoning more painful.
Gist is - we're locked in a bad dynamic and a painful rebalancing looks in order: breaking election vows and a period of slower growth.
Likelihood is that there will be a period of "muddling through" before we get there, which will make reckoning more painful.
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Refering to Melsonby Hoard link here historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England
The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.
historicengland.org.uk
March 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Refering to Melsonby Hoard link here historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...
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The polarisation of media in the US is such a big reason why it's so susceptible to what's happening. The executive can simply avoid scrutiny, and most of their half of the country don't notice.
March 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The polarisation of media in the US is such a big reason why it's so susceptible to what's happening. The executive can simply avoid scrutiny, and most of their half of the country don't notice.
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This really made my day
Surely a contender for the funniest thing a judge has ever said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
March 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This really made my day
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Also - at least in gentrified urba areas - there's a new proliferation of good bakers, butchers, fishmongers, grocers... which makes buying really good fresh ingredients so much easier.
british supermarkets are straightforwardly superior to US ones in price, range and quality and have been for years; this is a complete reversal from my childhood.
This is the one time I will defend the British over anything, ever, but I feel like British food gets a bad rap. I grew up hearing it was sort of stereotypically bad but when I think of what I’d eat in England it would Fish & Chips and Curries and those are basically two of the best things ever
March 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Also - at least in gentrified urba areas - there's a new proliferation of good bakers, butchers, fishmongers, grocers... which makes buying really good fresh ingredients so much easier.
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I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
March 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I’d like to announce my forthcoming US history book, covering a decisive but tumultuous era in that country’s history, titled “The trade policies of the United States: 10:30 am to 1:30 pm on Friday, March 7, 2025” It will be 400 pages.
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AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
January 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.
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#EconSky Final exam for a graduate course on Smith and Ricardo taught in the Harvard economics department by Charles Jesse Bullock in 1907-08. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...
January 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#EconSky Final exam for a graduate course on Smith and Ricardo taught in the Harvard economics department by Charles Jesse Bullock in 1907-08. www.irwincollier.com/harvard-fina...
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Oh come on. Do some research. The Government Office Network in England (established by Major and abolished by Cameron) was all about joining up Whitehall departments on the ground. It was, and remains, one of the most innovative attempts to reform Whitehall culture 1/2
January 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Oh come on. Do some research. The Government Office Network in England (established by Major and abolished by Cameron) was all about joining up Whitehall departments on the ground. It was, and remains, one of the most innovative attempts to reform Whitehall culture 1/2
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Reform has just snuck ahead of the Tories on the polling average (rather than a single poll) - 24% to 23%.
January 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reform has just snuck ahead of the Tories on the polling average (rather than a single poll) - 24% to 23%.
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Linda Yaccarino be like:
January 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Linda Yaccarino be like:
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UK had the highest excess mortality rate in Europe during the #Covid19 Global #Pandemic according to new research by the authoritative @pasteur.fr research institute. - Wonder why? Bozo put #BrexitB4Breathing - whilst he was not hosting lockdown parties at No10 Downing St.
We need William Hutton on BlueSky!
Important study on Covid deaths from France’s prestigious Institut Pasteur. Boris Johnson’s refusal to lock down quickly meant the UK ( Royaume-Uni for non French speakers ) had the highest death rate in Western Europe.
Important study on Covid deaths from France’s prestigious Institut Pasteur. Boris Johnson’s refusal to lock down quickly meant the UK ( Royaume-Uni for non French speakers ) had the highest death rate in Western Europe.
January 16, 2025 at 6:34 PM
UK had the highest excess mortality rate in Europe during the #Covid19 Global #Pandemic according to new research by the authoritative @pasteur.fr research institute. - Wonder why? Bozo put #BrexitB4Breathing - whilst he was not hosting lockdown parties at No10 Downing St.
I think the Musk-Cummings alliance could go quite badly wrong for them actually.
The British people hate Musk, hate Trump, and *really hate* foreign oligarchs telling them what to think
The British people hate Musk, hate Trump, and *really hate* foreign oligarchs telling them what to think
January 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think the Musk-Cummings alliance could go quite badly wrong for them actually.
The British people hate Musk, hate Trump, and *really hate* foreign oligarchs telling them what to think
The British people hate Musk, hate Trump, and *really hate* foreign oligarchs telling them what to think
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Me - what if we take two of the worst people in the world and put them in an apartment together
Netflix - go on
Netflix - go on
January 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Me - what if we take two of the worst people in the world and put them in an apartment together
Netflix - go on
Netflix - go on
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Hadn't seen this from 2022 - a very good analysis of what Musk derives from science fiction
The good folks at bluesky should read this one. science.thewire.in/culture/book...
January 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hadn't seen this from 2022 - a very good analysis of what Musk derives from science fiction
Liz Truss is such an inspiration to stupid kids everywhere. In Britain, you can be weird as hell and thick as mince and yet still become prime minister.
January 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Liz Truss is such an inspiration to stupid kids everywhere. In Britain, you can be weird as hell and thick as mince and yet still become prime minister.