Olly Gark

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason

In 2016, the UK produced 30 cars for every 100 made in Germany. That number is now down to 17 thanks to Brexit. ukandeu.ac.uk/from-pace-se...

I really hope he gets breast cancer

They lived WHERE??

The ‘wealth exodus’ was manufactured by the press. The press complaints body IPSO must investigate or step aside. The “millionaire exodus” story started with one study which now admits it has no evidence. taxjustice.net/2026/10/19/t...

🔴 Mysterious Right-Wing Think Tank Demanding Charity ‘Transparency’ Won’t Say Who Runs or Funds It EXCLUSIVE: A group with no legal status and using fake names for the authors of its first published report, has won widespread media coverage, despite refusing to say who is behind it

Recent climate analysis reveals an alarming truth: the rate of global warming has DOUBLED over the past decade. We are now on track to permanently breach the crucial 1.5°C threshold by 2028—nearly a full decade earlier than previous models predicted.

🔴 NEW What Ukraine’s Strikes On Data Centres Really Revealed About Russian Information Warfare By Caroline Orr Bueno Read below. ↓

Well, this is interesting

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

Luckily there is similar evidence from places like Spain & Switzerland with variation at the local level (and where it is super-easy to get from one taxing j. to another on a nice train)! Which we reviewed pretty comprehensively here: www.californialawreview.org/print/state-...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

The Algorithms Radicalised The UK’s OAPs Out now on kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com

FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper

I blame Burnham and net stupid zero

Some think that AI could result in human extinction, which would take the shine off any future listing. It’s hard to celebrate an initial public offering that leads to a terminal public offing

Danny Tommo has been filmed slashing a dinghy in the channel containing migrants and a rescue worker on board. There is no mention of this on the BBC news website at all as far as I can see. Yet when he and his thugs turn up in masks it's all "Legitimate protestors show ankle in Dover".

"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...

NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).

Why Andy Burnham must remove Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) clauses — described as “litigation terrorism” by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz — from the UK's trade deals. @labourlewis.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20...

Jesus #NFFC

🌳 @NFFC in flow state 😮‍💨

With two crypto billionaires donating £72m to Farage’s party in one day, there’s a good reason that for months Byline Times has featured ‘Crypto Politics’ as one of its major themes

The new motivational posters over at Space Force are pretty good, though…

"Brian Clough and Peter Taylor" #NottinghsmForest #NottsForest #Nottingham #NFFC #Forest #England #footballnews #footballculture #footballnostalgia #football #soccer #retro #vintage #bluesky #viral #fyp #calcio #fútbol #futebol #futbol #foboll #fußbal #fussball #voetbal #lefootball #lefoot

Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.

Fabulous (long) thread

Here's the full video. This is a tough one, and naturally I now support #pusb (except against #nffc obvs). youtu.be/JvDAvox51Cw?... youtu.be/JvDAvox51Cw?...

Interesting insight into how a determined monetarist sees things scottsumner.substack.com/p/our-moneta...

I just read a travel post someone wrote about Berlin saying they were surprised that there wasn’t just one compact city centre but a couple, and I wondered how old you have to be now to realise why.

#NFFC

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

A Rube Goldberg machine masterpiece [📹 Hiratoshi Kubota / pitagora.maker] Original post

@draper-rob.bsky.social Enjoyed your piece on King Kev. As an Armthorpe lad, I feel I have to point out it was Markham Main colliery. Markham colliery was near Chesterfield 👍

My youngest helped design her primary school leavers' mural - which is frankly terrifying.

#Australia is planing a landmark leap in #renewableenergy by constructing the world's largest #waveenergy farm, enough to power 1 million homes. Wave energy is predictable and consistent, making it one of the most reliable forms of renewable power. climate-kic.org.au/2026/04/09/w... #ActOnClimate

I spent most of the last week at the UN AI for Good Summit, and after spending the weekend recuperating, had deeper thoughts than the stories I published last week from the event. That feels like as good a reason as any to start my Substack with an essay from Geneva open.substack.com/pub/chrissto...

The memes surrounding Binface V Farage are brilliant, share your favourites below, preferably with links to original creators, and if we get enough, we will collate and publish..... Via Penny Nite on Facebook.

Man spent five hours filling his bucket with fish, until he woke up to find every single one gone. On May 20th, a man was fishing off a dock when he started having one of the best days he’d had in weeks. Dock camera showed his Dog was feeding a Dolphin 🐬

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com

What are the chances!

The Guardian reveals bankers reported Nigel Farage's £5m crypto gift to the National Crime Agency over money laundering concerns just before he quit as an MP. 📊🚨👇

The walls are closing in around the Reform leader and some of Nigel Farage's allies now believe he could soon be heading for the door www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-scanda...

I'm writing about charlatans, and frauds, and there are none bigger than the fraudulent charlatan Andrew Wakefield. But goddamn look at Anderson Cooper go here. What a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kO...

Reform UK have deleted their Cryptoassets and Digital Finance Bill from their website. So here it is for the record: web.archive.org/web/20260203...

In the last month Nigel Farage has spent around eight times longer promoting gold bars for money (4 hours) than he has spent doing his supposed main job of being an MP voting in the House of Commons (just two votes, taking approximately 30 minutes)