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Criminals by nature may be incapable of remorse, but they can fear the law.

maybe this is just the SharePoint team and we're on our way to a much brighter and more beautiful SharePointless future

I'd not thought of it like this, but the piece brings up a Willie Horton risk in any early Burnham election: there are a lot of early release prisoners out there & one of them is sure to do something. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

Great thread. Endorse as a halfy myself.

Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec City high-speed rail, except it's the Maginot Line

An excellent and informative tax calculator

Evangelical Christian fundamentalism is why Brazil just might elect Flavio Bolsonario, a far-right traitor to the nation. Non-religious people *must* do much better at community and mutual aid. This is a global problem. Fascism's chief tool is religious delusions. archive.is/jkFDJ

Swarms of cars, each one taking up at least 10 ebike parkings continue to tie up London, and they owners won't pay a market rate for the space: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

We did save the whales. And the ozone layer, which is now so obscure no one knows about it. Human population growth, baring a few ultra poor countries, is under control, and is necessary to preserve the environment.

Yes, a perfect distillation. Kemi doing her best to lose the next election. Fails to get the anti-culture anti-arts Protestant line in US (and sadly parts Canada too) doesn't work at all here.

This terrible event clothed the archangel with added influence

Is it a. Managing public opinion, and Trump, while sticking with a pro-net 0 / modernisation agenda; or b. Shows he can be rolled over with a little pressure and has no foundation? Genuinely hard to say at this point; at least I'm not sure.

I published my first story in 1988, when I was 17 years old. Today, at 55, I've published more than 30 books, with three more coming in the next year or so. In the intervening years, I've spent a lot of time thinking and talking about publishing.

Um, what? Shut the Barbican? Part of a gathering storm in London over these Starmer tax decisions.

These recent posts are obviously by a different hand than the POTUS. The grammar, etc, all differs.

Randomly found an old poem I wrote about Microsoft

This is good, but the trouble with Merz is, what will he say tomorrow?

Possibly just a point scoring exercise from the anti-point scoring Burnham; also really makes you believe in his commitment to devolution and PR where power-sharing is required....

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

Alt headline: London drivers get a subsidy of at least 3/4 of the market cost of a parking space, and still think they're hard done by www.thetimes.com/money/family...

Reminder that the EU had no compunction about banning Russia Today. If anything, Musk’s behaviour is more egregious - directly assisting a foreign enemy's military attack. And this is on top of his support for race riots, Nazis and CSAM! By any measure, a threat to national security.

Can I have "small companies not paying tax" which is the actual problem?

We need to discuss joining the EU but w/o freedom of movement. Sure. If even the main party proponent of rejoining cannot see FoM as a good in itself, and not a trade of filthy foreigners for cash, "rejoin" is just silly chatter. The mentality gap is too huge.

So OTOH Burnham has the gift of the gab, able trot out total rubbish like 'public will be the boss' that the public loves, but I'm not sure he's got any actual policy vision to go with it.

Fun read this

Aligned is when the kid chooses the book's dark side: I think back to ours saying 'being a mud puddle monster would be fun; you can get people all muddy, hohoho' and not the authorised anti-bullying message the author intended

We'll see, but not getting a warm feeling about this govts commitment to climate change from multiple angles

Below thread is good; I'd add to annoy people further: the left is split. So is the right. This is a left dominant seat, so only the left split mattered here, but these splits are bad news for both blocs where the blocs are closer. And the LD centre does not exist, at least here.

Trade off of "Electrification" vs "conservation area" (= half of England) and the govts decision is...sigh...vote Labour for prioritising petrol cars I guess. Mad. www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

I could care less about football, and realise the sport is more corrupt than Trump, but allowing some idiot and evil Middle Eastern sheik to openly buy his way around the UK law.....is morally wrong and needs to be stopped.

British politics resembles a cruel psychological test: how much pain of Labour doing nutty left things can you take before you vote for crazy Kemi to make it stop?

Churchill to Truss. Life's unfair.

Labour's London constituencies such as Hammersmith are basically invulnerable, and er, well, perhaps not! www.thetimes.com/money/tax/ar...

Left-wing parties boasting about left-wing things and right-wing parties boasting about right-wing things is the hot new trend

In other words the Iranian operation was a success; it pushed the US operations back from a base with weak security? Funny thing to admit.

Ah, unrepentant hard core philistinism. Quite a bit of it in the Labour party too, truth be told, but usually kept a lot more quiet, in both parties. Again, I see a huge space for a party that cares about culture, community spaces, for all.

Not really able to handle Big Debate right now but isn't it just that some people are using "Zionism" to mean "the core proposition of a 19th century nationalist movement i.e. that the Jewish people get a state" some people to mean "the ideology of the present expansionist settler movement"...

Burnham's Man City comments made me realise why I haven't bothered writing an article about politics since he became PM; he's so incoherent that there's nothing to properly engage with. He's very like Johnson where it's all a ragbag of random beliefs shaped by youthful idealism or career experiences