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Jim Parkin
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Engineer, European, Brit
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A couple of photos from yesterday
Ice encasing bilberry plants in the Peak District Ice encasing gorse in the Peak District
January 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Meanwhile over on Twitter

Nicely done
January 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Not so fun fact, from 1990 until the ACA, when the OECD definition changed from "public" to "public/compulsory" the US spent a slightly higher proportion of its GDP on public healthcare than the UK.

data.oecd.org/chart/60Tt
OECD public/compulsory healthcare spending as percentage of GDP, 1990-2018 US and UK highlighted
December 1, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Cat standing on to of an open window
November 18, 2024 at 12:59 AM
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Beautiful.

I'm always impressed how well my phone renders colours in the night. Only the stars sometimes give it away.
Bottom of Pen y Pass about 10pm in the snow of December 2022
November 16, 2024 at 11:05 PM
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Some charts I made in 2022 that are complimentary to yours. Using OECD data
data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-do...
UK 3rd from bottom GDP growth from 2016, above Mexico and South Africa

data.oecd.org/trade/trade-...
UK, 2nd from bottom in % growth in goods exported Q1-2016-Q2-2023 above Luxembourg
UK, France, Germany, Italy, EU27 value of goods exported, normalised to 2016-01 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart GDP growth since 2016 OECD data https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm UK 3rd from bottom, above Mexico and South Africa Percentage growth in goods exported Q1-2016-Q2-2023 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart UK, second from bottom, above Luxembourg
November 15, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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These are similar graphs I made with the 2022 Q3 OECD data.
UK, France, Germany, Italy, EU27 value of goods exported, normalised to 2016-01 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart GDP growth since 2016 OECD data https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm UK 3rd from bottom, above Mexico and South Africa Percentage growth in goods exported Q1-2016-Q2-2023 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart UK, second from bottom, above Luxembourg
November 15, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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There was evidence by 2022

These are the graphs I made with the 2022 Q3 OECD data.
UK, France, Germany, Italy, EU27 value of goods exported, normalised to 2016-01 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart GDP growth since 2016 OECD data https://data.oecd.org/gdp/gross-domestic-product-gdp.htm UK 3rd from bottom, above Mexico and South Africa Percentage growth in goods exported Q1-2016-Q2-2023 https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart UK, second from bottom, above Luxembourg
November 15, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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But it did lead to this which highlighted his lack of self awareness
James Melville ✔ @James Melville - 47m A pattern that I have noticed with certain trolls is that as soon as they get some blowback from good folk standing up to them and calling them out, they lock and protect their account. Bullies are cowards. 21 28 288 Stuart Lodge @slodge. 25m Wondering why you blocked @ParkinJim yesterday? Jim Parkin #BLM @ParkinJim 16h This will contain a list of the times you have downplayed Covid. Not actually denied it, but misrepresented the facts to imply it's less serious than it is: 1/n twitter.com/James Melville/... Show this thread ... ...
November 14, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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Rather jolly Christmas decorations in Hazel Grove this evening.

I asked my girlfriend to take a photo as we drove past
November 30, 2023 at 8:10 PM
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In the real world, they benefit marine mammals, as they act as artificial reefs and also protect against trawling.
See this for example

www.cell.com/current-biol...
GPS track of seal showing time spent near each mast of an offshore windfarm
October 24, 2023 at 9:05 PM
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A town local to me has had one in a hundred year flooding events in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and given the forecast, will probably get it worse by the end of the weekend.
October 19, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

Perfectly normal, and no evidence of climate change.
October 19, 2023 at 6:59 PM
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Prompted by a tweet by @gidmk.bsky.social about old antivax arguments I dig out this by Arthur Conan Doyle from 1887

www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Co...
Here it will be seen that the death-rate varies from less than one in a hundred among the well-vaccinated to the enormous mortality of 37 per cent. among Colonel Wintle's followers. These figures, remember, are taken from no single outbreak, where phenomenal conditions might prevail, but they represent a steady average drawn from twenty years of London smallpox. I might quote other corroborative tables of statistics, but I feel that if the foregoing fails to convince no other evidence is likely to succeed.
October 8, 2023 at 10:41 AM
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And second from bottom in growth of exported goods

data.oecd.org/trade/trade-...
#BrexitHasFailed
https://data.oecd.org/trade/trade-in-goods.htm#indicator-chart percentage growth in goods exported from Q1-2016 to Q2-2023
October 6, 2023 at 10:06 AM
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More evidence that #Brexit is a disaster. The UK has grown more than South Africa and Mexico since 2016.
GDP growth from 2016 for all countries listed in the OECD for where the latest year is available
October 5, 2023 at 8:42 PM
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That's right. They have just started.

For example, UK exports of goods have still grown more than Luxembourg, since 2016 (although no other OECD country).

Maybe they can put us to the actual bottom.

data.oecd.org/trade/trade-...
October 2, 2023 at 2:21 PM
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The snowflake seems to feel he's a victim
September 29, 2023 at 11:30 AM
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It gets better, check out the whining and victimhood from Robinson after his complaint that GB News was too woke
September 29, 2023 at 11:28 AM
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I've looked at the OECD goods exported data, to compare the UK with France, Germany, Italy, and the EU27 and normalised the numbers to Q1 2016

data.oecd.org/trade/trade-...

The UK started dropping back in 2016 #BrexitHasFailed
Quarterly values of exports for UK, France, Germany, Italy, EU27 since 2012.
September 26, 2023 at 8:45 PM
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Of course there is this classic..
September 26, 2023 at 5:13 PM