I actually think this is wrong. The reality is the reason why China and before them Tesla were able to break into this market is that its just a lot easier to build an electric car. The issue has always been the battery & the industry is piggy backing on computer/phone-led innovation

More than that, it’s all just so terribly Labour Party in that they don’t want to fully commit to it so they do the whole “Supreme Court and EHRC have forced our hand“ stuff which pleases nobody.

It’s just frustrating that “parliament passed a broad ban on trans people in certain spaces and organisations and then nobody noticed for 15 years” is now apparently the sensible centrist position that we’re all supposed to agree with.

Yeah I really think this is just another sign of us becoming more mean spirited and less welcoming to tourists at time when we should be doing the opposite

And the other 90% have an Irish auntie

That they made her a Cabinet Minister nevermind Prime Minister really should be disqualifying for the Tory Party

This basically makes Jonn's books a modern-day Dollars trilogy

Maybe Zaslav read the Dune: Part 3 plot synopsis and thinks Denis Villeneuve can actually produced gholas now

Slightly missing the point but I think my plan of keeping the budget tight for three years but then letting it rip in the year before the election is the way to go

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Which is also why "Rogue One" and "Andor" did so well, because they're set in a world where ESB hasn't happened.

Morgan McSweeney vs The Met is like Deadliest Warrior for incompetence.

Bring a champion for all arts and culture, including dance, theatre, opera, animation, musical theatre, being in a band or DJ - these are not mutually exclusive! Falling for stereotype that some art forms only for posh people makes them even less accessible to young people from diverse backgrounds.

I've seen a few people say this, but did the Tories ever read the FT all that much? Now if you had evidence none of them are reading Country Life or Tatler that would show how they've lost touch with their roots

Bit lazy to have the scriptwriters reuse the "pretend to have phone stolen for some obscure reason" plotline having previously used it to write out Louise Haigh

you see dubious political chicanery, I see admirable proof that the Met doesn't discriminate when it comes to its abject failure to investigate phone theft, even if the phone in question was being used to run the government

Interesting that the Spectator does so poorly too

I was at a meeting yesterday where the most passionately expressed opinion was "the UK needs to channel more money to the SME sector, that is where all the growth is", and I felt I needed to put the data out there, again

Extending your comparison: many responses to the 2014 immigration bill highlighted the foreseeable racialised impact which sadly became the reality of the Windrush injustice 50 yrs on, the concept of indirect discrimination is still poorly understood, nor the lessons of Windrush learned 8 yrs on

Incidentally if you're frustrated at the weird reluctance to criticise Israel across much of the mainstream Anglophone media don't indulge Tucker, go read Haaretz instead. They will win a Likud hating contest any day of the week and you're supporting liberalism there rather than reactionaryism here

This coupled with the DLSS 5 fiasco suggests a lot of AI is vaporware

If you havent read Caro's mini-bio on Russell in Master of the Senate, please do. It gets at what is so scary about him & d unreconstructed South. Because in so many ways he was a good man; supported the WW2/Korean War efforts, help defeat MacArthur's attempted insurrection & advised against Vietnam

FT Liveblog When!?!

This is sort of the point I was making in my Geddes lecture: there's a difference between 'are you neutral between red or blue' and 'are we neutral about stirring up forces that would destroy the open society and with it the basis on which journalism thrives?'

This is similar to my point about Disclosure Day. At some point people who think of themselves as pro-system actually have to walk the walk rather than chase engagement with things that unfairly undermine trust in government and society

I've seen a lot of people make the claim that Joy of the World is anti-lockdown or anti-Boris Johnson but IMO that doesn't align with what is shown on screen or what we know of Steven Moffat's conception of the show (that the Doctor is for everyone and can be anyone).

This is the sort of phrasing you use in a legal letter you *really* relish writing.

It's not a 1-for-1 comparison for all sorts of reasons but didn't we all learn/instinctively know that Islamist Terrorism didn't justify Islamophobia? Well whatever the current Israeli Government is doing doesn't justify antisemitism. Indeed the way to show up Likud is to show Jews are welcome here

I'm not a fan of TLJ but it could have worked if Disney had have announced the trilogy was going to be a four film series. You could even have done somehing interesting where you reveal that A Force Awakens and The Last Jedi were actually Chapters 8 & 9 then get everyone back to show the backstory

"Supreme Leader Khamenei...thank you for this wonderful gift to go in my most supreme ballroom...but can I ask how I make it stop ticking...what's that...just press the big red button..."

Somewhere McSweeney is arguing that this proves there's no votes in standing up to Trump

Sorry @saileshpatel.bsky.social pointed out this was referring to Starmer not Davey. So all due disrespect meant to the commentator because its a much more stupid comment. The reason that clarifying the law is clashing with the Iran War is because Philipson has been hiding behind the sofa since June

No offence to the commentator but I ask - what is the point of giving a liberal party two questions if they refuse to use them to highlight that organisations are being FORCED to exclude people they don't want to due to threat of legal action because the government refuses to clarify what the law is

The thing with the trans debate is that most people don't care. It's what make a Badenoch or Farage government so terrifying, and Labour's stance so crushingly disappointing. It's a free hit for social liberalism. If Ed Davey wants to actually prove he's a liberal, he should ask about this at PMQs

I'm not just saying this as a parent (indeed in many ways this would make coparenting more challenging) but I've long believed that actually effectively nationalising things like Scouts is the only way they'll endure both in terms of ensuring they have the money and participants to thrive

The law means its different for workers but the ironic impact of this hate campaign will be to force companies to move away from providing gendered spaces or services to customers/users

inside every anglo-american socialist is a voice that whispers “everything would be ok if we had your empire but socialist and good this time”

I've not seen anything about Times Radio dropping him. His last show was four days ago youtu.be/0e7b6SNAcXY?...

What a fucking geek

Like, look, if you want to say that Democrats shouldn't push to pass bills that mandate trans people's inclusion in sports, by all means, do that. But that's not really something that's currently happening. Suggesting that it's the "moderate" position to impose new restrictions is goofy.

My son was five his dream was to be a podcaster based on minestreams he had been watching I think seeing me watching old man video game, football, politics or history youtube has now successfully cured him of this dream

Okay this is pretty good.

one of the most quietly industry-screwing things about fortnite and roblox strangling user-hours is how unprofitable both are, comparatively. their profit margins are comparatively terrible, and only sustainable at huge scale. it's impossible to compete with. www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/n...

This is something I've long worried about. Do any of these free live service games actually make money or is it just a way to burn borrowed money

This is why I'm really uncomfortable with what we've seen so far of Disclosure Day. Given how conspiratorial people already are, is now the time to have a big blockbuster about exposing a conspiracy?

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

It is beyond cowardly for the government to sit on their hands whilst this is gathering pace. They should be made to state whether they support this or whether they'll change or clarify the law to stop it. Obviously hope for the latter but anything better than this uncertainty.

It's also that at some point all canon becomes head canon because these stories never stop. There is simply not a way to have a canonical version of a character that is worked on by different creatives across different generations and formats

Even the standfirst shows how she is stealing a living. "Fighting for the government to give hope to the most vulnerable"?! You are the secretary of state for one of our big areas of comparative advantage, you are not in a social justice brief. Do your job!

It's even more catastrophic for Doctor Who than any other longrunning franchise, because Doctor Who should always be a show that is quite strongly tied to the actual present. 'Aliens aren't real' should be the default position of a normie in the Doctor Who universe.