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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.
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An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
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I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I don't have words for the sort of confused this makes me feel.
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In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
In my corner of the bass-playing universe there was life pre- and post-Mani. He brought a liquid, melodic funkiness that EVERYONE copied. And when I finally met him he was exactly how you imagined him: joyful, generous, unstarry (& more of a star because of it) and wickedly funny. A life well lived
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✨ Friday inspiration: The achingly beautiful village of Bosham in West Sussex. King Harold saw the same church tower before he set sail in 1064 to meet William of Normandy who would be his conqueror in 1066. Bosham is named in the Bayeux Tapestry alongside a depiction of the church.
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
✨ Friday inspiration: The achingly beautiful village of Bosham in West Sussex. King Harold saw the same church tower before he set sail in 1064 to meet William of Normandy who would be his conqueror in 1066. Bosham is named in the Bayeux Tapestry alongside a depiction of the church.
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Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.
Rest in power.
November 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Rest in power.
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It's #HillfortsWednesday !!
Here's the Iron Age enclosure of Belsar’s Hill #Cambridgeshire, remodelled as a Norman fortress in the early 1070s, before being incorporated into a field system and overlain by a road
It's still impressive however, especially from the air 🤩
📷 Bill Blake CC BY-SA 4.0
Here's the Iron Age enclosure of Belsar’s Hill #Cambridgeshire, remodelled as a Norman fortress in the early 1070s, before being incorporated into a field system and overlain by a road
It's still impressive however, especially from the air 🤩
📷 Bill Blake CC BY-SA 4.0
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
It's #HillfortsWednesday !!
Here's the Iron Age enclosure of Belsar’s Hill #Cambridgeshire, remodelled as a Norman fortress in the early 1070s, before being incorporated into a field system and overlain by a road
It's still impressive however, especially from the air 🤩
📷 Bill Blake CC BY-SA 4.0
Here's the Iron Age enclosure of Belsar’s Hill #Cambridgeshire, remodelled as a Norman fortress in the early 1070s, before being incorporated into a field system and overlain by a road
It's still impressive however, especially from the air 🤩
📷 Bill Blake CC BY-SA 4.0
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Lawless London update
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Lawless London update
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Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
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This is a good article, and touches on something AI supporters miss: human cognition is rooted in our meat. While an airplane doesn't need to flap its wings to fly, human thinking takes, well, humans - our specific meat. Other kinds of 'thinking'? The article covers that pretty well.
In which I articulate the case that AGI is impossible and machines just plain cannot think. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco...
On Incomputable Language: An Essay on AI
An incidental consequence of having written a book on tech-fascism and the so-called rationalist movement is that I find myself periodically queried for my thoughts on artificial intelligence. On the ...
www.eruditorumpress.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This is a good article, and touches on something AI supporters miss: human cognition is rooted in our meat. While an airplane doesn't need to flap its wings to fly, human thinking takes, well, humans - our specific meat. Other kinds of 'thinking'? The article covers that pretty well.
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At what point will people realize it doesn't matter how badly we treat immigrants, it won't improve life for you one single bit.
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
At what point will people realize it doesn't matter how badly we treat immigrants, it won't improve life for you one single bit.
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
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The amazing BBC Archive account doesn't exist on Bluesky - it must still be languishing in that fascist hellscape formerly known as Twitter - but here's an example of the riches it provides: a 1969 doc in which Marty Feldman investigates the very essence of comedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM
The amazing BBC Archive account doesn't exist on Bluesky - it must still be languishing in that fascist hellscape formerly known as Twitter - but here's an example of the riches it provides: a 1969 doc in which Marty Feldman investigates the very essence of comedy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0it...
As a proud Brummie @sathnam.bsky.social fecking nails it. This. Yes!
November 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
As a proud Brummie @sathnam.bsky.social fecking nails it. This. Yes!
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people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
November 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
people bitch about woke media but if TOS was on today they would go to a thinly-veiled MAGA planet where the locals worshipped guns and then kirk would hit the orange dictator with a two-fisted karate chop before giving a lecture about how science is real and violence is bad
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Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
November 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
www.nber.org/papers/w3445...
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See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on
October 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reading the original H.G. Wells War of the Worlds and losing my mind that the author hated the artist's tripod illustrations so much, 3/4s in, the book detours into an entire paragraph where the protag complains about how shit these tripod drawings are and then just continues on
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Oooh! What a treat to see this interview with @willdalrymple.bsky.social on NZQ&A this morning!! 😃
William Dalrymple: Empire, India, and Mamdani's remarkable win
YouTube video by Q+A with Jack Tame
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Oooh! What a treat to see this interview with @willdalrymple.bsky.social on NZQ&A this morning!! 😃