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Dieter Helm points out that Westminster politicians are, by and large, completely delusional about energy and climate policy.
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Paul Homewood on the irony of the launch of BBC Verify. More sense from Paul on his blog here: notalotofpeopleknowthat.word…
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Aldi boss blames minimum wage for high food prices.
Silence on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. But low-paid workers, supplemented by Universal Credit, are apparently a threat.
Need to increase workers' share of GDP, reduce return on capital.
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Many following last Thursday's local election results are aware of how disastrously the Tories performed
Strangely, the BBC & Grauniad failed to point out that @TheGreenParty dropped from 20 councillors to just 7 by folk who've experienced its lunacy in its stronghold.
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Sad to hear of the passing of that great Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot at 84. Have tried (badly)to play his brilliant songs over the years. One of my favourites. youtube.com/watch?v=v5tr_L31…
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Fun fact: According to IPCC AR6, Ch. 11, there has been NO increase in drought nor floods on a global scale since 1950. Since 1901, the SPI index shows that drought area has decreased globally. Whichever climate scientists you're getting your information from are misguiding you.
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Horribly, horribly misleading headline from the BBC, adding a false framing to the story - especially for twatterati who will not read the piece.
@BBC Headline: Dan Walker: TV presenter injured in bicycle crash
In Dan Walker's own words: "I was hit by a car".
FFS, Rodney ...
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A little taste of what to expect in Taith Galed, a short film showing my attempt to climb all 189 of Wales' mountains in one big, long run to raise funds for @MindOMountains.
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A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 4699) Monday 6th February 2023.
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Unilever's next boss won't put purpose before profit, writes Martin Vander Weyer 👇 spectator.co.uk/article/is-c…
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What kind of utter bullshit is this ? Do you have any shame ? Any ? We live in the country with the lowest woodland cover in Western Europe , 13% , we ship felled primal trees from N America to burn and you lie about basic ecology . God help you when your children read this .
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We don’t have unlimited resources
Where can the world spend a dollar and do the most good for the future?
This list by 50+ teams of world-class economists show the best — and not so good — investments (longer lines better)
Read from my article in: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Not only will Ardern be remembered as a leader who turned the economy into a basket case, burdened by instability – she then fled the scene once the damage was done, failing to even try to rectify it in any meaningful way.
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Just silly:
John Kerry claims at Davos that 50% of all species have been killed
No. The right number is about 0.7%
Just one of the many remarkable things he's been saying at Davos
Honest: green transition will cost you a fortune
No, won't make us rich
Cost us $5+ trillion every year
(if green was cheaper, we'd all be doing it)
John Kerry, flying into Davos, telling everyone:
green transition needs money, money, money...
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Wow.
Has anyone seen the new text for the begging letter at the bottom of Guardian articles?
If you had any doubt about their political bias, any at all, just read the first two paragraphs.
Activism, not journalism.
"Please finance the ongoing crusade against our enemies"
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What could possibly go wrong
Surprised there isn't more chatter around VALL-E
This new model by @Microsoft can generate speech in any voice after only hearing a 3s sample of that voice 🤯
Demo → valle-demo.github.io
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Surprised there isn't more chatter around VALL-E
This new model by @Microsoft can generate speech in any voice after only hearing a 3s sample of that voice 🤯
Demo → valle-demo.github.io
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Facebook has (again) rejected The Spectator’s cover satirising Joe Biden. Second day running.
My blog on the Kafkaesque world of censorship bots:
spectator.co.uk/article/why-…
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"It is vital we send the strongest regulatory... signal to private payment platforms, that the opinions of their customers are none of their business." Terrific from @danny__kruger MP, namechecking the FSU during today's Commons debate on the Financial Services and Markets Bill.