No right-wing tech dweebs get to complain about the land use impact of a wind farm ever again

The economic impacts of Brexit: new research from my @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social colleague Paul Mizen et al brings together macro (top-down) and micro (bottom-up) evidence. They find a large and persistent negative impact on GDP, output and productivity. ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...

Because it's important for kids who plan on entering the drug/people smuggling racket to manage their finances correctly.

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

THEY DID THAT ON PURPOSE!!

The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.

This budget was all foreplay no climax.

OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity

Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour. archive.ph/RlXPj

the last 24 hours on X, summed up:

this just shows how the Western family unit has completely broken down because in Asia we all have uncles to fulfill this function in our lives

Good policy alert! Rob has been covering this story for years and can, I think, take some credit

My takeaway here is that Nvidia is the only big company making money on AI, and it was only $32 billion. Forgive me if that doesn’t quiet my AI bubble talk

An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.

why is Nvidia propping up a company that seems doomed? www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The Running Man was perfectly fine. Didn't work for me. It was too flabby, bit all over the place character wise as well as a bit too on the nose. Yeah we get it health care in the US sucks, but we have cameras that can float in the air.

*clears throat* jony ive is a bad designer and has been for many years. he had 2 good ideas, and then he fucked them up trying to “beat” them but his ego has outpaced his skill by 100 to 1

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Another case of Reform saying one thing then doing the other: A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” and “extortion” By me, for Politics Home www.politicshome.com/news/article...

The BBC's depressing lack of inherent institutional strength The BBC needs to be a robust, independent institution By me Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/the-bbcs-d... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2025/11/the-...

Predator Badlands is tight, internally consistent - with plenty of payoffs but the central premise is marmite. If you like it you'll have a great time. If you immediately say "this is not my predator" then you won't. I'm not a fan boy so it didn't bother me in the slightest - I had a blast.

Y'all are really pushing all of the Black journalists out of the industry, so that you can ask trash questions like this? Embarrassing. Some questions are harmful in and of themselves. It doesn't matter what's said in the debate, or who "wins." Pretending that this is not trash, is weakness.

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state. That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators To fine it for running scam ads. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

If anyone is interested in what Transport for London’s own in-house pay-per-mile scheme might have looked like, all the leaked details here. Have lifted this out of the paywall in case it helps anyone writing about today’s Treasury briefings/leaks… www.londoncentric.media/p/london-roa...

Amazing set of Jim Henson puppets up for sale. The artistry is stunning on display is stunning. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

Weapons(2025) - Went from intriguing to ridiculous. I can see what the writer/director was aiming for but just didn’t work for me.

Every one is a banger.

So umm time for a British republic? Can’t be any worse than this shi*t show.

Disabled children are having to wait for nearly four months to receive benefit payments due to government delays, with hardly any applications being processed on time according to the latest figures. By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Worth a read. Anecdotally I've heard from quite a few friends that more jobs are being outsourced than before. To be honest this worries me more than any supposed detrimental effect AI will have in the workplace.

Punched the air when Abecedarium came up in today's connections.

Book recommendation: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe That is all.

One of the things that annoyed me about the Pochin discourse is that time every time I turn on the TV/radio. It's a bunch of white people debating whether it's racist or not. No one has thought to ask any people from the communities involved. This is not casting shade on anyone.

👀 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

The lovely people at @lonrec.bsky.social have republished a bit I wrote about bus stops, using data from @edjefferson.com

Brexit eruptions. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at Tory madness, Labour’s ‘blame Farage’ strategy, the Brexit impasse and a suggestion of a way forward, and the latest ‘reset’ news. Bonus feature: a feeble new Brexit metaphor: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/brex...

Some discussion in replies about cock-up vs conspiracy explanations. So, fwiw, here is how I approach this as a law and policy commentator looking at law and policy messes. And I have looked at many. 1.

NEW Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny By me emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

Peanuts: November 29, 1950.

So you want to reduce non white immigration by setting … an exam? In 20 years you’ll be complaining (again) that there are too many Asians.

A Yo-Yo Home is a property bought from a council under Right to Buy, then sold back to the council between five and 10 years later, at a profit. Senior reporter @gregbarradale.bsky.social explains why they exist in this week's special investigation. ⬇️ www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants. By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard ⬅️ and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart ➡️ on screen at the same time. How, you ask? 🧵 1/6

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Japan is just a few days away from running out of Asahi Super Dry as the producer of the nation’s most popular beer wrestles with a devastating cyber attack that has shut down its domestic breweries www.ft.com/content/bb86...