And then the reason landlords might want to get rid of antennae or say no to new ones is that MNOs got their way in 2017 with new rules that slashed rents they could demand for hosting them. Just became a pain with little reward so went on strike effectively.
I think @maxwellmarlow.bsky.social (understandably) didn’t mention that people say they hate crap reception/speeds but can’t/won’t pay a premium for best local/national network. Revealed preference for cheapest deal - whether £10/mth or best bundle for latest iPhone/Samsung.
Ultimately none of the process chatter about the Mandelson appointment really matters, it is all just fluff around 'the PM made a bad decision that became politically untenable':
sometimes feel like the original sin of this whole shebang was looking at the crime currency and going "yeah seems fine"
Hard to argue that Starmer and Reeves have helped this in their style and tone.
Yeah, it’s a classic Tyler Cowen ‘marginal revolution’ provocation he’s said regularly for donkeys’ years without claiming it as some sort of new insight. I reckon in the US where planes are like trains (and pre 9/11 security moreso) it makes a lot more sense.
Yep
Extremely unpleasant knowing exactly how people will be asking should something awful happen ‘it’s so obvious, how could we have been so stupid?’. Answer: Because Westminster Labour and Tory groups desperately trying to win over a few dozen idiots living in the Soho ward who think it’s Surbiton.
It’s such a needless threat and risk to leave open. Amazed police anti-terrorism teams aren’t demanding this of Westminster council.
Did not realise scenario where Villa win Europa League but finish in fifth means they get into Champions League via that and the ‘fifth’ Champions League place aka ‘European Performance Spot’ transfers to sixth.
Lot of Liverpool supporters among Chelsea fans all of a sudden.
Interesting straw in the wind earlier this week when Justin Rowlatt for the BBC jumped off the Clean Power 2030 train, focused on gas power plants and higher bills, and made the case for Cheap Power 2030 focused on cost of living policy that helps people ditch gas boilers and petrol cars.
Just very misguided Net Zero policy to expensively rush to making the small red bar go down faster by 2030, and so slow down reducing the much bigger brown and tan bars. Marginal £/MtCO2 in EVs + HPs.
Like a poverty reduction policy focused only on increasing benefits at the cost of employment.
Would act as a more contained version of Brexit as lesson to Eurosceptics in the rest of Europe on benefits of EU. Govt can say ‘we strongly advise against, big single markets are good for cost of living and, btw, this is a Brexit dividend that’s probably incompatible with EU membership’.
Letting this happen would be the demonstration of the reality behind the principle rather than Westminster ‘patronising’ on the theory. Sometimes populism needs to eat itself - Lidl and Aldi leaving, the big stores closing, and Scotland getting higher regional prices for everything else does that.
Just very misguided Net Zero policy to expensively rush to making the small red bar go down faster by 2030, and so slow down reducing the much bigger brown and tan bars. Marginal £/MtCO2 in EVs + HPs.
Like a poverty reduction policy focused only on increasing benefits at the cost of employment.
All just a huge downgrade for want of catching and punishing a tiny minority effectively
If nothing continues to be done:
- Worst affected outlets close.
- Store formats return to Open All Hours style behind the counter service.
- Bigger stores roll out the Amazon Fresh register on way in ‘just walk out’ or more basic but dystopian Airlock pod entry with ID+face scan+credit card
Why did I check the quote tweets on this? I knew they were going to depress me, just wall to wall people who are going to be poorer than they should be in old age who think that “invest more in stocks and shares ISAs” is some kind of spiv’s charter and not, you know, important advice.
Best thing Starmer personally short term, UK Labour medium term and UK govt long term can do now is clearly commit to respect Scottish and Welsh voters on non-constitutional policy choices. Full fiscal autonomy, full Scottish ‘Kilts’ borrowing powers with no bailout. Price controls, why not?
Women’s rugby great to watch. Almost all the stuff people moan about most about in men’s game is absent.
Nuclear has ticked up again, now towards 5.3GW. Highest availability in a couple of years. Great to see but, also, couldn’t have picked a less helpful time of day, week or year to step up output. Sunny Saturdays in April not when we need that baseload so much.
Yeah, but that’s orders of magnitude smaller as a problem compared to issue now where we’ve essentially barred all EU migration for most UK jobs ie under £42k.
UK-EU YES removes admin/psychological barrier for EU elites’ kids applying for law/finance grad schemes in London (most start above £42k)
It was 100% a mistake to put £40 billion extra into the NHS when a small part of that money could have solved local govt and just allowled a complete blitz on stuff people see every day- I would have done a gimmick like getting HCLG staff in high vis jackets walking around town centres!
I think there are parameters at which a ‘UK-EU Youth Experience Scheme’ could get us a lot closer to a Swiss deal.
UK-EU YES ‘capped’ at 200k/yr, ‘limited’ to 4yrs and ‘only available’ to 18-40yrs olds looks a lot like most EU>UK FoM pre-2016. British pensioners on the Algarve the main losers.
Jaw-dropping Bellingcat film on Kinahans. From running drugs in Dublin to sanctions busting and money laundering for IRGC and Hezbollah in Dubai.
Yesterday, the Government announced they were scrapping an £18 per tonne carbon on electricity.
In a new post, @michaeljahill.bsky.social explains the green case for cutting carbon taxes on electricity.
www.samdumitriu.com/p/why-the-ca...
According to this analysis of drugs in sewage (yes, that's a thing), we're (🏴) using more cocaine, ketamine and ecstasy (both tripled in 5 years), but less heroin. This analysts estimates we consume the equivalent of 132 tonnes of pure cocaine each year.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
That is quite the wrinkle!
Don't know. Gemini says uninsured are 5% of drivers on UK roads but account for 20% of KSI, so would be about five times more dangerous if true.
