Graham Walker
@grahamwalkernrg.bsky.social
Research @ VaasaETT
Previously @ Petrologica
Alum University of Essex
Views inevitably my own.
Previously @ Petrologica
Alum University of Essex
Views inevitably my own.
Oh yeah slide 16 - some projects will have one tech prioritised but the other not.
Still looks like the queue is enormous, despite the process, but at least better.
Still looks like the queue is enormous, despite the process, but at least better.
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Oh yeah slide 16 - some projects will have one tech prioritised but the other not.
Still looks like the queue is enormous, despite the process, but at least better.
Still looks like the queue is enormous, despite the process, but at least better.
Missed that one, just found the link in my emails and checking the slides.
December 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Missed that one, just found the link in my emails and checking the slides.
I really hope that's not what they're doing.
December 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I really hope that's not what they're doing.
And it has a party in govt - running the finance ministry, no less - that has MPs and ministers who believe in the great replacement.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
And it has a party in govt - running the finance ministry, no less - that has MPs and ministers who believe in the great replacement.
Finns have access to these same platforms too.
December 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Finns have access to these same platforms too.
For the avoidance of being "Reevesed" - those teams were my sisters' teams, not mine.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
For the avoidance of being "Reevesed" - those teams were my sisters' teams, not mine.
The original piece makes the claim - far worse than saying "I was British U-14 girls champion" meaning the BWCA - that there was (is?) no classism or sexism in chess. Absolutely laughable statement, easily proven false bsky.app/profile/grah...
Far worse than whether Reeves was BWCA or BCF champion, his penultimate paragraph claims that there was no sexism or classism in chess at that time! Both my sisters (and me!) find that statement absolutely risible.
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The original piece makes the claim - far worse than saying "I was British U-14 girls champion" meaning the BWCA - that there was (is?) no classism or sexism in chess. Absolutely laughable statement, easily proven false bsky.app/profile/grah...
Maybe its easier to not know what type of school your opponents go to when you go to St Paul's and most of your opponents go to similar schools. Maybe it's easier not to notice the rampant "it's only a girl/you got beaten by a girl!" comments and (far, far) worse if you're a boy.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Maybe its easier to not know what type of school your opponents go to when you go to St Paul's and most of your opponents go to similar schools. Maybe it's easier not to notice the rampant "it's only a girl/you got beaten by a girl!" comments and (far, far) worse if you're a boy.
For context, that's a primary surrounded by council estates in Southend. It was the sheer will of the head there, an absolute legend called Frank Gulley, plus my dad's coaching, that turned it into a chess force, the Leicester City of its day.
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 AM
For context, that's a primary surrounded by council estates in Southend. It was the sheer will of the head there, an absolute legend called Frank Gulley, plus my dad's coaching, that turned it into a chess force, the Leicester City of its day.
Check the primary school and county winners here: www.epsca.org.uk/history
Basically every school winner is a private or religious school, able to deviate from the curriculum and hire a specialist chess teacher, often an IM or GM. The rare exception is our primary, Temple Sutton, 1992 1996 and 1999
Basically every school winner is a private or religious school, able to deviate from the curriculum and hire a specialist chess teacher, often an IM or GM. The rare exception is our primary, Temple Sutton, 1992 1996 and 1999
History — EPSCA
www.epsca.org.uk
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Check the primary school and county winners here: www.epsca.org.uk/history
Basically every school winner is a private or religious school, able to deviate from the curriculum and hire a specialist chess teacher, often an IM or GM. The rare exception is our primary, Temple Sutton, 1992 1996 and 1999
Basically every school winner is a private or religious school, able to deviate from the curriculum and hire a specialist chess teacher, often an IM or GM. The rare exception is our primary, Temple Sutton, 1992 1996 and 1999
Far worse than whether Reeves was BWCA or BCF champion, his penultimate paragraph claims that there was no sexism or classism in chess at that time! Both my sisters (and me!) find that statement absolutely risible.
December 5, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Far worse than whether Reeves was BWCA or BCF champion, his penultimate paragraph claims that there was no sexism or classism in chess at that time! Both my sisters (and me!) find that statement absolutely risible.
I won (jointly) the U-8s that year (1993). Probably the pinnacle of my chess career, not least because I beat Tania Sachdev (aged 5), who is now an IM, WGM and well known pundit. If I never play her again, I will still be able to "impress" my chess-playing colleagues with my 100% record against her.
