You can make any noun cooler and more ominous by appending “cold” to it. Coldstream. Coldharbour. Cold Comfort Farm. Coldbridge. Coldspanner.

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More Matthew Goodwin. tomforth.co.uk/morematthewg...

Work In Progress on my Aeldari Falcon Grav Tank. Really loved my first experience with Tamiya Clear paint on the canopies.

Developers and UI/UX designers that split username and password prompts into separate steps should be forced to log in every 5 minutes. #rant

What a profoundly odd guy he is.

The thing about devolution is that every local authority needs to be competing for high-wage employment, private investment, and house building like rats in a sack.

I've been hithering and dithering about restarting my White Scars army. With the new Armageddon box, I've got a great start to another Space Marine amy, however, I also want to start Crimson Fists, Celestial Lions, Mantis Warriors, Minotaurs, or create about a dozen other homebrew chapters.

Although to be honest the fact that there is no way to be involved in the process other than through lodging an objection is a perfect microcosm of what's wrong with British planning.

I’ve become much more inclined to say, “I don’t like this person because they give off bad vibes” because of my (mostly unspoken) suspicions about people like Smith.

Well would you look at that (Tiranë, Albania, which is technically part of Europe).

The gray headed flying fox Australia’s largest bat wingspan reaching 5 feet they primarily consume pollen, nectar, fruit and native blossoms. They act as a vital pollinator and seed disperser in the rainforest. Their lifespan is up to 8 years in the wild some survived up to 15 to 23 years.

Labour MPs' deepest regret: that they couldn't procrastinate further

Just a regular reminder than in tax year 2023/4, the most recent year we have data for, earning £67k a year put you in about the 90th percentile of earners in the UK. Sure that doesn't mean that you're living a millionaire lifestyle, but, especially if you don't have kids, it's pretty well off.

This is remarkable.

The decade that made Andy Burnham www.ft.com/content/9949...

1) The UK achieving territorial net zero is not the same as achieving UK consumption net zero, which is what we should actually focus on. 2) Net zero is not our only civilisational goal, and consideration of tradeoffs is not unserious or foolish. 3) There are cheaper ways of achieving net zero.

Was the dissolution of the monasteries good?

How parents choose to discipline their kids is their business, but it's not clear at all why the government should control what media/newspapers/software teenagers are allowed to look at.

Rushing to the bureau de change only to be told the Lek is a “closed currency”

I don’t think this was the moment where it became inevitable that Starmer would flame out after two years, but I do think it was the clearest illustration that he was terminally prone to panic and unable to grasp “the mayor is doing a difficult thing years before his re-election is due”.

When I first spotted this butterfly a couple of hours ago, the first thing I had to do was stop my hands shaking. It's one of the rarest butterflies in France, a vanishing species in much of Europe. It's the mountain Apollo (Parnassius Apollo). Just in time for #InsectThursday #lepidoptera

Honestly, isn't the parliamentary system wonderful? In countries with a president, we'd have to hang around for years to get rid of Starmer.

One Wigan Kebab on Air Force One and Trump will warm to Andy.

A big problem with politics was pointed out by Mancur Olson: everyone presses for their own sectional interest (often a v.narrow or cranky one), but nobody much cares for the public good: politicians are often too weak/deferential to do so.

Back on the other site, years ago, there was a thread about the most pretentious thing people had ever overheard. Someone said they witnessed a guy at an ice cream van asking for 'two Magna'.

Wait it’s “*bone fide* bastard uncle fucker”, not “boner *biting* bastard uncle fucker”?

The Labour Party should be destroyed.

Another way I sometimes feel like a more orthodox Marxist than a lot of people who would share the label with me is I always thought something like this was the default stance among our tribe: clearly unions have some good features within our system, but they are not straightforwardly pro-progress.

I am BEGGING people - think tanks, governments, random organisations - to DATE YOUR REPORTS WHEN YOU DO THE PDFS. It should not be THIS HARD to find a BLOODY PUBLICATION DATE. You might think everyone will remember the magical day you published it years later. But you are delusional.

I have matured into accepting I want PR because of my overdeveloped sense of neatness, rather than because I think it will enhance my political preferences.

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Peace to you my friends.

Many of you have now been sadly killed 👇

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The weather is lovely out there.

You likewise read about the average Anglican curate in the 19th Century and most of them seemed to have had a private laboratory in the Rectory, so they spent most of their time discovering new sulfides and being amateur lepidopterologists in return for having to give three sermons a week.

Half of London firms report skills gap amid AI boom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

my body is a machine that transports authentication codes from my screen to my phone and some other supporting auxiliary functions

Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal

I wonder if Andy Burnham will do some good?

One of the benefits of proportional representation and coalition governments is it gives the government a ready supply of excuses why they can't do things. Government trying to do fewer things is good, so therefore PR is good.

I mean I've picked up the idea that Starmer basically agreed to HMT's desire to means-test the winter fuel allowance and that's what did for him.

The Centrist Fallacy is the idea that any actual voters exist half way along the left-right axis when many voters have strongly left wing and strongly right wing views, and only *average* to being in the centre.

Thank goodness we've got a voting system that promotes strong and stable government.

The sealed train has arrived at the Euston Station.

The main lesson of Starmer’s premiership is that the British state exists to pay rich boomers money, and we would all be wise to accept this.

Weird made up word turned out to be correct.