@firstprinciples.bsky.social
So is that both the Times and the Telegraph admitting that Brexit was a mistake, within days of each other?
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
So is that both the Times and the Telegraph admitting that Brexit was a mistake, within days of each other?
The French have a word for Clarkson:
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November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The French have a word for Clarkson:
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W is a measure of power, not energy. Do you mean you have to in effect run it at 11W constantly to maintain the boiling temperature (in addition to heating the water from ambient/supply temperature to boiling)?
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
W is a measure of power, not energy. Do you mean you have to in effect run it at 11W constantly to maintain the boiling temperature (in addition to heating the water from ambient/supply temperature to boiling)?
A tap that can deliver water at 100C sounds insanely dangerous to me. I can't see how it could compare for efficiency either
November 30, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A tap that can deliver water at 100C sounds insanely dangerous to me. I can't see how it could compare for efficiency either
Especially when you looked at the people promoting it: egomaniac chancers, feckless numpties, spivs and Russian assets
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Especially when you looked at the people promoting it: egomaniac chancers, feckless numpties, spivs and Russian assets
I suppose no one has tried to make him understand that when prices have fallen by 100%, the items in question are free. Or does he actually know it, but also knows the MAGA base doesn't?
November 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I suppose no one has tried to make him understand that when prices have fallen by 100%, the items in question are free. Or does he actually know it, but also knows the MAGA base doesn't?
Trump is giving himself the benefit of the doubt. If they *might be* drug traffickers it's OK to blow them up on the off-chance. Once they're proven to be, they get pardoned for chutzpah
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trump is giving himself the benefit of the doubt. If they *might be* drug traffickers it's OK to blow them up on the off-chance. Once they're proven to be, they get pardoned for chutzpah
Not so much a mind-meld as a mind-sump
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Not so much a mind-meld as a mind-sump
I'm sure I heard Farage or one of his ilk complaining about 'extremist centrists' at some point
November 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm sure I heard Farage or one of his ilk complaining about 'extremist centrists' at some point
Their principal aim is to hate and denigrate Labour, no matter what it does
November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Their principal aim is to hate and denigrate Labour, no matter what it does
Has he been listening to Trump talking about 'beautiful coal'?
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Has he been listening to Trump talking about 'beautiful coal'?
Chances are she won't have to pay it herself unless she sells it
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Chances are she won't have to pay it herself unless she sells it
It will, there's a certain percentage with the authoritarian mindset that are always going to favour immigrant and other out-group bashing, but it's around 30% and if split between Reform and Conservative, unlikely to hand either an election majority
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
It will, there's a certain percentage with the authoritarian mindset that are always going to favour immigrant and other out-group bashing, but it's around 30% and if split between Reform and Conservative, unlikely to hand either an election majority
Potentially quite significant if it were to transfer to a GE under the current system
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Potentially quite significant if it were to transfer to a GE under the current system
I'm cautiously optimistic that my assertions earlier this year that we're seeing peak Reform right now were correct. With control of councils and visible incompetence plus Gill-gate and Farage's racist youth, more people who are not ideologically wedded to the project are beginning to drop away
November 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I'm cautiously optimistic that my assertions earlier this year that we're seeing peak Reform right now were correct. With control of councils and visible incompetence plus Gill-gate and Farage's racist youth, more people who are not ideologically wedded to the project are beginning to drop away
I'm sure they know and are counting on the recognition
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm sure they know and are counting on the recognition
The one I had in mind is made in Herefordshire. Not sure how they say it there but probably not with a Zummerzet accent
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The one I had in mind is made in Herefordshire. Not sure how they say it there but probably not with a Zummerzet accent
Robinson push back on that or just nod sagely as if it were a defensible point of view?
November 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Robinson push back on that or just nod sagely as if it were a defensible point of view?
what an acute embarrassment those people are
November 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
what an acute embarrassment those people are
The Mail as ever scrapes the barrel the hardest, as most of its readers will benefit from the above-inflation boost to the state pension
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The Mail as ever scrapes the barrel the hardest, as most of its readers will benefit from the above-inflation boost to the state pension
which is why we need a better electoral system
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 AM
which is why we need a better electoral system
It's part of the infantile politics-as-a-race clickbait 'reporting' that seems to have largely replaced any attempt to understand or analyse the impact of the policies
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
It's part of the infantile politics-as-a-race clickbait 'reporting' that seems to have largely replaced any attempt to understand or analyse the impact of the policies