Based on average price changes for the South West, the property being complained of has gained £612,000 in value since purchase, or £443,000 more than inflation over the same span.

Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.

No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.

“some groups say a revolution was more diverse than two guys”

that’s some kind of editorial caution, there, AP

Of course, the end goal of generalising from “a grown-ass adult who consistently identified as trans for seven years caught it off his woke mates” is “trans people don’t exist”.

I love how spending years making a community with welcoming/affirming friends in Glasgow is cast 'indoctrination' and 'social contagion', but starting a detransition after watching TikTik videos isn't.

These people always tell on themselves.

Bad morning.

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Low-T-1000.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Two gents on the train, both took early retirement in their 50s, complaining about taxes on pension withdrawals and inheritance tax on £1 million estates. System “corrupt from top to bottom”, they say. One of them was off to buy a sports car. Never have I felt such sympathy for our political class.

Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Russ Vought specifically calls out USAID as something he's proud of (illegally) dismantling. The cut foreign aid has likely already killed hundreds of thousands of people and will eventually kill millions.

Basic problem for UK defence policy is that:

a) UK armed forces are in a state
b) UK spends more than its peers to get less
c) Treasury (IMV rightly) distrusts the present political leadership of MOD to improve b) and is therefore reluctant to spend more money
d) PM refuses to break deadlock

Market Stalinism.

By design of course, forewarned of the dangers, a feature and not a bug.

THE opted for a clickbait headline quoting a VC who is only recognising the new reality. Nevertheless an effort underway to make the incentives the fault of universities rather than successive HMGs.

Here she is at the March on Washington wearing her Resistance medals, incredible flex

Of course, per capita spend even better. But there are countervailing issues: the UK is not close to the 6th largest population, drone swarm costs are more equitable, not currently losing kit/lives at war, etc. We could do with more discussion of why such poor capability despite £60 billion budget.

Shouldn’t we have more context and nuance in the UK militarisation debate by now? I don’t doubt the bad press on kit readiness but even on 2.3% of GDP, the UK was the sixth largest military spender in the world. 25% higher than Ukraine, over double Poland and thrice Turkey, &c.

(SIPRI 2024 figures)

I know this sounds cruel but you shouldn’t give politically homeless people your time, they’ll just spend it on the far right

Proud Boy and Prejudice.

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

series of headlines detailing "marathon talks"

Marathon talks? Compared to what? It took years for Obama to deliver a detailed Iran deal. The Trump admin are packing it in after 20 hours.
(H/T @bgrueskin.bsky.social)

It is inevitable that a HEPI report would advocate for all sorts of regulatory and systemic reforms like student distribution and reducing market incentives *way* after probably irrevocable damage has been done to the whole UK HE sector. Look at their reports from 2018-2020.

It's Hotdog Man stuff.

They literally did the meme.
-@gonglei89
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“Inconceivable” in that I do not believe all this will come to pass. Whatever paper cover is given, the Iranian regime can presumably make do with their Hormuz stranglehold, while the American regime has many consequences to come to terms with.

Surely even the least remarked on point - a Security Council resolution - seems immediately undeliverable, as to have any substance it would have China, France and the UK acting as the guarantor of Iranian sovereignty from future US-Israeli aggression.

While everyone is crowing about American strategic humiliation, I’m finding it inconceivable. Agog.

Again, I'm compelled to say that several years ago I wrote a piece for the NYT about me and my dad's shared love of Enya. In it, I mentioned that her music has been known to bring my father to tears and the fact-checking was so rigorous that they called my own dad - twice - to ask if this was true.

Sorry to be a stuck record, but "graham youre a heidegger scholar" at least deserves to be an honourable mention

But behind the scenes, Israeli officials have conveyed a more targeted message. In private calls to local leaders across southern Lebanon, Israeli military officials have assured several Christian and Druse communities that they could remain in the evacuation zone. They have pressed them, however, to force out any Lebanese from neighboring Shiite Muslim communities who have sought refuge among them as Israeli bombardment flatten Shiite towns, according to local Christian, Druse and Shiite leaders who spoke to The New York Times. The Shiites make up the majority of southern Lebanon.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

I for one am shocked that the same guy who tried to waste union resources on a plausibly legalistic but doomed hail mary in the courts then also wasted union resources defending against his vexatious allegation of rule breaches after he lost an election.