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· Aug 29
Changing my name for now as I’m applying for jobs so need to keep a low online profile.
Licence fee is going to go towards bribing (sorry I meant compensating) Trump isn’t it? He’s going to do to foreign broadcasters what he’s done to domestic ones.
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Licence fee is going to go towards bribing (sorry I meant compensating) Trump isn’t it? He’s going to do to foreign broadcasters what he’s done to domestic ones.
Fireworks displays are a classic example of positive externalities and public goods. Non-rivalrous and non-excludible.
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Fireworks displays are a classic example of positive externalities and public goods. Non-rivalrous and non-excludible.
A quarter of Green supporters back the death penalty? Or do a lot of poll respondents just answer questions randomly?
Support for bringing back the death penalty, by 2024 vote
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A quarter of Green supporters back the death penalty? Or do a lot of poll respondents just answer questions randomly?
Remember Northern Ireland, Allison?
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Remember Northern Ireland, Allison?
Interesting how so many prominent Leave campaigners have turned out to be racists. Carswell, Hannan (comments at the weekend about the train attack) and now Cummings. Same three questions.
1. Were they always racist?
2. Were they radicalised?
3. Are they just saying it to fit in?
1. Were they always racist?
2. Were they radicalised?
3. Are they just saying it to fit in?
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Interesting how so many prominent Leave campaigners have turned out to be racists. Carswell, Hannan (comments at the weekend about the train attack) and now Cummings. Same three questions.
1. Were they always racist?
2. Were they radicalised?
3. Are they just saying it to fit in?
1. Were they always racist?
2. Were they radicalised?
3. Are they just saying it to fit in?
Latest example of things that don’t matter for years or even decades and then suddenly they do.
For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Latest example of things that don’t matter for years or even decades and then suddenly they do.
Is Giuliani suggesting that the ten year old Mamdani had some sort of involvement in 9/11?
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Is Giuliani suggesting that the ten year old Mamdani had some sort of involvement in 9/11?
How do prisoners get ‘mistakenly released’ more than once in a blue moon? Maybe I’m missing something.
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
How do prisoners get ‘mistakenly released’ more than once in a blue moon? Maybe I’m missing something.
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Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week
Somebody really should tell her that we banned the importation of human beings over two hundred years ago.
Lucy White, GB News regular, an ally and associate of Rupert Lowe, has come up with the send them all back case for remigration + mass deportations
"Millions of people have been imported into our country.
Therefore…
Millions of people will be exported out from our country".
"Millions of people have been imported into our country.
Therefore…
Millions of people will be exported out from our country".
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Somebody really should tell her that we banned the importation of human beings over two hundred years ago.
The world’s richest man
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The world’s richest man
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When an atrocity happens it is unrealistic to expect immediate answers from the police in the same way that it is unrealistic to expect an immediate solution. And anyone promising an immediate solution is a liar.
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
When an atrocity happens it is unrealistic to expect immediate answers from the police in the same way that it is unrealistic to expect an immediate solution. And anyone promising an immediate solution is a liar.
This is what people calling for the police to release information soon after an incident need to be to bear in mind. In a fast moving and highly uncertain situation, it’s not unusual for things not to be what they first appeared to be.
Police have announced that a 32-year-old man who was arrested is now being treated as the only suspect for the train stabbing and the 35-year-old has been released with no further action
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
They say he was "reported in good faith" by witnesses but enquiries confirmed that he was not involved
British Transport Police say that "at this stage there is nothing to suggest this is a terrorist incident" and they are still working to establish the full circumstances and motivation for the train attack
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
Of 11 injured people, 4 have been discharged and 2 remain in a life-threatening condition
November 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is what people calling for the police to release information soon after an incident need to be to bear in mind. In a fast moving and highly uncertain situation, it’s not unusual for things not to be what they first appeared to be.
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There’s a quite famous passage in Mein Kampf where Hitler recounts how his young self looked at a Jew in the street and asked himself “is this a German?” Change a few words and locations and I bet you could get it in the Spectator now.
