Peter Berry

What is the meaning of life? To make someone else's balance sheet go up? No. Who cares about that? Money is a means to whatever end we want. It fundamentally can't be an end in itself. Yet all our political discourse is The Economy, Stupid. What even is "the economy"? It's stuff like this.

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Whenever someone says that electricity is expensive because of decarbonisation, there are only two possibilities Either they are knowingly lying to you Or they are the victims of disinformation, and have been fooled by someone who was lying to them

If this isn’t stoking violence for political ends, and therefore meeting the legal definition of terrorism, I’m not sure what does

This right here is the power of Elon Musk to completely warp politics without *giving a penny* as a political donation Without X, Lowe would be a no hoper independent MP Instead he’s spreading ethnic cleansing chat to normies. Wild

“When I look round the boardroom at the other board members Palantir has recently also recruited from the House of Lords – notably Lord Vader and Lord Voldemort – I don’t have any sense that these people are evil,” said Watson. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Times content is paywalled but this one is free to view: that’s what the paper usually does with big scoops dunking on people they want to damage and articles they want disseminated far and wide, to get as many eyeballs as possible.

This opt-out model is explicitly prohibited under UKGDPR. I expect to see prosecutions and a destruction of this model @infocommission.bsky.social

When will this Labour Government stop tinkering? Thames Water is a busted flush. It's worthless. Cheer up the nation. Nationalise it now. Not a penny compensation. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It is kind of remarkable we had a British Indian PM where the main criticism was "he's shit" and we could have a British Nigerian PM where the main criticism is "she's insane"

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

I don't know how many lines have to be crossed before the remaining democratic West realises this fucking maniac cannot be permitted the power he's accumulated. We have Musk. Or we have established international security norms. We can't have both.

im thinking about buying a physical product i wear on my face and allow to connect to the internet from the election manipulation and foreign genocide enablement company

These are the most cowardly fuckers on the face of the planet

The demiscaramucci or zacharia(5 days), the scaramucci or mooch (10 days), and the truss (50 days) imperial systems coming up with a base 5 time system here

At least in The Conservative Party we have a better class of idiot, racist, misogynist and extremist. 🇬🇧

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

This is a really serious piece of investigative work. Thank god someone is doing it.

Barbarism. Pure and undiluted. Europe cannot remain silence and pretend this falls within the “shared values”. If any other country did this, the EU would issue a public condemnation.

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Tom Watson on phone hacking "Consumer boycotts do impact [and] it's up to the public to decide whether they want to put up with that kind of nonsense" www.abc.net.au/pm/archive/a... So it's legitimate for the public to want boycotts when it's The Sun, but "mob rule" when it's Palantir.

Claxton was enormously affected by his experience of WW1, and then later WW2 veterans. He fully embraced the principle of "building a town fit for heroes" and was adamant that meant creating a town with safe roads/cycling. He specifically said he wanted no-one to survive a war then die on a road.

Eric Claxton's guiding principle when designing Stevenage was that separating bikes and cars was fine, if: - Their routes ran parallel - For every metre the bikes gave up in gradient, the cars should give up two - If necessary, you make the cars go further not the bikes Because cars have ENGINES

The Conservatives who were in coalition government with the Liberal Democrats in 2010–2015? Those Conservatives? And where is the money for your proposed cut to fuel duty?

400 online attendees left immediately after that vote. Twice the majority by which it passed. Entryism at its finest.

I see Pedro Sanchez has called a snap election. He is undoubtedly going to lose but mulling on his record from his time in power

... and the latter is very obviously in fact a racist movement, the former is, I dunno, depends what you think of 19th century nationalism in general (I probably would not call all such things racist ideologies fwiw), and so there is just ambiguity because different people hear different things?

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"...

AfD Youth is posting about unification of German people. Belive them, when they say who they are. Not far right, not nazi like but actually exactly like nazis. P.S And yes, they are Putins favorite party in Germany

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

A glorious bit of How It Works here, being said openly in public

It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.

There's a shortage of something that's killing the world so let's subsidize demand. I am very smart

His X account shows that he rejects the democratic political process "We will never have a proper political system that truly works for the people ... The sooner people understand that, the sooner real alternatives can be put on the table" There is no disavowal of violence here, just of democracy

I remember having a similar reaction when I visited a Catholic church in Munich, absolutely crammed full of gilding, and immediately realised why Protestant churches were so much simpler. As a Methodist, spending that much wealth on a church instead of good causes felt like an affront to God.

Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.

Two times Conservative British Home Secretary Suella Braverman here... X-ing away without an apparent care for the paradox

Possibly longest thread I've ever written. Once again, despite all evidence, some folks, closely related to the 'bus industry' want to blame cycling for slowing down London buses. tl;dr: this is a lie & it's cars wot done it. It is not buses v cycling v walking or wheeling. It's all of us v cars...

'Lane rental' means if you are a water or other utility company working on TfL's 'red routes' you pay daily for roadworks or you can get a 'waiver' if you're going above & beyond delivering safe routes through for walking, wheeling & cycling. TfL has been doing this for years & it works... 5/13

Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.