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Jon Chadwick
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MD at Durham Distillery, craft spirits/food and drink. Durham City, England. Blogs at Jon-Chadwick.com.
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The 12 Days of Quizmas
Starting tomorrow 12 quizzes over 12 days, each with 12 questions
Plus 7 music rounds of 8 questions, making 200 questions in total
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Industrial Estate of Mind
Jon Chadwick, businessman, entrepreneur and quizmaster. I write about economics, politics and government. And lots of quizzes.
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December 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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British politics in 2025 isn’t defined by chaos, but by a government quietly reshaping the state while the right retreats into grievance, authoritarianism and the language of ethnic cleansing.

#UKPolitics #Labour #ReformUK #NHS #Immigration #Authoritarianism

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Review of the Year 2025 [1] - UK politics - Industrial Estate of Mind
A sharp review of British politics in 2025: Labour in power, the economy, immigration, the NHS, and the authoritarian drift reshaping the British right.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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America’s new National Security Strategy reads less like foreign policy and more like a manifesto built on hierarchy, migration panic, and great-power nostalgia.

#USPolitics #NationalSecurityStrategy #ForeignPolicy #Authoritarianism #WesternAlliance #Trump

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America’s New National Security Strategy and the Collapse of the West - Industrial Estate of Mind
America’s new National Security Strategy reveals an authoritarian worldview shaped by hierarchy, migration panic, and a retreat from the rules-based order.
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December 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The right’s panic about “decolonisation” isn’t about losing civilisation — it’s about finally having to notice how imperial ideas shaped British culture all along.

#Decolonisation #CultureWars #BritishEmpire #WesternCivilisation #UKPolitics #ImperialLegacy

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Why the Right Is Panicking About “Decolonisation” - Industrial Estate of Mind
Why “decolonisation” has become a culture-war panic on the right — and why examining Britain’s imperial legacy isn’t censorship or erasure.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Reform UK’s £9m crypto-linked donation raises awkward questions about foreign money, deregulation, and Nigel Farage’s sudden enthusiasm for cryptocurrency politics.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #Cryptocurrency #PoliticalDonations #UKPolitics #DarkMoney

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Reform UK, Crypto Money and a £9m Donation - Industrial Estate of Mind
A £9m crypto-linked donation to Reform UK, the Tether investigation, and why Nigel Farage wants to deregulate cryptocurrency and political funding.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Unboxing nostalgia: how one Christmas catalogue cassette rewired my entire music taste — and probably yours too.

#FileUnderPopular #MusicNostalgia #Beatles #Psychedelia #GrowingUp80s #MusicMemories #CassetteCulture #ChristmasThrowback
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CATALOGUE DREAMS AND FORMATIVE PSYCHEDELIA
Before Amazon — before the internet even existed — there was the catalogue. For anyone who never had the pleasure, this was a vast slab of glossy paper, thumped through your letterbox like an oversize...
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December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Amazon hasn’t just ruined Christmas shopping — it’s become the perfect case study of “enshittification”, where platforms go bad and everyone pays the price.

#Amazon #Enshittification #BigTech #Ecommerce #DigitalMarkets #SmallBusiness #ChristmasShopping

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How Amazon Became the Ultimate Example of Enshittification - Industrial Estate of Mind
Amazon are the textbook case of “enshittification”; Platforms degrade over time, squeezing users, punishing sellers and hiking prices while exploiting monopoly power.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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The usual idiots on line are working themselves up over Islamaphobic rage bait.
#ragebait #islamaphobia #clickbait
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Polygamy, Racism and Rage Bait - Industrial Estate of Mind
Lurid click bait headlines claim that Polygamous families are milking the benefits system. Reality disagrees.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Obesity drugs might change public health forever — but only if we stop pretending weight is about willpower and start fixing the system that made us sick.

#ObesityCrisis #GLP1 #Ozempic #PublicHealth #NHS #HealthInequality #FoodIndustry #Wellness #HealthPolitics

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GLP-1 Drugs, Obesity and the Politics of Blame - Industrial Estate of Mind
GLP-1 drugs promise dramatic weight loss — but unless we fix inequality and our broken food system, they’ll only make the health divide wider
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December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Is PFI making a comeback?

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Is PFI Back From the Grave? - Industrial Estate of Mind
Is PFI really dead? Rising government borrowing costs & renewed public-private partnerships means private finance is returning to UK infrastructure.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The Budget hysteria was pure theatre. The real story is in the bond market, the OBR’s dodgy maths, and a housing bubble quietly running out of air.

#UKBudget #GovernmentDebt #BondMarket #Austerity #OBR #BankOfEngland #QuantitativeEasing #HousingCrisis

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UK Government Debt and the Budget: What Really Just Happened? - Industrial Estate of Mind
What really happened in the UK Budget? Government debt, the OBR, QE, bond yields and house prices – explained without the panic or spin.
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November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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And here it is. The November #quiz

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Quiz | November - Industrial Estate of Mind
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November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Net migration has collapsed — but the UK’s immigration panic is louder than ever. Funny how that works.

