Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar

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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar

Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar

@MoarPart

Consultant/educator. All problems have solutions. Everything is connected to everything else. Book: 'Technology & Engineering Strategies' (Routledge, 2025).

UK, North West England Katılım Aralık 2017
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Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam@faisalislam·
WATCH: Last interview I did with Andy Burnham (in February) for a radio piece on whether Manchester’s 3% decade long annual growth had lessons for rest of the UK economy… Was it really anything to do with his Mayoral powers? What about rates of homelessness… Do people live in these skyscrapers? He talks about the centrality of the university, tech and inward investment. He says there is now net inward migration to Manchester from London to fuel the economy, and invites more people to come. And then he talks about attracting massive international showcases to the region/ North - the Olympics, the Women’s World Cup final (for which he seems to have gone around the back of the FA to fifa), the Ryder Cup, the Brits… Here it is in full, from the archives: youtube.com/watch?v=6jojMb…
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@holland_tom Perhaps with a smaller state, we'd be less concerned about changes at the top. But if the PM and Cabinet insist on having fingers in every pie, it matters a lot.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
The Government is a constant, and not dependent upon the personage of the PM (who is only the first among equals). The Speech reflects the policies of the Govt at the time it is written, and there is no constitutional requirement to act upon the Monarch’s spoken words. So it might as well go ahead. Inevitably, its contents will be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Faisal Islam
Faisal Islam@faisalislam·
Not entirely clear what happens for the King’s Speech tomorrow in these circumstances… not sure we have quite seen this before.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@DannyDrinksWine One of my favourite films. The final 20 minutes are masterful. There’s also a great backstory for the amateur American actor, Sgt. John Sweet. Someone should make a movie about Sweet.
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DepressedBergman
DepressedBergman@DannyDrinksWine·
Michael Powell explains why "A Canterbury Tale" (1944) was a tremendous flop: ‘'A Canterbury Tale' (1944) was really Emeric Pressburger’s film. I’m a director; I hate writing. With 'A Canterbury Tale', I had doubts, because the script had a wonderful idea—this man who cares so much about truth and beauty that he has to act for it, even on pain of being regarded as some sort of lunatic for what he does—but it was a Continental idea that did not fit into an English film. If I was going to make an English film with it at all, I should have done more with it, translated it more. But I didn’t. I filmed it straight and the result was a tremendous flop. Since then I’ve never filmed anything I had reservations about, as I’m not conceited enough to think I’m so good I can get away with anything I’m not absolutely sure of." (Michael Powell's interview to The Times, 1960) P.S: On this day, 82 years ago, 'A Canterbury Tale' (1944) premiered in Canterbury, UK.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
It also became a very large city ahead of the others, so there could be an element of 'catch-up' not reflected in the relatively short time-scale (1961-2025). Arguably, one might expect green belt constraints to have forced up the inner population (leading to darker green), but it hasn't, partly due to slum clearance and the absence of taller apartment buildings.
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Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood@bswud·
@MoarPart Right. London has barely grown compared to other major high-wage high-productivity cities: the Green Belt has constrained outward expansion more than any comparable Euro city, and it has not found ways for rapid intensification
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Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood@bswud·
Note how Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Poland and so on have seen their poorer areas depopulate and their richer areas grow rapidly, whereas Britain has seen slow but steady growth everywhere. A huge failure of British land use policy, causing regional income divergence.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600

It's hard to oversell this map - make sure to bookmark it and share it with your friends. Fantastic research that must have been soooo labour intensive: How has the population of evert single small geographic region across Europe changed from 1961 to 2024? You will want to study this map in detail. Source (keep scrolling for a while): correctiv.org/aktuelles/2026…

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Vaire Computing
Vaire Computing@VaireHQ·
Congratulations to Vaire Computing Senior Scientist Dr Frank @MikePFrank for his third reversible computing patent, issued for work done at Sandia National Labs prior to joining @VaireHQ 👏
Michael P. Frank 💻🔜♻️@MikePFrank

Just issued today! @SandiaLabs U.S. Patent #12,620,993, "BALLISTIC SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT FOR ASYNCHRONOUS REVERSIBLE LOGIC ELEMENT," M.P. Frank (now at @VaireHQ), R.M. Lewis, and S.B. Kaplan (contractor).

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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
High profile technologies don't always offer anything of value (except to the bank balances of their promoters). My favourite contemporary example is the laughable Boston Dynamics robot dog or, even worse, their load-carrying BigDog (image attached). What they gain in agility (debatable), they lose in speed of movement and manufacturing costs. What problems are they trying to solve? Why not simply put rugged wheels on a chassis with a range of attachments? @DARPA scatters research funds like confetti. It's the American taxpayer that suffers.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
A few years ago I proposed using @what3words as the mechanism for remembering a very strong password. Simply visualise a specific geographical location known only to you. The @What3words app will give you 3 random words. If you happen to forget those 3 words, simply use the app to find the location/password again. For some reason, the What3Words company didn't promote it. @katebevan @EvanHD #bbcpm @BBCNews
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@JohnRentoul Good suggestion. In a similar vein, my idea was for brake lights to flash rapidly under hard braking. Such proposals would need to be taken up by all manufacturers, therefore requiring changes to manufacturing standards. Feasible, though.
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John Rentoul
John Rentoul@JohnRentoul·
Shouldn’t hazard warning lights flash at double speed to distinguish them from half of indicators?
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@LaraLewington Non-fiction gets much less publicity than fiction, and yet it accounts for half of all publishing output. There are so many great authors and genres. Not enough TV, radio or podcasts are dedicated to non-fiction - surely a lost opportunity.
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Lara Lewington
Lara Lewington@LaraLewington·
Sat on the tube surrounded by three people reading physical books (whilst I listened to mine). This made me happy, not just as an author, but because I love (personally - non-fiction) books, and data suggests only 40% of Brits have read or listened to a book in the past year.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@MartinSLewis I ask questions which are often fairly long and convoluted. Generally, the information provided in the responses is accurate and helpful. Microsoft Copilot (which is based on ChatGPT) and Grok (on the X platform) have performed better than Google Gemini.
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Martin Lewis
Martin Lewis@MartinSLewis·
Today's Poll: How often do you usually use a consumer AI site eg Chat GPT, Grok, Claude, Gemini? Which of these is CLOSEST to your situation. PS And let us know in replies whether you usually write to it or chat with it
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@BeebRoger Will read later. I’d love to see a clear statement of mission and values. What is the BBC for and where does it draw the line? It needs purpose and boundaries. As a licence payer, I can’t support a Corporation that simply exists for the sake of existing.
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Rory Sutherland
Rory Sutherland@rorysutherland·
It is perfectly possible - I have no evidence - that supermarkets chose to sell milk at below cost because people ran out of it, requiring a trip to the supermarket. Footfall driver, in other words, but a bugger for dairy farmers.
Fraser Scott@FJMScott

@FraserNelson But what price the convenience of delivery and not having to pay to get your own milk from a supermarket. Feel as though this is one of those that @rorysutherland might see as your view being the economists view. All about the money and nothing else.

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Visual Info Technology
Visual Info Technology@VisualInforTech·
Computer architectures from centralized with Mainframes became decentralized with Client-server. Then again centralized with Cloud Computing, and now they return to being decentralized with Edge Computing and 5G. RT @antgrasso #5G #EdgeComputing
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Rodolfo Rosini ✨🖥️
Rodolfo Rosini ✨🖥️@rodolfor·
@Fremond_ The result of this would be that any company would immediately be split in smaller companies based on function, each contracted to provide services to each other, so the 10:1 rule would be always accurate.
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
International conflict destroys wealth, so those with the most to lose should bear the burden of increased defence expenditure. Individuals and companies become wealthy because of the prevailing socio-economic conditions. The poor are not ‘invested’ to the same extent, so should not be fiscally penalised.
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Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson@PJTheEconomist·
Great piece from ⁦@ChrisGiles_⁩ “The brutal truth is that rising external threats have increased the costs of running an advanced economy. Deterrence is expensive. There is no free lunch. We will all have to pay.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…
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Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar
Peter (sometimes P.J.) Moar@MoarPart·
@JP_Spencer_ @BritishProgress That’s a great innovation. It should be trialled and proved to work before a national rollout. And for the sake of maintaining good community relations between NIMBYs and YIMBYs, all votes should be anonymous.
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JP Spencer
JP Spencer@JP_Spencer_·
Street Votes are a really interesting idea that could both give more power to local communities and promote better development of housing. 👇
Centre for British Progress@BritishProgress

What if the residents of a street could collectively decide to build more homes on it - and share directly in the benefits? That's street votes. In our new paper with @LabourTogether we set out how community-led street votes could help @SteveReedMP build 1.5 million new homes. labourtogether.uk/all-reports/st… Street votes let neighbours come together, work with an architect, agree a new plan for their street, and vote. If they say yes, building happens with their consent, on their terms, with benefits flowing to the people who already live there. Building in towns and cities is vital - it adds much-needed homes where people want to live, it’s more sustainable and it grows a more resilient local economy. But building in cities and towns is difficult. Under street votes, instead of builders, councils, and residents fighting each other, the community can push for more homes themselves. And because ordinary people are driving the change on small sites, new homes can be built faster than the big schemes relying on big developers. Street votes learn from international schemes that have delivered tens of thousands of homes a year in cities like Seoul and Tel Aviv. Applied here, the evidence suggests up to 30,000 new homes a year in the places we need them most - with the first homes delivered before the end of this Parliament. Much of the work has already been done to put communities in the driver’s seat with street votes. MHCLG just needs to implement the rules. In this paper, @1jamesHowat, @KaneEmerson & @dc_lawrence set out the final steps that the Government should take to build thousands of new homes with popular support.

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