Peter Mackness

The bottom half of the university league table is just extended inner city state school

@eNeecie Every other day a new motorhome appears in my mother-in-law's drive and Neil hands me another bucket full of jewellery and cosmetics. I can only assume he's got himself a part time job I'm too busy to ask about.

@ClaudetteSurrey @davidrichards But, you want to be able to use a phone??

@davidrichards We DON’T want data centres (regardless of whether they use “90%” less energy, or not).

The British company that might break the AI energy trade. Two weeks ago, I watched its CEO make the most aggressive claim I've heard in British deep-tech this year. 90% less energy than the hardware the entire industry currently runs on. Light, not electrons. Free weekly.

The arrogance of Labour Treasury ministers on full display. An inexperienced PPE graduate who has never run a business in his life thinks he knows better than the CEO of a major retailer. Zero self awareness. A growing crisis of youth unemployment and they just don’t get it.

@blaiklockBP @ramonagusta I expect he was busy writing his manifesto

Andy Burnham: Went to Cambridge to do English. Couldn't find a job for 2 years, which is really weird for a Cambridge graduate in those times. Seems he went home and did nothing. Got a paid job with a trade magazine for a year. The only time that he has not been paid by taxpayers.

@Gorets_UR @awkwardgoogle Way more now

@awkwardgoogle Это стоит 500.000£ ???

In 2017, a British man desperate to sell his £500,000 mansion came up with a bold and unconventional plan: he raffled it off online for just £2 per ticket. The idea took off. He sold nearly 500,000 entries, cleared his debts, and handed over the keys to a lucky factory worker who won the draw.

@SubversiveForce Consistently on the wrong side of history is that dude

True story.

It is quite funny that the zoomiest of the zoomer Nats donated £500k to a dedicated second referendum fund and it ended up getting spaffed on £3.5k wine coasters and £2.6k salt and pepper grinders.

This case strikes me as extraordinary, both for the police behaviour and judge's apparent direction to the jury. Carrying an 8" knife is illegal with very limited exceptions which do not include "self defence". The Criminal Justice Act makes that plain, and the Sentencing Council says in terms "carrying a knife or other weapon for protection is not a lawful reason. " The Attorney General should be reviewing both this case and the case of the two teenage rapists ASAP. I don't know what is happening with our justice system at the moment, and I am not alone in that concern. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The vast list of luxury items bought by Murrell with other people's money is jawdropping. Like £200 Fortnum & Mason advent calendars and £2.6K Lalique salt and pepper grinders. But my fav so far is £160 for Folio Society edition of 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'. Handy.

@ramonagusta Does she actually think anyone will believe this?

The £120k motorhome and £81k Jaguar were parked on her own drive...

@MPrinParr Weird isn’t it, someone juiced up for 2 years and it still want enough

lol

@horsevault A friend’s mum was left paralysed when this happened to her

1989 Frightening Incident Curragh Racecourse

@MajorDMalpas @MPrinParr FML, extraordinary

Behold the new intake at Holyrood. Middle class, soy latte revolutionaries. These dafties are making the laws you will be forced to live by. Laws they won’t understand themselves…..

@TimurNegru Marvellous

You can buy a working orange farm in Spain, the size of Central Park, for €1.95M ($2.27M). There's also a castle on it. The estate sits in Marxuquera, a small valley 6 km inland from Gandía on Spain's eastern Mediterranean coast. 317 hectares of land (783 acres), most of it forest. 17.38 hectares is an orange grove in full production, already trading with local producers, fed by a 2M litre reservoir and drip irrigation. In the middle of all this is a three-storey castle with five bedrooms, four bathrooms, a wine cellar, a guest house, a caretaker's house, a 16x8m pool, a tennis court, and a floodlit frontón court. The trade-off is that this isn't a holiday villa. The grove needs managing and the woodland needs stewarding. That said, Valencia airport is 50 minutes away, Gandía beach is 10 km away, and the city of Valencia is an hour up the AP-7. A castle, an orange farm, and a forest bigger than Monaco.

