Akshay Bilolikar

Is this new or are we just seeing it more because Twitter bumps up paid users who might be more likely to be bonkers

Are they actually weird about them though, I think people just find it funny

UK energy bills could be set according to ‘wealth’, says regulator Ofgem asks for feedback on plans to overhaul pricing structure

This Ofgem proposal is deranged www.ft.com/content/a2f2...

this is such a weird take, i honestly don't think it would have been that hard to get it right the first time round

Reform seeks to spend up to £190k on three assistants at council Opposition parties on Warwickshire County Council say the money could be better spent elsewhere.

BBC editorial standards are in the bin. Below was originally reported as £190k EACH when in fact it is £190k / 3 = c £65k. Not newsworthy at all -- how did it get published?

BBC News - Reform seeks to spend up to £190k on three assistants at council - BBC News
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yeah people are being far too generous to Labour here. we know enough to know the u-turn is very negative

things are difficult, let's spend a bunch of public money to do nothing instead

On Thursday night, we heard that government was making big concessions on its planning bill, putting lots more controls on its nature recovery plans.

I find this disappointing. And to explain why, I have to tell a story I’ve been holding off from sharing.

the government is capitulating on many of the proposals that could have significant impact, eg giving in to the vegetable lobby on planning yesterday. so what's the point.

These are the worst pens I’ve ever seen in my life

Look, if even wet soggy centrists are fed up of Labour not making any actually difficult decisions that involve tradeoffs, what is the actual point?

Very disappointing. Labour is betraying the builders in favour of the blockers. I consider this a broken manifesto promise.

Labour about to give in to the nimby lobby on planning. Why so useless?

There’s a streak of climate activism that seems to think “decarbonisation” is an act of moral purification, not a thing you do to the power grid.

Yep; I think people are underestimating the extent to which AI might improve the productivity of people who create problems as well as people who solve them.

Shows death rates in US and eu cities by temperature, air con being the decisive factor

Sitting here bleary after another poor night's sleep, disinclined to engage in a day of cognitive effort, this chart from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com really strikes home on.ft.com/4eFZG4l

Magistrates are also bad

TfL Watch on X: "🚨 Is Sadiq Khan’s TfL Chief seriously suggesting that people like @tomhfh and @lfg_uk are spraying graffiti just so they can clean it off themselves? Why on earth would they have to do that? https://t.co/CqNx72nIw6" / X 🚨 Is Sadiq Khan’s TfL Chief seriously suggesting that people like @tomhfh and @lfg_uk are spraying graffiti just so they can clean it off themselves? Why on earth would they have to do that? https://t.co/CqNx72nIw6

Bluesky: this is a sackable offence, right?

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The bill does not do anywhere near enough, hence why it hasn't been as controversial as one might have expected imo

Futurama?

Quite, but this is all the more so because it is now 2025 and there has been no wider rationalisation / simplification plan

can't cos of elf and safetee

Maybe except that's not going to happen

anyone who thinks we can solve climate change in any meaningful way by making people's lives worse is on a hiding to nothing

we can't solve climate change by making people's lives worse

travelling across the world is good, actually

I don't really follow your point, the state does try to force people to drive at the speed limit and no higher?

seriously, if you say are still saying, in 2025, the 'all this to shave a few minutes off some journeys' thing about HS2, they should ban you from using language. you are one of the animals now. here is a bag of scraps.

I think many in the legal profession and academia would disagree quite strongly with the idea that the law should not cover rare events

Why it's different in your view