Obviously I'm the sucker for reading this drivel, but it was at least amusing to read that Jordan Peterson thinks money is destroyed if it's spent on wind turbines . We must save capitalism from... a smaller money supply? Wait a minute
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5d agoEvening.
Call me a pedant but I don't think it's possible for the BBC to have a "behind-the-scenes" look at anything. You're the state broadcaster! You are the scenes!
Breathtakingly petty, and a very clear attempt to prevent some people using a public service www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Ilkley cyclist who reported bad driving fined for bad riding
West Yorkshire Police say the rider was also guilty of not adhering to the Highway Code.
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This week's BIGGEST parakeet misidentification stories analysed IN FULL by @anooshc.bsky.social and I, plus what I'd do if I was a Patriotic Millionaire: shows.acast.com/newstatesman...
Gary Lineker wants to pay more tax. What's stopping him? | The Politics Show
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Scenes from my exclusive LIVE BLOG of this week's biggest political events www.newstatesman.com/politics/wes...
Here's one of the questions I asked Gabriel Zucman about his proposed 2% wealth tax, and the beginning of his response. Read the rest here! www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
I am so fed up of dealing with the consequences of London's parks being used as open toilets by the city's dog owners! If you have a dog it should simply go to the toilet in your house!
Sometimes a person just walks past you and says exactly the right thing. www.newstatesman.com/politics/wes...
The rollout of high speed internet in Uruguay worsended early childhood development. But not because the kids spent too much time in front of screens, because the parents did. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
High-speed internet and early childhood development: Causal evidence from a countrywide programme
The rapid expansion of high-speed internet has intensified concerns about how digital technologies affect early childhood. Using the staggered rollout of fibre optic to the home in Uruguay as a natura...
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The real question ay Keir Starmer's final PMQs: how mean was Kemi Badenoch going to be? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
🚨ExCLuSiVe: The doomed young addicts gathering in Victorian meeting halls to huff up some "Kemi" www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
This is what Kemi Badenoch thinks happened in the 2024 general election. www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
This is what Kemi Badenoch thinks happened in the 2024 general election. www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
I'm not in the business of making political endorsements, I've never met @countbinface.bsky.social and I do NOT support his policy to move the hand dryer in the gents' loos at the Crown and Treaty pub, Uxbridge to a more sensible location. However I do think he is the opponent Farage deserves.
Will Dunn@willdunn.bsky.social · 4w agoA side has been taken. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Yet again, the Telegraph ran a spoiler of this public interest story - based entirely on a briefing from Reform. The same as they did when Anna Isaac broke the original story. We all know whose scoop this was @annaisaac.bsky.social
Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w agoEXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Man of the People latest: by giving up his £98,599 MP's salary, Farage is taking a pay cut of 8.8 per cent
I mean, this shit is called like Bonk and Magic Internet Money. As a species we've wasted way too much time, effort, money, regulatory bandwidth, political capital and computing power on this utter nonsense. The opportunity cost is huge.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.Kraken has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Bonk due to an ongoing incident affecting the token, according to its website.
See also the rare Sweaty Libertarian Panama, a hat for the man who likes to imagine fomenting a coup in a subtropical country in order to appropriate its lithium (he needs the lithium to build datacentes in international waters, obviously)
Will Dunn@willdunn.bsky.social · last mo.For this week's New Statesman sketch, I went to a conference to observe Men in Libertarian Hats. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
For this week's New Statesman sketch, I went to a conference to observe Men in Libertarian Hats. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...
"Despite the frenzy over the company’s initial public offering of stock, with investors placing more than $300 billion of orders for just $75 billion of shares being sold, the biggest, most sophisticated investors in the world see a harder road to success than Musk touts."
Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · last mo.SpaceX’s $25 billion bond sale is being reevaluated by a market unconvinced by the investment-grade score conferred by ratings companies. Who should you trust?
