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I will be wrong more than I'm right.
This is a great example of what is happening. 99% will only see this feed, not look at the headline. So, you think 'mixed reaction' which is ok and in line with the narrative that the left doesn't like him, but he is still popular etc etc....however....
Donald Trump arrives at US Open men’s final to cheers and boos after broadcasters asked not to show reactions
Donald Trump arrives at US Open men’s final to cheers and boos
The president entered Arthur Ashe Stadium in his native Queens to watch Carlos Alcaraz take on Jannik Sinner on Sunday
www.independent.co.uk
September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is a great example of what is happening. 99% will only see this feed, not look at the headline. So, you think 'mixed reaction' which is ok and in line with the narrative that the left doesn't like him, but he is still popular etc etc....however....
You realise how hard things are at the moment (work wise) when one very small thing happens, which isn't great, but it just takes you out. There is no give at the moment. No reserves.
August 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
You realise how hard things are at the moment (work wise) when one very small thing happens, which isn't great, but it just takes you out. There is no give at the moment. No reserves.
Regardless of where you sit on this issue - surely this isn't the best use of police resources. Largest arrests in one day, most old, most for just holding placards. This isn't good.
August 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Regardless of where you sit on this issue - surely this isn't the best use of police resources. Largest arrests in one day, most old, most for just holding placards. This isn't good.
The issue facing Starmer and international politics at the moment. Both these are valid views with strong arguments....and both cannot happen together. What do you do?
July 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The issue facing Starmer and international politics at the moment. Both these are valid views with strong arguments....and both cannot happen together. What do you do?
For F sake. The issue is not first time buyers having access to mortgages. It's that there aren't enough houses and prices are too high. All this will do is increase demand, push up prices and further price out 1st time buyers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Mortgage lending rules change could help first-time buyers
The Bank of England has recommended a looser cap on riskier lending.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
For F sake. The issue is not first time buyers having access to mortgages. It's that there aren't enough houses and prices are too high. All this will do is increase demand, push up prices and further price out 1st time buyers.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is really interesting. How can you have a proper debate on really important issues, when less than 50% of the population actually knows what is happening in the 1st place.
(more results further down the thread)
(more results further down the thread)
Fewer than half of adults know how many millions there are in a billion.
(Polling for Tax Policy Associates)
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
(Polling for Tax Policy Associates)
taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/10/26/t...
July 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is really interesting. How can you have a proper debate on really important issues, when less than 50% of the population actually knows what is happening in the 1st place.
(more results further down the thread)
(more results further down the thread)
My main takeaway having tried (and failed) to read the 10yr plan last night is that its an impossible document. 10yrs, the whole NHS....that is just too much 'stuff'..and the doc feels like it.
We don't need a single 'all in this' document. We have 'plans' for urgent, elective care etc.
We don't need a single 'all in this' document. We have 'plans' for urgent, elective care etc.
July 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM
My main takeaway having tried (and failed) to read the 10yr plan last night is that its an impossible document. 10yrs, the whole NHS....that is just too much 'stuff'..and the doc feels like it.
We don't need a single 'all in this' document. We have 'plans' for urgent, elective care etc.
We don't need a single 'all in this' document. We have 'plans' for urgent, elective care etc.
As all the analysis starts on the Neighbourhood element of the 10 year plan, we need to be completly honest here, this will cost more money. An OP appointment done by the same clinician just in a different building will not be cheaper (potentially more expensive if they then have to travel).
July 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As all the analysis starts on the Neighbourhood element of the 10 year plan, we need to be completly honest here, this will cost more money. An OP appointment done by the same clinician just in a different building will not be cheaper (potentially more expensive if they then have to travel).
Yeah, cos just being told to prioritise people will suddenly make them available. This isn't the issue. The issue is we've had jobs out for months and months and zero applications. Until you train more than you need you won't fix this
July 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yeah, cos just being told to prioritise people will suddenly make them available. This isn't the issue. The issue is we've had jobs out for months and months and zero applications. Until you train more than you need you won't fix this
Just re posting this. Great visual. We are NOT a high tax country - especially at the lower / middle end. We want good public services, we need to raise tax. We can't delvier with this low tax rate.
The average UK worker is paying a lower effective tax rate than their US equivalent (19%).
Great stat via @tomcalver.bsky.social.
Great stat via @tomcalver.bsky.social.
June 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just re posting this. Great visual. We are NOT a high tax country - especially at the lower / middle end. We want good public services, we need to raise tax. We can't delvier with this low tax rate.
I'm always surprised how American police look when you see them at protests etc. They are more military looking than I'd expect. Feels a very different policing ethos in the US than here.
June 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'm always surprised how American police look when you see them at protests etc. They are more military looking than I'd expect. Feels a very different policing ethos in the US than here.
This is the problem. Most people don't think they are rich when they are. Owning a 2nd home is rich. People look at the very very rich and think they aren't. If we did so a wealth tax a lot of people would be very surprised they'd have to pay it.
June 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is the problem. Most people don't think they are rich when they are. Owning a 2nd home is rich. People look at the very very rich and think they aren't. If we did so a wealth tax a lot of people would be very surprised they'd have to pay it.
I hate the man, but Trump has to win this battle with Musk. A bad, but elected president who can be removed from office should always have more power than an unelected company CEO.
