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Rather excited to see that a cause I believe in coincides with important principles I hold and interests I have.
Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry.
If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…
whoownsengland.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Rather excited to see that a cause I believe in coincides with important principles I hold and interests I have.
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Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source. Read how this works ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Sunlight to fuel: Cambridge’s new breakthrough in clean energy
Cambridge scientists have created a solar-powered reactor that turns CO2 from air into sustainable fuel – no batteries required
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Researchers at Cambridge University have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the power source. Read how this works ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
February 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.
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Magnificent bronze Art Deco doors with peacock design, originally made by Tiffany in 1925 for a jewellery store, but since moved to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago
January 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Magnificent bronze Art Deco doors with peacock design, originally made by Tiffany in 1925 for a jewellery store, but since moved to the Palmer House hotel in Chicago
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No mention that Colin is literally Trustee of a Climate Denial outfit. Obviously cut from the report for reasons of concision
www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...
www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...
‘Climate change is here and now for us - we need more help now’
A senior county councillor has urged the government to provide more support after Lincolnshire experienced severe flooding.
www.lincsonline.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
No mention that Colin is literally Trustee of a Climate Denial outfit. Obviously cut from the report for reasons of concision
www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...
www.lincsonline.co.uk/lincoln/clim...
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Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
January 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it!
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
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"Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK’s global exports and a 3.1 per cent decline in imports into the UK from the rest of the world”
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
UK exporters suffer £27bn hit from Brexit
Smaller companies bore the brunt of trade barriers with the Continent as trade in services remains resilient
www.thetimes.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:21 PM
"Research from the Centre for Economic Performance, a think tank based at the London School of Economics, said Brexit led to a 6.4 per cent drop in the UK’s global exports and a 3.1 per cent decline in imports into the UK from the rest of the world”
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…)
December 12, 2024 at 7:56 PM
As someone who works on housing stuff I find these kinds of juxtapositions… intriguing. *Someone* is going to be very wrong. Presumably someone who fancies themselves an expert. (There may, of course, be some incentive to be this wrong…)
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This whole thing reeks of punishing lippy women who don't know their place. Solidarity with my admirable friend Charlotte Proudman - my regulator needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/10/bar-standards-board-barrister-charlotte-proudman-hear…
Bar Standards Board ‘failed to protect’ female barrister from online gender violence
Disciplinary hearing opens against Charlotte Proudman for saying a judge had shown a ‘boys’ club attitude’
buff.ly
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This whole thing reeks of punishing lippy women who don't know their place. Solidarity with my admirable friend Charlotte Proudman - my regulator needs to take a good long look at itself in the mirror. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/dec/10/bar-standards-board-barrister-charlotte-proudman-hear…
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Another disastrous statistic attributed to Boris Johnson and he wonders why no one wants to buy his book.
December 10, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Another disastrous statistic attributed to Boris Johnson and he wonders why no one wants to buy his book.
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Krugman's best pieces:
• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...
• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...
• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
THE FALL AND RISE OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
web.mit.edu
December 6, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Krugman's best pieces:
• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...
• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• The babysitting co-op
slate.com/business/199...
• On modeling
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• Japan liquidity trap
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
• on zoning
www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/o...
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
• how I work
web.mit.edu/krugman/www/...
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Musk likes to brag how “X is the world’s #1 source of news”.
Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like.
This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper.
Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like.
This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper.
Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Musk likes to brag how “X is the world’s #1 source of news”.
Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like.
This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper.
Yet here he is, quite deliberately (and very obviously) hiding news from you that he doesn’t like.
This is why X will ultimately fail, and platforms that don’t censor external links will prosper.
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Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days?
Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".
Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."
Which has more coverage?
Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".
Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."
Which has more coverage?
December 2, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days?
Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".
Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."
Which has more coverage?
Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age".
Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch."
Which has more coverage?
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TV presenter Gregg Wallace makes another online statement
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
TV presenter Gregg Wallace makes another online statement
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A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
November 29, 2024 at 1:52 PM
A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.
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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 AM
Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...
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Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
November 27, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Kemi Badenoch at #PMQs: "We had a budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Here are the tractors blockading the streets of Whitehall in March this year. They were protesting - you really couldn't make this up - Badenoch's trade policies. 😂
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
November 23, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Award-winning broadcaster Hannah Fry joins Cambridge as Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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And who has realised that making rail fully accessible also means the range of cargo cycles is increased exponentially? www.velove.se/news/next-st...
Next step in city logistics: Open terminals
Open terminals are city-owned infrastructure where goods can be shifted from big vehicles to small cargo bikes for intelligent last mile solutions.
www.velove.se
November 23, 2024 at 1:28 PM
And who has realised that making rail fully accessible also means the range of cargo cycles is increased exponentially? www.velove.se/news/next-st...
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There's been a 63% increase in cargo bike use in London - over 70% in some areas - helping cut pollution & congestion.
Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses.
zagdaily.com/featured/is-th…
Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses.
zagdaily.com/featured/is-th…
November 23, 2024 at 12:10 PM
There's been a 63% increase in cargo bike use in London - over 70% in some areas - helping cut pollution & congestion.
Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses.
zagdaily.com/featured/is-th…
Great to see the Better Bankside BID's new Green Logistics Centre to consolidate deliveries and support local businesses.
zagdaily.com/featured/is-th…
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"A team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was trained on...[this ]showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models." www.404media.co/google-resea...
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia page...
www.404media.co
November 29, 2023 at 5:26 PM
"A team of researchers primarily from Google’s DeepMind systematically convinced ChatGPT to reveal snippets of the data it was trained on...[this ]showed that there are large amounts of privately identifiable information (PII) in OpenAI’s large language models." www.404media.co/google-resea...
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