Tipping Point
@tippingpoint24.bsky.social
Born at 330.19 ppm. Data scientist, economist, markets professional and climate campaigner. Purveyor of Dad jokes and Liker of cats. Returning member of UK Green Party
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“For the year she’s been in the job, Nandy has maintained a level of silence more usually associated with taking holy orders.”
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
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The Culture Secretary Who Wasn't There
Lisa Nandy tries to keep her vow of silence
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
“For the year she’s been in the job, Nandy has maintained a level of silence more usually associated with taking holy orders.”
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
Yep. Useless. Worse than useless.
open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The CURRENT sitting MP for Clacton earns £511,000 as a presenter for GB News and took £281,000 as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
So maybe sit this one out, you rancid herring.
Brilliant stuff - worth a read!
Just written something on critics, Wings and onanism open.substack.com/pub/richardf...
The Critic’s Paradox
On Wings, and the Art of Standing Outside
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Brilliant stuff - worth a read!
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November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Combine this with Zohran's election in NYC, the mood music is clear. Trump is being rejected by Americans and the only way he will survive is by staging a coup against the nation, perhaps by cancelling midterms
BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA
November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Combine this with Zohran's election in NYC, the mood music is clear. Trump is being rejected by Americans and the only way he will survive is by staging a coup against the nation, perhaps by cancelling midterms
Couldn't agree more with you. This is pure panic.
Yeah, this looks like an absolute panicked mess of a plan. There are ways to cut energy bills without undermining energy efficiency and clean tech investment. But cutting VAT and efficiency programmes is a short term saving for long term pain.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills
Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Couldn't agree more with you. This is pure panic.
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new print now in my shop!
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
An electron's journey ✨
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![Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards
Script:
An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang
Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes
mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past
and assembled from all over the world
Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution
to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen
in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light
[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]
WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!
whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity
which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen
who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth
[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]
with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around
[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"
in this endless, silent void.
[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]
"… I want a pasty.”
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreighnpydnplb5ldc7a4xvoxwcpkgi6kluz4z6onzzedvcvmipplkgm@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
new print now in my shop!
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
An electron's journey ✨
(Link in bio)
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Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...
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October 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh.
news.sky.com/story/migran...
news.sky.com/story/migran...
I am loving the talk of the mansion tax.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
October 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I am loving the talk of the mansion tax.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
Set it at 5m and take 1% pa of anything over that amount.
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1. that's not how this works
2. this is, like, six hours of pay
3. this is clearly Trump trying to message to the military that they are his personal army and reliant on his largesse
4. they're probably lying about this donation even existing
5. that's really not how any of this works!
2. this is, like, six hours of pay
3. this is clearly Trump trying to message to the military that they are his personal army and reliant on his largesse
4. they're probably lying about this donation even existing
5. that's really not how any of this works!
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
1. that's not how this works
2. this is, like, six hours of pay
3. this is clearly Trump trying to message to the military that they are his personal army and reliant on his largesse
4. they're probably lying about this donation even existing
5. that's really not how any of this works!
2. this is, like, six hours of pay
3. this is clearly Trump trying to message to the military that they are his personal army and reliant on his largesse
4. they're probably lying about this donation even existing
5. that's really not how any of this works!
I wonder if the AI companies tried putting Asimov's laws of robotics into the system prompt for their AI chat bots :-)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
I wonder if the AI companies tried putting Asimov's laws of robotics into the system prompt for their AI chat bots :-)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Because no one else has the political guts to say it, we will: #Brexit was an utter unmitigated disaster, foisted upon us by charlatans and conmen and we are demonstrably worse off now than if we had stayed in by every conceivable measure.
#RejoinEU
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
#RejoinEU
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
Zack Polanski confirms Green Party would aim to take UK back into the EU
Zack Polanski has confirmed that the Green Party would look to take the UK back into the European Union if they were in power.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Because no one else has the political guts to say it, we will: #Brexit was an utter unmitigated disaster, foisted upon us by charlatans and conmen and we are demonstrably worse off now than if we had stayed in by every conceivable measure.
#RejoinEU
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
#RejoinEU
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...
Wealth taxes work, and furthermore they are a moral imperative.
In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit.
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Wealth taxes work, and furthermore they are a moral imperative.
Exactly this.
The Constitution is not self-enforcing.
The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.
And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.
No one is coming to save us.
It's entirely up to us.
The only thing holding our Republic together are our norms.
And the only thing that enforces those norms is The People.
No one is coming to save us.
It's entirely up to us.
October 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Exactly this.
Finally.
"People largely say it was awful so I think there's a really strong argument to have another referendum"
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Finally.
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Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
October 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t
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This is very good
October 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is very good
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Of all the thousands of kilometres of copy written about Brexit, this is probably the neatest encapsulation I’ve seen of why it happened.
‘…what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?"’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘…what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?"’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Of all the thousands of kilometres of copy written about Brexit, this is probably the neatest encapsulation I’ve seen of why it happened.
‘…what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?"’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘…what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?"’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why did our passport privilege start to tumble in 2016? I wonder...
Anyone...?
Anyone...?
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Why did our passport privilege start to tumble in 2016? I wonder...
Anyone...?
Anyone...?
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‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
October 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
‘The threat couldn’t be more urgent and imminent. Yet here we are, still putting our head in the sand.’
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social says it’s ‘peculiar’ that the case of Farage ally Nathan Gill admitting to making pro-Russia speeches for cash isn’t being followed more closely.
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Fuck the lot of them
The corruption is out in the open.
The corruption is out in the open.
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fuck the lot of them
The corruption is out in the open.
The corruption is out in the open.