Adam Bell

British political culture is fixated on sanctioning bad things instead of incentivizing good things. For example: instead of a blanket 15.5mph speed limit on ebikes, we should allow citizens to win licences for higher speeds if they successfully unseat an opponent at the Hackney jousts.

Only Connect casually introducing the British middle classes to Junji Ito. Someone is about to develop a novel fear of spirals. #onlyconnect

British growth discourse is a guy called Tom or Sam sketching a map of new transport infrastructure in MSPaint stamping on a human face forever.

I want to talk about this story and removing levies from bills. As always I'm going to explain it all in layman's terms so people who are not energy nerds can understand what these debates about how to lower their energy bills actually mean www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...

Dieter on economic regulation: genuinely novel interesting insights based on a life spent in the field. Dieter on anything else: HERE COMES UNCLE BOOMER.

"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!"

Yes, quite. @adambell.bsky.social

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

UK Gov 👍 £90M for heat networks Some pricey "£5.5 million to upgrade the systems serving 1,143 residents" London Strategic Heat Main project (£41M) for ~1M ppl via the Thames 👍 Although while 🏗️ heat will be supplied by electric barges carrying heated water up the Thames !

The BBC trying to apply balance to reporting of people doing crimes is obviously insane. What's next, the BBC reporting on domestic violence and including the perspective of someone who beats their wife?

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

Obviously going to regret this when Claude starts a nuclear war on Monday.

Controlling inflation with cheap money and price controls is very much a vibe.

This is exactly it I don't want to live forever but I would *love* to know what happens.

Amazing and depressing in equal measure. Two centuries of a world in which one power enforced freedom of navigation dissolving before our eyes. I really don't think people want to see what a world without global trade would look like.

This is absolutely brutal and highlights why the PM has already trailed an effort to lower bills for the worst off by £200. You will note that this is less than the half the projected increase. I can't see this holding.

It is amazing quite how many words of varied size and form one can spend on a definition while still being so imprecise as to be meaningless. Do read the whole thread.

Picked up a copy of "Hyperpolitics" on a whim after seeing it promoted all over the place and I can only conclude that Verso have an amazing marketing department because there's not much substance here and the evidence base is weak.

Are you interested in flexibility in the electricity market? Well, lucky you, because I've written a post all about and why we need a Target Operating Model for it. unbalancingmechanism.substack.com/p/flex-off?r...

The Telegraph believes not just in the death of the author, but stamping on his corpse.

I am much more sanguine about AI risk, because I suspect that in a world where someone tells an AI to end humanity someone else will tell their AI to do the opposite, and then we just gum up data centres with fighting electric demons for a few months before we accept the internet is over.

Am totally fascinated by the AI people who are happy to roll the dice on ending the human race just to ensure that it's their electric toy that gets to murder us all first.

Having reported on the climate crisis for 20 years I am here to inform you that warnings we've unleashed something with a >10% of destroying humanity will have less of an impact than you'd expect.

Spoken like a man who can't get past Godrick in Elden Ring.

I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s

Clearly future climate protests will be able to rely on the defence of, "We all just happened to rock up on this street at the same time, carrying our walking around placards."

Just Arrest the Fash. We do the same for left wing protesters, so I can't see why we wouldn't here.

I'm a house owner, I couldn't care less if the value of my house declined, but I know there is an entire generation, probably two now, who have little to no reason to harbour ambition because everything is out of reach (house, family, basically any life event). Unleashing them is more important.

What is that sound? It's the noise that of a million "what about" brains exploding. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...