Alex Mair

we got our electric bill in this house and were like WTAF?!?!?!?! it went up 60% from last month due to the Intel Data Centers that moved into town, and now the city residents are footing the bill.

RIDICULOUS.

This week the President of the United States walked around on the roof of The White House and yelled about nuclear weapons in a desperate bid to distract from allegations that he is a child sex trafficker.

Back in March, Gareth Southgate said men need more from life than gaming, crypto and porn. As publishing have forgotten about male readers, the bro culture has taken our men.

Conduit Press is a much needed corrective to this disaster and I wish it every success in bringing men back to the novel.

That Melanie Phillips is a lunatic conspiracist bigot and racist is not remotely shocking. But the fact that the Times continues to employ her should be.

"I can't brainstorm without ai" "I can't draw without ai" "I can't write without ai" "Ai summarized it for me cause it's too hard of a read"
So what exactly /can/ you do? Because you sound fucking useless to me

No, elected mayors have on the whole been a success, particuarly in London and Manchester. Ken Livingstone is the most successful left-wing politician since 1979, and London's most successful mayor. Of course, the case for bringing back proper devolved government like GLC is overwelming.

What is speculative nonsense Alan?

Thanks David.

Blow for consumers as supreme court hands partial win to car finance firms over loans Millions of drivers to miss out on compensation in move that will also be a blow to the claims industry

Britain should not have a supreme court anyway. UK only has one because Blair was in love with all things American. UK had a working legal system before 1997. We can do without one.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug...

Am I the only one who finds cooking Dahl impossible? I don't know why but I just can't get Dahl right no matter what I do. I either burn it at the bottom of the pan, or the dahl doesn't mix so it's just crunchy slop. What am I doing wrong?

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

This isn't true. New Labour was not a 'broad church'. Blair deliberately jettisoned socialism to appeal to aspirational boomers in their 30s and 40s. The 'soft left' were allowed in the cabinet only but only if they implemented the policies of the hard right. Members and MPs reduced to sales reps.

Ticked Pulp off the bucket list #Pulp #Disco2000 #Tramlines #TramlinesFestival #Sheffield

It is political illiteracy to slash Special Educational Need support It beggars belief that politicians see slashing budgets and restricting access to EHCPs as the answer to the SEND crisis

✍️ It is political illiteracy to slash Special Educational Need support

It beggars belief that politicians see slashing budgets and restricting access to EHCPs as the answer to the SEND crisis

By Alex Mair

@alexmairyorks.bsky.social

Ozzy Osbourne dies just weeks after farewell show The heavy metal star reunited with his Black Sabbath bandmates on stage at Villa Park earlier in July.

Wow. He’s actually gone. Rest in peace, Prince of Darkness. news.sky.com/story/ozzy-o...

The savage proposition that you're not being paid enough to be able to save, and this is your fault, so we'll make you work for too little money, even longer, because the Labour Party is now well to the right of Margaret Thatcher on almost all metrics.

Ofwat to be abolished, government confirms, as water industry urged to address ‘Great Stink moment’ – business live England and Wales’s water industry requires ‘fundamental reform’ to address the problems that have dogged the sector, Independent Water Commission says

🤯New 'regulatory forbearance' could allow water companies to dodge fines.
This water regulation is transparently created in the interest of private profit. Water companies' stock market value has increased since the report's release.
Public ownership now!

So, the water companies have been found to have widespread and systematic failings and Labour's solution is to....create a quango.

Meanwhile, Reform calls for nationaliation.

With this government Nigel Farage is playing on easy mode.

The right to an education, health and care plan must be retained | Letters Letter: Jane Asher, Carrie Grant, Chris Packham, Anna Bird, Fazilet Hadi, Sally Phillips, Jon Sparkes and 100 others call on the government not to remove the right to an EHCP from children attending m...

The Government should know better than to think they can attack Disabled people's rights and get away with it.

Labour must should commit to keeping EHCPs to protect Disabled children's educational rights.

✒️We signed this letter with over 100 campaigners
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I read it myself on the website

Compulsory voting is awesome.

If Britain had compulsory voting, Britain would have progressive government for a generation.

I'll die a hill to defend this view.

The Restoring Trust In Our Democracy paper doesn't include Proportional Representation (PR).

So 16 year olds will be participating in a broken electoral system that produces deeply ineffective government because only 1 in 8 adults make a difference to election outcomes.

Thin gruel or what?

My overriding impression of the UK state, when we take into account everything from stripping Begum of citizenship to the refusal to deal with the Horizon and poisoned blood scandals, to the superinjunction against revealing a data leak that may have cost countless lives, is cowardice.

For 99% of people, the only advice you need on writing your book is "actually write it."

Like, there's loads of advice I can give you on it once you've done that. But for the most part "stop fantasizing about it and put words on a damn page" is the correct answer.

For those who don't think the information bubble is real. One in every three comments on social media is from a bot.

Keir Starmer is now as unpopular as Boris Johnson was during 'Partygate'.

Podcasts are now mostly just the mainstream media now. The best podcasts are always lo fi, just dudes sitting around drinking beer and talking shite. By comparison, a centrist dadcast just sold out the O2, that's 13,000 tickets sold.

Hugh Jackman in the first X-Men movie shirtless. He is fit and muscled but not freakishly sculpted like an action figure.

Hugh Jackman in one of the later X-Men movies. He is chiseled dehydrated and a mess, but hey! he looks like a plastic action figure

A hill I will die on is that people are more attractive and look actually fit and not weirdly fucked up, dehydrated, & miserable in older films when they were allowed to be human and not horrible action figures. It’s not “dad bod” it’s “very fit human”

The Guardian really working hard to portray the junior doctors as the villain of the piece.

One thing that has got to be challenged is the idea that somehow SEND has bankrupted local councils.

No.

Austerity bankrupted local councils.

Providing every youngster with a good education is not the cause of our economic woes. It's neoliberalism.