Jon Loveridge

The Rushanara Ali story is obviously clown car stuff, but I think amongst all the fair mockery, it is worth remembering that the renters rights bill she would have contravened, had no chance of happening under the last govt. In a weird way, it does show how much it’s needed, ends justifies mean etc

Have heard that part of London is a key habitat for bats

Journalists, and that particular type who writes fantasy in the Times, Televgraph, Sun and Mail, I’d say are WAY more to blame than MPs, who are acting according to incentives created by the journalists. Just look at all of them shitting the bed over WFA. An unserious and damaging group of people.

“Rich men who just wanted to do what they want, did what they wanted”. Read all about it

I guess it is newsworthy, but the fact that the Titan Submarine team didn’t rigorously follow appropriate safety measures is hardly surprising is it. The opposite would have been more deserving as a headline story

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.

The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

Of course, 100%

My very first job was settling mortgage endowment claims for the FSCS. Even then 20 years ago there were rumblings about PPI, and general miss-selling in this whole area was very obvious. Probably helped my decision making and financial literacy in the long run

Just a total abuse and failure of democracy really. Not much more to say

The natural result of those on the right - including the last government whilst in power, of purposefully blurring and obscuring the distinction between legal immigration, illegal immigration and asylum. Wilfully and purposely creating ignorance amongst the public

Not to defend it, but for years people have been encouraged to think like this. The whole provision of information around immigration, illegal immigration and asylum has been purposely conflated for years by those wishing to achieve precisely this. The lack of distinction and detail is on purpose

There has been a concerted effort from the right for years, In Westminster, online and in the press to conflate and totally blur the lines between immigration, illegal immigration and asylum for years. I guess this is the result

Ultimately he knows idiots believe him, so what is his motivation to say anything remotely realistic

Statistics forms part of analytics, I’d say

That you do all the required research, have all the data to make the right conclusion - but decide to just present the narrative you want anyway. I’m work in Data Analytics, if someone worked in this way I’d question their competence. How anyone with professional pride works like this is beyond me

I still recall lots of people claiming the number of pupils leaving the schools impacted might be 10-20%+ even though it was explained to them why this was likely to be nonsense and a low single digit % was a lot more likely. This was their entire argument. Will they reflect? Of course not

Anyone looking at the data fairly and logically would reason the VAT increase on private schools has had, on aggregate, zero impact on their feasibility to operate. But, alas, that’s not where we are

Incredible that this is all the same article. How utterly pathetic

Reform - for idiots, by idiots

Nvidia has a market capitalisation of $4.2 trillion, which is 15% greater than UK GDP. HMRC alone has twice as many staff (68k) as Nvidia. Let that sink in.

This is comically stupid *even on its own absurd terms*.

HMRC annual receipts about £860 billion
Staff about 66,000

Nvidia annual revenues about £90 billion
Staff about 33,000

YouTube video by The Daily Show When Rep. Tim Burchett gets backed into a corner over Epstein, the "dadgums" come flying #dailyshow

Will be A LOT of this sort of thing. Trump relies on his followers and supporters being dumb and/or sycophants

“Numbers can’t be manipulated for political purposes”. Sure, DJT

Totally cool and normal

Watching Skyfall, it’s a pretty good film, but anyone with James Bond’s crippling level of alcohol dependency, might at best be a branch or regional manager or a high street bank or retailer, at worst he’d be on a park bench. He’d be too pissed or hungover to function >80% of the time

I think we can all see now, Brown getting elected in 2010 would’ve been much better for our prospects, however, at the time post-GFC, post Iraq and after 13 years of Labour, there were clear reasons why he didn’t which hindsight aside, still hold

There wouldn’t have been 2010 without the GFC, but it’s a fair argument. I feel 2015 unfortunately validated austerity as a policy choice and enabled the Brexit referendum, which for me, did more lasting damage than Cameron/Clegg getting in in 2010 in the first place

I still refuse to believe it wouldn’t be possible for the FA, EFL & Premier League to do something to protect teams from these situations if there genuinely was the will there. Sadly, there isn’t. I think there should be provisions for EFL appointed administrators to take these clubs off the owners

5) The prices that Americans are paying in stores is starting to rise because of the tariffs...

Think how well economically a lot of these Reform & Conservative voters have done since 1997

The answer to this question is actually the 2015 General Election, which of course enabled Brexit, continued austerity and ultimately the absolute shambles that was the last 10 years of Conservative ineptitude and dishonesty