GUEST POST: BLUMENKOHL on The Futures Epidemic HERDspotting in a conference room at a business hotel near you

ICYMI: Professor Blumenkohl on the epidemic of Future Fever.

markearls267269.substack.com/p/guest-post... #HERDspotting

Does the UK have the ‘most expensive’ electricity in the world? – Full Fact Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho MP claimed the UK has the highest electricity prices in the world. Our fact check looks at what the official data shows.

On BBC Breakfast today shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho said the UK has the “most expensive electricity in the developed world”.

We heard a similar claim from Ms Coutinho last month, and took a look at what the data shows.

GUEST POST: BLUMENKOHL on The Futures Epidemic HERDspotting in a conference room at a business hotel near you

This week's GUEST POST from the acerbic Professor Blumenkohl: Futures Fever #HERDspotting

open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

Chris Philp calling for an increase in Stop & Search over the weekend and claiming its wider use has been actively prevented by "the Left".

Conveniently forgetting that to increase S & S you need more police officers and not less which is what **checks notes** the Tories left us with!

#Amnesia

Well said Adam, I found out today that between March 2013 and March 2023 672 prisoners were released in error, I must have been out the day it was reported in the MSM.

There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the final year of the last Conservative Government alone.

Interesting that it only becomes a major national scandal the second these releases can be blamed on a Labour government

Cornwall councillor forced to apologise after Twitter 'bitch' jibe The statement was deemed to be a personal attack

She seems charming. www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

Racism, nationalism and xenophobia enabled Brexit and were further emboldened by it. Arrogance, entitlement, meanness of spirit, laziness and greed all fuelled Brexit and propel racism and its cowardly twin nationalism. It’s like a sewer that has broken open and Farage bids us splash about in it.

Conservative Councillor Accused of 'Old-Fashioned Racism' After Saying 'Young Black Males' Are 'Flooding' the UK EXCLUSIVE: Pauline Giles defended her comments to Byline Times, saying that "we cannot sustain the volume of young black males" that "jeopardises the security of our country"

Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK

Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security"

Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"

Medieval Fashion: How Clothing Defined Status and Power - Medievalists.net Discover how medieval fashion reflected power and status in 13th-century England, from the luxurious wardrobes of queens to the livery of their servants.

Medieval Fashion: How Clothing Defined Status and Power www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #fashion

Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts

Nigel Farage's favoured Mayoral candidate for Doncaster said black people cannot be English.

Reform councillor Alexander Jones claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’.

The messages were deleted after questions were raised by Byline Times

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Stranger Danger and Respectable Fears HERSpotting on shared beliefs

ICYMI: me on stranger danger and respectable fears #HERDspotting markearls267269.substack.com/p/stranger-d...

‘Beyond ironic’: Reform-led council says flags must come down so Christmas lights can go up Kent county council says union flags and flags of St George must come off street lights because of safety concerns

Reform UK now having to take down flags so that Christmas doesn't get cancelled

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Can’t believe we are at the ‘What Would Tolkien Do’ stage of America

Inside Japan’s long experiment in automating elder care The country wanted robots to help care for the elderly. What happened?

how long have we been hearing about Japan using robots for elder-care? it's been something like 30 years.

it still hasn't happened - indeed, studies found the robots made MORE work for human carers.

www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1...

love this

Spot on.

HERDspotting: Digital Medievalism — How We Lost the Light HERDspotting on the end of social

NEW from me: markearls267269.substack.com/p/herdspotti... #HERDspotting

ICYMI Performing Real

more from the age of #Authenticity

#HERDspotting #HERD

markearls267269.substack.com/p/authentici...

Before Authentic: I am not what I am HERDspotting at the theatre

ICYMI I am not what I am

Me on what we had before the plague of authentic
markearls267269.substack.com/p/before-aut...

#HERDspotting #HERD #authentic

Before Authentic: I am not what I am HERDspotting at the theatre

New from me: Before "authentic" #HERDspotting #HERD

open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP.

And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

Authenticity as a Meme HERDspotting in the "real" world

ICYMI Me on the scourge of authenticity as a meme
markearls267269.substack.com/p/authentici... #HERDspotting #HERD

In shock news, Liz Truss's Stilton and Cheddar deal with Japan... actually led to a year on year decrease in Stilton and Cheddar exports to Japan.

New from me: Authenticity as a meme? Introducing a new series on my substack about how we got to our obsession with Authenticity.

And yes, it goes deeper than reacting to Deep Fakes…

markearls267269.substack.com/p/authentici...

#HERD #HERDspotting

Leader of the English Defence League, Stephen Lennon, is jailed for Lennon, who had previously been refused entry to the US, used a passport in the name of Andrew McMaster

Is that the same Tommy Robinson who tried to illegally enter the US using a false passport who's now complaining of people illegally trying to enter Israel?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

What If We Were Meant to Move? HERDspotting on the move

CYMI What if we were meant to move? More from me on travel. #HERDspotting #HERD

open.substack.com/pub/markearl...

Tommy Robinson stopped at border driving Bentley with thousands in cash' Far-Right activist insulted police officers after being arrested for refusing to give them pin to his phone, court hears

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..