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No hypocrisy here ๐
Stunning victory in Stroud last night.
Look at that majority! ๐๐
Huge congratulations to @helenelliott-boult.bsky.social and the entire team!
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A lovely man indeed
๐จ๐จ This is a symbolically good recognition by Labour of the damage #brexit has done to the UK economy and society. Nonetheless, these statements need to be backed up by more ambitious plans on how to restore the relationship with the EU. /1
I have just sent the following email to my Labour MP, Jeff Smith. Text is in Alt - feel free to use/adapt it. But whatever the case, write to your MP!
A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying ยฃ5 daily congestion charge
In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."
Not sure what you are struggling with James, but at a basic level I found you have to quit from Endnote and Word, then open Endnote before you open Word again. Then it all works. Also, after importing a new reference into Endnote, you need to sync before Word can see it.
Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:
"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".
Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe
One for @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Is the scaling up of enhanced geothermal electricity generation something for the UK Government to help companies de-risk?
Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - ยฃ9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?
From yesterday's Observer.
Itโs almost like the whole panic over migration that seems to grip some political parties is entirely manufacturedโฆ
A white female plumber, a Jewish gay man and a Muslim wan walked into a hall....and united a community.
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Trucks loaded up for the lab move. Next stop, Manchester!
Quite amazing how much stuff is in a lab.
New @nature.com
The brains of Super Agers produce more neurons than people some 50 years younger, a neurogenesis resilient signature linked to exceptional cognitive health and memory skills
nature.com/articles/s41...
#Indiaโs electricity transition is not being driven by one dominant state ๐ฎ๐ณ
Karnataka, Kerala and Himachal Pradesh lead in decarbonisation โ but strong renewable deployment alone does not guarantee system-wide transformation โก
ember-energy.org/lat...
#SET2026
Ditto. Don't delay. I looked at all the clinical trial data and, while there doesn't appear to be a huge benefit when judging mortality, I'd rather have low lipids than high lipids!
๐๐ป Very large effects of a feed algorithm!
Exporting the US healthcare system might constitute an international act of aggression
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With Donald Trump's u-turn on the Chagos Islands deal reportedly because Keir Starmer refused the US permission to launch Iran strikes from RAF airbases in the UK, today's poll finds 58% of Britons back the PM's call
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Lot of good UK economic news recently - retail sales strong, tax receipts healthy, gilt yields and inflation down.
Maybe - still a big maybe - productivity showing signs of life.
That said, the jobs market still feels tough - perhaps the price of that better productivity.
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n(ice) cartoon though
so much for separation of church and state
Great insight from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. About time someone got serious about rejoining the EU.
