Dave Fernig

If only the UK could invent a system proportionally based on property price...

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

A very 20th Century solution.

Instead it could be close to through traffic. There is no reason to have traffic along the river when there are spokes from the edge inwards. This is what 21st Century cities do.

Overhead railway anyone...

How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
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We knew. We know. Same with the Internet of Things etc in the past.

👇👇

#Trumpery

I left to stop Clyde using any material I might put up.

Right to buy was exerted by the not so wealthy - the wealthy didn't own Council Housing.
the irony was the long-term drop in her much vaunted concept of a property owning democracy and the rise of the rentier class!
It would be interesting to get her views on the state of affairs!

We aren’t a part of those now, all we kept was right to buy (by the wealthy)and the greed ethic
And all that got us was a moral vacuum called Farage

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Indeed, apart from FOM, single Market, but her 'heirs' don't seem so taken by these

Her main legacy was in relation to the EU, SM, FoM and so on...

A sunday afternoon in Paris

Well Corbyn is pro tourism 😉

And (that reminds me) his stance on the Salisbury poisonings.

Elections are lost, never won...

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

Not to mention his stance on Syria... ...well documented for example by @ozkaterji.bsky.social
Poison is perhaps not quite the right word...

“Commitment to his beliefs?”👇”we believe”.
“Just imagine what the Tories would do to workers’ rights if we voted to leave..a bonfire of rights that Labour governments secured within the EU” He ordered a 3 Line Whip for A50 without a SINGLE protective amendment.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Not true, he wears a monocle

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Un ours brun est debout sous une tonnelle sur laquelle sont accrochées des guirlandes de lumières.

😱 - Chéri, il y a un ours sous la tonnelle !
😳 - Mais qu'est-ce qu'il fout ?!

🐻 - Bah chuis venu éteindre les lumières. On n'est pas à Versailles ici !

Oh, puéril...

His credentials as a 'green energy' entrepreneur are rather heavily dented.
Money making individual by all means

Not true. The Perch of Privilege comes with opera glasses

The mini and I outside the Hudson theater where Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves are starring waiting for godot

Here we go! Our wait is finally over @alexwinter.com

That is one way to chip away at decades of continuous Fox propaganda at military bases.
Not paying your soldiers never ends well.

Mark Zuckerberg in a previous life, and with A+ codpiece: seated youth painted in 1544 by Georg Pencz, whose day is today.

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest. The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards. Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes. The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...