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Bring Back the Terrifying Films — But It Won't Work
Sarah Ditum has a piece in The Times arguing that Britain should revive the public information film. Her prompt was telling off a young man for lighting a cigarette in a tinder-dry field during a s...
Weekly ish Running update... Slowest every Park Run
But it was deliberate, so that's OK! My last three runs: Tuesday Octopus... I headed out for 4 isk Ks easy and then 4 300M - at 4.05 but I overdid it, according to Claude. I also did one warm up bu...
Twenty-Seven Jobs and a Reputation
Andy Burnham has to decide whether to approve two North Sea developments — the Jackdaw gas field off Aberdeen and the larger Rosebank oil field west of Shetland — after a court ruled that ministers...
The Grain Bill Always Arrives Late
Tom Tugendhat used his Telegraph column this week to point at something most of us have been comfortably ignoring: the world's grain trade is in serious trouble, and Britain is behaving as though t...
"Resilient" Is What We Say When We Can't Say "Growing"
Writing in The Times, David Smith looks at the British economy and finds it standing up rather well. The next quarterly growth figures wouldn't match the brisk 0.6% of the first quarter, he predict...
Happy September HPUD through 300K HP...
Evening evening and happy September HPUD to one and all. I have just Powered up another 2.5K Hive to take me through that 300K HP barrier.... Looks nice huh?!? Do you love the game...? I mean hones...
The Death Tax Panic Has Nothing To Do With Dying
Andy Burnham has been Prime Minister for barely a month and has already reached for the policy that has destroyed more political careers than any other. A National Care Service. Free at the point o...
Weeklyish Running Update - Intense Base!
So I put my August running stats into Claude and it came back and told me my Park Runs are too fast to be proper 'base' runs. My other runs are all fine - being mid 130s for the runs, but with the ...
We Didn't Over-Educate. We Under-Employed
There is a particular British ritual that recurs every few years, usually when the graduate employment figures land. Someone senior announces that too many young people are going to university, tha...
The State's Best Defence Was That Nobody Could Be Bothered
The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning ob...
The Rise of the 1am Job Interview
A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. Nobody has sch...
Britain Has Become a Fire-Prone Country and Forgotten to Buy Any Aircraft
Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. A record that keep...
A Drought With a Hierarchy: Who Actually Gets the Water
There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water s...
Your Call Is Important To Us: The Political Economy of Being Kept Waiting
There is a particular kind of latecomer who is not chaotic but precise. Not vaguely late — exactly late. A quarter of an hour, every single time, as though they had set an alarm to guarantee it. I ...
A National Trust for the High Street..?
Walk down almost any English high street outside the prosperous south and you'll get the same experience... a vape shop, a barber, three charity shops, a Greggs, and a long stretch of shuttered fro...