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Invented some law or other. Also at @ianbetteridge@mastodon.social for if and when the Muskpocalypse comes. Secure email: ian.betteridge@proton.me.
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This week has involved Interesting, Obsidian, some writing and some books.
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This development is an absolute shitshow - one of the worst things I've seen in London (and I've seen the horror that is the skyline looking towards Canary Wharf)
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While I’m talking about Star Trek and the MCU here, the review bombing of Lord of the Rings The Rings of Power and “complaints” over black elves is the same issue - Fandom's White Replacement Anxiety
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In case you were wondering how bad "gender critical" people feel about collaborating with the kiwifarms nazis to harass trans people into suicide...
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Replying to @oolon and @jk_rowling
I dont see anything wrong with going after misogynistic people. Kiwi helped us know who these men are!
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So please don't talk to me about how we need to use greenbelt land. We don't. We need to stop profiteering property speculation and build housing in cities, where it's needed the most.
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How many homes could be built into that space, enriching the local community? How many people could have already been homed had development started as soon as Central St Martins vacated in 2011?
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This is the Central St Martins building on Red Lion Square. It has been empty for quite a few years, but since 2020 has had planning permission on it... for a 447 bed hotel. Just 34 affordable homes will be constructed as part of the project.
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Or maybe - and hear me out here - reuse the huge amount of empty office and retail space, plus the swathes of speculative empty property (particularly in London).
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This brilliant clip from tonight’s News at 10 hits the nail on the head about why we have the spiralling house prices and rents we do. NIMBYism in relation to both the green belt and brownfield sites is making buying or renting homes unaffordable for ordinary people.
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#AfterSteve is on newsstands in Paris this month. Grab a copy of iCreate for more.
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Where you can read my interview of @trippmickle #AfterSteve twitter.com/icreatefrance/…
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“Get rid of the f***ing tariffs and Brexit works”
Martin’s inability to understand Brexit after all this time would be amusing if it wasn’t so damaging to the rest of us.
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This is basically going to give Labour another couple of points lead. Leaving aside that it's terrible economics and will condemn more people to absolute poverty, it's such bad politics I genuinely wonder if she will last two years.
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Replying to @JohnRentoul and @joncstone
“Tax cuts for the rich” is not what I expected the new PM to say on the eve of taking office
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Think it can't happen here? Stop being a British exceptionalist - it can and, if this keeps up, it will.
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One more note: a common theme in countries which are collapsing is a succession of short-lived leaders, followed by a "strong man" who people think will dig them out of crisis, but who actually destroy their democracy.
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Unless, of course, the Tories dump her as polls show the decline in their support that's inevitable if she follows through on these insane policies and messages. They'll bring back Johnson, of course, hoping for a "Boris bounce" (hey Daily Fail, you can have that line for free)
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Well, Truss is already shaping up to be the worst PM in British history. How much damage can an extremist do to the country in two years? Guess we're about to find out!
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Liz Truss says “it is fair” that her national insurance cut will benefit the richest to the tune of about £2k and do relatively little for the lowest paid. She argues there has been too much focus on the distribution of income in the past twenty years.
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My tweet about the impact of Brexit on Canterbury went a little viral last week and has resulted in this excellent, balanced analysis from
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Before someone starts with the "well Kent voted for Brexit, they got what they wanted", remember: people were lied to. Companies were lied to.
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Some advice to the new government.
Understand that this is a deeply perilous moment - from a financial perspective, significantly worse than Covid imv.
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BREAKING: Cloudflare has blocked Kiwi Farms.
"We believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life." blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-bloc
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In a few years, there will be a convo at work where someone will incredulously say…
They just fired me like that
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They won’t pay my overtime
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I get no sick pay
And they’ll say they don’t understand why
…and someone will explain to them, this is all thanks to Brexit.
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NYTimes/CNN 1941: In what was billed as a response to the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt made a partisan attack against fascism, refusing to extend an olive branch to the domestic right-wing America First movement who has sided with Hitler.
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Never thought I'd have the opportunity to talk about #JimFanningFriday, TED-lecture style, in front of hundreds of people 😂
Thanks to friend of for this photo - she was sitting in one of the front rows.
I'm sure many of you recognise yourselves on the giant screen!
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Dear Twitter. We are a club on tour, and the opposition have cancelled on is for tomorrow. Anyone know where 11 very average village cricketers could find a game in Bath or Somerset. Or even a park we could play in amongst ourselves. #Cricket
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I’m going to really enjoy it when Aaron Banks eventually takes one step too far and goes to prison.
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This was great!
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"Licence to Queer is, above all, a community..."
What a thrill to be asked to talk about Licence To Queer at the @interesting 2022 conference in the lovely @ConwayHall in Central London.
: @RemyLeBeau twitter.com/LicenceToQueer…
: @RemyLeBeau twitter.com/LicenceToQueer…
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Still on of my favourite places to sit for a civilised drink
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The Restore Trust that is trying hard to fight the National Trust is an opaque pressure group with links to Policy Exchange and Tufton Street. Sick to death of Fake grassroots groups AstroTurfing away. What is worse is that the media are enabling them.
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If you want to fight the forces of reactionary conservatism seeking to assault the National Trust and if you are a member then please take 120 seconds to vote for council and AGM resolutions
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Voting is now open for our Council and AGM resolutions. Please take part. It takes 2 minutes. And it’s important. You just need your membership no. bit.ly/3RdrxMU
The National Trust is for Everyone, for Ever.
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Twitter’s new Circle feature is a godsend for those seeking to avoid scrutiny. My thoughts for
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We need to talk about the sinister side of Twitter Circle | @KDenkWrites bit.ly/3cLzrhA #TwitterCircle
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1. Yesterday it was not an all woman panel (Stiglitz). 2. Even if it was, we are not talking about a level playing field. Lots of catching up to do… anyway this is truly a terrific event but we can all improve…😎
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We had an all female panel in the session “Society of the future”, that was not a problem? 
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Fuck the Daily Mail.
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Me, phoning up the hacks to help and urge on an absurd screeching campaign of panic and terror, to our mutual benefit: Wahey, this is awesome, go democracy and accountability!
Me, watching them do the same thing again and again for their own benefit only: Boo, this is an outrage
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Like, our horrific, poisonous press horking up vast bullshitty scandals about the opposition party then screaming at the authorities to launch in-depth investigations *and the authorities then doing it, straight-faced* is simply how it works now, and it’s too late to complain.
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The Mail issuing idiotic front-page bollockings to politicians until it gets what it wants is “the constitution”, I’m afraid.
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Misinformation chronicles number 10152456.
Mixed martial arts fighter says ivermectin added to Covid treatments.
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Truth: no change in NIH recommendations. Ivermectin NOT recommended outside of clinical trials.
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Harry Mount, a former Bullingdon club member and second cousin of David Cameron who edited a book called "The Wit And Wisdom of David Cameron" has been appointed to the body responsible for vetting peerages.
He will start six days after Boris Johnson leaves office.
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Boris Johnson has appointed a “quivering fanboy” and friend to the body responsible for approving peerages
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The vast majority of small businesses simply can't afford bills like this, particularly when they are still paying back loans and trying to make back shortfalls in income caused by the pandemic.
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my current energy bill for my tiny 22 cover restaurant is £2,928 a year. This is my new quote. Unsure what to actually do next but as a business that cost would now be more than I pay in rent and more than I take some months. I simply don’t have the money for this.
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