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@yuanyi_z Beyond the point of saving tbh. Two party voting tricked people into thinking the average voter is far more sentient than they actually are

This country's so poor.

@DeepDishEnjoyer Amazing, hope you're enjoying Vienna.

t minus 3 minutes to finally eating some fucking vegetables

British progressives are like "thousandaires should not exist."

If, like me, you were born in 1956, you’ll receive almost £300,000 more in benefits than you’ll pay in taxes in your lifetime State Pensions make up a huge chunk of that Long term, we simply can’t afford to sustain the Triple Lock’s generosity Blog: desmondswaynemp.com/ds-blog/1956/?…

Also hectored on the Life in the UK test.

@mean_field_zane Entering the end of times

The Boomer Luxury Communism so Total it’s got me agreeing with a James Medlock tweet.

@DeepDishEnjoyer Looks gorgeous

veal, morels, wild garlic

We can but dream, while in Japan this would have been up and running 20 years ago already.

@tolstoybb Britain increasing our minimum wage so that it's closer to median than min was to median in the USSR definitely puts us in big 3 conversations.

maybe the Soviet Union

No country has ever tried as hard as the US to destroy its human capital

That aside, it is amazing, very much what my incredible space-mad dad raised me for.

Have to say that, genuinely incredible as the Artemis mission is, it does make me rather sad in respect to the failure of the British space programme

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer has dropped the Bill to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after Donald Trump withdrew his support [@thetimes]

@lesthelion @lukerobertblack Witty reply mate

@Adam_Hpef @lukerobertblack Hahahahahaha you hilariously pompous twat

What I find depressing is you see a young person post saying “housing is too expensive”, which by assessments is a fair conclusion. Yet within minutes a deluge of Reform activists over 60 yo will descend calling them (and all Gen Z) lazy and thick. It’s the aggression too. Why?

@lukerobertblack 100% personally have always thought there should be some form of personal finance/econ taught as a mandatory subject yr7-11 similar to RE

@Adam_Hpef We must change this

@lukerobertblack Think Dan Neidle's and Tax Policy Associates work demonstrates at least to some extent how economically illiterate the country is taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/07/05/hal…

@lukerobertblack We live in a country who's population understands very little about economics or tax and our politics has historically catered towards a "just work harder" view which is no longer realistically viable.

@TypeForVictory This isn't true though it's almost exclusively being built on grade 3 land, but I do agree in respect to solar panels being placed on roofs and so on

While in principle it's great to see *anything* approved in the UK's sclerotic planning system, this is frustratingly poor land use. The solar farm will take up c.4,400 acres of seemingly Grade 1 arable land - which makes up just 2.7% of England's total agricultural land. It's a scarce national asset. That acreage can feed about 25,000 households' entire annual caloric needs. Meanwhile, while solar is a lot better than wind for intermittency, the UK's potential is pretty poor - the World Bank describes us as having 'one of the least generous conditions for PV' globally, with particularly poor winter generation. Ironic, given we have basically banned aircon but rely on heating, tilting energy needs to winter. If you zoom out to European level, we're taking land that's probably in roughly 5th percentile for agriculture and shifting it to solar where it's around the 70th percentile. By all means, put solar on roofs - homes, warehouses, over car parks. Build Victorian-style covered markets in towns with them on top. Stick them on lamposts - there's masses of 'wasted' space. Don't make it fight with a genuinely rare and valuable resource and swap the threat to our energy security for one to our food security, which is itself already severe. British land use needs a major reform of the 'Greenbelt' - redrawing it to protect our Grade 1 & 2a arable land, national parks, and SSSIs; encouraging traditionally beautiful villages and extensions in the countryside, protecting land and wildlife, densifying cities, and creating proper parks for people to enjoy. FYI, I've placed a black dot on each map for the rough location of the solar farm.

@DuncanStott I imagine a good many do, I walked past the Tower of London recently and think I saw a sign advertising a pretty steep discount for students. A valid argument I'd take is that student/pensioner prices could perhaps be lower still

Attractions like these are high fixed-cost, low marginal-cost operations. That means you want as many people through the gate at a price they can afford. Targeted low-cost tickets for low income households makes sense. They'd be wise to offer cheap student tickets too.

@Thebeefiestguy @watling_samuel Sadly don't have permission to do so but if circumstances ever change I shall ofc

@Adam_Hpef @watling_samuel Please post the recordings

"Who likened it to Chernobyl" British NIKBYism remains unparalleled.

Rent controls are apparently back in fashion (for some). But they’re wrong. Today’s announcement by the Green Party would be a catastrophic mistake for millions of renters and young people across the country. It has failed the people of Argentina, Sweden, and Spain. And it would not work here. Why? Rent controls don’t build more homes and don’t lower prices for people across the country. You cannot have affordable beautiful homes in the places people want to live if you do not build. And rent controls stop building. Rent controls don’t just fail to get more homes built – they actively harm supply in the places people need to be for work and family. Most recently the IMF has said rent controls have significantly reduced rental housing supply in Spain. If returns are capped and the state controls half of the market, developers and investors pull back. This means some sell, some redevelop, some defer entering the market, and some will just stop investing altogether. For example, after rent controls were introduced in Argentina in 2020, listings fell to around 60% of previous levels over the next three years. When Milei repealed the legislation, listings rebounded. Access to housing increasingly becomes about rationing by waiting time, connections, informal payments, or illegal subletting when rents are held below market levels. Rent controls lead to corruption. A report by the OECD last year found that, in Sweden, controls have led to a black market for rentals, and years-long queues in the main areas. In fact, the average queuing time in the Stockholm region was 8.8 years in 2024. The evidence is clear. Rent controls do not work. They never have. They never will. They would drag us even further into decline. Young people in this country deserve better. It cannot and must not happen.