James Taylor

It's quite obvious that criminal damage and terrorist activity are entirely different things.

It's yet another move of this increasingly authoritarian Labour Government to try and conflate the two.

What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean The High Court rules against the government, but not with enthusiasm

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What the Palestine Action judgment means - and what it does not mean

How the High Court ruled against the government, but not with enthusiasm

By me: emptycity.substack.com/p/what-the-p...

(A follow up to my Prospect post this morning.)

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I'm a Luddite! 😁

It's about time there was an alternative to US based payments, although I expect the UK's newfound sovereignty will leave us stuck with them for a while.

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children.

Recognised refugees.

Denied the right to reunite with their children.

It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied.

So yes, he’s hated.

Hey we need to write documentation?

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Hey we need to write an `AGENT.md` file that explains how this all works in great detail so the LLM can generate code.

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No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

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I'm so happy the roof decided to leak in the longest wettest January ever.

I cannot tell you how disappointed I'm going to be if it doesn't happen!

Maybe we should all stand on our doorsteps every Thursday at 7pm rattling saucepans shouting “fuck off nigel”

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The constitutional significance of what happened to the Prime Minister last week

Members of parliament moved for a parliamentary committee to decide what is prejudicial to national security instead of the government

By me.

emptycity.substack.com/p/the-consti...

You have mail. Hopefully.

Was Starmer going to announce Liz Truss' defection to Labour? She's been dropping pretty big hints...

"There is no Labour Liz Truss"

I see Britain's greatest ever method actor Agent Truss is still working hard for the Lib Dems.

I've stopped eating the office biscuits. Now we are overflowing with extra packets. Turns out it was solely me, scoffing on six packs of Chocolate Digestives a week.

Absolutely tremendous work here, no notes.

(Apart from to say that this proposal is by the actual president of RIBA)

Still, at least it connects with HS2 in Leeds and Manchester, so that's something.

Wow. It makes Johnson’s plan for one Irish Sea crossing look almost reasonable! Impressive stuff.

What +1?!

Should I auction my last tin?!

Awesome, thanks. I'll email a proposal on Monday.

a blurred image of a desert landscape with trees and bushes Alt: Tumbleweed rolling across an arid decentralised desert landscape

I'd ask on Mastodon but...

I don't actually have a talk yet but it would be likely to be, errrr, app dev on mainframes something something AI something something content development!

@monkchips.com random Friday afternoon question if that's ok! Are you still accepting proposals for Monki Gras 2026? (My manager suggested there was small chance of getting funding to attend but only if I'm giving a talk!)

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The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy

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Your regular reminder that charging extortionate tuition fees at UK universities is a political choice, and a relatively recent one. Studying almost anywhere else in Europe is far cheaper or in many cases virtually free.

Where do universities in Paris, Berlin and Madrid get the money from?

Has Mandelson joined Reform yet?

First cup of tea:
the contents from continents, afar,
whose contents, content us, thus far. ☕

The Ladybird Book of Brexit 🐞

#Brexit
#MemeForToday

Person: say, i am alive. Computer: I am alive. Person: oh my god.

They like to deflect to a party that hasn't won an election in my lifetime but this is all thanks to Labour, from the very beginning with Blair.