🔸 Sachin Fraser Patel 🔸

theguardian.com/society/2023/j… Fantastic coverage of the @BasicIncomeCon @Autonomy_UK @GrangeBL UBI pilot, heading to N2 soon. A really important conversation as the Fourth Industrial Revolution ramps up. @LDforBI

@PhilipJCollins1 not sure if you still read your old rag, but @lara_spirit has reduced your old maxim about the Labour Party by two-thirds, and flung it at the Tories.

@TheRestHistory I’m amazed this tidbit didn’t make it into your sweeping, magisterial mini-series on Reagan. This also has shades of the Queen visiting the LSE in 2008 and bemoaning economists for not predicting the crash.

Today @jaketreenotsea and I launched our @HealthFdn quarterly GP data tracker – looking at appointments & workforce in general practice, including a deeper dive into face to face appointments by staff group… health.org.uk/news-and-comme… (1/8)

@tomowolade @ionawolffphoto And at The Eagle! A great history lesson contained in a pub…

A pleasure to be photographed by the excellent @ionawolffphoto

Why can't the Tories just go away? My penultimate column for @thetimes online now - bit.ly/3YU0xpz

@DAaronovitch Funny to think this contributed in a fairly major way to Nick Clegg becoming pals with Mark Zuckerberg, the unlikely pair hanging out in the Metaverse, and “guardrails” to enable Trump to return to Facebook. Strange world…

I would like to understand better how Jared O'Mara got to be a Labour MP and how he remained one for so long. Any links?

@Sathnam My last one survived the Eurostar to Amsterdam, and then a 15 minute bus ride… and that was it. Couldn’t face the shame of replacing it so I then endured 10 very wet days in Benelux. Three years later, I still haven’t bought another one.

@BrokenBarnet @yshahar Took an LFT this morning for the first time in a while. Instructions said *don’t* look at the result after 60 minutes. So I’d say, could be a false positive. Covid or not, get well soon.

@yshahar I'll try!

Is there a doctor in the house? Am ill, took Covid test, first looked at it, couldn't see anything. Fell asleep: looked again & it was like this ...

@MattChorley In 2008 @LSEnews opened a new building for academic facilities. It was christened, poetically, “New Academic Building”.

A public vote has decided that a new museum in Perth should be called... Perth Museum So, your best building and place names please. Shop pun names will win extra points. Go...

@Samfr @stephenkb I took my university housemates to a midnight screening at BFI IMAX, directly after our end-of-term philosophy department party. In retrospect, this was not an apposite pairing.

@stephenkb I know I saw it but I cannot remember a single thing about it or why I was there.

Moments of mass hysteria: none of us can now adequately explain why so many of us saw ‘Avatar’ the first time around.

How gendered is the clothing offer for children? For our @SZ data analysis, we examined 20,000 shirts and shorts from @hmdeutschland, @Zalando and @aboutyou_com that they offer online for children under 10. The results show: Current children's fashion cements gender images. 🧵

100 days of @BarnetLabour control is long enough to form a clear plan for the borough. Unfortunately I’m struggling to believe that @BarryJohnRawlin has one. (Mini 🧵)

@sarahcreates ... and after?

The day I coerced my neighbour into trying to fry an egg on his bin lid. #Heatwave

No progress in Barnet on creating 'healthy streets', report finds Borough lacking 20mph zones, low-traffic neighbourhoods and 'school streets' #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">barnetpost.co.uk/no-progress-in…

@SachinPatelLD @aliceTTimes @bowelbabe I really hope everyone listens. She was so inspiring. I don’t think there’s anybody who wouldn’t benefit from hearing her story and how she approached life, even as death was drawing closer. What an amazing woman.

⁦@ManveenRana⁩ ⁦@aliceTTimes⁩ flawless episode today. Cancer will affect most of us directly or indirectly. The podcast made that fact somehow more reconcilable. As ⁦@bowelbabe⁩'s final words flowed out, so did the tears. Thank you! podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6…

“Do you get lonely?” “I do” Fascinating, exciting… and slightly unsettling episode of Stories of our Times today, on the sentience of an AI bot W/ @whippletom and @lukejones03, produced by @taryn_ruth13 open.spotify.com/episode/5gLpCL…

@rozgab @JonnElledge How have we been misled all these years? I thought Barnet was already the most populous?!

@JonnElledge WHAT

NICHE CENSUS WHINGE: I've been assuming, and occasionally writing, for years that Barnet was on course to overtake Croydon as London's most populous borough. But no, as Barnet 389.3k, Croydon 390.8k, a whole 0.39% bigger.