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Nobody very important. Ferrets, greyhounds, poorly thought-through opinions. Englishman living in rural Northern Ireland. he/him
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I suspect if you want to deal with this, you have to start with creating a consensus that the game is always fixed, because that's the point, and anything that looks like a way you can win it is a trick. You only win by breaking the game together.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Hot take - actually, we do not need to spend any time at all worrying about the point at which the Sun destroys the Earth, in seven billion years time

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

New blog post: The NHS shouldn't outsource its QR codes https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/the-nhs-shouldnt-outsource-its-qr-codes/ QR codes are brilliant. They're a simple way to allow users to easily and quickly go to the right URl - no matter how complex. No more worrying about typing in long …

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

So among those Robert Jenrick identifies here as being "Britain's enemies" are the 20 "Caribbean nations..." who are members of Caricom

submitted 18 hours ago • 119 comments

If I were leader of the Conservative party, I would simply expel a deeply unpopular former leader with absolutely no constituency in the country whose premiership and post-premiership do my party nothing but harm.

submitted 19 hours ago • 23 comments

The system of all new information having to be revealed on the floor of Parliament plainly doesn't work even for MPs, as the budget debate shows. You really want a system where it's embargoed to MPs and journos 24 hours before the official announcement to give them time to digest.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

who the fuck has been teaching the octopuses jurisprudence

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

This assumes a level of comprehension and honesty which is seen in neither DOGE nor Reform

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

(Was new to me)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It might be true or not that the British Public is increasingly prone to conspiratorial thinking but I have to say we are not making it easy for them - how is someone meant to understand that "vaccines are mind control" is unacceptable but "woke elites are protecting grooming gangs" is respectable?

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

What worries me about the internal ideology of Number 10 is it seems to be morally nervous about both private sector business and socio-cultural professionals AND fiscally nervous about public sector spending. Which means what’s actually left as a policy agenda?

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments