Ben Hopkins
ben4world.bsky.social
Ben Hopkins
@ben4world.bsky.social
Live in London. Apparently I need to write a bio. Not sure what to say. I read too much Blue Sky and Twitter.
Is upfront tax talk not a settled part of the explanation why Teresa May did badly against Jeremy Corbyn? Dementia tax? I thought that had put politicians off?
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I think majority would have been smaller, as the percentage swing had point by point impact.
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This has been doing the rounds on planning LinkedIn over the last few days. Viability assessment by a small developer in the south of England.
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Done, hard to work out best category as you say above so I said spam
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What's disturbing is that any sort of enforcement officer thought something so ordinary was worth inflicting the shock to someone of being penalised for something so minor and silly.
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I love how the Isle of Man - and actual Crown dependency a few miles off the coast - is completely ignored, while these guys fixate on petrostates thousands of miles away.
October 11, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I know this is not your photo, and that this is a bit picky, but that collage...I think the new dominance of AI has triggered in me a mistrust for perfectly assembled fake pictures, even though that was easy to do in Photoshop in the old (!) days. Still, interesting proposition
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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There may be unforeseen costs to downgrading our understanding of the national language
October 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
They did have Sumption on to say something before they got to the manoeuvring against Reform, but yes they should have had more
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM