🇺🇦Centrist Dad

@PulaRJS Absolute muppet. What’s complex about “single sex spaces”? It’s as bloody complex as “adult only”, “no dogs” or “under 16 football team” Beclowning yourself 🤡

The new guidance from the EHRA brings a sledge hammer to the complex area of single sex spaces. As the EHRC acknowledges – it’s impossible to know what “biological” sex someone is. Even if toilet police were to start inspecting people – what would an inspection of someone who has medically transitioned reveal? "Concerns raised by other service users" will be a key factor in determining whether the owners of facilities should approach people to ask their gender. This should be done "sensitively". If anyone can explain how you approach a woman in public toilets and ask "do you have or have you ever had a penis” sensitively I’m all ears. I may be missing something here. But I don’t see how this is anything other than a charter for toilet vigilantes to hound, not just trans people, but any woman who fails to conform to conventional ideas of femininity. novaramedia.com/2026/05/29/tra…

@ApsanaBegumMP Will you invite a trans woman into the women’s section of your mosque?

@SarahCoombesWB Omg Led my muppets

Both the Tories and Reform are now saying the kirpan should be banned. This is totally wrong. The kirpan is a key article of the Sikh faith. An entire community cannot be tarred by the horrendous actions of one person.

@AlboMP How come you didn’t post the clip of you calling 50% of the populations rights a “culture war”?

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @JohnRentoul Sooo, and now we’re back to Schrodinger were we started Too small / too long to develop to make a difference but also simultaneously needing to be banned by gov. There is zero coherent reasoning. It’s laughable 🤡

@phil_tri @chris_mumby @JohnRentoul This is just nonsense Our reserves are mature which means new sources are expensive and more time consuming to bring online There isn’t enough of it to change market prices

Keir Starmer’s riposte to Blair is also witty: “I respect his opinion” because he is “the only *other* living person to have secured a Labour majority” keirstarmer.substack.com/p/tony-blair-m…

@hwallop @IsntWorkingPod As a profession they’ve faced criticism for years (the celebrated FastCompany article was from 2005). It is rather telling that they haven’t been able to shift this narrative… fastcompany.com/53319/why-we-h…

Why is HR so hated? Last week Bolt boss, Ryan Breslow (pictured) said he’d “got rid of our HR team”, adding they were “creating problems that didn’t exist”. People could not contain their glee. He was hailed as a hero. 1/3

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @JohnRentoul You are of course wrong. Let’s take gas ~30% is domestic production (lowest transport costs) ~ 50% is from Norway - same North Sea (slightly higher transport costs, no tax or jobs in UK) ~ 15% is LNG (US and was ME) - more expensive, less green, subject to supply shocks.

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @JohnRentoul You are tying yourself in knots. Your model is that we import all of petroleum at the “global” price. So 1. In any market if supply increases (we drill more) price will go down. 2. Those private companies pay tax which either goes to us or 🇳🇴

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @JohnRentoul Wow. Our demand for petroleum is *not* a function of how much we drill any more than our demand for tomatoes is a function of how many we grow. Closing down home grown tomato farmers would just increase imports it would not lower demand This is not difficult.

@phil_tri @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul It’s irrelevant We should be importing less fossil fuels So the economy is better protected from global price shocks and we have cheaper renewable energy making up the vast majority of our energy mix

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul So again none of this addresses why it’s ok for Norway to drill & us to buy it, but not ok for us to drill & us to buy it. No one I have engaged with on this topic can answer that simple question. You get lots of handwaving about demand (irrelevant) or other nonsense.

@phil_tri @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul The daily strike price is determined by the highest cost activated that day. Which is normally gas If we reduce reliance on gas to produce electricity energy bills come down

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul How much fossil fuel we use is a demand issue. Nothing to do with our ‘how much we drill. We are not going to use 2% (your number) less because we don’t drill it ourselves. We will buy it on the market (and Norway will have drilled it and got the jobs and taxes).

@phil_tri @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul Or we can grow the renewable capacity in the energy mix and use fossil fuels less and only when necessary Would increase energy security, reduce bills, be better for the economy and growth

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul Your own argument is the there is a “global”price. If that’s the case we will buy the oil and gas that we need from that market. That is *independent* of if we dill it or the Norwegians drill it. The difference being the Norwegian get the jobs and tax revenue not us.

@phil_tri @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul The argument is we need to move away from fossil fuels, not just self generated but also imports And its economic benefits not just environmental We’ve had huge energy costs and inflation decimate the economy due to fossil fuel price shock

@M0kujin @chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul Yeah Schrödinger’s oil and gas fields again. Simultaneously so small they won’t make any difference while also so damaging to climate change that they need to be regulated out of existence* *existence in the Uk. Norway can expand and drill and we’re ready to buy it.

@chris_mumby @Sussexbrighton4 @JohnRentoul The US is vastly different in terms of scale and distribution Our oil and gas fields are extremely mature. All the easy stuff is done. Anything new is expensive and time consuming And we can do absolutely nothing that would move global market prices

@TrisOsborneMP @ECrieghton44 Brilliant! So now we have decoupled, I assume our prices will drop to Finland / France / Spain levels. Phew. Will be see it this month or next?

@ECrieghton44 We already are.

And those at the cheapest end of this list have largely de-coupled from oil + gas. They made the difficult decision; they invested; they now see the benefit.

@NormanBrennan Genuine question if I may. The police handcuffed Henry. I assume you can only do that if they are arresting him. What evidence beyond a single acquisition did they need for an arrest? Why was it necessary to make an arrest *at that point* for whatever crime they arrest him for

Folks I agree with Both of gadgets points; turning up at a Chaotic scene of madness is often difficult as many of us in policing will know; 2nd Point If/When Race supersedes Reason & Rational then that’s when undue pressure on policing may cause an Unfair Bias & that’s? Dangerous👇🤷‍♂️👍

@unisontheunion Utter utter muppets. Let’s dismantle women’s right for men in dresses. You deserve irrelevance. Working class women deserve their own union.

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@B840D0o @BobFromAccounts Yes and that will be valued as land you can build housing on. Land that you park on cannot be built on to provide housing so cannot valued at that level. Re read the OPs post carefully. Different values for land with different uses should not be hard to understand.

@phil_tri @BobFromAccounts No, you have larger plots of land available for housing. Not sure why this is so hard to understand.

On-street parking is ridiculously cheap and heavily subsidised. In Hackney, the average cost per m² of housing is around £8,564, The area occupied by the average car is 6.72 m² This makes the value of a car parking space over £57550+ The average parking permit is £163.

@Oliver_Winters @AdamLake They did not deliver growth, they delivered anti growth action. They did not deliver only growth funded spending, they delivered nice increases to client groups and taxed others to pay for it. LKY is Delivery > ideology But delivery against the *declared* plan.

@phil_tri @AdamLake Sure - but "delivery" was the mantra of Labour going into government, but despite delivering on many promises we are not getting cut-through. Not expecting miracles, normal to be unpopular at this point in term, but something is not working.

I read the Tony Blair essay last night. I thought it was a really clear articulation of the challenges faced not just by Britain, but the world. I found myself agreeing, strongly, with about 90% of it. I am stunned by the response today. Now living in the US, I'm significantly less connected to the UK vibe, but I'm pretty astonished at the blinkers so many supposed political leaders force on themselves. The main rebuttal seems to be that these global changes aren't as fun to talk about as traditional town hall politics. As Blair sets out, only utter irrelevance will come from this. In the US, there are similar challenges, and too often politicians look to simplify the global situation. The difference is the private sector in the US is so vast, the scale and speed is so strong in these emerging markets, that it doesn't hold progress back. The UK will never compete with the US or China on the AI revolution, but it is best placed to be a strong third. For the size of our economy, that should be seen as our number one pursuit. To say, "Why are you talking about AI when you should be focussing on the NHS and the cost of living" shows a level of naivety that is crushing. If those voices lead the conversation in the UK, its future is bleak. It is the flat earth equivalent. Whether you like it or not, that is the reality. We can embrace it and reap the benefits for society, or ignore it and forever be a poor follower.

@Oliver_Winters @AdamLake All politicians (particularly Labour) should read around Lee Kuan Yew. His model for 🇸🇬 success was simple “It’s not whether it’s left or right, it’s not whether it’s public or private, it’s what *works*” Delivery > ideology Eg 🇸🇬 has high public housing & private health

@Oliver_Winters @AdamLake Labour’s election manta was growth (and no spending not support by growth). - noble plan. Delivery was spending not support by growth (doctors etc) + Regs, NIC increases, NWM up all anti-growth by any standard measure Another plan was AI, delivery worlds most expensive leccy