Chris Davies
@crd37.bsky.social
Complexity, politics, public policy and helping things be better. Welshman in south London.
I wonder if there are any examples of racist nutjobs using Christian symbols to support their activities?
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I wonder if there are any examples of racist nutjobs using Christian symbols to support their activities?
Meanwhile you end up with salary compression, particularly at the lower end of the grad job market...even if the longer-term earning prospects are higher, it feels uncomfortable to people that they could earn broadly the same working in a supermarket as if they became a grad trainee
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Meanwhile you end up with salary compression, particularly at the lower end of the grad job market...even if the longer-term earning prospects are higher, it feels uncomfortable to people that they could earn broadly the same working in a supermarket as if they became a grad trainee
You’ve left off the obvious one
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
You’ve left off the obvious one
And all the while we’d get this
November 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
And all the while we’d get this
And far from high on a per capita basis
November 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And far from high on a per capita basis
Just two years to go
If I lived in Bexhill, I’d be starting to worry
If I lived in Bexhill, I’d be starting to worry
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just two years to go
If I lived in Bexhill, I’d be starting to worry
If I lived in Bexhill, I’d be starting to worry
Bold of a BBC reporter to claim that America is more divided than it has ever been
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Bold of a BBC reporter to claim that America is more divided than it has ever been
I’ve always loved this map.
My ‘little’ borough is the same size as Nottingham.
My ‘little’ borough is the same size as Nottingham.
October 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’ve always loved this map.
My ‘little’ borough is the same size as Nottingham.
My ‘little’ borough is the same size as Nottingham.
April 2025 no revolts
May 2025 no revolts
June 2025 one revolt
July 2025 no revolts
August 2025 no revolts
May 2025 no revolts
June 2025 one revolt
July 2025 no revolts
August 2025 no revolts
October 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
April 2025 no revolts
May 2025 no revolts
June 2025 one revolt
July 2025 no revolts
August 2025 no revolts
May 2025 no revolts
June 2025 one revolt
July 2025 no revolts
August 2025 no revolts
This all started with Obama’s bit, which now appears to have been prophecy
October 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This all started with Obama’s bit, which now appears to have been prophecy
Doubt they’d go for pilau rice those. Surely they’d prefer
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Doubt they’d go for pilau rice those. Surely they’d prefer
Parents of a certain vintage will recognise this....as Miss Rabbit
October 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Parents of a certain vintage will recognise this....as Miss Rabbit
Not if you give nurses a massive pay rise
October 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Not if you give nurses a massive pay rise
It’s totally not my fight, but this is kind of perfect in illustrating the Americans’ problem.
Knock your opponents by all means. But writing off a whole group because of the current lot is fools’ work.
I mean, the Republicans were a bit responsible for ending slavery…
Knock your opponents by all means. But writing off a whole group because of the current lot is fools’ work.
I mean, the Republicans were a bit responsible for ending slavery…
October 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It’s totally not my fight, but this is kind of perfect in illustrating the Americans’ problem.
Knock your opponents by all means. But writing off a whole group because of the current lot is fools’ work.
I mean, the Republicans were a bit responsible for ending slavery…
Knock your opponents by all means. But writing off a whole group because of the current lot is fools’ work.
I mean, the Republicans were a bit responsible for ending slavery…
TBF the decline has been happening for a long time, and the biggest drops happened well over a decade ago
October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
TBF the decline has been happening for a long time, and the biggest drops happened well over a decade ago
Et voila. Denying reality.
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Et voila. Denying reality.
Whole books' worth of complete insanity
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Whole books' worth of complete insanity
And gets to the heart of the problem with centralisation - the more you pull in, the more information you need to make the model work
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
And gets to the heart of the problem with centralisation - the more you pull in, the more information you need to make the model work
Ah but have you thought about chapters that are just one long paragraph?
October 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Ah but have you thought about chapters that are just one long paragraph?
Pondering Children of Men as a weirdly prescient piece of prophecy, you run into the specific challenge of its core conceit - that society lost hope bc it became incapable of having children
And then today had the sinking feeling that we could get there, not bc of some mysterious force…. /1
And then today had the sinking feeling that we could get there, not bc of some mysterious force…. /1
October 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Pondering Children of Men as a weirdly prescient piece of prophecy, you run into the specific challenge of its core conceit - that society lost hope bc it became incapable of having children
And then today had the sinking feeling that we could get there, not bc of some mysterious force…. /1
And then today had the sinking feeling that we could get there, not bc of some mysterious force…. /1
The Royal Marines trolling the Americans here
October 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The Royal Marines trolling the Americans here
