Does there come a point at which the number of drugs you are taking actually qualifies as breaking your fast? Happy Christmas and Serendipitous Saturnalia everyone!

A more optimistic sounding day at the hospital kidney unit today. Had my echocardiogram and they couldn't see anything abnormal. They don't think I need a kidney biopsy yet. Getting back to seriously managing my diabetes should help considerably and if not then they can try something different.

Oh dear... #Catheter #Catastrophe #TMI

I wish he would just hurry up and go live on his ethnically pure Mars!

I've had a grim week, but #OurNHS has mostly been a star (except one interaction). I've been short of breath for a few weeks. Had Covid/Flu in October but suddenly couldn't walk > 10m. GP immediately got me tests and into AAU. Not a nice diagnosis - heart or kidney failure. But now being treated.

People getting upset about baby names as if it says "Muhammeds are taking over". Looking at the top fifty boys names from this year, just over 7% are a variant of Muhammed. The other 48 names, accounting for 93% of boys, are distinctly western. Consistent with religious affiliation in 2021 census.

Why does the #FIA choose to taint itself and all its participants by holding things like the annual prize giving in authoritarian countries with no civil or political rights and a bad reputation on #humanrights #uzbekistan?

It's just a matter of physics that no two households can domicile themselves in the same location; any person's existence is a displacement event on another when it comes to residing at the best locations. The only holistic way to compensate for displacement effects is through a land value tax.

#FIFA Peace Prize? WTF? They don't even call it Football!

Apple crumble and custard! Middle class Britain protests! #iykyk #crownjewels

"What if Newton had claimed to own calculus, or the law of gravity? Would we have to pay a fee to his estate every time we used one of the principles he discovered?" - Roderick Long c4ss.org/content/14857

Left-NIMBYs criticize YIMBYs for defending "luxury" housing being built in high demand areas because they claim they want "affordable" housing built in high demand areas. The common refrain is "area," which means a land value tax would solve this.

I think FIFA have gone a bit bonkers...the instructions were a "A piece and jeelie". Nothing to do with an absence of fighting!

Why does anyone think they would have to ask #piastri to help #lando win the #wdc in the narrow range of scenarios that Oscar could not win it but helping his team mate would enable him to beat Max? Clue is in the word...team.

Roooooot! #Ashes #Gabba #Century

Landlords and homeowners when Georgists speak of taxing unearned land rents:

I realise that everyone's a bit scared of The Bear and something like this might feel necessary...but surely reintroducing involuntary servitude in the military ought to be a plebiscite issue at least. Not purely a government diktat or even parliamentary vote. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

So finally, Thames Water has lifted their hosepipe ban. Time to celebrate:

Why do UK? newspapers force you to cancel your subscription only by phoning them when they have signed you up with three mouse clicks. This kind of hostage taking should be illegal! @thetimes.com @dailymail.co.uk

Modern Labour do not like tSnowden, but the first Labour chancellor he had one quality his successors should follow: he was a #Georgist, even penning an introduction to an edition of Henry George's' "Protection or Free Trade". Read it now Rachel & save your skin! oll.libertyfund.org/titles/georg...

You're not ever going to fix an economy with the same tools of robbery and reward that broke it. At least more than temporarily. #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Now her me out please and let me know if this is wildly out. Lots of talk about taxing billionaires. But I *think* you might find it wouldn't even cover one week's worth of change recently in the budget black hole let alone give loads of dosh to spend on pet projects. UK's 55 billionaires if similar

It's another politicians tinkering aimlessly (and destructively) day! It's so frustrating being a #Georgist #SingleTax advocate on a budget day. You just want to scream "stupid people" at all o them! #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #valueourplanet #makepovertyhistory

"We grant people different rights based on their genetic heritage and on which scrap of land they happened to be born on. That’s mad, isn’t it?" I just think, when debating immigration and so on, that we should try not to lose sight of the fact that "nationality" is a made up thing.

Incredible headline.

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Was #Mamdani *summonsed* to the WH or did he *demand* an audience, I wonder? Cos it would be great if it was the latter, waving his victory in the face of the epitome of the type of person who his voters were voting against :)

Rather it's been brewing at least since Lloyd-George in 1922 abandoned all thought of implementing the #landtax!

This is fascinating! #climate #Finland

@centerforcities.bsky.social Hello...great to see this report. As a simple proxy for very detailed analysis of what's where I use this: www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopula... Turns out, for instance, that beautiful Seville has 3 times the population (and so density, more or less) as Oxford, say.

There will be shock and consternation amongst a certain set of interior designers today as news emerges that Fired Earth has gone into administration #firedearth www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2563240...

"Management", perhaps especially where there are no shareholders to answer to, like universities, should be selected by and primarily accountable to the teams they are going to lead, not recruited/imposed by even more remote levels of management.

Received an extraordinary letter from the British Red Cross today (see image) about the domestic policy of a British Labour government. I'll bet they didn't foresee having to write this. It appears we have to go back as far as Ken Clarke or Roy Jenkins to find a decent liberal Home Secretary.

Land value tax would solve this.

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

"There is, I believe, a substantive sense in which fascism really did emerge from (individualist) anarchism, and that’s as our antithesis." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/56480

Is there the slightest feeling over there in Vespuccia that it could all go south very quickly and quite soon for the Tango™ man? #trump

Hey ditto! bsky.app/profile/wvis...

“Earth, in its uncultivated natural state, was and ever shall be the common property of all humankind”

"As soon as land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce." - Adam Smith "Rent is the secret tax the wealthy charge the poor." - Joseph E. Stiglitz "Solving the land question means the solving of all social questions." - Leo Tolstoy #singletax #henrygeorge

Right yes I've seen the Waitrose ad now and the things that nobody told me are that a) this is our old local pub b) this is outside our old flat, so thank you, nothing says Christmas like being extremely bloody homesick (house is also Rebecca's childhood home in Ted Lasso) youtu.be/wWeYKBXmCRs?...

A thousand times this! People simply do not grasp in many cases the proportion of things they get so excited about! Not just economy of course. But certainly especially economy.

As long as you tax it, work won't pay anything like as well as rent seeking #abolishtaxes #sharetherents #superchargetheeconomy #makepovertyhistory #valueourplanet #makeworkpay: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/social-...

Went to the ballet last night at the New Theatre Oxford to see the London City Ballet dance: londoncityballet.com/production/m... Absolutely amazing what ten dancers a sound and lighting person can do on tour like that. Sadly there are only two venues left in the UK tour - York and ROH.

I kind of feel as thought my VO2 Max must be way down in the lowest decile. I could barely walk to the bus twice today without stopping every 100m or so for a breather. 😨

I get that it must be a difficult decision - shutdown means millions are furloughed, usually without pay, and many services go undelivered. But government does not exist for its employees, but for the people it serves, so you must hold out for the benefits they need to survive. #shutdown #cavein

They're calling it the most anti-Georgist presidency of all time.

For the first time in a decade and a half I ordered a Subway to see what all the fuss was about...and soon found out why #SandwichGuy wanted to throw it at someone!

This is really very heartbreaking and very lovely indeed