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What is going on here?
Government announces national rail fare freeze and Mayor of London has to explain to Londoners it doesn’t apply to them.
This is properly messy.
Government announces national rail fare freeze and Mayor of London has to explain to Londoners it doesn’t apply to them.
This is properly messy.
December 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
What is going on here?
Government announces national rail fare freeze and Mayor of London has to explain to Londoners it doesn’t apply to them.
This is properly messy.
Government announces national rail fare freeze and Mayor of London has to explain to Londoners it doesn’t apply to them.
This is properly messy.
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My wife has now had to use her Firm Voice to stop me asking people to use headphones or turn down their phones, so bad are the threats of violence I'm receiving. It's not just Airport Behaviour, people are losing object permanence and a theory of mind that lets them know they might be annoying.
Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff
December 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
My wife has now had to use her Firm Voice to stop me asking people to use headphones or turn down their phones, so bad are the threats of violence I'm receiving. It's not just Airport Behaviour, people are losing object permanence and a theory of mind that lets them know they might be annoying.
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"Britain’s professional class is quietly being proletarianised. Culturally privileged but economically precarious, white-collar workers risk souring on the system they were trained to serve. That should worry politicians." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Britain’s new class divide: the professional middle is being hollowed out | Editorial
Editorial: A micro-elite in finance and tech hoovers up talent while-white collar jobs lose their lustre. A society that rewards proximity to capital over contribution risks rupture
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"Britain’s professional class is quietly being proletarianised. Culturally privileged but economically precarious, white-collar workers risk souring on the system they were trained to serve. That should worry politicians." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Always fun to share the election ballot for international audiences
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Digging into the numbers some more, support for the new pope was particularly strong among Catholic voters.
May 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Digging into the numbers some more, support for the new pope was particularly strong among Catholic voters.
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Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
May 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.
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Capitulation and appeasement never work.
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
scim.ag
April 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Capitulation and appeasement never work.
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"This literally is about reforming the system that supports disabled people!"
SNP MP Kirsty Blackman expresses her outrage at the Government publishing a consultation document on benefits reform without making a version accessible to disabled people available.
#Newsnight
SNP MP Kirsty Blackman expresses her outrage at the Government publishing a consultation document on benefits reform without making a version accessible to disabled people available.
#Newsnight
March 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"This literally is about reforming the system that supports disabled people!"
SNP MP Kirsty Blackman expresses her outrage at the Government publishing a consultation document on benefits reform without making a version accessible to disabled people available.
#Newsnight
SNP MP Kirsty Blackman expresses her outrage at the Government publishing a consultation document on benefits reform without making a version accessible to disabled people available.
#Newsnight
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This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
December 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...
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Today was housing minister Matthew Pennycook's first appearance in front of the housing, local government and communities select committee - to discuss the delivery trajectory for the government's 1.5 million homes in 5 years target. A few thoughts from me on this:
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Today was housing minister Matthew Pennycook's first appearance in front of the housing, local government and communities select committee - to discuss the delivery trajectory for the government's 1.5 million homes in 5 years target. A few thoughts from me on this: