So many bits of the British state now seem dysfunctional or sclerotic, the country faces immense external challenges, the political environment is both fluid and toxic, but a badger replacing Churchill on bank notes is somehow seen as a grave national crisis.
Only the right-wing press care what's on the banknotes nobody uses anymore. UK is a cashless society for anyone under 60.
I swear, if the British diverted just a little bit of the time and energy they spend discussing the likes of TV baking shows, animals on bank notes, Wagatha Christie and the weather then it would be the richest most dynamic country in the world.
Illegal meat on most high streets due to post-Brexit border checksOpens in new window 05-Feb-2025 by William Dodds Post-Brexit border checks are failing to prevent the flow of diseased meat into the UK, according to the head of the Dover Port Health Authority. https://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Article/2025/02/05/illegal-meat-on-most-high-streets-due-to-post-brexit-border-checks/
are britons aware this much lauded SPS deal will take 8-10 years to negotiate & implement?
that's a long time to play dice with food safety.
Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.
Starmer knew! A newly release intelligence briefing exposes Starmer's sorry excuse of "having believed Mandelson’s lies."
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If he didn't know how dodgy Mendleson was, he'd be the only one in UK 🙄
I've started to see these on UK roads. They recently received a 5 star safety rating. The Leapmotor T03 arrived last year, too. It's only fourteen thousand.
Love the T03. What a terrible waste.
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This can be the site for breaking news, if journalists choose to break news on it. It is as simple as that. And that is not utopian. It is precisely what has happened the last week or so. If you weren't on BlueSky, you were late to each development.
No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.
Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.
🚨 NEW VIDEO 👇🏽This puts an end to all the lies. Horrific.
They were having a calm exchange seconds before he murdered Renee Good, and she was barely moving and clearly avoiding him.
Stop the lies.
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
I've had a good look at some of the Chinese cars on the supermarket car parks where I live in the UK, and they are impressive.
I'm in the West Midlands, and I see dozens of them every time I'm on the road.
Unfortunately for the European car industry, the Chinese have arrived. The Buzz is overpriced and outperformed in the EU. They've even signalled their surrender by asking the EU to delay the petrol/diesel sales ban.
The ID buzz is made in Hannover, Germany. They have paused production a couple of times and have slowed down due to sales,but it's not shutting down.
Coming back to this, I'm still struck by the implication that academics should care if the AI pushers "trust" all our work that's done without AI.
I don't know, man, you all seemed to trust our work enough to steal it from us wholesale.
It's just being withdrawn from US market, not mothballed.
It's still continuing on sale everywhere else in the world.
It's disappearing from US sale. The rest of the world still has it.
They're definitely upping their game in the face of Chinese Evs.
You should have gone to Specsavers. It's about 5% with 21% of new registrations in 2025 being EVs.
They can't work out a way to make a profit on small EVs. Chinese manufacturers can.
