Stephen Clayton
@stevepclayton.bsky.social
Retired (hurrah!) lecturer in sociology of public health, mostly now photography, silliness and political despair.
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This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
www.pcgamer.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
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This is v good …
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is v good …
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Sometimes it is very obvious. Poverty is a lack of sufficient income. Increase income.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Sometimes it is very obvious. Poverty is a lack of sufficient income. Increase income.
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
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Well, I am someone at risk of being called a “fucking Paki” and often have been (and worse). And I disagree with Shabana Mahmood. Funny how those who are normally against “playing the race card” are happy to do so when it suits their political needs.
November 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Well, I am someone at risk of being called a “fucking Paki” and often have been (and worse). And I disagree with Shabana Mahmood. Funny how those who are normally against “playing the race card” are happy to do so when it suits their political needs.
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A patriot, ladies and gentlemen. 🇬🇧
Farage crony Nathan Gill gets 10.5 year sentence for taking bribes from Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...
Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes
The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a
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November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
A patriot, ladies and gentlemen. 🇬🇧
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This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This is a clown-car government elected on a seriousness ticket iandunt.substack.com/p/a-clown-go...
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Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social
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Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social
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What Labour and the BBC have in common
They still don’t get it...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social
Follow and subscribe to him if you don’t already
Brilliant analysis from @writesbright.bsky.social
Follow and subscribe to him if you don’t already
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Confidently Wrong marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Confidently Wrong - Marginal REVOLUTION
If you’re going to challenge a scientific consensus, you better know the material. Most of us, most of the time, don’t—so deferring to expert consensus is usually the rational strategy. Pushing agains...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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To be clear, if you think that 'objecting to someone who looks at this mural and goes "can't see the problem" is some kind of smear, congratulations, you are a racist!
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
To be clear, if you think that 'objecting to someone who looks at this mural and goes "can't see the problem" is some kind of smear, congratulations, you are a racist!
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Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
November 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Labour MP Brian Leishman: "The Government has surrendered to... the vile rhetoric of Reform. Does the Home Secretary not see that removing the legal obligation to support asylum seekers who will be otherwise destitute, is as far away from Labour Party principles and values as we can get?"
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Labour have evidently descended to dog whistle lying. It’s deeply disappointing. Really poor. No better than Reform. Unsupportable.
November 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Labour have evidently descended to dog whistle lying. It’s deeply disappointing. Really poor. No better than Reform. Unsupportable.
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...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
...And in terms of asylum applications per 10,000 people the UK is lower down, at 16 per 10,000 people in 2024...
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"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
Turned on the Asylum Policy statement - deeply depressing. Labour back benchers largely standing up to support this demonising of asylum seekers and immigrants more generally. They should be deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Turned on the Asylum Policy statement - deeply depressing. Labour back benchers largely standing up to support this demonising of asylum seekers and immigrants more generally. They should be deeply, deeply ashamed of themselves.
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Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
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It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Illegal migration tearing UK apart, Mahmood says
The home secretary is set to announce major policy reforms, including a 20-year wait before people granted asylum can apply to settle permanently.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's Blue Labour and Reform that are tearing the country apart, by weaponizing the issue of asylum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Probably too much to ask but I'd love to see @davidallengreen.bsky.social's 'could' turn into the Beeb's 'will'!
The letter the BBC could send to Trump in reply to his $1bn claim
12th November 2025 Yesterday this blog offered a close reading of the letter Trump’s lawyers had sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation. As a follow-up, this is a letter that the BBC could se…
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November 12, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Probably too much to ask but I'd love to see @davidallengreen.bsky.social's 'could' turn into the Beeb's 'will'!
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Grief, I knew his logic was probably shall we say, unique, but don't go to Vegas to play poker professionally Mr McSweeney
There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included)
Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar
There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included)
Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar
Labour appear to be taking a "blindfolded juggling of chainsaws" approach to their 2029 GE prospects.
There is a world in which they don't lose a few limbs. But they probably have better odds of winning the Lottery.
There is a world in which they don't lose a few limbs. But they probably have better odds of winning the Lottery.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Grief, I knew his logic was probably shall we say, unique, but don't go to Vegas to play poker professionally Mr McSweeney
There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included)
Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar
There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included)
Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar
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In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In honor of the dearly departed, a preview from Chapter Two ("The 9/11 Lobotomy") my forthcoming (hopefully in a year) book THE INFERNAL TRIANGLE: HOW AMERICA GOT THIS WAY.
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"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it
What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...
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Oh, I see. So it's "How would it work?" rather than "What the fuck are you talking about, you racist ghoul?"
NEW: Labour chair Anna Turley writes to Katie Lam to ask how Tory policy of revoking indefinite leave to remain would work. She says it would “break up families & communities as well as undermining rule of law and trashing our country’s reputation for fairness”.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour demands clarity on Tory plan to strip thousands of right to stay in UK
Anna Turley says legally settled people threatened by Katie Lam’s proposals deserve urgent clarification
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Oh, I see. So it's "How would it work?" rather than "What the fuck are you talking about, you racist ghoul?"