Nathan
@lnt.bsky.social
Londoner.
Interested in medicine and economics.
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Interested in medicine and economics.
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One would *hope* that the result of the Caerphilly by-election would send a message to the complacent jobsworths in the Labour Party and instead of chasing the Reform vote they would get behind policies that people *actually* give a damn about, like The Return Of Top Flight Rugby To Sardis Road.
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
One would *hope* that the result of the Caerphilly by-election would send a message to the complacent jobsworths in the Labour Party and instead of chasing the Reform vote they would get behind policies that people *actually* give a damn about, like The Return Of Top Flight Rugby To Sardis Road.
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There is enough evidence of enablement of hate crimes to warrant a full Ofcom investigation into how it is using financial incentives to promote hate, harassment and real-world violence. The first responsibility of the State is to protect its people, and in 2025 that includes online.
September 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
There is enough evidence of enablement of hate crimes to warrant a full Ofcom investigation into how it is using financial incentives to promote hate, harassment and real-world violence. The first responsibility of the State is to protect its people, and in 2025 that includes online.
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The worst possible message emerging in British politics is "We'll tolerate jobless serial criminals if, and only if, they are being racist".
Not certain how obvious this is to non-Brits, but every single person pictured at far-right marches in England looks like somebody you would cross the road to avoid on a Friday night, especially if they were in a group.
September 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The worst possible message emerging in British politics is "We'll tolerate jobless serial criminals if, and only if, they are being racist".
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The thing which is weird about him is that he is really, really good at getting out of situations he absolutely shouldn't have put himself in.
September 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The thing which is weird about him is that he is really, really good at getting out of situations he absolutely shouldn't have put himself in.
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this is literally just racism
August 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
this is literally just racism
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UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025
US economy grew 0.6%
I present these figures without comment
US economy grew 0.6%
I present these figures without comment
August 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025
US economy grew 0.6%
I present these figures without comment
US economy grew 0.6%
I present these figures without comment
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In an effort that will no doubt torch my follower base, I have laid out some basic numbers around our fiscal situation. Obvious, but still a little sobering for me.
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
There really is no getting out of this fiscal corner
It is something of a cliche to argue that Britain is running out of money, living beyond its means, wandering through a fiscal fool’s paradise – but no less true for that. The trend of …
freethinkecon.wordpress.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In an effort that will no doubt torch my follower base, I have laid out some basic numbers around our fiscal situation. Obvious, but still a little sobering for me.
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
freethinkecon.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/t...
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Trying to figure out what the UK's political landscape is like by arbitrarily allocating everyone into eight groups is the psephological version of Myers–Briggs and I'm baffled that everyone's doing their own, basically identical version.
"Oh, the PM's lost touch with Striving Moderates", sod off.
"Oh, the PM's lost touch with Striving Moderates", sod off.
July 14, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Trying to figure out what the UK's political landscape is like by arbitrarily allocating everyone into eight groups is the psephological version of Myers–Briggs and I'm baffled that everyone's doing their own, basically identical version.
"Oh, the PM's lost touch with Striving Moderates", sod off.
"Oh, the PM's lost touch with Striving Moderates", sod off.
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Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions.
But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.
But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.
July 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Bizarre discussion on the radio likening air condition to passive smoking because it accounts for 3% of CO2 emissions.
But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.
But: we don’t moralise turning heating on in winter, and heating accounts for 15% of emissions. If aircon is intrinsically immoral, so are radiators.
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"OK guys we've listened to you. No kids, no migrants, and we've worked it in a way that pensions only have to go down by 40%. Sound good?"
July 1, 2025 at 9:02 AM
"OK guys we've listened to you. No kids, no migrants, and we've worked it in a way that pensions only have to go down by 40%. Sound good?"
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counterpoint: long-suffering online gay labour loyalist urges ministers to 'root out Blue Labour' to win over left-leaning social liberal voters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
counterpoint: long-suffering online gay labour loyalist urges ministers to 'root out Blue Labour' to win over left-leaning social liberal voters www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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nailed it once again
May 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
nailed it once again
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not helped by well meaning types who want to be nice to immigrants saying "native Brits don't want to do these jobs" rather than "native Brits are already doing other jobs and if wages rise to attract them into care and construction we would then have a question of who is going to do those jobs"
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
not helped by well meaning types who want to be nice to immigrants saying "native Brits don't want to do these jobs" rather than "native Brits are already doing other jobs and if wages rise to attract them into care and construction we would then have a question of who is going to do those jobs"
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Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk, together, en route tonight for Kyiv
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May 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk, together, en route tonight for Kyiv
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BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
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@financialtimes.com
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May 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.
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what else is there to say
May 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
what else is there to say
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This is deeply unfair to Hassabis who is British, lives and works in Britain, has nothing to do with the US government, has never endorsed their actions and who won a Nobel Prize for a genuinely transformative use of AI in the biological sciences which will lead to cures for many diseases.
A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.
April 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
This is deeply unfair to Hassabis who is British, lives and works in Britain, has nothing to do with the US government, has never endorsed their actions and who won a Nobel Prize for a genuinely transformative use of AI in the biological sciences which will lead to cures for many diseases.
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what a long strange trip it's been
April 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM
what a long strange trip it's been
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I am going to be saying this all day, but, all the bank economic models of tariffs had the dollar strengthening to offset ~40-80% of the tariff impact on prices. If you do a tariff regime so crazy the dollar weakens then you have put the Fed between a rock and a hard place.
April 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I am going to be saying this all day, but, all the bank economic models of tariffs had the dollar strengthening to offset ~40-80% of the tariff impact on prices. If you do a tariff regime so crazy the dollar weakens then you have put the Fed between a rock and a hard place.
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