December 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I won (jointly) the U-8s that year (1993). Probably the pinnacle of my chess career, not least because I beat Tania Sachdev (aged 5), who is now an IM, WGM and well known pundit. If I never play her again, I will still be able to "impress" my chess-playing colleagues with my 100% record against her.
And also you would say in conversation "I was British U-14 girls champion" not "I was BWCA U-14 champion, which is the competition that only involved girl competitors, not the BCF British U-14 girls champion, which was for the highest placed girl in a mixed competition"
December 4, 2025 at 10:24 AM
And also you would say in conversation "I was British U-14 girls champion" not "I was BWCA U-14 champion, which is the competition that only involved girl competitors, not the BCF British U-14 girls champion, which was for the highest placed girl in a mixed competition"
Who is also the Guardian's chess correspondent
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Who is also the Guardian's chess correspondent
Historically, multiple reactors of the same domestic design, built by a "national champion" backed by the state.
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Historically, multiple reactors of the same domestic design, built by a "national champion" backed by the state.
Specifically, the British Reply Guy Federation's Reply Guy of the Year, not the British Federation of Guys Reply of the Year.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Specifically, the British Reply Guy Federation's Reply Guy of the Year, not the British Federation of Guys Reply of the Year.
South Korea being the notable democratic exception, but still there some reactors have been (a little) late, and the ability to build elsewhere (e.g. UAE) has been limited.
The Fingleton report is arguing that the UK's woes, specifically, are *primarily* down to its regulatory regime.
The Fingleton report is arguing that the UK's woes, specifically, are *primarily* down to its regulatory regime.
December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
South Korea being the notable democratic exception, but still there some reactors have been (a little) late, and the ability to build elsewhere (e.g. UAE) has been limited.
The Fingleton report is arguing that the UK's woes, specifically, are *primarily* down to its regulatory regime.
The Fingleton report is arguing that the UK's woes, specifically, are *primarily* down to its regulatory regime.
It can be argued, indeed, but one then needs to explain why reactors are generally late and overbudget the world over, with the exceptions being (some) autocracies. With the EPR specifically, it has been late and overbudget pretty much everywhere it has been tried, including Taishan in China.
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It can be argued, indeed, but one then needs to explain why reactors are generally late and overbudget the world over, with the exceptions being (some) autocracies. With the EPR specifically, it has been late and overbudget pretty much everywhere it has been tried, including Taishan in China.
Much more interested in who the joint U-8 champion was that year...
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Much more interested in who the joint U-8 champion was that year...
Can the UK nuclear regulatory system be reformed so that it is better fit for purpose? Certainly. Is it "central", "the primary barrier" to new nuclear in the UK? Certainly not.
December 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Can the UK nuclear regulatory system be reformed so that it is better fit for purpose? Certainly. Is it "central", "the primary barrier" to new nuclear in the UK? Certainly not.
I will note here that the lack of oversight and blank cheque approach did not, in fact, make electricity virtually free. And also note that cutting off at 1965 is interesting, given that the introduction of proudly British AGRs after that to protect the domestic industry saw a series of failures.
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I will note here that the lack of oversight and blank cheque approach did not, in fact, make electricity virtually free. And also note that cutting off at 1965 is interesting, given that the introduction of proudly British AGRs after that to protect the domestic industry saw a series of failures.
The industry fails to deliver on time and on budget globally barring a few exceptions, which tend to be in authoritarian planning systems. Indeed, the UK's "more reactors by 1965 than US+USSR+France" was achieved in large part due to a huge lack of oversight and a blank cheque approach.
December 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The industry fails to deliver on time and on budget globally barring a few exceptions, which tend to be in authoritarian planning systems. Indeed, the UK's "more reactors by 1965 than US+USSR+France" was achieved in large part due to a huge lack of oversight and a blank cheque approach.
The first statement in the report is that "regulation is central to this relative decline" of nuclear in the UK, rather than high cost of finance linked to an inability in the industry to deliver on time and on budget. Flatly: he is wrong in that conclusion.
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The first statement in the report is that "regulation is central to this relative decline" of nuclear in the UK, rather than high cost of finance linked to an inability in the industry to deliver on time and on budget. Flatly: he is wrong in that conclusion.