Jonathan Atkinson

Me to the Labour Party....

✌🏼

Starmer could save face, find a universally unpopular scapegoat AND boost his own chances just by sacking Morgan Mcsweeney!

One way of telling the political story of the last ten years is of three wasted overall majorities.

A substantive majority in the Commons for a full term is the greatest prize the UK constitution can bestow on a PM, and three times in a row, it has been wasted by those prize-winners.

Captain Cook Square, Middlesbrough (1999), there's some great architecture in Boro, but this nineties development is utterly cursed.

Cool, it's at @darkpeakbooks.bsky.social - we just sell second hand.

It was great, good book too!

I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke.
"What did Watson and Crick discover?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
Good joke.

I was actually thinking something similar. Around the 2000s there was a narrative that we didn't have the resources or space for the clean energy generation necessary to maintain current lifestyles. I am not saying that's no longer the case, but I do wonder if it is.

Kate Wilson will be at Partisan Collective, Bridge 5 Mill, Manchester in a couple of weeks speaking about the Spycops campaign and current enquiry as well as talking about her new book. Book a ticket if you'd like to come, it's just a donation:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kate-wilso...

Yes!

As you say, good luck at Wolves mate ✌🏼 (He'll be gone by Christmas I reckon Ange style)

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The right's arguments against the clean energy transition make no sense in this context.

China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Didn't watch Celebrity Traitors...

I want one of those!

The value of public R&D

Via the DSIT analysis of the public value of R&D, I have been introduced to the rather amazing phrase "hard-to-capture but real impacts" which I will be using in as many contexts as possible from now on www.gov.uk/government/p...

💯. Got induction because of air quality inside our home and climate benefits, but now I like it so much better for cooking. Like, I don’t ever want a gas stove again. Ever.

It was buried 🙄

Do not feed or touch the horses. Horses are not your friend. Horses will lie and betray. Do not trust horses. ⚠️

The countryside in England wouldn't be the countryside without some warning signs.

Some autumn sky

First walk of November...

Simon Binns - 'Red Star Paris: More than Just a Football Club' book event Hear about Simon's new book documenting the amazing history and the absolute soap opera of two wild seasons at Red Star Paris.

Coming up this week at the George Street Community Bookshop were welcoming author Simon Binns to talk about his new book on Red Star Paris FC and their battle against a US takeover...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/simon-binn...

Nico Ditch - Wikipedia

Ah super interesting! Yeah, I'm in Glossop and a local archeologist here has a whole theory around various forts based on the fact this was border territory. See also the Nico Ditch as the border at one time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nico_Di...

#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao

Good morning good morning good morning. Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter just dropped into 710 inboxes, including our draft charter and a load of events to sign up to buttondown.com/society-of-h...

But also! The UK's digital govt is really very good. If you want to put investment somewhere, give the money to the local authorities who are having to hollow out service provision and replace everything with Copilot. Finding new ways to justify Blair's pet project doesn't look strategic or strong.

The Andrew formerly known as Prince. 🎸