all we have to do is take these lies and make them true (somehow)
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If I had lived in a previous era of history, I would have belonged to the intellectual and cultural minority of the time which by today's standards is considered to be most enlightened and courageous.
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Receipts. Fares from NYT, Sept. 3, 1972.
JFK-MIA was one of the routes Easter Airlines served with the L-1011.
Every country has issues, but Britain has got to be the only one where investors of billions of pounds are aching to get started while the government just shrugs and says "maybe next decade".
Britain's first reservoir for 30 years has been delayed another five years.
Now, Heathrow 3rd runway delayed until 2039
Why? The regulatory purgatory that imprisons UK growth - and will imprison Burnham unless he reforms.
My Times column:-
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Lazy AI-spam is annoying, but spam that is so lazy they didn't even run it through AI to check is almost worse.
Looking at you, recruiter pitching me "Silicon-quality engineers".
"So you're going to end the era of low growth?"
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Wednesday’s @guardian front page: Brexit and Thatcher to blame for UK’s era of low growth, says Prime Minister @andyburnham
Britain clearly doesn't have a Rolls Royce civil service.
But it's not far off, we have a Jaguar civil service.
- Absolute mid-century icon, if horrendously expensive and slightly impractical
- Then accountability and responsiveness was eroded by overconfident statism
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- Knocked about by Thatcherism
- Trading on former glories, but caddish owners became a meme and reliability the butt of jokes
- Passed around between foreign owners
- Makes a brilliant early entry into the EV market, does absolutely nothing with the momentum
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PSA: If your "Are you enjoying this app" interstitial pops up while I'm trying to do something in your app, and I have to break my flow to dismiss it, the answer is going to be "no".
Does TfL actually have evidence that having a high-vizzer screaming "stand clear of the closing doors", "stand behind the yellow lines" etc thousands of times every single morning and afternoon forever improves operation of the service?
Faster than they're adding them?
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Microsoft starts removing unnecessary Copilot buttons in Windows 11 msn.com/en-us/news/technolog…
One of the darkest arts of SEO must be to make your website such that I can search for an EXACT thing that is literally on your website, have your website be the top hit, and still managing to deposit me at least three clicks from that content.
