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A simple answer to this, anecdotally speaking, is that people in general want nice things, but they don't want other people to have access to said nice thing and the latter will almost certainly overshadow the former
Just generally my default assumption upon learning that something new is gonna happen in Britain is that it'll be a little bit crap. I don't think that's inevitable or something, I don't get that impression in other countries, especially not ones as wealthy as the UK. Things here just always rubbish
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
A simple answer to this, anecdotally speaking, is that people in general want nice things, but they don't want other people to have access to said nice thing and the latter will almost certainly overshadow the former
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The basic thing for me is that I got to where I am by avoiding the BBC and other mainstream news outlets like the plague and instead consuming independent news media and commentary I actually feel like I can trust. Everything I know and understand, I do in spite of the BBC, not because of it.
November 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The basic thing for me is that I got to where I am by avoiding the BBC and other mainstream news outlets like the plague and instead consuming independent news media and commentary I actually feel like I can trust. Everything I know and understand, I do in spite of the BBC, not because of it.
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In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
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For me, the division is both unsurprising - public institutions are conservative; they lean towards power and the status quo - and revealing. Those who sit under the protective umbrella that institutions throw up are surprisingly incurious about what life is like for those who live outside it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For me, the division is both unsurprising - public institutions are conservative; they lean towards power and the status quo - and revealing. Those who sit under the protective umbrella that institutions throw up are surprisingly incurious about what life is like for those who live outside it.
The BBC's self-flagellation and the endless stream of pundits claiming that the organisation that platformed Farage more than any other politician has a left bias was impossible to listen to yesterday.
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The BBC's self-flagellation and the endless stream of pundits claiming that the organisation that platformed Farage more than any other politician has a left bias was impossible to listen to yesterday.
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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I want to support my point from the other day, about how for the last 33 years, climate policy, as implemented by governments, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles, of the very rich, the top 1%.
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For the last 33 years, all climate policy, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles of the richest people in the world. Not just billionaires, but those on very high salaries who control every organization in the world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
I want to support my point from the other day, about how for the last 33 years, climate policy, as implemented by governments, has been about one thing, and that is preserving the lifestyles, of the very rich, the top 1%.
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CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
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The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:
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The fun part here is that the student anti-austerity protesters of 2011 were absolutely right, and the horrific MPs and crank politics pundits who screamed abuse at them were catastrophically wrong. But it’s the MPs and hacks who are holding all the microphones, so the public will never hear this.
November 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The fun part here is that the student anti-austerity protesters of 2011 were absolutely right, and the horrific MPs and crank politics pundits who screamed abuse at them were catastrophically wrong. But it’s the MPs and hacks who are holding all the microphones, so the public will never hear this.
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What I find baffling is that consecutive governments have forefronted an issue that they know they can never "solve" and can only ever lose their grip on, inevitably ceding the narrative to far-right anti-immigration politicians, and never tried to either change that narrative or that focus.
This is what they’ll tell themselves alright, because it’ll be more convenient than admitting that they’ve fucked it by relentlessly attacking their own supporters until there’s nobody left who likes them or wants what they’re selling.
November 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
What I find baffling is that consecutive governments have forefronted an issue that they know they can never "solve" and can only ever lose their grip on, inevitably ceding the narrative to far-right anti-immigration politicians, and never tried to either change that narrative or that focus.
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A motor of 59 kW/kg!
750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg!
That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package.
electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...
750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg!
That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package.
electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...
YASA's Electric Motor Just Got Even More Power-Dense
YASA, a pioneer in next-generation electric drive technology, has smashed its own unofficial power density world record with a staggering new benchmark for ultra-high-performance electric motors.
electriccarsreport.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
A motor of 59 kW/kg!
750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg!
That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package.
electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...
750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg!
That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package.
electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.
November 8, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.
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Everyone appears to have assumed Labour would be smart, politically astute, popular and successful and so they did and said a lot of things they absolutely would not have done, if they had known Labour would instead be clueless, spiteful, clownish and despised.
November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Everyone appears to have assumed Labour would be smart, politically astute, popular and successful and so they did and said a lot of things they absolutely would not have done, if they had known Labour would instead be clueless, spiteful, clownish and despised.
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It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
November 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
Xmas markets open in 3 weeks.
It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside.
I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft.
I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt.
This is not fucking normal.
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This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
This culture within Labour was being pointed out before Starmer was even elected, because it's the Labour right, it's what they do. Wreckers when they're not in charge, the worst type of aggressive, arrogant and clueless middle manager when they are.
“Nobody thought a Labour government would have to raise taxes by more than £70bn,” claims one insider in this excellent piece. Shows the problem of the climate of fear in meetings created by some of Starmer’s aides, in that plenty of Labour insiders, did, in fact, think this!
The politics of breaking manifesto promises
The history of politicians who go back on their words has lessons for Rachel Reeves as she mulls raising taxes
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This culture within Labour was being pointed out before Starmer was even elected, because it's the Labour right, it's what they do. Wreckers when they're not in charge, the worst type of aggressive, arrogant and clueless middle manager when they are.
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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
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UK transport secretary says full electrification of railways ‘not affordable right now’
Heidi Alexander says focus will be on other projects such as HS2
www.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
www.ft.com/content/5ecd...
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.
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the motivation for austerity in the UK is the belief you need to make regular, extensive sacrifices to assuage the great bond god's anger, and nothing makes him angrier than a library or a disabled person with central heating. This doesn't really apply if you are America.
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM
the motivation for austerity in the UK is the belief you need to make regular, extensive sacrifices to assuage the great bond god's anger, and nothing makes him angrier than a library or a disabled person with central heating. This doesn't really apply if you are America.
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Reminds me of the time HMRC sold 600 of its own offices to a company in a tax haven (Bermuda) for £220m, which it now leases back for £269m per year
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reminds me of the time HMRC sold 600 of its own offices to a company in a tax haven (Bermuda) for £220m, which it now leases back for £269m per year
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The UK rail electrification story is really the perfect example of the mind bending multi decadal stupidity of treasury aversion to capital spending today on publicly owned infrastructure to achieve better outcomes at a cheaper cost tomorrow
Q: Why can’t the UK do more rail electrification?
A: because it is too expensive
Q: why is rail electrification so expensive in the UK?
A: because we do so little of it
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Welcome to the treasury logic that prevents sensible rail electrification investment, with your guide @noeldolphin.bsky.social
A: because it is too expensive
Q: why is rail electrification so expensive in the UK?
A: because we do so little of it
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Welcome to the treasury logic that prevents sensible rail electrification investment, with your guide @noeldolphin.bsky.social
Huge thanks to @freewheeling.info who allowed me, this week, to go through the "Sparks Effect", HM Treasury and how we run the railway, on the Freewheeling Podcast. www.freewheeling.info/the-freewhee...
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The UK rail electrification story is really the perfect example of the mind bending multi decadal stupidity of treasury aversion to capital spending today on publicly owned infrastructure to achieve better outcomes at a cheaper cost tomorrow
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If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls
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Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering