I’ve put my Christmas decorations up and I’ve got the Annie Lennox Christmas album on — couldn’t be more content!
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I’ve put my Christmas decorations up and I’ve got the Annie Lennox Christmas album on — couldn’t be more content!
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Not necessarily a good thing, then. "Net migration will fall very sharply....Furthermore, emigration will continue to increase....Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes."
The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.
ukandeu.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Not necessarily a good thing, then. "Net migration will fall very sharply....Furthermore, emigration will continue to increase....Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes."
Long may the seagull statement live in infamy! A real low point of Tory behaviour in Holyrood which almost made it seem like the chamber had been invaded by a flock of such birds. Never has a dour intervention from Rhoda Grant been more welcome.
October 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Long may the seagull statement live in infamy! A real low point of Tory behaviour in Holyrood which almost made it seem like the chamber had been invaded by a flock of such birds. Never has a dour intervention from Rhoda Grant been more welcome.
A very useful sense-check given the debate around this point.
Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports - Carbon Brief
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch announced a pledge to drill “all” the remaining oil and gas in the North Sea
www.carbonbrief.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A very useful sense-check given the debate around this point.
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Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.
It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
August 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Provisional statistics from the Met Office show that summer 2025 will ‘almost certainly’ be the warmest summer on record for the UK.
It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
It would move 2018 off the top spot and relegate 1976 out of the top five warmest summer in a series which dates back to 1884.
👉 www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Growing up in realising that the Paris Metro map is better designed than the London Underground’s.
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Growing up in realising that the Paris Metro map is better designed than the London Underground’s.
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Watch this first hand testimony of former US Green Beret, who was working for GHF at food distribution sites in #Gaza
'Amateur', 'Criminal', 'War crimes', 'Worst I've seen in my career.'
'Amateur', 'Criminal', 'War crimes', 'Worst I've seen in my career.'
"I witnessed the IDF shooting at the crowds of Palestinians," Anthony Aguilar told the BBC. He added that he has never witnessed such a level of "brutality and use of indiscriminate and unnecessary force against a civilian population, an unarmed, starving population" www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Watch this first hand testimony of former US Green Beret, who was working for GHF at food distribution sites in #Gaza
'Amateur', 'Criminal', 'War crimes', 'Worst I've seen in my career.'
'Amateur', 'Criminal', 'War crimes', 'Worst I've seen in my career.'
A concerningly large proportion of my self-esteem comes from finding pangrams in the NYT spelling bee.
July 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
A concerningly large proportion of my self-esteem comes from finding pangrams in the NYT spelling bee.
I think having nice handwriting might be my only actual skill.
June 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I think having nice handwriting might be my only actual skill.
I greatly enjoyed the comic interlude which was provided by an American man shouting across the car park outside Perth railway station: “Where did you put the chihuahua?!”
June 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I greatly enjoyed the comic interlude which was provided by an American man shouting across the car park outside Perth railway station: “Where did you put the chihuahua?!”
“Pleas make this hinge shit end.”
All credit to the person with this on their profile, it’s probably the most compelling thing I have seen on the app.
All credit to the person with this on their profile, it’s probably the most compelling thing I have seen on the app.
June 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
“Pleas make this hinge shit end.”
All credit to the person with this on their profile, it’s probably the most compelling thing I have seen on the app.
All credit to the person with this on their profile, it’s probably the most compelling thing I have seen on the app.
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‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...
Who cares that Britain is on course to be ‘minority white’?
As a study of migration, birth and death rates in the UK points to the white British population becoming a minority by 2063, Anand Menon says the only debate it ought to spark is not about immigration...
www.independent.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...
Douglas Ross getting thrown out of FMQs — what a great day!
May 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Douglas Ross getting thrown out of FMQs — what a great day!
I think being able to whistle ‘Nessun dorma’ might be my only actual skill.
May 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I think being able to whistle ‘Nessun dorma’ might be my only actual skill.
On my way home from work I passed three small children playing in a pile of grit on the pavement—wondered if I’d walked into an Ivor Cutler song.
April 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
On my way home from work I passed three small children playing in a pile of grit on the pavement—wondered if I’d walked into an Ivor Cutler song.
Reposted by Ewan Redpath
The latest Chartbook just dropped!
Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress?
Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress?
Chartbook 370: Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress? Wednesday morning and the overnight fin-fi panic. (Part 2)
A specter is stalking global financial markets.
adamtooze.substack.com
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The latest Chartbook just dropped!
Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress?
Is a "Treasury market unwind" in progress?
For anyone not watching Melodifestivalen, they’ve just make a slightly sharp joke about the Dutch Eurovision contestant from last year who was disqualified.
February 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
For anyone not watching Melodifestivalen, they’ve just make a slightly sharp joke about the Dutch Eurovision contestant from last year who was disqualified.
Any modicum of sympathy I have for Sturgeon is always tempered by the continuous self-delusion she and the other leaders of the independence movement engage in. This point in her interview with the FT is demonstrably false. Polls on independence have moved little, despite many older voters from…
January 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Any modicum of sympathy I have for Sturgeon is always tempered by the continuous self-delusion she and the other leaders of the independence movement engage in. This point in her interview with the FT is demonstrably false. Polls on independence have moved little, despite many older voters from…
Getting my peak achievement of 2025 in early!
January 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Getting my peak achievement of 2025 in early!
Reposted by Ewan Redpath
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
December 3, 2024 at 3:55 PM
If you're aged 30 or more, then 50% of all human fossil fuel emissions happened during your lifetime
Reposted by Ewan Redpath
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
December 3, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.
I hear it’s all the rage these days.
December 1, 2024 at 10:15 AM
I hear it’s all the rage these days.
Castlelaw, Pentland Hill.
December 1, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Castlelaw, Pentland Hill.
Clearly chairing the education committee hasn’t been enough of an outlet for Douglas Ross’ frustration… Pretty appalling behaviour in the statement this afternoon.
November 28, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Clearly chairing the education committee hasn’t been enough of an outlet for Douglas Ross’ frustration… Pretty appalling behaviour in the statement this afternoon.