Deaves
@deavesm.bsky.social
I’m really just here to pick up my car. Used to be on twitter.
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
As Stakeknife is in the news, can’t recommend this bbc radio series enough. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
As Stakeknife is in the news, can’t recommend this bbc radio series enough. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...
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Could a journalist please ask Joani Reid MP what or who the 'virus' is?
Without clarification, it sounds an awful lot like she thinks the existence and recognition of trans people is the virus. That's far more extreme than even Reform have come out with.
Without clarification, it sounds an awful lot like she thinks the existence and recognition of trans people is the virus. That's far more extreme than even Reform have come out with.
December 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Could a journalist please ask Joani Reid MP what or who the 'virus' is?
Without clarification, it sounds an awful lot like she thinks the existence and recognition of trans people is the virus. That's far more extreme than even Reform have come out with.
Without clarification, it sounds an awful lot like she thinks the existence and recognition of trans people is the virus. That's far more extreme than even Reform have come out with.
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On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
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I keep seeing people talking about Polanski as being, like, a bit rough around the edges but a keen and quick learner. And then I see him say stuff like this, months into the job. I’m afraid he’s as shallow as he seems to be, however much depth people want to see.
Polanski here exhibits classic main character syndrome, as in believing that others are only ever responding to us as opposed to pushing their own agendas.
December 7, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I keep seeing people talking about Polanski as being, like, a bit rough around the edges but a keen and quick learner. And then I see him say stuff like this, months into the job. I’m afraid he’s as shallow as he seems to be, however much depth people want to see.
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Casual chat with the eldest about the scandal at her primary school in year 2 being kids doing the middle finger at each other has revealed, that like the grey squirrel displacing the red, “flicking the Vs” is a rapidly disappearing British tradition among the “younger set”
December 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Casual chat with the eldest about the scandal at her primary school in year 2 being kids doing the middle finger at each other has revealed, that like the grey squirrel displacing the red, “flicking the Vs” is a rapidly disappearing British tradition among the “younger set”
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Okay, but the people the people who said don't know and nobody are right?
When surveyed, who did the public think the leader of the Democrats was?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
December 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Okay, but the people the people who said don't know and nobody are right?
Real “I don’t understand the country” moment here
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Real “I don’t understand the country” moment here
Genuinely brilliant entertainment
Asked if she would want it to be mandatory for all businesses to become workers' cooperatives under her idea of a nationalised economy, Zarah Sultana tells the BBC: "It has to be something that we have a conversation about." But, she adds, this is not Your Party policy (as it has no platform yet).
December 7, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Genuinely brilliant entertainment
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Aside from the ridiculous “biological people” language, I really hate the sneering dishonesty of “the fiction they had rights that have been taken away”. If you’re a trans woman who’s been in the WI for decades and now can’t remain a member, that’s not a fiction!
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Aside from the ridiculous “biological people” language, I really hate the sneering dishonesty of “the fiction they had rights that have been taken away”. If you’re a trans woman who’s been in the WI for decades and now can’t remain a member, that’s not a fiction!
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Co-Pilot is currently running an advert of a negotiation where a woman types in 'what's the minimum we can sell for and still hit Q3 targets'
This is *mental*, this person should obviously know this backwards! It's her literal job!
This is *mental*, this person should obviously know this backwards! It's her literal job!
There’s a type of LLM advert which essentially depicts
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
December 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Co-Pilot is currently running an advert of a negotiation where a woman types in 'what's the minimum we can sell for and still hit Q3 targets'
This is *mental*, this person should obviously know this backwards! It's her literal job!
This is *mental*, this person should obviously know this backwards! It's her literal job!
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Genuinely what are people like Ed West doing with their lives? Go to Wigmore Hall, go to the movies, go to Koko, go to the Vortex Jazz Club, go see an orchestra, go see the Last Dinner Party...it ought to cure you out of having this weird, unnatural reaction to your fellow citizens.
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Genuinely what are people like Ed West doing with their lives? Go to Wigmore Hall, go to the movies, go to Koko, go to the Vortex Jazz Club, go see an orchestra, go see the Last Dinner Party...it ought to cure you out of having this weird, unnatural reaction to your fellow citizens.
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The last remnants of my soul out through my body.
Have they drawn anything in the World Cup draw yet
December 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The last remnants of my soul out through my body.
Punters not so sure on the other hand. It’s going to be even more unpopular than Qatar 😭
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Punters not so sure on the other hand. It’s going to be even more unpopular than Qatar 😭
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The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
The New Cold War is against nationalist authoritarianism, and the US is on their side.
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The way I'd put it is that there's currently a global struggle between democracy and nationalist gangster-capitalism, that this struggle is simultaneously unfolding both within and between states, and that the US currently sits at its epicentre
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December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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This stuff really is snake oil. Would be a great shame if @zackpolanski.bsky.social fell for it. Politically it’s a one way ticket to nowhere. Important under current circumstances to have an articulate and credible voice on the left. Zack needs to steer clear.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
MMT matters because it reveals power – and gives us back the right to choose
I think modern monetary theory (MMT) matters. That is not because it is perfect, because no theory is. Instead, it is because it explains something that almost no one in mainstream economics has ever ...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This stuff really is snake oil. Would be a great shame if @zackpolanski.bsky.social fell for it. Politically it’s a one way ticket to nowhere. Important under current circumstances to have an articulate and credible voice on the left. Zack needs to steer clear.
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11...
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The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
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The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.
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Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Truly shocking that Rachel Reeves had the audacity to call herself the U14 girls chess champions when she won the U14 girls chess championship but some bloke thought she was talking about something else.
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If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
Explains so much about that country
To be honest, the most common potato varieties in the USA don’t really make good roasted potatoes and most Americans really have little exposure to roast potatoes
December 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Explains so much about that country
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This seems uh, bad. Waymos are becoming worse drivers? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars Are Suddenly Behaving Like New York Cabbies
Autonomous vehicles are adopting humanlike qualities, making illegal U-turns and flooring it the second the light goes green.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This seems uh, bad. Waymos are becoming worse drivers? www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...