Chris Keene
@chriskeene.bsky.social
Brighton, UK. Sometimes Higher Education, Research policy, tech and environmental stats
I occasionally pop in to x the everything app. Today I mostly saw posts from its owner (I've never liked or followed), UK/London is dead, more posts from its owner, and similar fun.
December 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I occasionally pop in to x the everything app. Today I mostly saw posts from its owner (I've never liked or followed), UK/London is dead, more posts from its owner, and similar fun.
I'm about to watch Die Hard for the first time.
I plan to have zero opinions as to whether it is a Christmas film once I have finished
I plan to have zero opinions as to whether it is a Christmas film once I have finished
December 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm about to watch Die Hard for the first time.
I plan to have zero opinions as to whether it is a Christmas film once I have finished
I plan to have zero opinions as to whether it is a Christmas film once I have finished
I thought I would try using co-pilot in Word to create a gift voucher to printout (for one you buy online and it's just an email). It worked but it generated a jpeg rather than a Word doc, which seems rather damning of Word's capabilities.
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I thought I would try using co-pilot in Word to create a gift voucher to printout (for one you buy online and it's just an email). It worked but it generated a jpeg rather than a Word doc, which seems rather damning of Word's capabilities.
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As a Christmas present to renters, we’ve build a new public zoomable map of rents per square metres in England and Wales! Have fun browsing and please share:
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
How much space can you afford to rent? - YIMBY Alliance
A map of rent per square metre for renters in England and Wales If you rent, you probably don’t think in square metres. You think about how many bedrooms and space you can actually get for your monthl...
yimbyalliance.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As a Christmas present to renters, we’ve build a new public zoomable map of rents per square metres in England and Wales! Have fun browsing and please share:
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
yimbyalliance.org/2025/12/18/h...
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NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵
December 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NEW: Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook has just announced the BIGGEST EVER reforms to national policy to deliver more homes! Here are the five biggest: 🧵
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I call this "The Lying Screen"
December 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I call this "The Lying Screen"
Today would have been a UK record breaker for UK wind passing 23GW for the first time... if it hadn't already been passed 4 days ago on the 5th Dec - exactly 1 year since the first time passing 22GW. grid.iamkate.com
National Grid: Live
Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network
grid.iamkate.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today would have been a UK record breaker for UK wind passing 23GW for the first time... if it hadn't already been passed 4 days ago on the 5th Dec - exactly 1 year since the first time passing 22GW. grid.iamkate.com
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This week the government announced that it wanted to ensure development next to train stations gets an automatic yes.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
November 23, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This week the government announced that it wanted to ensure development next to train stations gets an automatic yes.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
There’s one area near London where that won’t be happening.
And it’s home to a motorway that will soon be – by law – beautiful.
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The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.
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Important contribution from Lewis Goodall, who describes in devastating detail his own personal experiences - and suggests Robbie Gibb and David Grossman should be removed from their current posts.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Important contribution from Lewis Goodall, who describes in devastating detail his own personal experiences - and suggests Robbie Gibb and David Grossman should be removed from their current posts.
Ah the reassuring feeling of going in to your local corner shop to buy some wine for the evening and the random number generator that passes off as a till lands on a big number
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Ah the reassuring feeling of going in to your local corner shop to buy some wine for the evening and the random number generator that passes off as a till lands on a big number
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
November 6, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading"
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Four in the first eight headlines this morning.
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
October 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Sainsbury's have emailed me at 3pm today to tell me from the start of today (nice notice period) I will need an app to get 'normal' prices, and if not pay artificially high non nectar prices. Nice.
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You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
You should be able to connect to the trains doors by Bluetooth to close them when it's cold
If that plane in 2001 had made it to the whitehouse it could have destroyed the very fabric of part of the building. Imagine.
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If that plane in 2001 had made it to the whitehouse it could have destroyed the very fabric of part of the building. Imagine.
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This reminds me of the brilliant Flight of the Concords track, 1353 tidal.com/browse/track... (can't quote post original post)
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Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...
Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions
15th October 2025 How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny * Usually when one reads up about a confusing-looking case the less confusing it becomes. The i…
davidallengreen.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Non-Substack version here davidallengreen.com/2025/10/tryi...
Just had a really great lunch at an event in London. Even better when I read about the organisation who provided it www.9kitchens.co.uk
9Kitchens Cuisines | Healthy and Sustainable Cooking Classes Online
9Kitchens is a sustainable and mainly plant-based caterer with a social mission. We train women who face barriers to employment and assist them with integration and engagement in the community, and wh...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Just had a really great lunch at an event in London. Even better when I read about the organisation who provided it www.9kitchens.co.uk
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Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
Two students who blew up a sheep with fireworks are facing prison for what a judge described as a “sadistic and utterly barbaric” act. Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, invited two other students from Plumpton College to Ditchling Beacon to see what they said was a dead badger. But when they arrived, they […]
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October 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Students blew up sheep with fireworks, court hears
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There's a growing desire for a product. It happens to be lower carbon. China is meeting it, regardless of where the demand comes from.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
October 6, 2025 at 11:53 AM
There's a growing desire for a product. It happens to be lower carbon. China is meeting it, regardless of where the demand comes from.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.
October 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I’m at a Tory fringe event about young voters which has been shown a massive (5,000+) poll of voters aged 16-40 - and it’s (not unexpectedly) very bad news for the Conservatives.
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wondering if @scottygb.bsky.social and @mattdeegan.com have noticed that Channel Four have written all their programme descriptions on the EPG in rhymes for #nationalpoetryday
October 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
wondering if @scottygb.bsky.social and @mattdeegan.com have noticed that Channel Four have written all their programme descriptions on the EPG in rhymes for #nationalpoetryday
This is sending my snobbishness into overdrive (though I will not stand for the blatant Lidl slander)
This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.
The "Waitrose & GAIL’s effect" vs the "ASDA reality" | Area360
How Waitrose, Gail’s and ASDA affect property prices in London. Data analysis reveals which shops signal pricey or affordable postcodes.
area360.uk
September 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This is sending my snobbishness into overdrive (though I will not stand for the blatant Lidl slander)