Looks like Whitby to me
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Looks like Whitby to me
Born 20 or so years after the last pit in my village's immediate vicinity closed, I still grew up with orange water running in local streams, and conifer plantations used to cover old pit heaps. Wind turbines would have had drastically less environmental and visual impact, bring them on.
July 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Born 20 or so years after the last pit in my village's immediate vicinity closed, I still grew up with orange water running in local streams, and conifer plantations used to cover old pit heaps. Wind turbines would have had drastically less environmental and visual impact, bring them on.
Do you think being British helps you see through the bullshit respect for CEOs? Like here we're basically brought up to take the piss out of anyone successful - and I feel like that's not the case across the Atlantic.
July 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Do you think being British helps you see through the bullshit respect for CEOs? Like here we're basically brought up to take the piss out of anyone successful - and I feel like that's not the case across the Atlantic.
I appreciate the author talks specifically about the dads in her parenting whatsapp group not talking about holiday care, but it's a hell of an extrapolation from that to "dads don't care about this". Excluding dads from the conversation or painting us as feckless doesn't help things get fixed.
June 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I appreciate the author talks specifically about the dads in her parenting whatsapp group not talking about holiday care, but it's a hell of an extrapolation from that to "dads don't care about this". Excluding dads from the conversation or painting us as feckless doesn't help things get fixed.
Also, childcare funding policy in UK actively discourages higher birth rates. If 1 child in full time nursery costs almost half the family monthly income (or more!) it becomes literally unaffordable to have more.
June 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Also, childcare funding policy in UK actively discourages higher birth rates. If 1 child in full time nursery costs almost half the family monthly income (or more!) it becomes literally unaffordable to have more.
Can't speak for Japan, but policy levers in UK would need to sort access to housing and pay for under-30s - hard to consider having kids if you're in a rental taking high % of already-low monthly income.
June 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Can't speak for Japan, but policy levers in UK would need to sort access to housing and pay for under-30s - hard to consider having kids if you're in a rental taking high % of already-low monthly income.
I had to explain to a younger colleague how we used Encarta before internet access was common - they looked at me like I was describing some long-lost ancient technology. Which I guess I was, really.
May 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I had to explain to a younger colleague how we used Encarta before internet access was common - they looked at me like I was describing some long-lost ancient technology. Which I guess I was, really.
Relatedly I'd also be interested in your thoughts on how/why England's PISA maths and reading scores increased post 2015 (see e.g. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f2029...) - obviously they fell in the 2022 cycle, but up to then things were looking up.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
March 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Relatedly I'd also be interested in your thoughts on how/why England's PISA maths and reading scores increased post 2015 (see e.g. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5f2029...) - obviously they fell in the 2022 cycle, but up to then things were looking up.
Where is the PISA data from? It doesn't look as bad as this in OECD's own analysis (www.oecd.org/en/publicati...)
And they state "Performance in mathematics dropped sharply in 2022 on average across OECD countries after remaining stable in 2003-2018."
And they state "Performance in mathematics dropped sharply in 2022 on average across OECD countries after remaining stable in 2003-2018."
Long-term trends in performance and equity in education
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) examines what students know in mathematics, reading and science, and what they can do with what they know. It provides the most comprehen...
www.oecd.org
March 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Where is the PISA data from? It doesn't look as bad as this in OECD's own analysis (www.oecd.org/en/publicati...)
And they state "Performance in mathematics dropped sharply in 2022 on average across OECD countries after remaining stable in 2003-2018."
And they state "Performance in mathematics dropped sharply in 2022 on average across OECD countries after remaining stable in 2003-2018."
"In response to this latest news, traders seemed to become frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock"
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
"In response to this latest news, traders seemed to become frantic tick tick tick tick tick tock"
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I won a book about how to be more sceptical. I can't believe it!
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I won a book about how to be more sceptical. I can't believe it!
I won a book about how to be more sceptical. I can't believe it!
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I won a book about how to be more sceptical. I can't believe it!
I won a ton of sugar. Sweet!
January 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I won a ton of sugar. Sweet!
And yeah totally agree on this point. The whole system, end to end, needs to see improvements. I have relatives who receive adult social care, so am very aware of how broken that is too.
January 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
And yeah totally agree on this point. The whole system, end to end, needs to see improvements. I have relatives who receive adult social care, so am very aware of how broken that is too.
I think we should expect better than this. I can't put a number on how many hours is an acceptable wait, but "less than this" seems a reasonable start point. And the experience of being in a&e is truly awful. It's awful and stressful for the staff too!
January 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I think we should expect better than this. I can't put a number on how many hours is an acceptable wait, but "less than this" seems a reasonable start point. And the experience of being in a&e is truly awful. It's awful and stressful for the staff too!
And I should add that luckily she seems to have got out of it all OK, but it scares me that scraping through like this is considered adequate by some. We should be doing better, and we should be able to question why it's not better - and we should be hearing plans that will make it better.
January 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
And I should add that luckily she seems to have got out of it all OK, but it scares me that scraping through like this is considered adequate by some. We should be doing better, and we should be able to question why it's not better - and we should be hearing plans that will make it better.
Just before Christmas my mum, in her 70s, fell and split her head open, at around 9am. She had to wait until 3pm for an ambulance. She then waited an hour in the ambulance to be let into a&e. She was in a&e, concussed and with a head wound for almost 12 hours. Released at 5am. The system is broken.
January 5, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Just before Christmas my mum, in her 70s, fell and split her head open, at around 9am. She had to wait until 3pm for an ambulance. She then waited an hour in the ambulance to be let into a&e. She was in a&e, concussed and with a head wound for almost 12 hours. Released at 5am. The system is broken.
Need to convert those chances to avoid more situations like Stoke, Blackburn, etc. Won't feel comfortable without another goal or two.
January 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Need to convert those chances to avoid more situations like Stoke, Blackburn, etc. Won't feel comfortable without another goal or two.
"I think we should let something objectively bad happen for several more years, potentially changing the fabric and future of the country for the worse, just to avoid hypothetical criticism" is a really, truly, terrible take.
December 19, 2024 at 10:59 AM
"I think we should let something objectively bad happen for several more years, potentially changing the fabric and future of the country for the worse, just to avoid hypothetical criticism" is a really, truly, terrible take.
Also - apparently quite a lot of people now use ChatGPT slop for their abstracts (despite it largely producing slop) because, it turns out, a lot of people aren't good at summarising complex information...
December 19, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Also - apparently quite a lot of people now use ChatGPT slop for their abstracts (despite it largely producing slop) because, it turns out, a lot of people aren't good at summarising complex information...