Mr Emrick
@kris-emrick.bsky.social
Politics & Economics | Teaching & Education Policy | 2 wheels good 🚲 | Obsessed with 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺🇧🇷. Currently most frustrated by 🇩🇪 & 🇪🇺 politics, heartbroken by 🇷🇺 war on 🇺🇦, reluctantly adjusting to the new normal after 🇺🇸 elections
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October 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.
October 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.
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Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.
September 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
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September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Good piece from Joseph de Weck
"Coming of age in Switzerland is like sitting in an aquarium looking at the world through a thick bulletproof window. That glass was shattered last week when Donald Trump announced 39% tariffs on Swiss exports".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Coming of age in Switzerland is like sitting in an aquarium looking at the world through a thick bulletproof window. That glass was shattered last week when Donald Trump announced 39% tariffs on Swiss exports".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Swiss lived in splendid isolation for years. Trump’s tariffs have shattered that complacency | Joseph de Weck
The shockwaves sent by the US president could finally push Switzerland closer to the EU, says Joseph de Weck of the Foreign Policy Research Institute
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Good piece from Joseph de Weck
"Coming of age in Switzerland is like sitting in an aquarium looking at the world through a thick bulletproof window. That glass was shattered last week when Donald Trump announced 39% tariffs on Swiss exports".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Coming of age in Switzerland is like sitting in an aquarium looking at the world through a thick bulletproof window. That glass was shattered last week when Donald Trump announced 39% tariffs on Swiss exports".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
August 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.
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just remembered one of my all-time favorite posts:
July 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
just remembered one of my all-time favorite posts:
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I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.
July 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I think we really ought to consider the dramatic rise in popularity of podcasts and video essays as conclusive disproof of the 'everyone hates lectures' idea in pedagogy. Turns out that, even when faced with many alternatives, many people just like to be told something at length.
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Wenn in vier Jahren die AfD nach den Wahlen stärkste Partei sein sollte im Bundestag, wird die Union uns erzählen, alle Linken und Grünen seien daran schuld, und nicht wenige Journalist:innen werden dies als ernsthafte Position diskutieren.
July 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Wenn in vier Jahren die AfD nach den Wahlen stärkste Partei sein sollte im Bundestag, wird die Union uns erzählen, alle Linken und Grünen seien daran schuld, und nicht wenige Journalist:innen werden dies als ernsthafte Position diskutieren.
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a northern european woman will eat this, work 4hrs at the Langfaart Logistik shipping container company, repeat, work 4 more hours, then eat something called "pasta mexikansk" and live to be 112
July 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
a northern european woman will eat this, work 4hrs at the Langfaart Logistik shipping container company, repeat, work 4 more hours, then eat something called "pasta mexikansk" and live to be 112
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In 2012, only 46% of British people over the age of 65 said they had even used a computer in the previous 3 months. Of those, only 18% had used a social networking site. By 2020, 67% of over 65s said they use the internet every day. This explains a lot I think
Rupert Lowe tweets at his anger that we are simply never allowed to ever mention that this country won the World Wars - nor England's 1966 World Cup. [How did we let those become unknown, untold stories, whose anniversaries just slip by - unnoticed, verboten - in politics. media & broader society?
July 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In 2012, only 46% of British people over the age of 65 said they had even used a computer in the previous 3 months. Of those, only 18% had used a social networking site. By 2020, 67% of over 65s said they use the internet every day. This explains a lot I think
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Homesteading in practice is well-meaning people saying “well any little bit that we can do helps!” and then drive their SUV to tractor supply twice a week to offset 10% of their vegetable consumption
taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest
July 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Homesteading in practice is well-meaning people saying “well any little bit that we can do helps!” and then drive their SUV to tractor supply twice a week to offset 10% of their vegetable consumption
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Another day with an almost completely decarbonised grid.
June 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Another day with an almost completely decarbonised grid.
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thinking again about this 2018 cover
June 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
thinking again about this 2018 cover
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For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned
May 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned
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80% of what Britain needs to do
May 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
80% of what Britain needs to do
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ADHD:
Interviewer: What are your strengths?
Him: I’m an idea man
Interviewer: What are your weaknesses?
Him: My ideas suck
Him: I’m an idea man
Interviewer: What are your weaknesses?
Him: My ideas suck
May 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ADHD:
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I can't top this one.
Corruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
May 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I can't top this one.
2025: the year when Papal bulls became Chicago bulls
May 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
2025: the year when Papal bulls became Chicago bulls
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"Do you even own a black suit?"
April 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"Do you even own a black suit?"
This is a perfect example of the folly that is putting national-level decisions in the hands of local officials.
Empower local government - locally! Don’t make them veto players in national politics!
Empower local government - locally! Don’t make them veto players in national politics!
Vetocracy in action.
I've read the submission and it is beyond my comprehension to understand how a majority of Buckinghamshire councillors have decided to refuse it given the alternatives and the mitigations being put in place for a 12 week project to manage surface water from a spring.
I've read the submission and it is beyond my comprehension to understand how a majority of Buckinghamshire councillors have decided to refuse it given the alternatives and the mitigations being put in place for a 12 week project to manage surface water from a spring.
HS2 says Wendover setback could cost taxpayers 'tens of millions' - BBC News
A scheme to control flows of naturally occurring springs on part of the line is blocked by planners.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This is a perfect example of the folly that is putting national-level decisions in the hands of local officials.
Empower local government - locally! Don’t make them veto players in national politics!
Empower local government - locally! Don’t make them veto players in national politics!
Imagine growing up catholic during John Paul II’s papacy and thinking that the Catholic Church is traditionally apolitical.
Als Bundestagspräsidentin ist Klöckner der Freiheit und dem Grundgesetz verpflichtet. Dazu passt es nicht, den Kirchen vorzuschreiben, wozu sie sich äußern sollen und wozu nicht.
April 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Imagine growing up catholic during John Paul II’s papacy and thinking that the Catholic Church is traditionally apolitical.
Interesting how, in a different way, the idea that it’s morally good to be healthy because it reduces “strain” on the NHS is completely mainstream in the UK.
Not sure what that means it’s just a thought.
Not sure what that means it’s just a thought.
This from Dr. Oz is a new fucking low. Also, on a side note, are they looking at bringing back the draft?
April 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Interesting how, in a different way, the idea that it’s morally good to be healthy because it reduces “strain” on the NHS is completely mainstream in the UK.
Not sure what that means it’s just a thought.
Not sure what that means it’s just a thought.
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The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025
April 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The A level economist in the house complaining bitterly that the free trade module he's been taught - about how the US successfully uses trade to make friends/ bestride the global economy like a colossus etc - is going to look pretty stupid when rehashed for an exam in June 2025