James Hole

Can always count on you to be the judge Chaminda

Somehow I (23) ended up with a listening age of 74 because I have listened to *some* music from the 60s… yet all my top songs, artists, albums are from the past 5-10 years?! Make that make sense

Nothing but respect if Reeves says "shall we all just have the hour back if everyone's read it?"

But what else on my ever-growing list would I have to roll my eyes at, tutt loudly, and start dismantling in an overly-detailed monologue that would send most of the population to sleep?!

Should probably add that I also don’t have a drivers license… how terrible at driving these people are!!

Oh absolutely - full of people I’m vehemently opposed to, that’s about the only draw from my perspective! And the odd individual you sort of like… but you can definitely judge people without always watching hours of rubber-burning on tarmac (I unfortunately prefer real-time heavy judgement)

It's Friday afternoon, so who wouldn't want to enter the weekend with one more round of my patented bubble plots of British politics? In this final (one hopes) of my mini-series I look at who the 'odd ones out' of British politics are. Who is 'out of touch' with the rest of the public. Let's see 1/n

Depressingly

We hooked it up to a big screen in the uni library, only for Rory to supply us with that spectacle. Somehow it made the endless hours of build-up and weird looks worthwhile!

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

Very catchy - I’m sure we’ll hear that bellowed out from the North stand forever more!

I was assuming staying silent would put me in with a good chance

Sorry, when was BlueSky introducing that ‘dislike’ function again?!

Just because an LLM can produce a report with various figures & charts doesn't mean it is good at statistics.

Because good statistics is not about producing code.

It's about deep knowledge of study design & conduct. In my opinion, 95% of all data science problems come from poor questions & design.

Beat me to it!

This is becoming a slightly painful watch

Now I’ve actually read it in full, this is the politics-inclined mathematician’s dream of an article! And in no way wanting to diminish your findings, but it seems surprising this wasn’t already the industry norm

From my quick scan, it looks like reference to not all growth being good growth, and sentiment against growth which damages the environment etc.

Frustrating! The 100 and 1A buses are reliable (if not too quick) and go right outside Royal Lancaster Infirmary, and out to central Morecambe

There always seemed to be a lack of hotel space in central Lancaster - depends whether you’ll have a car there. Good luck!

Congratulations Colm!

#UTA I can go a whole 2 weeks without grumbling about Brighton… I’d better find another way to pass the time!

Or he’s just run out of orange paint

Surely owners at some point too, just to give fans another reason to despise them

I’m sorry (sort of) to say it, but I’m loving this football

Keep on tapping!

They should really just publish the spending review documents.

Not for me to actually read of course, god no, I just want others to crack on with their articles and substacks.

Within the last five years the government was capable of making it illegal to have your girlfriend stay over for a night.

This talk strikes me as being a cover for (a) a lack of ideas about how to wield power (b) poor ministers, and (c) the very existence of trade-offs.

I draw the line at Allianz stadium personally

Cheers for that clarification Sam, wouldn’t have had a clue otherwise!