Gautam Kambhampati
@gautampk.com
🇬🇧 London & Hull
⚖️ Trainee Patent Lawyer
📚 Publisher of @tamarindlit.co.uk
🐺 Defence & Technology at fabians.org.uk
🌹 Co-founder of labourfortheconstitution.org.uk
📡 Physics PhD & Fellow of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
⚖️ Trainee Patent Lawyer
📚 Publisher of @tamarindlit.co.uk
🐺 Defence & Technology at fabians.org.uk
🌹 Co-founder of labourfortheconstitution.org.uk
📡 Physics PhD & Fellow of @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
These forecasts are so pointless (and almost always consistent with zero...) that this would frankly be an absolutely GOATed move by the Treasury. Somehow I suspect more luck than competence though...
Here's an extraordinarily cynical take: did the government talk up the likelihood of a manifesto-breaking income tax rise in the knowledge that it would push down gilt yields in the window the OBR will use for its forecasts? Rowing back now pushes up yields but too late to enter the forecast on 26th
And there we go 10y opened up 11 basis points erasing 1/3 of the rally since October.
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
These forecasts are so pointless (and almost always consistent with zero...) that this would frankly be an absolutely GOATed move by the Treasury. Somehow I suspect more luck than competence though...
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Many people dismiss preservation concerns as if they live exclusively in the here and now. Chances are, though, every person on the planet has experienced/enjoyed something made/developed in the past. That awareness alone would be enough to grasp the importance of preservation.
October 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Many people dismiss preservation concerns as if they live exclusively in the here and now. Chances are, though, every person on the planet has experienced/enjoyed something made/developed in the past. That awareness alone would be enough to grasp the importance of preservation.
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I am trying not to be too mean-spirited about the people who apparently got genuinely excited at the idea that a party made up of "Jeremy Corbyn" and "some independents with real funky socially conservative views" could somehow be the future of the left but I am finding it hard!
September 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I am trying not to be too mean-spirited about the people who apparently got genuinely excited at the idea that a party made up of "Jeremy Corbyn" and "some independents with real funky socially conservative views" could somehow be the future of the left but I am finding it hard!
I get that this Trump visit to the UK is a Big Deal, but is it really so much of a big deal that there is literally nothing else the BBC considers above-the-fold newsworthy?
September 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I get that this Trump visit to the UK is a Big Deal, but is it really so much of a big deal that there is literally nothing else the BBC considers above-the-fold newsworthy?
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one thing I love about London is that the food offering isn't just incredibly diverse but also often made by people you wouldn't expect, ie a Moroccan café I like is for some reason owned by a Vietnamese woman, and I'm currently having lunch at a Jamaican place run by south east Asians, what a joy
September 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
one thing I love about London is that the food offering isn't just incredibly diverse but also often made by people you wouldn't expect, ie a Moroccan café I like is for some reason owned by a Vietnamese woman, and I'm currently having lunch at a Jamaican place run by south east Asians, what a joy
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More seriously - the sheer speed with which those who decry "activist lawyers" shift towards using the courts themselves when they realise courts can be used illiberally too.
Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.
Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.
August 21, 2025 at 6:58 AM
More seriously - the sheer speed with which those who decry "activist lawyers" shift towards using the courts themselves when they realise courts can be used illiberally too.
Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.
Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.
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It’s like a parade of morons
“Of course we need age-verification on VPNs.”
Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza says children should not be allowed to use Virtual Private Networks, as they are often used to access pornography.
#Newsnight
Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel de Souza says children should not be allowed to use Virtual Private Networks, as they are often used to access pornography.
