Rufus Spivey Green
@rufussg.bsky.social
Sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit. Delusional optimist, pro-human prosperity, don’t like golf. Building more houses will solve all our problems
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Nick, 30, having a bad day factoid actualy just statistical error. average uk voter actually not like that at all Nicks Georg, 30, who lives in cave & posts 10 000 times a day on twitter about hating immigrants and welfare claimaints, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
British politics is now just about making up a guy and assuming he will vote for you
November 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Nick, 30, having a bad day factoid actualy just statistical error. average uk voter actually not like that at all Nicks Georg, 30, who lives in cave & posts 10 000 times a day on twitter about hating immigrants and welfare claimaints, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
November 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
You know this govt deserves to be unpopular but hard to avoid the conclusion that it gets treated by the bbc like a govt that decided to nuke a old persons home when its just sort of shit
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Oh right, this is why I had no hope for the covid inquiry
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Oh right, this is why I had no hope for the covid inquiry
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Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Lot of people are already passing this around with the usual "WHY ISN'T ANYONE DOING ANYTHING" shrieks, while ignoring the fact that the article literally says that this is a *significant* decrease from the warming that we were on track for even a few years ago.
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I’m sure the hung parliament that is likely to follow the next election will be able to make a decision 👍
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I’m sure the hung parliament that is likely to follow the next election will be able to make a decision 👍
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The screeching handbrake turn from Everyone Left Of Norman Tebbit Is A Fragile Snowflake to Don’t Go Outside, It’s Full Of Blacks And Crime has to be seen to be fully believed
November 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The screeching handbrake turn from Everyone Left Of Norman Tebbit Is A Fragile Snowflake to Don’t Go Outside, It’s Full Of Blacks And Crime has to be seen to be fully believed
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People will tell you that the left has lost touch with society, but the expected next tory leader is nostalgic for football hooliganism, and the political editor of the Express is calling for MPs to be deported.
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
People will tell you that the left has lost touch with society, but the expected next tory leader is nostalgic for football hooliganism, and the political editor of the Express is calling for MPs to be deported.
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yookay and boriswave have become mainstream terms so am interested to see what’s next for the brainrotted journalistic class. reporting on the differing skull measurements of obscure african tribes perhaps.
October 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
yookay and boriswave have become mainstream terms so am interested to see what’s next for the brainrotted journalistic class. reporting on the differing skull measurements of obscure african tribes perhaps.
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Yes. This has been their clear stated preference for some time.
Agree with all this but also, when Cummings et al say they'd like to *sink* the small boats, who do they imagine is going to do the sinking? Cummings seems to think it's the Navy, but the Royal Navy does its best to stop *enemy sailors* from drowning. Are they going to let asylum seekers drown?
Some cheery thoughts before I go on holiday in today's note:
August 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Yes. This has been their clear stated preference for some time.
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"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject.
Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
July 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Is Britain about to blow?" asks Matt Goodwin promoted a two hour special event on the subject.
Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
Their greasy desperation for violence and carnage, so they can profit off it, is so disgusting.
A Bluesky stereotype that I unfortunately think fairly accurate is that the economic wonks here badly need more imagination beyond responding to every single fiscal issue the government faces with “why haven’t they trebled taxes yet”
March 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A Bluesky stereotype that I unfortunately think fairly accurate is that the economic wonks here badly need more imagination beyond responding to every single fiscal issue the government faces with “why haven’t they trebled taxes yet”
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I’m all for intensified European defence and security cooperation, but a lot of the ideas being thrown around seem to reply on choosing not to think about what happens if (as seems likely) Marine Le Pen becomes President of France in spring 2027
March 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I’m all for intensified European defence and security cooperation, but a lot of the ideas being thrown around seem to reply on choosing not to think about what happens if (as seems likely) Marine Le Pen becomes President of France in spring 2027
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Would like to hear European leaders more forcefully push back on American claims that we’re crap allies and freeloaders. Yes we’ve underspent on defence. But when America needed us to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan we did. British and European men and women died in their wars.
March 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Would like to hear European leaders more forcefully push back on American claims that we’re crap allies and freeloaders. Yes we’ve underspent on defence. But when America needed us to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan we did. British and European men and women died in their wars.
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heavily repopulated wastelands of what was already one of Europe's most deindustrialised regions. Meanwhile, distracted by this victory, Russia has lost Syria, is struggling to maintain its African presence AND has lost a generation of young people it couldn't afford to lose.
February 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
heavily repopulated wastelands of what was already one of Europe's most deindustrialised regions. Meanwhile, distracted by this victory, Russia has lost Syria, is struggling to maintain its African presence AND has lost a generation of young people it couldn't afford to lose.
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I feel the discourse on Ukraine is completely detached from reality. Russia has been there for three years now and it's basically a draw against the only major European state poorer than themselves. Since 2022 they have taken and held no major cities and what they have taken is mostly...
February 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I feel the discourse on Ukraine is completely detached from reality. Russia has been there for three years now and it's basically a draw against the only major European state poorer than themselves. Since 2022 they have taken and held no major cities and what they have taken is mostly...
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Finding it hard not to suspect that the experience of restrictions on real life, even briefly, during covid fundamentally broke some rich people’s tenuous hold on material reality beyond their glowing pocket screen and whatever is around them
at that very moment.
at that very moment.
February 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Finding it hard not to suspect that the experience of restrictions on real life, even briefly, during covid fundamentally broke some rich people’s tenuous hold on material reality beyond their glowing pocket screen and whatever is around them
at that very moment.
at that very moment.
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Ladies and gentlemen - I give you the Telegraph's comment editor:
January 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ladies and gentlemen - I give you the Telegraph's comment editor:
Some useful perspective on the Chagos sale is that a YouGov poll the other day found 25% in favour, 21% against, *54% don’t know*. Independent of the merits themselves I think some are dramatically overestimating how much the public actually cares
January 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some useful perspective on the Chagos sale is that a YouGov poll the other day found 25% in favour, 21% against, *54% don’t know*. Independent of the merits themselves I think some are dramatically overestimating how much the public actually cares
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Not to get all lib but it is pretty wild how Trump is on trial for 70 crimes and the pundit class is just sort of like yeah that’s happening anyways how about woke college kids?
November 6, 2023 at 12:30 PM
Not to get all lib but it is pretty wild how Trump is on trial for 70 crimes and the pundit class is just sort of like yeah that’s happening anyways how about woke college kids?
Free to a good home, I call this one "Sri Lanka after the Asia Cup final"
November 2, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Free to a good home, I call this one "Sri Lanka after the Asia Cup final"
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I would love the Pentagon to have a polite conversation with Musk about how someone who supplies space services to the US military can't also be claiming they created Covid and Lyme's disease.
November 1, 2023 at 1:50 PM
I would love the Pentagon to have a polite conversation with Musk about how someone who supplies space services to the US military can't also be claiming they created Covid and Lyme's disease.
This will not be news to many, but it's quite wild to flick through official Iranian state media and see "the Zionist regime" over and over again instead of "Israel". You'd think it was run by bloggers or something
October 31, 2023 at 4:28 PM
This will not be news to many, but it's quite wild to flick through official Iranian state media and see "the Zionist regime" over and over again instead of "Israel". You'd think it was run by bloggers or something
In many ways I agree it would be sad were Twitter to truly die. However:
July 3, 2023 at 7:20 AM
In many ways I agree it would be sad were Twitter to truly die. However:
Right, what does this mean, I can see tweets again but this pops up every time I try to interact with anything
July 2, 2023 at 12:54 PM
Right, what does this mean, I can see tweets again but this pops up every time I try to interact with anything