Building Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land.
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“The British are modern barbarians camped out in the relics of an older and superior civilisation to whose beauties they are oblivious.” - @culture_crit (deleted tweet)
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I posted a picture of my parent's village where the residents have managed to keep it free of road markings. I use it as a visual example of how overladen we are with bureaucracy that makes people's lives worse, in the name of making it better. It's very hard to argue against any regulation supposedly based on safety or performance that are used as a universal trump card to create an arms race of rules and our built environment is now full of them. ht @Alright_dot for the render with signage. Original on the right.
Wide body planes should be made so that the cockpit can be broken into as a safety feature.
My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
Zadok retweeted
After WW2, we began to treat ornament with suspicion, a symptom of place-oriented nationalism which had to be rooted out. Ironically, veneration of the state no longer required aesthetics to convince you of it, it became mandatory. The is time of the NHS & British Nationality Act 1948.
We stopped building, and making, things like in part this because there was a Pan-European attempt to stop us identifying as distinct states, people and nations at all – ostensibly to avoid the perils of fascism. The architecture of the soviet bloc led the way in offering a placeless alternative. We have never recovered from the aesthetic consequences of this
folly, the light has left the eyes of our built landscape.
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Zadok retweeted
Berkeley is def named after the philosopher, Bishop George Berkeley, not the proslavery governor of Virginia, Sir William Berkeley. Not that that wouldn’t be cool tho lmao.
Amaze grils by pronouncing correctly (“BARK-ley”). The founders were spergs who had only read the name
Americans have a natural tendency to think of our country as unitary, with states as mere administrative boundaries.
But the ethnic and cultural differences within the USA are staggering, greater than between many European countries.
New article by @whatifalthist (link below):
AI slop can teach us to recognise 'mode collapse' elsewhere. RLHF pushes LLMs toward tasteless patterns. It's been over optimised. Same for chain restaurants, influencer content, and algorithmic pop.
Vibe-coded military intel may soon be on par what's available to mid-tier government military bureaucracies.
Nothing to see here. Just the worlds most despotic regime building a skyline to rival any western democracy. Certainly doesn't mean anything.
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It's so simple. Today's thriving places are keeping tax low, attracting high income workers (certain US states, Singapore, UAE, Thailand, etc). High tax regimes drain high income workers in a mobile world.
Why don't all desktop applications all have tabs by default? Spotify for example, when you want to follow several musical threads at once.
Are ethnically non-British people welcome in right-wing politics? I'm henuinely surprised how popular the etho-nationalist position seems on twitter. Is this real?
What is the point of Reform UK if not to reassert the right of the British people to sovereignty in their own homeland?
It increasingly looks more interested in saving the current dismal order than overturning it. Their slogan may as well be “Real Yookay has never been tried”.
The campaigner in question is probably a decent chap, but he is not British, and he should not be involved in British politics in any capacity. That he is is an insult to the host population.
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This member of the British Parliament is lying
There’s a very specific reason why he’s lying: it’s because he is an Islamist
He is a sectarian muslim racist who is gaming western democracy in order to push the very worst aspects of Islamic theocracy - including the deeply racist antipathy towards people of other religions that exists in Islamic scripture - in this instance antisemitism towards Jews
I’m glad this select committee took place! It has revealed that, despite misleading media narratives, there was a coordinated, MILITARISTIC MUSLIM HUNT in Amsterdam by organized Maccabi racist thugs the night before the game! Well done to @WMPolice for protecting our residents!
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Amsterdam officials did not claim this to be the case.¹
What they have proof² of is a "Jodenjacht", Jew hunt, orchestrated and planned by Dutch Muslims, through WhatsApp where they shared messages inc. "a dead Jew is better than a living Jew"³.
¹telegraaf.nl/binnenland/git…
²wsj.com/world/europe/c….
³ewmagazine.nl/nederland/news…
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Dan is an absolutely classic example of the retards who form the modern Left and currently run the country, the path is so well trodden that you’ll instantly recognise it:
Born (1992)
School
PPE at Oxbridge (natch)
Civil service role (HMT in this case)
Local councillor (classic)
Think tank role (Resolution Foundation)
Think tank role (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
MP
Cabinet minister (ffs)
He’s 33, and has never worked in a real job. That should disqualify him from having any ministerial role on its own. Instead, he’s been totally coddled within the lifelong safety of public sector and left leaning think tank / NGO type roles, that have prepared him for the mind bendingly retarded policies he now either helps formulate or defends. You should have 30 years+ market experience before you even think about a senior role in HMT or advising the Exchequer.
This is why the country is so utterly fucked. We have for at least ~3 decades now had an army of Dan’s running the major apparatus of state. They all float effortlessly between “think tanks” and other policy making and paid writing gigs without ever seeing a tax they didn’t like or a “rich person” they didn’t need to pay more tax. They drive the enshittification of the country through their complete lack of understanding on anything and a totally misguided sense of righteousness and ideology.
Terminally linear in thought, they lack the mental acuity or ability to create value or yield in any way, common sense eludes them entirely, they can barely understand the first order consequences of their actions, let alone the second and third.
The system attracts and retains the very least suited people in the country to making big economic decisions because anyone with any talent heads directly into the private sector. The system by default selects for retards, and they fail upward because the public sector, without the brutal feedback loops of the private sector, rewards survival over success. The compound effect of this is an embedded pseudo intelligentsia of “Intellectual Yet Idiots” on a never ending carousel of different ministerial roles. They are allowed 1-3 years of experience in one department and by the time they start to grasp the basics they are scurried along to the next department; “ok now you’ve got the basics of agriculture fancy having a go as defence minister?”
Until we remove these Fabian saboteurs from the civil service, judiciary, NGOs, think tanks and other governmental and policy forming bodies, things will only get worse in the UK. It’s as guaranteed as their jobs despite abject performance.
Impossible for me to disagree more with this "no effort at reform" take from Paul.
This is a Budget that is introducing the biggest reform to motoring taxation in decades - with UK now on course to be first major economy to grasp the nettle of fair taxation of EVs. All drivers contribute to wear and tear on the roads, and we're making sure all chip in - with EV drivers paying half rates of petrol drivers.
The government also confirmed one of the biggest steps forward in fiscal devolution in England in decades, with the announcement that we will give Mayors the freedom to raise their own revenue via an overnight visitor levy. This is a game changing reform for growth, investment and devolution across the country.
We've also decided to reduce the gap between taxes on different forms of income, because it's not right that landlords pay less than their tenants. Another reform ducked for too long, which we are taking on.
