Egan Richardson

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

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Glasgow is lovely, but I'm surprised at how many public bodies are telling people to look at the Nazi hate platform/everything app

🤣 I felt like the positivity in adversity was a part of the day, maybe my week was decent. I got the away day, joined in the boycott and now I've resubscribed so me and the kids can watch from Finland again. Would love to be there today tho...

Just chuffin’ brilliant #chansirigetoutofourclub

AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows Leading AI assistants misrepresent news content in nearly half their responses, according to new research published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC.

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I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

I am absolutely fascinated by rangers fans and their ideas about their position in the world

Summed it up well there, felt the same during the game. Very glad I went tho

It would be simpler to just point out their bad faith. Like I said, I might be wrong. But it feels a bit like you guys helped them out by making an unsustainably bad policy into a sustainably bad policy

They already did it though. It's just future, left-leaning governments that are committed to not doing this.

They've successfully laundered their reputations and will scream about the debt if they're in opposition. Maybe you're playing 4D chess and I'm thick, but it seems like they stitched you up

But you are negotiating away your possible future government's fiscal headroom in a way that legitimises this government's claims to fiscal prudence just months after they raided a pension fund to "pay for" tax cuts. It doesn't seem smart. But if you believe in it, of course you have to do it

The electoral benefits on the anti-austerity side of Finnish politics are going to be for the parties that say 'this is daft, no other country is doing this to itself, we won't enter a government that doesn't repeal this'

IDK mate, if I was you I would wonder why we need cross party consensus on this but not on, say, education or healthcare policy.

What is the point of you, if you're accepting the idea that politicians shouldn't decide on this stuff?

Civil servant thinking. If you want the political benefits of opposing a policy you think is dumb, you gotta say it's dumb

There was a little table selling cakes and sandwiches and coffee, run by parents and turning a good profit. There always is at these tournaments. I suspect the demand is there for something more permanent, and the building in the structure is purely a cost, not a revenue stream

Today's sports infrastructure. Loads of parents here today. Relatively new, in a well-off neighbourhood, weather is Baltic and this big structure has no cafe/bar/clubhouse/restaurant. Such a waste

Sure there are places I can drink and watch sport! But idk why Finnish clubs don't want that kind of community hub. The day my kids stop playing football I will never do anything for their club ever again, it's a bit sad

I would absolutely talkoot the f out of a Finnish clubhouse where I could get a pint and watch a game on TV. I don't think such a thing exists, unfortunately

He seems quite committed there, clearly condemning the NATO member threatening to annexe parts of another

I'm happy for you. Really I am. I'm just not looking forward to the Finnish state response to coming events in the US

Don being notoriously reliable when dealing with suppliers

Is this the "Nordic model"

Assuming that is correct (lol) it's a bit victim blamey to then say other places "chose" their current arrangements after thirty years of externally imposed pro-car bias

This is not based on a reading of the available literature, but rather absorbing the history through osmosis, but: London has had many more choices since the 1980s. And other countries that had London-like public transport management then were actively prevented from maintaining it

Rail counts for quite a lot tho doesn't it

I always laugh when British people tell me the UK is ultra capitalist and Finland is basically a socialist paradise. Then I tell them about the Finnish healthcare system

Just incredible

Logically, the author of this Times piece is proposing forced deportation of one million migrants.

"I respect fans enjoy the misery of their crosstown rivals," he said, "but if I was to root against Villa or Wolves in our immediate area then I am rooting against clubs in the Birmingham area and lessening the quality of Birmingham football."

I'm guessing they don't react or they start falling out of windows? Isn't that how this goes?