Hahahahaha

@elliehodges62 Even worse at University level

How are people surprised by this? I’ve genuinely never met a teacher who is openly right wing. One of the NEU’s main focuses at its annual conference this year was to “stop Reform”. Students often don’t feel able to be open about their politics. The list goes on. I don’t think some people realise how important this is. If young people feel unable to express political views that fall outside an accepted consensus, that’s a serious problem and one of the biggest issues we should be talking about.

@aakashgupta @Madz_Grant It’s pretty lame

Two glasses of wine. Didn't get drunk. Couldn't function for three days. This is being celebrated as self-awareness. A healthy 33-year-old body should metabolize two glasses of wine and recover by morning. Billions of people throughout history did exactly that while building civilizations, fighting wars, and running companies. Bartlett has restricted his inputs so aggressively that a single normal human experience sent his entire system into a 72-hour reboot. Engineers call this brittleness. A system optimized exclusively for peak performance under ideal conditions that shatters the moment conditions change. The opposite of antifragile. Remove every stressor for long enough and your body loses the ability to absorb even minor ones. The generation that tracks every HRV reading, weighs every macro, and sleeps in temperature-controlled darkness has accidentally built the most fragile humans in history. Previous generations drank, ate badly, slept rough, and still recovered because constant low-level stress kept their systems adaptable. Two glasses of wine registered as a catastrophic shock because he's spent three years stripping every form of variance from his life. A body that can only perform under perfect conditions is the definition of a fragile system.

The Sewage Doesn't Lie. Polly Toynbee Said So. In 2010, Polly Toynbee wrote in the Guardian that the census was missing millions of people and that Britain had no reliable idea of how many people actually lived here. Her evidence? Sewage. Thames Water, she explained, could calculate true population numbers from outflow data regardless of who was registered, who had filled in a form, or who the authorities knew about. The sewage doesn't discriminate. It counts everyone. In Slough alone, she reported, Thames Water's data revealed 30,000 more people than officially registered. She was making the argument that inner city constituencies were being underfunded because the state couldn't count its own population. She was right. Fifteen years later, Thames Water commissioned a study using precisely that methodology. The results were obtained by the Telegraph under freedom of information. The study estimated that up to 585,000 people are living illegally in the London water supply zone. Nationally, the figure exceeds one million. David Wood, the former Director General of Immigration Enforcement at the Home Office, told the Home Affairs Select Committee the same thing in 2017, before the Channel crossing surge had even begun. Since 2018, over 200,000 people have arrived by small boat alone, with a removal rate of just 4 percent. The methodology Toynbee championed in 2010 to argue for more funding for Labour inner city seats has produced a number the Guardian would never publish. The sewage still doesn't lie. It has simply started telling a different story. This matters for several reasons. The official population figures used to allocate public services, draw constituency boundaries and calculate per capita spending are wrong. They have been wrong for years and the undercounting runs in one direction only. The people not on the register, not in the census, not in the ONS migration statistics, are overwhelmingly concentrated in the cities and inner suburbs that have absorbed the largest numbers of unregistered arrivals. The schools that are overflowing, the GP surgeries that cannot cope, the housing that is unaffordable: these are not random failures of public administration. They are the predictable consequence of a population that the state either cannot or will not count honestly. The political class that calls concerned citizens far-right for raising these questions has known about the undercounting problem for at least fifteen years. Toynbee's 2010 piece was not a fringe complaint. It was a mainstream left-wing argument made in Britain's most prominent left-wing newspaper, citing official ONS data, Thames Water analysis and the testimony of sitting MPs. The numbers were smaller then. The methodology was the same. What has changed is not the tools for counting. What has changed is what the counting reveals. In 2010 it revealed underfunded Labour constituencies. In 2026 it reveals a population of over a million people living here without authorisation, in a country whose government describes 171,000 net migration as a secure Britain and calls anyone who disagrees a bigot. Polly Toynbee was right in 2010. The sewage doesn't lie. She just didn't anticipate where the truth would eventually lead. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… "The study estimated that up to 585,000 people are living illegally in the London water supply zone. Nationally, the figure exceeds one million."

The problem with this point isn’t that it’s not true, or that it’s not really bad. It’s that the proposed solution of wealth taxes will not redistribute wealth from rich to poor, it will redistribute wealth to the government, who will then squander it.