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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
26.10.2025 06:57 — 👍 2050 🔁 813 💬 140 📌 85
We have the results of a cool new trial out today, a collaboration between Nesta and OVO.
I'll put some key charts in a thread, but the tl;dr is:
- 58 customers let us operate their heat pump remotely
- We flexed the heat pumps to lower the cost of electricity
- Most people were fine with it
Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it
But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...
Researchers applying for the UK's Global Talent visa face high upfront costs Upfront cost of visa to applicant and employer in 2025 UK Denmark £692 India £602 Australia £405 Israel £362 US £305 Italy £235 Netherlands 1 £207 Germany | £170 Spain 1£144 Sweden | £117 South Korea | £98 France £84 Japan £21 £5,941 £O £2,000 £4 Source: Fragomen for the Royal Society • Excludes ongoing costs such as mandatory healthcare premiums or fees such as language tests
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
21.10.2025 05:57 — 👍 298 🔁 194 💬 18 📌 34
Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"
This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!
She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.
In all seriousness, this isn’t only about frothy speculation around AI, there’s a lot of structural worry to be aware of.
archive.ph/nzw90
Most people don’t have means to insulate themselves in any kind of “put your money somewhere safe” strategy, because there isn’t any money to do that with.
Under the mattress.
17.10.2025 08:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This was a good read. ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
16.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0These folks have the deluded point of view that the installed base of wind and solar will somehow be reversed if they tap their heels together enough times. The direction to renewables is inexorable. This is the last gasp of the old as it wheezes to its inevitable death. It’s a last minute cash-in.
16.10.2025 07:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So no mention of the chronic venous insufficiency they announced not 3 months ago. A miracle reversal.
11.10.2025 06:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’d buy that for a dollar
06.10.2025 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.
03.10.2025 19:18 — 👍 9861 🔁 4707 💬 848 📌 939“Free Markets”. Never been a more interventionist administration outside of wars than this one in the ‘free market’. It’s like a game of “let’s pretend” to say otherwise.
02.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My deepest gratitude to those who have already shared their stories.
As I outline on the project's website, these are stories marked by a sense of fear, a sense of loss, a sense of helplessness, a sense of disappointment and anger, but also continued hope for change.
humantoll.org
"Not taking a penny in benefits"
if you're on a visa you have no recourse to public funds. do you think you could ask her which benefits visa holders are entitled to?
"being in work"
work is not a requirement of entry for spouse & student visas. again: do you think you should ask about this?
I try to resist doomerism, but I have to admit that hearing Gen Z "conservatives" describe their media diets made me want to walk into the sea. Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, etc. Ben Shapiro framed as a moderate. Bari Weiss as the go to for "liberal opinions."
youtu.be/fpTXMVpdyRg?...
Wondering how you’re coping with the unrelenting hatred and cruelty that we’re bearing witness to.
Any suggestions appreciated.
There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them
“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”
“But, but he was in UKIP”
“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”
So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵
1/14
After Miller tweeted that calling ICE is "incitement to violence," I directly asked Bannon if this means the government will be unleashed on groups that describe ICE that way. "Yes," Bannon told me, adding that Miller is "in charge." You can read that exchange in this link: bsky.app/profile/greg...
27.09.2025 15:52 — 👍 338 🔁 160 💬 19 📌 6
On Trump’s terror memo and regime change. Basic points on the rule of law, phantom conspiracies, big lies, and civic action.
(Audio)
snyder.substack.com/p/trumps-ter...
Naturally, this story is nowhere to be seen on the headlines of the BBC News home page.
27.09.2025 08:40 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...
“Nigel Farage’s claim that Reform UK Ltd will save £234 billion by banning expats from claiming benefits is based on numbers that the right-leaning think tank who produced them said “should no longer be used" because they made them up.”
23.09.2025 06:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Abstract This study provides causal evidence that cash transfer programs have the potential to alleviate the income-health trap in advanced countries. We analyze the Finnish basic income experiment, which replaced the minimum unemployment benefits with a guaranteed income for 2,000 randomly selected unemployed persons during the years 2017-2018. The guaranteed income removed all job-search requirements, but participants could still choose to claim unemployment benefits and comply with related obligations. The experiment also increased average income by 9%-11%, for two reasons: basic income payments overlapped with benefits due from the pre-experiment period, and basic income was not tapered against labor earnings. Using register data on all prescription medications and secondary care visits, we find that the experiment reduced psychotropic drug use by 8%-11%. Our results also suggest a decline in outpatient mental health visits for secondary care. No effects were detected for other health outcomes. Since most participants opted out of the unconditionality aspect of the experiment and continued to claim unemployment benefits, we attribute the observed health effects primarily to the increased income.
A NEW study of the Finland basic income experiment just dropped. Turns out psychotropic drug use decreased by 8 %–11 %, and incomes increased on average by 9% to 11% due to people not losing the income when they accepted a job, unlike traditional unemployment.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
22.09.2025 06:41 — 👍 1200 🔁 602 💬 50 📌 41Same.
22.09.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Maybe becoming the “Ireland of AI” gives more opportunity for redistributive power and regulation that the likes of Mustafa Suleyman is basically demanding.
20.09.2025 11:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To be clear, I think this is a bad thing. But not sure the potential bubble in AI will derail the freight train.
20.09.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Likely a bubble, but then the dotcom bubble didn’t destroy the internet. Seven companies have combined market cap of over $17 trillion (nearly equal to total market capitalisation of the UK, Japan, France, China, and Canada stock markets combined).
Even with a bubble, hard to see AI disappearing.
