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Reading the results in the US midterms ... awesome, well done US. A very positive result for democracy.
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I see the nonsense “rent controls are back” takes keep coming.
There is no rent control in England.
The legal right to challenge rent increases at tribunal was introduced by the Thatcher Government in its 1988 Housing Act.
It was rarely used in practice only because it inevitably resulted in a landlord serving a Section 21 notice.
Labour’s Renters’ Rights Act abolished Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions and renters are now rightly empowered to challenge unfair or above-market rent increases.
In both the recent cases that have been the cause of so much debate, the tribunal has been operating exactly as it should – determining that the landlords in question were charging rents that simply did not reflect local market values for comparable properties.
After such a long wait, SpimeScript finally starts to emerge ->
After six years in stealth, Atomic Machines is out. Our mission: on-demand, universal command of matter. First beachhead: the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines from code alone. No per-product tooling. No process development. Different code, different machine.
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Billionaires making their fortunes in the UK, then packing up and leaving when it’s time to contribute a little more back to the country that helped make them rich.
There’s something pretty disgusting about having more than you could ever spend and still wanting to pay less.
Simon Wardley retweeted
You didn't stop it when you were a Tory and you coined the phrase "Stop the Boats"?
In fact you crippled processing, fumbled arrivals and increased Hotels for housing them to a peak.
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Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget
As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare.
We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqj9…
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The Tories have managed to stumble upon the absolute worst way to abolish inheritance tax. Taxing everything else but exempting family homes just incentivises old people to pile more of their wealth into housing and never downsize. Lunacy in an already gummed-up housing market.
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What’s hurting the economy are Bank Benefits - the £30 Billion we pay them as interest on their cash piles - every year. No wonder they make enormous profits, for doing nothing with their money we pay them 4% - £30 Billion a year. This drives up the cost of borrowing, it sets an artificial floor. We don't need windfall taxes we just need to cut benefits - to banks.
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The power of 'inedaquacy' ... I had to look up what the word means.
According to OED, it is the state of typing so furiously on a keyboard that your mental faculties are eroded.
Looks like angry typing is the future, though I think that's an X thing. ->
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And this is *exactly* why we need independent journalism, folks. And the only hope of that is if people pay for it. This is not news, it's propaganda.
Glad to see that X is keeping its beer hall tradition alive, frothing and firmly set in the 1950s ->
Simon Wardley retweeted
Explorers have high chance of failure, unclear profit opportunity
Town Planners low chance of failure, clear profit opportunity
goldilocks zone are Villagers: picking up the loot from corpses of Explorers and selling it to Town Planners.
h/t @swardley
This working paper from Chicago and Stanford looked at 298,915 U.S. venture-funded startups from 1976 to 2020 and found something that inverts the usual advice.
It compares three strategies: a) invent a new technology, b) swap one component inside an existing system, or c) wire together mature modules from distant parts of the economy into a configuration nobody had tried.
The third one wins, and not narrowly.
Moving from the lowest to the highest level of architectural recombination multiplies the odds of an IPO or a high-priced acquisition by roughly nine, cuts the odds of closure by 94%, and gets a venture from seed to early-round funding almost three years sooner. At the same time, the other two strategies mostly raise the odds of closure.
In other words, for most startups, architecture beats invention.
Since Henderson and Clark’s 1990 paper, this kind of recombination has been considered the riskiest move for an incumbent, which is why it gets left to entrants. This study says it is also the safest one for those entrants.
That inversion, and what it means for companies that are no longer entrants, is what I unpacked in the fifth edition of Through The Boundary → through-the-boundary.simonec…
Glad to see that X is still the beer hall of ardent libertarians that refuse to question their own beliefs of trickle down effect, the only answer is the market and all innovation is driven by the market ... despite the overwhelming historical evidence that this is false.
Britain was the fastest growing G7 economy in the 2nd quarter of 2026 (ONS) ... key to GDP is spending, not small numbers of people sitting on excessive "investment". If we want to get Britain booming, we need a wealth tax and redistribution to those who spend it.
As someone who has setup a small biz over the last few years, I don't recognise this. If Gov wants to boost GDP then introduce a wealth tax (on all property including shares) and redistribute the wealth into the hands of the poorest who will actually spend it ->
For her next trick, Kemi will be claiming that austerity was a success and the "trickle down effect" is real ->
She can’t concede water privatisation is a failure.
To do so is to accept privatisation of essential utilities has failed.
But it goes further than that.
It would be a tacit admission that Thatcherism itself has failed and failed, catastrophically.
A majority of the country is living with that failure.
That’s an opportunity for us to now spell out the alternative.
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She can’t concede water privatisation is a failure.
To do so is to accept privatisation of essential utilities has failed.
But it goes further than that.
It would be a tacit admission that Thatcherism itself has failed and failed, catastrophically.
A majority of the country is living with that failure.
That’s an opportunity for us to now spell out the alternative.
Kemi Badenoch claims Margaret Thatcher’s privatisation of water sector 'a success'
itv.com/news/meridian/2026-1…
