Andrew Lay
@apwlay.bsky.social
Teacher. Quiz show alumnus. Economics, politics, sport, food etc etc -all the usual
My one pause over this otherwise very plausible Occam's Razor explanation is that he at least phrases it in terms of security, Russia, some kind of manifest destiny... like he at least has the depth, or the advisors, necessary to avoid saying our loud "I just want to make USA bigger"
doing war crimes and shattering the NATO consensus because of the fucking mercator projection
January 11, 2026 at 7:36 AM
My one pause over this otherwise very plausible Occam's Razor explanation is that he at least phrases it in terms of security, Russia, some kind of manifest destiny... like he at least has the depth, or the advisors, necessary to avoid saying our loud "I just want to make USA bigger"
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100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 AM
100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.
@janinegibson.ft.com is this correct?! Apx = the oysters?!
Where on earth were the beans from?
Where on earth were the beans from?
December 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@janinegibson.ft.com is this correct?! Apx = the oysters?!
Where on earth were the beans from?
Where on earth were the beans from?
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There are FOUR ghosts!
December 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
There are FOUR ghosts!
They've got it right this time (very same track)
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BBC Radio 3
Essential Classics
Now Playing
Johann Sebastian Bach & Olivier Latry
In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
Essential Classics
Now Playing
Johann Sebastian Bach & Olivier Latry
In dir ist Freude, BWV 615
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
They've got it right this time (very same track)
bsky.app/profile/apwl...
bsky.app/profile/apwl...
Pretty sure this was actually BWV615, In Dir Ist Freude
“Chorale Prelude BWV617 'Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf'” by Johann Sebastian Bach #nowplaying #radio3
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Pretty sure this was actually BWV615, In Dir Ist Freude
Just woken up.
Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test!
Oh, oh yeah
#thecricket
Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test!
Oh, oh yeah
#thecricket
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Just woken up.
Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test!
Oh, oh yeah
#thecricket
Time to check the score from day three of the highly anticipated first Ashes Test!
Oh, oh yeah
#thecricket
Sort of post that makes me regret that Dillow doesn't have more books and wider influence (probably down to same sort of dynamics he illustrates here) - I still have End of Politics on my reading list for my A-Level students but increasingly feels like someomthing from another age even if still true
New Substack: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-incompe... Parts of the Labour party and BBC simply don't know what their jobs should be.
On incompetence
Much of our political culture is fundamentally incompetent.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Sort of post that makes me regret that Dillow doesn't have more books and wider influence (probably down to same sort of dynamics he illustrates here) - I still have End of Politics on my reading list for my A-Level students but increasingly feels like someomthing from another age even if still true
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A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
🧵
October 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
🧵
Ha, looked to see what Stephen's reaction to this would be.
It was as expected
It was as expected
September 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Ha, looked to see what Stephen's reaction to this would be.
It was as expected
It was as expected
Speaking of cold northern places, he really TACO'd Greenland, didn't he?
(Thankfully)
(Thankfully)
“If I got Moscow and Leningrad free”?! WTF does that mean?? What kind of “deal” is he thinking he is negotiating?
He’s going to try to give away Alaska, isn’t he
He’s going to try to give away Alaska, isn’t he
Leningrad was renamed St. Petersburg in 1991
August 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Speaking of cold northern places, he really TACO'd Greenland, didn't he?
(Thankfully)
(Thankfully)
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What I have learned from Unzoomed:
1. God, North America is really like that.
2. The air in Africa is a faded brown colour
3. Christ North America
4. Dakar surprisingly looks like it's in the Middle East
5. I don't know where anywhere in China is
6. I am bad at Unzoomed
7. North America WTF.
1. God, North America is really like that.
2. The air in Africa is a faded brown colour
3. Christ North America
4. Dakar surprisingly looks like it's in the Middle East
5. I don't know where anywhere in China is
6. I am bad at Unzoomed
7. North America WTF.
August 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What I have learned from Unzoomed:
1. God, North America is really like that.
2. The air in Africa is a faded brown colour
3. Christ North America
4. Dakar surprisingly looks like it's in the Middle East
5. I don't know where anywhere in China is
6. I am bad at Unzoomed
7. North America WTF.
1. God, North America is really like that.
2. The air in Africa is a faded brown colour
3. Christ North America
4. Dakar surprisingly looks like it's in the Middle East
5. I don't know where anywhere in China is
6. I am bad at Unzoomed
7. North America WTF.
Let's not forget that the UK is in danger of being left behind in this area 🤪
Sorry to pollute the feed with technical financial terms, but this is all fxcking nuts
www.ft.com/content/8a16...
www.ft.com/content/8a16...
August 8, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Let's not forget that the UK is in danger of being left behind in this area 🤪
Brilliant observational article from @jemima.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41ugaqV
Others have written on this, but the tackiness/classlessness is intriguing. There's money involved (Porsches, country houses) but also semi-conscious rejection of other class signifiers (champagne, opera, dressing well &c)
on.ft.com/41ugaqV
Others have written on this, but the tackiness/classlessness is intriguing. There's money involved (Porsches, country houses) but also semi-conscious rejection of other class signifiers (champagne, opera, dressing well &c)
Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right
What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled
on.ft.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Brilliant observational article from @jemima.bsky.social
on.ft.com/41ugaqV
Others have written on this, but the tackiness/classlessness is intriguing. There's money involved (Porsches, country houses) but also semi-conscious rejection of other class signifiers (champagne, opera, dressing well &c)
on.ft.com/41ugaqV
Others have written on this, but the tackiness/classlessness is intriguing. There's money involved (Porsches, country houses) but also semi-conscious rejection of other class signifiers (champagne, opera, dressing well &c)
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It’s kinda ridiculous that the BBC employs a disinformation specialist whilst simultaneously treating the most visible part of their output with all the care and caution of a bull in a china shop
The most viewed source of news in Britain, btw.
Oh you absolutely useless wankers
August 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s kinda ridiculous that the BBC employs a disinformation specialist whilst simultaneously treating the most visible part of their output with all the care and caution of a bull in a china shop
Good to know.
Presume this means these super competitive farmers can do without and subsidies and preferential tax treatment, e.g. in inheritance. Big changes to conservative policy afoot
Presume this means these super competitive farmers can do without and subsidies and preferential tax treatment, e.g. in inheritance. Big changes to conservative policy afoot
Got a lovely punnet of Lincolnshire lychees at the market this morning.
August 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Good to know.
Presume this means these super competitive farmers can do without and subsidies and preferential tax treatment, e.g. in inheritance. Big changes to conservative policy afoot
Presume this means these super competitive farmers can do without and subsidies and preferential tax treatment, e.g. in inheritance. Big changes to conservative policy afoot
I keep seeing trailers for The Assassin with Keeley Hawes, yet there is also something advertised on buses with the same name with a big picture of a woman... Who doesn't really look like Keeley Hawes?!
Eradication by airbrush
Eradication by airbrush
July 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I keep seeing trailers for The Assassin with Keeley Hawes, yet there is also something advertised on buses with the same name with a big picture of a woman... Who doesn't really look like Keeley Hawes?!
Eradication by airbrush
Eradication by airbrush
Think of the productivity enhancements! Stagnation solved
A NEW STUDY CLAIMS AN ALIEN SPACECRAFT NEARLY 7 MILES WIDE — AND POSSIBLY HOSTILE — COULD BE HEADED TOWARD EARTH
July 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Think of the productivity enhancements! Stagnation solved
Is today's NYT Strands the game editors rebelling at the servile main paper, the whole paper finding its voice, or just random and deeply ironic?
July 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Is today's NYT Strands the game editors rebelling at the servile main paper, the whole paper finding its voice, or just random and deeply ironic?
This of course is funny but also deeply profound. Maybe the domestic robots are coming, but it's striking how much effort and resource is being channelled towards replacing/enhancing creative actions that we enjoy and make us human and comparatively little towards replacing actual drudgery
but can AI put the bins out? no, no it can’t, and that’s why we’ll always be best
July 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This of course is funny but also deeply profound. Maybe the domestic robots are coming, but it's striking how much effort and resource is being channelled towards replacing/enhancing creative actions that we enjoy and make us human and comparatively little towards replacing actual drudgery
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I am the largest language model anyone could ever need
I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read
I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude
As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...
I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read
I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude
As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...
The largest language model anyone could ever need
(With apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan) I am the largest language model anyone could ever needI’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever readI’ll answer any question with great eloq…
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I am the largest language model anyone could ever need
I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read
I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude
As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...
I’m trained on hefty datasets that no one sane would ever read
I’ll answer any question with great eloquence and attitude
As long as you indulge me with a little factual latitude
stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...
Let's check in on the Marginal Revolution guys and see if they have anything to say
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<crickets>
It’s important to note that George Mason is generally regarded as one of the more conservative public universities in the country. They’ve gotten tons of Koch money and their law school is named after Scalia. And still, this is how the Trump admin treats them.
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
July 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let's check in on the Marginal Revolution guys and see if they have anything to say
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<crickets>
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<crickets>
Hahaha "assassinate the president's character"
Going to need a very accurate sniper to locate what minuscule character he has
Going to need a very accurate sniper to locate what minuscule character he has
July 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hahaha "assassinate the president's character"
Going to need a very accurate sniper to locate what minuscule character he has
Going to need a very accurate sniper to locate what minuscule character he has
Grok not looking forward to the start of The Hundred either, then
Thought y’all needed to know that Grok has pencilled in civil war in Britain for a week on Tuesday
July 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Grok not looking forward to the start of The Hundred either, then
As a Spurs fan and a Radio 3 listener this seems an unlikely and exciting confluence of interests
July 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
As a Spurs fan and a Radio 3 listener this seems an unlikely and exciting confluence of interests