Phil Tinline

"The parcel company Evri, which has one of its largest distribution hubs in the town, has been trialling robot dogs for deliveries."

Wait, Birchers eat muesli?

Orange Theory

This looks very timely.

Thanks! Ngl I was quite pleased when that popped into my head.

What a great line!

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Exactly this. Or maybe an odd mix of relaxed and cowed. Either way, public power is too keen on winning the approval of private power.

This is another reason to stop burdening the young with debt and locking them out of the housing market. Where did you think they'd go and work?

'The silent majority' originally meant 'the dead'.

The difference theorising grandly about conspiracies, and actually organising one.

Indeed

Fair play. I think the contrast stands though.

Wow

"A nurse in the NHS isn’t allowed to take a gift worth more than a box of chocolates from a patient, lest public services be vulnerable to corruption."

Worst version of this: Here I am asking a question! (What do you mean, you want to hear the answer?)

Smart thread.

x.com Post 咀 Reid Hoffman @reidhoffman G... Give us a break: If you cared about the victims as you say, you'd stop making false accusations to cover your ass and start using your $220m of influence with President Trump to get justice for the victims. Instead, you're focused on comparing my visit fundraising for MIT to your begging to go to his island (which happened TWO YEARS before the screenshot you shared), and helicoptering over to Epstein looking for the "wildest party." You lied about this to everyone for over a decade, and now your excuse (it's disgusting, by the way) is that you could get young girls without Epstein? Elon Musk x @elonmusk • 17h This is how I knew so long ago that Reid Ho went to Epstein's island. Q X

billionaire beef continues:

*the, obvs

Like way I thought my email provider announcing it was cutting memory space was maybe bad until they said it was all part of improvements and now I love them and can't wait.

Power Failure: A new theory of power - Future Governance Forum British politics feels stuck. In recent years, both Conservative and Labour governments have found themselves increasingly hamstrung by a web of problematic concentrations and dispersals of power, thw...

You can read Phil's full report, which came out last month for @futuregovforum.bsky.social, here: www.futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/resource/pow...

Disempowering the public For those leading relatively empowered lives, interrogating power risks stirring up needless conflict. But in the face of warnings that ‘the sense of disempowerment people feel over their everyday liv...

This by @philtinline.bsky.social for @renewaljournal.bsky.social gives the central argument of his recent report 'Power Failure': how what begin as solutions to overconcentrations of power in time become problems, disempowering and frustrating the public: renewal.org.uk/blog/disempo...

JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein Former business secretary has quit the Labour Party in an effort to avoid causing it ‘further embarrassment’

there's a lot in this piece but the Mandelson email about angling for some kind of job at JP Morgan because 'i do not want to live by salary alone' just exemplifies everything people hate about politicians, the City, and revolving doors between the two www.ft.com/content/91e8...

Important point

Further evidence that neo- liberalism is destroying itself. Privatisation has resulted in less house building, more expensive infrastructure and public transport, generated inter - generational inequality and hollowed out state capacity to respond.

More pressing than the Kennedy Center

Bloody hell

Briefly thought 'bloys' was a bit of slang I'd missed

Lee Anderson MP Oswald Mosley? Wasn't he a Labour MP? Cathy Beesley @beesley_cathy. But most of us don't want Mosley's facists, or the National Front or the BNP, UKIP or Reform UK Ltd. We don't want masked men killing peo. Parody Nigel Farage He tried both Labour and Conservative then became a Fascist - sound familiar?

Thanks to @daveproudlove.bsky.social for alerting me to this wonderful exchange 😂