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There’s a quite famous passage in Mein Kampf where Hitler recounts how his young self looked at a Jew in the street and asked himself “is this a German?” Change a few words and locations and I bet you could get it in the Spectator now.
Legal question. If a letting agent didn’t tell a client about the need to obtain a landlord’s licence and a loss was suffered (conviction, fines, rent repayment), might that constitute professional negligence?
November 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Legal question. If a letting agent didn’t tell a client about the need to obtain a landlord’s licence and a loss was suffered (conviction, fines, rent repayment), might that constitute professional negligence?
@jdportes.bsky.social not sure if you’ve seen the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration in the context of ILR debate. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979 | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
www.margaretthatcher.org
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@jdportes.bsky.social not sure if you’ve seen the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration in the context of ILR debate. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’
@benansell.bsky.social not sure if you’ve seen the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration in the context of ILR debate. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’
November 2, 2025 at 3:54 AM
@benansell.bsky.social not sure if you’ve seen the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration in the context of ILR debate. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’
@sundersays.bsky.social had a look at the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’.
Conservative General Election Manifesto 1979 | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
www.margaretthatcher.org
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
@sundersays.bsky.social had a look at the 1979 Tory manifesto on immigration. It’s fascinating. Promises to ‘not adversely affect the right of anyone now permanently settled here’ and later goes onto say that ‘there can be no question of compulsory repatriation’.
I really really wish I could make that sort of argument with a straight face
November 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I really really wish I could make that sort of argument with a straight face
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I’m pretty sure previous government ministers would not have dared to publicly cross the Daily Mail even when they had a legitimate grievance like in this case. Declining power of the press.
After a week of faffing around the @dailymail.co.uk have agreed to apologise. Here it is. Fingers crossed for fewer lies/smears dressed up as news in future
November 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m pretty sure previous government ministers would not have dared to publicly cross the Daily Mail even when they had a legitimate grievance like in this case. Declining power of the press.
Is it Tory policy that Gillette will have to substantiate their claim that their razors are ‘the best a man can get’.
"We should be talking about making sure that the advertising standards are fit for purpose" says Kemi Badenoch.
That sounds like thinking out loud in the persona of somebody who imagines there are ethnic diversity ceilings/quotas in the advertising standards, or wants to introduce some (!)
That sounds like thinking out loud in the persona of somebody who imagines there are ethnic diversity ceilings/quotas in the advertising standards, or wants to introduce some (!)
November 1, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Is it Tory policy that Gillette will have to substantiate their claim that their razors are ‘the best a man can get’.
A *Conservative* politician wanting tk regulate the colour of characters in a commercial. I’m old enough to remember when their small state instincts would have been “none of my business”.
"We should be talking about making sure that the advertising standards are fit for purpose" says Kemi Badenoch.
That sounds like thinking out loud in the persona of somebody who imagines there are ethnic diversity ceilings/quotas in the advertising standards, or wants to introduce some (!)
That sounds like thinking out loud in the persona of somebody who imagines there are ethnic diversity ceilings/quotas in the advertising standards, or wants to introduce some (!)
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A *Conservative* politician wanting tk regulate the colour of characters in a commercial. I’m old enough to remember when their small state instincts would have been “none of my business”.
Unpopular opinion. It looks alright.
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Unpopular opinion. It looks alright.
Such a claim doesn’t ring true. She’s either lying or this straight A, Cambridge educated, ex-Goldman Sachs can’t identify something that so clearly fails the smell test.
Could Katie Lam identify the London schools where "more than three-quarters of children don’t speak English to a serviceable school standard". Well done to @davehillonlondon.bsky.social for giving Lam + CPS the chance to substantiate this claim at the Tory fringe
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-ka...
Dave Hill: Katie Lam should learn London's language
Recent comments about the capital's school children's English skills suggest the Tory MP from Kent must try harder
www.onlondon.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Such a claim doesn’t ring true. She’s either lying or this straight A, Cambridge educated, ex-Goldman Sachs can’t identify something that so clearly fails the smell test.