Sailesh
@saileshpatel.bsky.social
Builds websites, consumes far too much media (TV, films, & podcasts), has many opinions about anything & everything.
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One for all those High Speed Rail enthusiasts living between Birmingham and Manchester
(We can have hope that the 2nd leg of HS2 will return someday)
(We can have hope that the 2nd leg of HS2 will return someday)
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Kind of amazing in hindsight how Nancy Pelosi got a bunch of Democrats from rural areas to lose their careers to pass the Affordable Care Act.
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Kind of amazing in hindsight how Nancy Pelosi got a bunch of Democrats from rural areas to lose their careers to pass the Affordable Care Act.
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If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
Working 36 hours straight on Thanksgiving so Grok says Elon is in better shape than LeBron
November 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you said you were drunk but thankfully you barely drove home without passing out it would be universally agreed you should go to jail. It’s maddening how apparently if you own a Tesla, though, you’re allowed to brag about getting behind the wheel while impaired to the point of unconsciousness.
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All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
September 12, 2025 at 7:06 AM
All the bright white St George flags that have gone up on Birmingham lampposts are going to look very bedraggled with the English weather by wintertime.
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Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Having watch child poverty rise like a slow-motion car crash since the two-child limit was introduced, sat in meetings up and down the country, in foodbanks, in schools, to work out how to get child poverty down, the idea that this undoing this policy is 'PLP management' is a joke.
Parliament Act of 1911 to override any veto from the Lords. It’s a manifesto pledge that should be kept
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Parliament Act of 1911 to override any veto from the Lords. It’s a manifesto pledge that should be kept
Credit where credit’s due - good job from Rachel Reeves, scrapping the two-child welfare cap
November 26, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Credit where credit’s due - good job from Rachel Reeves, scrapping the two-child welfare cap
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This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is something that really bothers me in so much talk about benefits including from some policy wonks.
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
Not everyone who is given something from the state is Oliver Twist, nor should they be.
The state should provide help to all sorts of people in different circs, not just gruel for the needy
It adds to my theory that people just want an underclass of people (usually marginalised folk like ethnic minorities LGBT people, or disabled people) to make themselves feel better about themselves
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
Sorry, no, Motability was not about 'helping the most vulnerable' - it was about providing people who need modified vehicles modified vehicles!
November 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It adds to my theory that people just want an underclass of people (usually marginalised folk like ethnic minorities LGBT people, or disabled people) to make themselves feel better about themselves
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
If a disabled person can afford it, why shouodnt they have a nice car w/ mods to support them?
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Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Having a great first day as the OBR's website manager. Got all of the content queued up as a scheduled post, ready for a big day, but all of the work is done now.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
Now before I put my feet up, time to take a big gulp of water and check the latest news.
What happened to budget purdah?
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What happened to budget purdah?
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As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
Let's be absolutely clear the restrictions on Motability cars is reflective of a quiet desire to see disabled people pushed out of public life because getting them in public space is sometimes a bit inconvenient and expensive
November 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
As someone who has had a Motability car in the past (before failing my 7th driving test), you don't get any type of car - it is a scheme to use your benefits to lease an adapted car, and to get a BMW etc you would need to pay the significant difference
They also said this about Sunak before he lost 👀
Fascinated by Reeves's approach to the upcoming budget of giving interviews where she comes off as brittle, thin-skinned and dishonest
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
They also said this about Sunak before he lost 👀
I swear, if I see one more person say that the BBC has a left wing bias, I’m going to lose my shit when there’s clearly a GC bias (as shown by this article changing numerous times since publication)
They keep fucking editing the article, but it's not any better. And this addition about why the judge referred to her as "them" is like a parody of impartiality
![An excerpt from the linked article that reads:
[The judge] explained that the prosecution used female pronouns to refer to the complainant during the trial, while Linehan's defence used male pronouns. The judge said she had chosen to refer to Brooks using "gender neutral pronouns and as 'the complainant'" in her ruling.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:umokacyt44veykd6qw5zokyi/bafkreifcuteahuy7btte3q77evxfatrh7ddbi676sw4squ6hrpshakcszm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I swear, if I see one more person say that the BBC has a left wing bias, I’m going to lose my shit when there’s clearly a GC bias (as shown by this article changing numerous times since publication)
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Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
27% reporting here, as a public transport enthusiast
just had a look at this and man, everything really is gender huh
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
27% reporting here, as a public transport enthusiast
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I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I don’t know enough about the situation with Lineham to opine on whether the judgement is valid or not, but everything about this paragraph in the BBC article makes me despair at how many institutions have been captured by the GC movement
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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Disgraceful words from the former chairman of the EHRC
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Disgraceful words from the former chairman of the EHRC
I went to a youth hackathon one summer while I was in secondary school, realised I was pretty decent at code.
It was around GCSE options time, so I directed all my energy towards that IT BTEC (which I passed).
While at Uni, I continued hackathons & did an industry year which led to a grad job.
It was around GCSE options time, so I directed all my energy towards that IT BTEC (which I passed).
While at Uni, I continued hackathons & did an industry year which led to a grad job.
November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I went to a youth hackathon one summer while I was in secondary school, realised I was pretty decent at code.
It was around GCSE options time, so I directed all my energy towards that IT BTEC (which I passed).
While at Uni, I continued hackathons & did an industry year which led to a grad job.
It was around GCSE options time, so I directed all my energy towards that IT BTEC (which I passed).
While at Uni, I continued hackathons & did an industry year which led to a grad job.
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This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
I’ll say it: the Wicked movies did the best they could with source material they were given. The lighting and editing made the real life set look like it was CGI and lifeless.
The musical numbers were fun, but heavily stacked in the first half, so the second half felt rushed (for a 2+ hour film).
The musical numbers were fun, but heavily stacked in the first half, so the second half felt rushed (for a 2+ hour film).
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I’ll say it: the Wicked movies did the best they could with source material they were given. The lighting and editing made the real life set look like it was CGI and lifeless.
The musical numbers were fun, but heavily stacked in the first half, so the second half felt rushed (for a 2+ hour film).
The musical numbers were fun, but heavily stacked in the first half, so the second half felt rushed (for a 2+ hour film).
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This is classic conspirituality wellness grifter stuff. Deadly and thriving!
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This is classic conspirituality wellness grifter stuff. Deadly and thriving!
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TBH my ideal Covid Inquiry would have just to have been getting public health officials and Ministers from South Korea, Australia, and Japan and gone "we fucked up and you didn't, why was that?" and got it over and done with in three months.
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
TBH my ideal Covid Inquiry would have just to have been getting public health officials and Ministers from South Korea, Australia, and Japan and gone "we fucked up and you didn't, why was that?" and got it over and done with in three months.
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