Peter Moore

Picked up this thread talking to a mate of mine in Irish politics and his joking P.S. at the end was to send me this and thank us for solving what would have been a huge dependency ratio problem.

I am not going to overthink this and resent you expecting me to. If only one outfit is willing to accept a debit card/not performatively shit on my values then, yes, I shall give them the time of day.

Similar energy to black cabbies complaining about Uber. Like, yes, your complaints are largely accurate but you're entirely insane if you don't get that the reason they are successful despite that is because you are so shit.

Went to that museum of emigration in Dublin and I was absolutely gobsmacked to read that for some years of school leavers in the late-50s *most* of them were in England within a year.

Apartheid, as evil as it was, really did rely on black South Africans largely staying alive.

I mean I clutch my pearls if only because the past two years have demonstrated that Israel was entirely willing to unleash the sort of horrific bloodshed that is even worse than what the Apartheid government blanched at.

(As in, you wouldn't necessarily expect it, but the NYC DoE is quietly one of the big voices that complained back when a decade or so ago stabilization was being weakened rather then strengthened)

Also underrated that it creates problems for local governments to have people moving about a lot. One of the big but hidden props of support for rent stabilization in New York is that it's just significantly better and quite a bit cheaper for the government if people don't move their kids every year

(I think it also touches on a lot of the culture war insofar as the only humming engine of regional migration we have is kids going to university, which comes with all sorts of baggage)

A nation with a functional inter-regional set up would see *much* greater migration within the country, but the fact it is just clearly easier and more sensible to get people to move from 4,000 miles away than 100 miles away is very indicative of so many of the problems that plague us.

I've long bored people/been mocked on the old site for pointing out that Britain's immigration story is intimately connected to our regional problem.

If they successfully liberate builders from the tyranny of local government without facilitating significant immigration then everyone within the M25 is going to end up with tinnitus from the wooshing sound as every builder in the country is sucked into London.

One of the biggest problems we face is that journalists don't remember things. This is not something that would have survived contact with a reporter who had been properly covering the industry 5 years ago, but given these stories are churned out by a rotating cast, well...!

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

I always loved that German TV is basically "woman in very short practical haircut gives detailed answer on housing issues in Thuringia" or "nudist couples engage in a trampoline contest"

Didn't exactly save us ten years ago with Brexit but the same contradictions are at the heart of this too, those Reform voters who love the bigotry are not going to get the cleansing they want, just a new class of disposable immigrant to serve the wealthy.

The fact loads of private GPs are emerging in the past five years should scare the shit out of anyone who wants to preserve the NHS as the *universal* healthcare provider in the UK.

Slice by slice we are gonna end up with a different health model, but it'll be the Irish one not any of the boogeymen that usually get invoked.

Hard to separate the two though in a country that has been fairly described as an 'army that has a state'. Not least that you have to wonder how much bang for their buck their defence industries would get if they had to begin covering all their bases.

In their defence if the people paying them - the railways largely, but also the govt - don't want to pay for them to tackle these crimes then ultimately what are they supposed to do? This entire thing seems to me a bit like BTP deliberately refusing to massage a shit situation.

This is why the flag nonces are so jarring. I knew they existed, but I didn't need to be reminded that ~10% of our country has no sense of humour every time I go over a mini roundabout in Leatherhead.

Don't imagine the car, imagine the traffic jam.

It is worth it but I am forever a bit sad that I can't have three cheeseburgers in a day again.

I used to be quite fat and this is basically the realisation I had about nine months into eating healthily and exercising that has never really left me.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Local councillors looking on thinking "pffff, amateurs"

Channelling the energy of landlords when a boiler breaks.

In an interesting update to this, Hammersmith now has quite a few Ukrainians in it by virtue of how much help that same org provided to them when they first arrived in the UK. Some of the primary classes are like 1/4 Ukrainian kids.

I know (knew, increasingly often) a lot of right-wing guys and the dividing line between the ones who have retained a certain decency and the ones who have not is generally "do they respect women" even if the framework for doing so is archaic and conservative.