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We should be throwing up lab space in places like Cambridge and Tatton Park at a vast rate. Biggest opportunity to recruit scientific talent since the 1930s.

submitted 32 days ago • 54 comments

Two identical twins leave two identical houses to go to two identical jobs One walks, the other gets into a car that causes pollution and danger Explain to me why the former twin is made to wait for the latter, rather than the other way round

submitted 55 days ago • 46 comments

“Carol of the Bells” is a Ukrainian song, Shchedryk, about prosperity in the new year. One gift of many from Ukrainians to the rest of us. Watch. youtu.be/Y5j_F9_-WOg?...

submitted 59 days ago • 59 comments

Many European countries have electoral laws, limiting spending. If they care about enforcing those laws, they might have to suspend social media that won't respect those laws during campaigns.

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments

If Labour had been better with their comms, talking more about inheritance tax changes affecting "landowners" as opposed to "farmers", then nobody, beyond the minority of very large landowners actually affected in real terms by the change, would be sitting on a tractor protesting in London. #r4today

submitted 73 days ago • 20 comments

Latest in @TheAtlantic. I never wanted to write. The Biden Administration was given an unexpected opportunity to make the world a safer, more democratic place after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine. However they failed and made the world more dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 85 days ago • 101 comments

In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.

submitted 86 days ago • 57 comments

Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 91 days ago • 47 comments

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

submitted 90 days ago • 92 comments

lost track of the number of journalists writing that farmers will get hit with IHT above a £1m threshold *for their entire estate* ignoring the reality that it’s £1m of land per person on top of existing IHT threshold of up to £1m (£3m max) feels like a major comms failure by government as well

submitted 92 days ago • 148 comments

Disappointing from LDs on farms. I get that they see opportunity in rural seats, but to say NO landowners, of any size, should pay inheritance tax, attack gov’t for NICs, and not even mention Brexit, duff deals, etc. is pretty poor. We need more heft on the left & they’re going Cleggy again. #BBCQT

submitted 94 days ago • 34 comments

The hardest thing to accept is the cruelty. People saw what it was. And they voted for it anyway tinyurl.com/5bud875t

submitted 107 days ago • 128 comments

In 1995-96, I clerked for a trial judge in the District of Maryland and got to know the writing & reputation of Judge Michael Luttig. Judge Luttig was THE intellectual superstar of the Federalist Society. It's HUGE deal that he is calling on all Republicans to vote for Kamala Harris. Free link.

submitted 117 days ago • 30 comments

📊 "A quarter of young households – where the oldest person in the household is between the age of 16-24 – face fuel poverty" 🚨 NEW: Stephen Hunsaker digs into the data on levels of fuel poverty in England. ukandeu.ac.uk/how-bad-is-f...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

🔴 Labour's Red Tightrope 🔴 Worth perhaps a doing a quick thread on the results in today's Substack (stuck on train!), which I think make the 'sandcastle' story about Labour's victory more complicated. Labour face risks but not where you might think. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/the-red-ti...

submitted 157 days ago • 3 comments