#Newsnight
August 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
It’s like a parade of morons
Strong 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold vibes from this Trump-Putin meeting. Even has the “taking place in an exclave of one in close proximity to the other” aspect
August 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Strong 1520 Field of the Cloth of Gold vibes from this Trump-Putin meeting. Even has the “taking place in an exclave of one in close proximity to the other” aspect
Excellent @mattyglesias.bsky.social Substack today: slowboring.com/p/emotional-labor-was-about-paid-work
Emotional labor was about paid work
Arlie Hochschild coined the phrase in the 1980s, but it explains a lot about our world today
www.slowboring.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Excellent @mattyglesias.bsky.social Substack today: slowboring.com/p/emotional-labor-was-about-paid-work
Michele was HOD while I was doing my PhD — a fantastic choice for Astronomer Royal
Big day for the matriarchy! 🥳 Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of 🇬🇧Westminster and 🏴Holyrood 🤗
ℹ️: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 👩🔬🔭🧪
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Michele was HOD while I was doing my PhD — a fantastic choice for Astronomer Royal
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Just one more law, bro, trust me.
VPN use is so high that the Labour party MPs are proposing to ban them.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets
Labour could ban the use of Virtual Private Networks after use skyrocketed in recent days.
www.birminghammail.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just one more law, bro, trust me.
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The problem with much of the centrist commentariat swinging behind the "Britain is broken" idea is not only that the right are weaponizing it to sell their xenophobic/racist narratives, it's also that despair itself has social consequence. Britain is great! It is also in need of public investment.
July 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The problem with much of the centrist commentariat swinging behind the "Britain is broken" idea is not only that the right are weaponizing it to sell their xenophobic/racist narratives, it's also that despair itself has social consequence. Britain is great! It is also in need of public investment.
And they have the audacity to say they're "saving Wimbledon Park"...
A private golf course will close and a public park with lakeside walks will double in size.
And people objected.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
And people objected.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
July 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
And they have the audacity to say they're "saving Wimbledon Park"...
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We’re excited to join BlueSky as 🇬🇧 progressive foreign policy think tank.
Please do give us a follow if you’re interested in foreign policy articles/briefings with a progressive lens.
Foreign Policy experts on the centre left.
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Foreign Policy experts on the centre left.
And events where you can meet likeminded professionals in the space.
June 16, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We’re excited to join BlueSky as 🇬🇧 progressive foreign policy think tank.
Please do give us a follow if you’re interested in foreign policy articles/briefings with a progressive lens.
Foreign Policy experts on the centre left.
And events where you can meet likeminded professionals in the space.
Please do give us a follow if you’re interested in foreign policy articles/briefings with a progressive lens.
Foreign Policy experts on the centre left.
And events where you can meet likeminded professionals in the space.
“qui locus tibi in legibus et in iudiciis esse potest, quae tu, quantum in te fuit, dominatu regio sustulisti? Ideone Tarquinius exactus … ut multis post saeculis a Antonio quod fas non est rex Romae constitueretur?” —Cicero’s Phillipics 2.87
June 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“qui locus tibi in legibus et in iudiciis esse potest, quae tu, quantum in te fuit, dominatu regio sustulisti? Ideone Tarquinius exactus … ut multis post saeculis a Antonio quod fas non est rex Romae constitueretur?” —Cicero’s Phillipics 2.87
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I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
June 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n
Re India-Pakistan: this is standard behaviour: 01, 08, 13, 14, 16, 19. Terror attack in India results in a strike on Pakistan. Historically has been well contained & no reason yet to think this is any different.
We will have to wait for concrete info re what targets were actually hit to know more
We will have to wait for concrete info re what targets were actually hit to know more
May 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Re India-Pakistan: this is standard behaviour: 01, 08, 13, 14, 16, 19. Terror attack in India results in a strike on Pakistan. Historically has been well contained & no reason yet to think this is any different.
We will have to wait for concrete info re what targets were actually hit to know more
We will have to wait for concrete info re what targets were actually hit to know more
In an attempt to blog more, here’s a post explaining some of the reasoning behind my intentionally anachronistic website
22wlp.org/~gautampk/bl...
Basically: if you want to keep the tech stack light, you’ve got to use HTML as it was originally intended. The limited use of CSS is purely aesthetic 😄
22wlp.org/~gautampk/bl...
Basically: if you want to keep the tech stack light, you’ve got to use HTML as it was originally intended. The limited use of CSS is purely aesthetic 😄
This Website | ~gautampk
22wlp.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
In an attempt to blog more, here’s a post explaining some of the reasoning behind my intentionally anachronistic website
22wlp.org/~gautampk/bl...
Basically: if you want to keep the tech stack light, you’ve got to use HTML as it was originally intended. The limited use of CSS is purely aesthetic 😄
22wlp.org/~gautampk/bl...
Basically: if you want to keep the tech stack light, you’ve got to use HTML as it was originally intended. The limited use of CSS is purely aesthetic 😄
Had a letter published in the @financialtimes.com yday,written in response to a column last Monday that blames poor critical thinking on STEM education
Raising divisions between arts and science only helps those who want to undermine all education. The problem is the commercialisation of academia 🧪
Raising divisions between arts and science only helps those who want to undermine all education. The problem is the commercialisation of academia 🧪
Letter: A flawed understanding of the nature of science
From Gautam Kambhampati, Publisher, Tamarind Literary Magazine, Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
www.ft.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Had a letter published in the @financialtimes.com yday,written in response to a column last Monday that blames poor critical thinking on STEM education
Raising divisions between arts and science only helps those who want to undermine all education. The problem is the commercialisation of academia 🧪
Raising divisions between arts and science only helps those who want to undermine all education. The problem is the commercialisation of academia 🧪
literally same
good morning, found out about the news by waking up, opening WhatsApp and seeing that a friend had messaged "Oh my god JD Vance has Liz Trussed the pope"
April 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
literally same
It's a real shame to realise the non-profit journals are emulating the model of for-profit journals rather than embracing their different (and much older!) role in science publishing. Also, unless funded by grant or endowment, open access is unethical and bad for science (sorry to be blunt) 🧪
I knew relatively little about open access publishing, having never published in such a journal myself. I was a bit shocked to learn that the APC was over $4000/article.
46/n
46/n
January 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
It's a real shame to realise the non-profit journals are emulating the model of for-profit journals rather than embracing their different (and much older!) role in science publishing. Also, unless funded by grant or endowment, open access is unethical and bad for science (sorry to be blunt) 🧪
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Say hi to our publisher, fiction editor, and non-fiction editor @gautampk.com, @hilaryfloon.bsky.social and @anitamchandran.bsky.social. They were ringing in the new year together and raising a glass to the publication of Tamarind’s latest issue.
Happy new year from team
Tamarind!
Happy new year from team
Tamarind!
January 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Say hi to our publisher, fiction editor, and non-fiction editor @gautampk.com, @hilaryfloon.bsky.social and @anitamchandran.bsky.social. They were ringing in the new year together and raising a glass to the publication of Tamarind’s latest issue.
Happy new year from team
Tamarind!
Happy new year from team
Tamarind!
Have I achieved peak late 00s desktop perfection? Quite possibly. Not quite #retrocomputing, but still hits the nostalgia AND fairly good to get work done on, not least bc you can't idly surf the Internet
(Intel Core i7 950, ATI Radeon HD 5850, triple booting Win XP 32 bit Win 7 64 bit, & OpenBSD.)
(Intel Core i7 950, ATI Radeon HD 5850, triple booting Win XP 32 bit Win 7 64 bit, & OpenBSD.)
December 6, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Have I achieved peak late 00s desktop perfection? Quite possibly. Not quite #retrocomputing, but still hits the nostalgia AND fairly good to get work done on, not least bc you can't idly surf the Internet
(Intel Core i7 950, ATI Radeon HD 5850, triple booting Win XP 32 bit Win 7 64 bit, & OpenBSD.)
(Intel Core i7 950, ATI Radeon HD 5850, triple booting Win XP 32 bit Win 7 64 bit, & OpenBSD.)