#Immigration #NetMigration #UKPolitics #BrexitReality #MediaHysteria #AsylumDebate #IndustrialEstateofMind

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The Immigration Panic Is Manufactured - Industrial Estate of Mind
Net migration to the UK has fallen sharply, but the hysteria keeps growing. Why the panic isn’t real — and what it’s really about.
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November 29, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Is immigration really driving crime in the UK, or is that just a Facebook fairytale? The data tells a very different story.

#Immigration #UKCrime #FactsOverFear #DataNotDrama #MigrationMyths #UKPolitics #CriticalThinking #SocialMediaLies #IndustrialEstateOfMind

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Immigration, Crime and the Lie That Won’t Die - Industrial Estate of Mind
The claim that immigrants drive crime doesn’t hold up. UK data shows falling violence despite rising migration. Here’s what the numbers really reveal.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The Government’s NHS reforms 2025 are bigger, riskier and far less understood than anyone’s admitting — and the real consequences are only just beginning.
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What’s Really Happening in the NHS? Understanding the NHS Reforms 2025 - Industrial Estate of Mind
The NHS reforms 2025 are reshaping hospitals, GPs and management. Here’s what’s really happening behind the headlines—and why it matters.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Everyone says online speech is being “criminalised”. FOI data shows the opposite — prosecutions are falling, not rising. The free-speech panic isn’t about censorship. It’s about privilege.

#FreeSpeech #OnlineSafetyAct #CPS #UKPolitics #IndustrialEstateOfMind
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The Myth of the Free Speech Crackdown - Industrial Estate of Mind
FOI data shows prosecutions for online speech are falling, not rising. The myth of a free-speech crackdown says more about status anxiety than censorship.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Your Party was meant to build a new left. It’s turned into another ego-driven data-grab with £800k missing and everyone lawyering up.

#Corbyn #ZarahSultana #yourparty #ukpolitics #leftwing #IndustrialEstateofMind
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Your Party’s Civil War - Industrial Estate of Mind
Your Party’s first year has ended in chaos — legal threats, missing money, and factional warfare. A left-wing vanity project built on data, cash, and déjà vu.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A year into Trump’s second term, the world’s richest democracy looks like a failing state — run for the boss, not the people.

#Trump #USEconomy #AmericanPolitics #Authoritarianism #CivicNationalism #IndustrialEstateOfMind

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The Family Business: How Trump’s America Fell Apart - Industrial Estate of Mind
A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States looks less like a republic and more like a family business run for the benefit of the boss and his hangers-on. Economic chaos, political repre...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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From the 1980s to today, we’ve repeated the same mistakes — cut services, punish the vulnerable, and then act shocked when tragedy strikes. The mental health crisis Britain pretends not to see.

#MentalHealthCrisis #NHS #Homelessness #WelfareReform #Politics

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Jonathan Zito and the Return of Britain’s Forgotten Crisis - Industrial Estate of Mind
Britain’s mental health crisis didn’t start yesterday. Cuts and sanctions betrayed the vulnerable and created tragedies.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Small boat crossings have fallen by nearly two-thirds since 2022 — but instead of celebrating, politicians are turning their anger on those who came here legally.
The panic was never about boats. It was about who gets to belong.

#Politics #Immigration #ReformUK

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The Vanishing Boats and the Real Horror Beneath - Industrial Estate of Mind
Small boat crossings are falling fast — yet anger is rising. The panic was never really about boats. It was always about who gets to belong.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Halloween horror special: What if Nigel Farage’s Reform UK actually won?
Market meltdowns & strongman fantasies, two chilling tales of a Britain gone wrong.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #Authoritarianism #Disinformation #Halloween

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Nightmare on Downing Street: The Horrors of a Reform Victory - Industrial Estate of Mind
As Reform UK surge in the polls, three chilling political horror stories imagine what happens if Nigel Farage’s party actually wins power — and the nightmare that could follow.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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People aren’t angry about adverts — they’re angry about change. Diversity in advertising isn’t ideology, it’s economics. The outrage says more about us than the ads.
#advertising #marketing #diversity #CultureWars #media #ukpolitics #socialmedia #representation
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Diversity in Advertising and the Outrage Industry - Industrial Estate of Mind
Outrage over diversity in advertising says more about Britain’s culture wars than about marketing. Adverts reflect who buys things — and that audience has changed
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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October Quiz. The usual format. Lots of wrong answers, some right ones

#quiz

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Quiz | October - Industrial Estate of Mind
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October 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Katie Lam’s call to revoke settled status shows just how far the Conservatives have drifted from Britain’s tradition of privacy and liberty.

#UKPolitics #Conservatives #ReformUK #KatieLam #Authoritarianism #Freedom #Privacy #Democracy #BritishValues

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Mind Your Own Business: How the Conservatives Abandoned Britain’s Love of Privacy - Industrial Estate of Mind
Katie Lam’s call to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain exposes how the Conservatives and Reform have drifted from traditional British values of privacy and liberty toward an authoritarian obsession wit...
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October 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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The American right can’t cope with autism — because neurodiversity breaks their worldview. When your politics depend on hierarchy and blame, every difference looks like a defect. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Politics #RFKJr #CrankMedicine #IndustrialEstateOfMind
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How the American Right Turned Autism Into a Culture War - Industrial Estate of Mind
The American right’s obsession with “curing” autism reveals how crank medicine, conspiracy theories, and authoritarian ideology overlap. Autism challenges their worldview — and they can’t handle it.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 AM