Peter Ellis
@pjie2.bsky.social
Father, husband, scientist, singer. Prone to getting over-excited about nerdy stuff in public. He/him.
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Does the UK produce a budget car?
Reeves says Motability scheme will no longer pay for luxury cars, and says half its vehicles should be British-built by 2035 - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Does the UK produce a budget car?
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I actually think it's bad that the law thinks that calling a 17 year old a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel" in public is not a crime, and indeed I do not think criticising this would constitute "[picking] sides in the debate about sex and gender identity".
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I actually think it's bad that the law thinks that calling a 17 year old a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel" in public is not a crime, and indeed I do not think criticising this would constitute "[picking] sides in the debate about sex and gender identity".
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Times are upset by the reports that if your SECOND home is worth more than two million pounds, you might have to pay a bit more tax (average £13,700 a year).
Aw, diddums.
Aw, diddums.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The Times are upset by the reports that if your SECOND home is worth more than two million pounds, you might have to pay a bit more tax (average £13,700 a year).
Aw, diddums.
Aw, diddums.
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Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
Ahead of the National Year of Reading, the Education Committee has launched a new inquiry to understand how reading can be nurtured following the decline in the number of children reading for pleasure 👇 #BookSky
MPs launch inquiry into how the joy of reading can be kept alive
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November 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Government could start by not going out of its way to screw the entire knowledge work sector. Just spitballing here. Maybe back your creatives when they say they've been ripped off by huge tech firms instead of finding ways to give our work to megacorps free of charge? I dunno man it's a MYSTERY...
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This is Scotchy. He is here to collect the belly rub toll. Would like to remind you that failing to pay results in a fine of even more belly rubs. 12/10 (TT: scotchythedoxie)
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is Scotchy. He is here to collect the belly rub toll. Would like to remind you that failing to pay results in a fine of even more belly rubs. 12/10 (TT: scotchythedoxie)
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This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This reminds me of Cardinal John Henry Newman's book Definition of a Gentleman. I often cite Newman's book because it's so instructive. The term gentleman is so overwrought and frequently abused, but to the degree it means anything at all, I think Newman captures it here:
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Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
November 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Some of the most important words ever written: 'Endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.' – Charles Darwin, 'On the Origin of Species'. It was published #OnThisDay 1859.
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"reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student university fees"
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student university fees"
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
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Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
November 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference.
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:
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The joys of having a government led by people who went to Oxford and who think this is how an average UK university works.
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The joys of having a government led by people who went to Oxford and who think this is how an average UK university works.
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It's completely crazy. UK academia is already at the edge, this is probably the last push to make the entire system collapse. And then British students will be studying where exactly?
November 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
It's completely crazy. UK academia is already at the edge, this is probably the last push to make the entire system collapse. And then British students will be studying where exactly?
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Superb letter from the wonderful folks at TACC.
In response to the laughable fiction presented in the letter sent by Sex Matters to BBC Board members, we have sent a rebuttal letter to clarify the real facts, rather than their Orwellian tale.
November 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Superb letter from the wonderful folks at TACC.
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The problem with a detail-free outlook that ‘lockdowns can be avoided’ is that countries won’t engages with the hard choices required to actually achieve better outcomes with lighter measures. One group may just assume that a bit more mask wearing is all that’s required to suppress transmission…
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
The problem with a detail-free outlook that ‘lockdowns can be avoided’ is that countries won’t engages with the hard choices required to actually achieve better outcomes with lighter measures. One group may just assume that a bit more mask wearing is all that’s required to suppress transmission…
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Thought the worst of COVID, UK media would ask me why we weren’t doing contact tracing like Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan etc. Then I’d explain the digital tools and intensive data collection being used and they’d say “Oh, we couldn’t possibly allow that here”.
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Thought the worst of COVID, UK media would ask me why we weren’t doing contact tracing like Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan etc. Then I’d explain the digital tools and intensive data collection being used and they’d say “Oh, we couldn’t possibly allow that here”.
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As I’ve written about before, there are several reasons other countries did much better with lighter measures, but there seems to be an ongoing unwillingness in UK to engage with what this actually entails: kucharski.substack.com/p/we-arent-p...
We aren't prepared for the next pandemic
In countries like the UK, it's not even clear what is feasible
kucharski.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
As I’ve written about before, there are several reasons other countries did much better with lighter measures, but there seems to be an ongoing unwillingness in UK to engage with what this actually entails: kucharski.substack.com/p/we-arent-p...
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4/ “The purpose of this provision is to enable a person
who has gender reassigned to have all the protection of the Sex Discrimination Act and Equal Pay Act.”
This directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s position that gender reassignment does not change sex. For the purposes of equality, it does.
who has gender reassigned to have all the protection of the Sex Discrimination Act and Equal Pay Act.”
This directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s position that gender reassignment does not change sex. For the purposes of equality, it does.
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
4/ “The purpose of this provision is to enable a person
who has gender reassigned to have all the protection of the Sex Discrimination Act and Equal Pay Act.”
This directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s position that gender reassignment does not change sex. For the purposes of equality, it does.
who has gender reassigned to have all the protection of the Sex Discrimination Act and Equal Pay Act.”
This directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s position that gender reassignment does not change sex. For the purposes of equality, it does.
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1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999 Drafting Instructions - a Freedom of Information request to Government Equalities Office
Please send me copies of the Sex Discrimination Gender Reassignment Regulations 1999’s Drafting Instructions given to the Parliamentary Counsel. If you can’t locate all versions, send me any one of th...
www.whatdotheyknow.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/🧵 The good people of the Cabinet Office has found a copy of the Department for Education and Employment’s drafting instructions* for the Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999.
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
* the Parly Counsel does vetting only in this case, so the instructions is to DfEE’s in-house lawyers
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
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What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
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How does the world’s richest man also step on his own dick so thoroughly, so consistently?
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
How does the world’s richest man also step on his own dick so thoroughly, so consistently?
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
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Re those leaks to The Times: the High Court will rule soon enough on whether the EHRC has (1) adhered to its statutory duties and (2) understood the law correctly. Until then both (1) and (2) are up for grabs and the statutory guidance is only marginally more useful than yesterday's chip paper.
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Re those leaks to The Times: the High Court will rule soon enough on whether the EHRC has (1) adhered to its statutory duties and (2) understood the law correctly. Until then both (1) and (2) are up for grabs and the statutory guidance is only marginally more useful than yesterday's chip paper.
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.