Edward Harkins

Probably fair & prescient comment, but most indications are that the flood of (leveraged) money seems unabated. The bull run will continue for a good while yet - meaning the eventual fall will be all the more painful & destructive of vale?

Ominous. Now that the reality of Trump voodoo economics are impacting on American producers & consumers who will his Republicans blame, because they sure will not put their hands up & admit their own culpability?

Moral absolutism explains support for bans better than conservative or liberal ideology A new study finds that one's moral philosophy, more than their political ideology, predicts their support for banning practices they find immoral. This difference helps explain a deep-seated source of...

Who would've thunk it? "Moral absolutism explains support for bans better than conservative or liberal ideology". #Philosophy #Humanism
www.psypost.org/moral-absolu...

Moral absolutism explains support for bans better than conservative or liberal ideology A new study finds that one's moral philosophy, more than their political ideology, predicts their support for banning practices they find immoral. This difference helps explain a deep-seated source of...

Who would've thunk it? "Moral absolutism explains support for bans better than conservative or liberal ideology". #Philosophy #Humanism
www.psypost.org/moral-absolu...

Yeah, I got the decade wrong, just so discombobulated with the bizarre dysfunctional times we’re now in.

Perhaps it should be called the UK Identity Platform.

Just a quick reminder that I will be running a 1.5 to 2 hour walking tour in central Glasgow on Sunday 28th September 2025 looking at the city's architectural sculptures, including these rather magnificent ones on Mercantile Chambers on Bothwell Street.

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#glasgow #architecture #sculpture

He may be onto something, them escalators are always shifting…

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release The Duke of York is named as a passenger on the sex offender's private jet in documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee in the US.

That’s not ideal for megalomaniacal South African billionaire hellbent on destabilising the world because he’s bored.

Last wek: Fiona Bruce interrupts Bonnie Greer, downplaying her point by saying, "Maybe half of you are applauding"

This week: Fiona Bruce interrupts Billy Bragg, downplaying his point by saying, "I must point out there are plenty of Reform supporters in the audience as well"

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk.

He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

2024 not 2014!

The Institute on the right is an extraordinary interior. Attending business meetings there I was repeatedly struck by the balance between provision of robust working premises & elegant but understated late Victorian design & ’everyday’ elegance.

It seems it’s already gone for UK Labour? Voters at 2014 were just desperate to get the Tories out, now deeply increasingly dismayed & angered by seeing Starmer/McSweeney Labour as just the Westminster continuity party. Voters now turning to extreme, simplistic, populist, charlatans.

Everything so muddled & wrong-headed by UK Labour on Digital ID cards: a purely domestic matter launched at a global event; branded as a ‘Brit’ card, hello NI & swathes of SNP Scotland; stated as mandatory in a.m., after strong backlash its voluntary by pm. All to appease some Ref*rm voters?

JUST NOW AT THE UN…

I find this disturbing, not just on predatory lease-holding or even just housing? It's the mechanism of UK govt decision-making now made in accord with external vested interests? Inimical to notions of democratic accountability & an impartial, disinterested, UK civil service?
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A great Labour Party lie at the 2024 General Election - GE Energy. Not just Miliband, ‘Scottish’ Labour MP Michael Shanks (local Westminster agent on energy) & Anas Sarwar MSP promised Scotland tens of thousands of jobs. Shameless, discredible.

More nuclear & more drilling for oil, two things the UK Labour Party are suckers for & always succumb to the lobbyists & vested interest groups. Tough luck on the environment, climate change… & the world.

California isn't backing down on offshore wind power despite Trump cancellation The Trump administration canceled nearly half a billion dollars in funding for California's largest offshore wind project, but the state is persevering toward its ambitious goals.

"California isn't backing down on offshore wind," says their senior advisor for offshore wind. "We're planning for up to 25 gigawatts by 2045 because it's essential that we meet our clean energy goals, create good-paying jobs, and keep the state competitive." 🔌💡
www.latimes.com/environment/...

'There could scarcely be a better illustration of how difficult it has become for Britain to invest in infrastructure.'

With my green policy wonk hat on, I've written about the initiative no one talks about: community energy projects.

US and UK sign major nuclear power deal: What does it include? The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and power data centres.

"The multibillion-pound deal will build up to 12 modern nuclear reactors in northeast England and will power data centres."

Energy security?

The NE of England will be a priority target for any future Russian nuclear strike.

12 new targets.

Idiots!

Agreed. UK on a self-destructive ‘placate MAGA US’ road. Much trumpeted mega data centres (& associated SMRs con) that Labour is boasting about are American big tech leaching off the UK. Meantime EU rebuilds. China now employing what its learned from the now-fading Pax Americana global dominance.

Opinion | It’s Trump’s Federal Reserve Now The President gets his interest-rate cut—and all that comes with it.

(WSJ) If you haven't seen this WSJ Opinion yet, highly suggest you read. Remember, a well-written paper, but conservative. Per Powell, neither tariffs nor immigration crackdowns can be offset by RATE CUTS. INFLATION UP. Jobs in DECLINE. THIS IS NOW YOUR ECONOMY, TRUMP.
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

UK now playing its post Imperial Empire role, pimping for the USA. BTW British people at large are not consulted or much informed on all this. The ’Sir’ Keir Starmer Labour Govt disappointingly is just the Westminster continuity party, like Tories, selling out the nation to mega corporate interests.

Antifa - Anyone who isn't a fascist.
We're all terrorists now!🤣

Fascinating that academics don't even make this top 12. So much for the cultural elite!

Look who came with

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press