Yunze Wang

Yeah love living in Peckham. Aside from the usual things that make high streets successful (people and spending power), it also has a bit of a distinct identity, which helps considering how many high streets r effectively competing for customers.

Posted this after Saxony Anhalt. True on a bad day. Definitely still true on a good one!

Did not realise my statement would ring true twice in a day.

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

Case in point: www.reuters.com/world/europe...

When I get asked what I miss about America, I always say their (absurdly large) portion sizes. Embrace the 1000cal-a-slice cheesecake!

Probably the nightmare scenario of “calling a snap election due to a polling lead and having it backfire completely.”

How it started. How it's going.

“We want to boost domestic manufacturing.” “Cool. Shall we start with free trade?” “Ummmm.” “What about energy prices?” “Ummmmmmmmmm.”

The Gender Critical lobby is now targeting the Conversion Practices Bill. Make no mistake: attacking this bill means backing the continued abuse of LGBTQ+ people. Conversion practices are abusive practices. Tell your MP you support a ban: www.banconversionpractices.com/write-to-you...

Not gonna lie, kind of excited that we’ve got a new Miss Marple book this year. (Yes. I am choosing to read that rather than some depressing headlines tonight.)

French cities build way more trams than the UK. Over the past decade alone, they've added more than the entirety of all England's exiting networks combined. It's not just trams - from road to rail, England's transport infrastructure delivery has fallen behind. We wanted to find out why 🚃

It took the city of Dijon 4 years to build 20km of tram. Birmingham's 1.7 km Eastside tram extension required nearly 6,000 pages of planning documentation and more than three years to secure approval. Thirteen years after it was first proposed, planning approvals were still ongoing.

In my crystal ball, I can see a future when someone says "the psychic business employs X time more people than the fishing industry" in a re-join debate.

This is a mess - and will cause real harm to trans people. Trans exclusion, whether in healthcare or other spaces, is an indignity. We will always stand against it 🏳️‍⚧️✊ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In every part of the country, cities punch above their weight in containing jobs + especially higher-paid (top 20% of pay) jobs. This is why cities matter for local economic growth across Britain - if cities struggle then the national economy will struggle to create jobs.

I read about 80 books a year. About 70 would be fiction, and at least 50 would be murder mysteries, Can safely say I derive very little useful knowledge, beyond some meta commentaries about the genre. It is just fun to me, and that is okay.

Slightly different, but it has always annoyed me that Alex’s climatic speech in Red, White and Royal Blue, a scene that I rather like, is a Hatch Act violation.

That was an amazing start to my London Film Festival experience.

NEW: What happened in Holborn? Some constituency polling to help us understand a bit more. TLDR: loyalty to Burnham + a local candidate won the day; no real sign of tactical voting; Greens never convinced ppl they could win but Polanski not toxic necessarily. @persuasionuk.bsky.social

Trump’s obsession with demonizing the Somali community is dangerous and reprehensible. Hate to break it to him: Somali Minnesotans are resilient. We will not let Trump intimidate us. Our neighbors have our back.

This is obviously horrific reasoning start to finish. Also, “we r a completely different country from 50yrs ago” is a standard and healthy thing. Something would have to have gone seriously wrong if it was not the case.

Think a part of me will always be angry at what they tried to do in Minneapolis. Unforgivable things done to a beautiful city.

“This may seem trivial. But it’s really not.” I mean, yes. The BoE is doing this for a very consequential reason: to reduce counterfeiting. Or does he just like forgery?

Ah yes, because PRC is famous for its steadfast support for trans teens. (This is a joke just to be clear. Unfortunately, I have met people who unironically believe this.)

A super important topic, I don't think gets enough attention: Are we spending public money on social and affordable housing where it is needed most. Answer - no. But we have in the past, and can do so again. 🧵

On the one hand, this would backfire for him in the midterms. On the other hand, it would reduce the well being of, like, everyone on this planet.

The NSF is in almost every book about science/innovation as a positive case study. Decent chance it will be in books to come as a case study of tragedy.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

I feel like demonising a community and the hardship they may face as a “no-go zone” is also not good for “integration.” Like, a country cannot punish and stereotype its way into stronger community cohesion.