lebradley.net

Tim Harford’s recent article on email in the FT Weekend magazine neglects to put the word ‘quantity’ in the same sentence as ’email’.

There are two elites, and the feed off each other, willing to barter what they don’t have for what they do.

If there ever was a Labour MP who should have been sitting with the Conservatives, it was Peter Mandleson. What’s come out in the last few days should come (and I don’t think it does) as no surprise to anyone. Also, for those of us who have been trying for years to point out to those spending too much time on social media that there is no global conspiracy – well, here it is, there is a global conspiracy, and it is centred on a paedophile. Who knew? Clearly quite a lot of people.

In an interview, Martin Lewis has challenged Rachel Reeves on the morality of here Student Loan threshold payment freeze. Unfortunately, Lewis’ calls don’t go far enough.

I’m old enough to have only skirmished the beginnings of student loans in the early nineties, with a paltry three-figure sum to repay as opposed to the five-figure sums of today. If other European countries can manage not to fleece the workers of tomorrow, why can’t we?

So, another shitshow for Labour, though at least the media has moved on to Starmer’s trip to China. It’s incredible that Labour has managed yet another own goal, and there is plenty of coverage about this in the press, all of it that I have seen either blaming Starmer himself or his stooges on the … Read more

Cory Doctorow’s masterstroke is specific to platforms, but it’s simply too good to be kept in the box, and will spread to describe much more in the enshitternet.