tonybarrett
@tonybarrett.bsky.social
Ex-Bloomberg editor, Pontypridd Observer reporter and NCP carpark ramp sweeper.
I use it mostly for day trips. I could maybe rent a car slightly cheaper but I'd have to go in to town, stand in a queue, pick up keys, have some fella inspecting the shiny brand new vehicle before and after. Maybe have to try to match whatever amount of petrol was in it when they handed it over.
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I use it mostly for day trips. I could maybe rent a car slightly cheaper but I'd have to go in to town, stand in a queue, pick up keys, have some fella inspecting the shiny brand new vehicle before and after. Maybe have to try to match whatever amount of petrol was in it when they handed it over.
I hate the irrelevant personal attacks and the backstabbing gossip perpetuated by people whose biggest trade off is deciding whether to use a semi-colon or an em dash.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I hate the irrelevant personal attacks and the backstabbing gossip perpetuated by people whose biggest trade off is deciding whether to use a semi-colon or an em dash.
This is really confused, IMV. Taxing wealth is nothing to do with being anti-business. The opposite. The stuff about envy is tosh.
November 30, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This is really confused, IMV. Taxing wealth is nothing to do with being anti-business. The opposite. The stuff about envy is tosh.
Sorry, I had to stop reading when the story and/or its sources made it a binary debate between a lump of "business" and the Treasury/left MPs. British political journalism can't get its head around the fact that many businesses destroy value and contribute only to the nation's crap productivity.
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Sorry, I had to stop reading when the story and/or its sources made it a binary debate between a lump of "business" and the Treasury/left MPs. British political journalism can't get its head around the fact that many businesses destroy value and contribute only to the nation's crap productivity.
All the AIs in the company's pics are female...
November 30, 2025 at 2:13 PM
All the AIs in the company's pics are female...
Ah. Small mercies
November 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Ah. Small mercies
That is a great location. Edinburgh is now full of wizard-based tat shops whose only magic trick is to make their taxes disappear
November 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
That is a great location. Edinburgh is now full of wizard-based tat shops whose only magic trick is to make their taxes disappear
“I’m looking for a copy of Wild Swans”
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM
“I’m looking for a copy of Wild Swans”
Thanks. Yeah, I guess so. Right, back under my rock.
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Thanks. Yeah, I guess so. Right, back under my rock.
Thanks for this.
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thanks for this.
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
Seems true:
"The Bindel side needs to stop denying trans people ‘exist’"
But then isn't this de facto saying trans people don't exist as they're just women (or men):
"Helen Webberley wishes to see no differentiation between traditional (biological) women and trans women"
That's quite the banner ad
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
That's quite the banner ad
Unfortunately, this is a feature not a bug of the emerging international order. Welcome to neo-royalism.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Working on the Rhondda Leader (or “Rhondda Liar” to fans) at the start of the 90s, pretty much our stock story was an old lady pointing at the wallpaper peeling off the walls to reveal great patches of mould.
November 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Working on the Rhondda Leader (or “Rhondda Liar” to fans) at the start of the 90s, pretty much our stock story was an old lady pointing at the wallpaper peeling off the walls to reveal great patches of mould.
A friend had two knee replacement ops on the NHS scheduled within weeks
November 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A friend had two knee replacement ops on the NHS scheduled within weeks
5/Its easy (or difficult to swallow) this as corruption/crony capitalism. But in a new paper w/ @segoddard.bsky.social in IO, we argue these interactions suggest something much more fundamental -- a shift in the international order which we call neo-royalism.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...
www.dropbox.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Could be one of those roll-on-roll-off dinghies
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Could be one of those roll-on-roll-off dinghies
'Fund asylum processing with jumble sales' does have the feel of a Thick of It whiteboard brainstorming skit.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
'Fund asylum processing with jumble sales' does have the feel of a Thick of It whiteboard brainstorming skit.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
'Fund asylum processing with jumble sales' does have the feel of a Thick of It whiteboard brainstorming skit.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
As well as being stupid performative cruelty, obv.
When they said it’s us or Farage, I didn’t realise Farage was meant to be the preferred option
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
When they said it’s us or Farage, I didn’t realise Farage was meant to be the preferred option
I know nothing but hard to see any appetite for it
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I know nothing but hard to see any appetite for it