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I hate the man, but Trump has to win this battle with Musk. A bad, but elected president who can be removed from office should always have more power than an unelected company CEO.
Not sure the parent intended this, but they've made a great argument for not having private education....so that active, successful, influential parents are as effected by state provision as the rest and therefore demand improvements.
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Not sure the parent intended this, but they've made a great argument for not having private education....so that active, successful, influential parents are as effected by state provision as the rest and therefore demand improvements.
Trump is going to 'win' this trade war and no one seems to realise it. America is powerful enough. He will pick smaller countries off one by one and a few key areas (i.e. Canada may be ok), but he will say that cars not made in the US will be more expensive, but buy American.
April 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Trump is going to 'win' this trade war and no one seems to realise it. America is powerful enough. He will pick smaller countries off one by one and a few key areas (i.e. Canada may be ok), but he will say that cars not made in the US will be more expensive, but buy American.
God, i'm so tired. The public sector / NHS is such a miserable place to work at the moment. Behaviours we've tried to install and support and just flying out the window
April 7, 2025 at 7:34 AM
God, i'm so tired. The public sector / NHS is such a miserable place to work at the moment. Behaviours we've tried to install and support and just flying out the window
A lot of heat about the price of the new Mario Kart game for the Switch 2.....even at £70 it may still represent the best value entertainment going. Even with hardware costs. I've got 100s of hrs on the previous Mario Kart. Even at £70 will still be way below 50p/hr. Not a lot cheaper than that.
April 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A lot of heat about the price of the new Mario Kart game for the Switch 2.....even at £70 it may still represent the best value entertainment going. Even with hardware costs. I've got 100s of hrs on the previous Mario Kart. Even at £70 will still be way below 50p/hr. Not a lot cheaper than that.
This is the problem. People believe his lies. It was / is a level playing field. The barriers trump lies about are trade deficits, not tariffs. America as a very rich country will always tend to buy more of other people stuff, cos there rich and can afford to.
April 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This is the problem. People believe his lies. It was / is a level playing field. The barriers trump lies about are trade deficits, not tariffs. America as a very rich country will always tend to buy more of other people stuff, cos there rich and can afford to.
Trumps general approach needs to not just fail, but fail so spectacularly that his ideology is wiped out for generation(s). However, if it does fail that badly, the impact it will have on millions, maybe even billions world wide is deeply unfair.
April 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Trumps general approach needs to not just fail, but fail so spectacularly that his ideology is wiped out for generation(s). However, if it does fail that badly, the impact it will have on millions, maybe even billions world wide is deeply unfair.
Really interesting. We are promising to not raise income tax etc. But our tax rate isn't that high. Even compared to the USA
The average UK worker is paying a lower effective tax rate than their US equivalent (19%).
Great stat via @tomcalver.bsky.social.
Great stat via @tomcalver.bsky.social.
March 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Really interesting. We are promising to not raise income tax etc. But our tax rate isn't that high. Even compared to the USA
This is a front page designed to do one thing. Make it feel like we have a load of benefits scroungers. Look closely (as it doesn't stay directly) but the vast vast majority of this is pensions. Doesn't really feel like that does it.
March 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is a front page designed to do one thing. Make it feel like we have a load of benefits scroungers. Look closely (as it doesn't stay directly) but the vast vast majority of this is pensions. Doesn't really feel like that does it.
This is so important. In the NHS we are always so desperate to be doing something, to evidence we're doing stuff, that we're never given, or take the time, to actually work out why we're doing the stuff, or if the stuff is the right thing to do be doing. Its all based on peoples guesses.
I have a big worry that the NHS 10-year plan is trying to derive the strategy from consensus views of the solutions.
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
It should be driving the solutions from robust analysis of the problem and trying to get a consensus around them...
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is so important. In the NHS we are always so desperate to be doing something, to evidence we're doing stuff, that we're never given, or take the time, to actually work out why we're doing the stuff, or if the stuff is the right thing to do be doing. Its all based on peoples guesses.
If you need to feel small in the grand scale of things....this will do it. Each one of those galaxies will have billions of stars and planets.
This looks like it is absolutely not real.
But it is.
A tiny tiny patch of sky (FoV: 7.1' x 3.6') - so about the size of a grain of rice at arm's length, and ALL of these galaxies in it.
And then more beyond that. 🤯
@elsa-euclid.bsky.social @ec-euclid.bsky.social 🔭🧪
But it is.
A tiny tiny patch of sky (FoV: 7.1' x 3.6') - so about the size of a grain of rice at arm's length, and ALL of these galaxies in it.
And then more beyond that. 🤯
@elsa-euclid.bsky.social @ec-euclid.bsky.social 🔭🧪
March 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
If you need to feel small in the grand scale of things....this will do it. Each one of those galaxies will have billions of stars and planets.
You'd think Putin would play along with Trump, recognizing that having him on his side is powerful etc. But then you realise he has so little respect for Trump that he is just playing him.
March 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
You'd think Putin would play along with Trump, recognizing that having him on his side is powerful etc. But then you realise he has so little respect for Trump that he is just playing him.
This is really important. Important in a world where most politicians and leaders use twitter to spread news, we need to understand what twitter is.
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
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I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
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March 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This is really important. Important in a world where most politicians and leaders use twitter to spread news, we need to understand what twitter is.