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Peter Warrington
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🔴 We are reporting live from Scottish Green Party Conference throughout the day!
#ScottishGreens #Live #ScottishPolitics
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October 24, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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Know the debates of our time.
I have created a new project called Parliament Simple to summarise debates with verbatim speeches and quotes. Just not the boring bits.
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#ukpolitics #parliament #politics
June 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Can you predict elections with posters?

A dubious mathematical approach to predicting English local council elections. Will it work? #ukpolitics #polling #localelections

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Predicting elections with posters
Can you predict elections based on how the posters people display change? I try an experiment.
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May 19, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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tony benn
May 1, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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darren jones in the house of commons today: #ukpolitics
I have to ask: What is it precisely about this Labour Government giving rights and powers to workers, renters and the disadvantaged that they do not like? What is it about this Labour Government standing against unearned wealth and people who use their privilege to extract value from the system, rather than adding to it, that they do not like? What is it about a Labour Government raising taxes on private jets and non-doms to raise money for our state schools, our NHS and our police and to lift children out of poverty after years of neglect by the Conservative party that the Opposition parties do not want to hear? We all know why—because they are on the side of the vested interests, and we are on the side of the British people. - Darren Jones in the House of Commons today
April 28, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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i like the philosophical argument for the prime minister having a country residence, but why is this contained in law #ukpolitics
“It is not possible to foresee or foretell from what classes or conditions of life the future wielders of power in this country will be drawn. Some may be as in the past men of wealth and famous descent; some may belong to the world of trade and business; others may spring from the ranks of the manual toilers. To none of these in the midst of their strenuous and responsible labours could the spirit and anodyne of Chequers do anything but good. In the city-bred man especially, the periodic contact with the most typical rural life would create and preserve a just sense of proportion between the claims of town and country. To the revolutionary statesman the antiquity and calm tenacity of Chequers and its annals might suggest some saving virtues in the continuity of English history and exercise a check upon too hasty upheavals, whilst even the most reactionary could scarcely be insensible to the spirit of human freedom which permeates the countryside of Hampden, Burke and Milton. Apart from these more subtle influences, the better the health of our rulers the more sanely will they rule and the inducement to spend two days a week in the high and pure air of the Chiltern hills and woods will, it is hoped, benefit the nation as well as its chosen leaders. The main features of this scheme are therefore designed not merely to make Chequers available as the official country residence of the Prime Minister of the day, but to tempt him to visit it regularly and to make it possible for him to live there, even though his income should be limited to his salary.”
April 27, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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blair in 2010: don't think he'd be a fan of labour's 2024 campaign
April 24, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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April 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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found tony blair's doodles in the national archives, maybe being prime minister is boring #ukpolitics
March 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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I have written an article on how America (and philosophy) shows us how democracy cannot protect liberty alone.
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America has too many elections
America (and philosophy) shows us how democracy cannot protect liberty alone.
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August 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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"did you eat railtrack"

"no" - me with a suspiciously railtrack shaped belly
The Times online article, Sunday October 16 2005 Headline: Focus: The man who ate Railtrack Railtrack investors lost their case for compensation last week. But, says the former Whitehall insider Martin Sixsmith, trust in the chancellor has been seriously undermined
August 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Partii Trick - A Wii and a Printer for mindless entertainment
Creating a 3D version of my flat, connected to a printer to print virtual paintings in the real world. All on the Wii.
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July 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We found this VHS tape of Thom performing at the Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto in 1995 for the release of The Bends

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March 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The BBC Licence Fee acts as a regressive poll tax. I make the case for a progressive, redistributive replacement.
First published in the Young Fabians journal.
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Redistribution and economic growth by replacing the BBC Licence Fee
The BBC Licence Fee acts as a regressive poll tax. I make the case for a progressive, redistributive replacement.
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December 15, 2024 at 1:37 AM
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iconic
Wikipedia screenshot: In the world of computing science, Dijkstra is well known as a "character". In the preface of his book A Discipline of Programming (1976) he stated the following: "For the absence of a bibliography I offer neither explanation nor apology." In fact, most of his articles and books have no references at all. Dijkstra chose this way of working to preserve his self-reliance.
November 30, 2024 at 4:50 PM
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man that's cool
Text from a Stack Exchange answer: Dear @colmmacuait, I think that if you type "man" at 0001 hours it should print "gimme gimme gimme". #abba @marnanel - 3 November 2011 er, that was my fault, I suggested it. Sorry. Pretty much the whole story is in the commit. The maintainer of man is a good friend of mine, and one day six years ago I jokingly said to him that if you invoke man after midnight it should print "gimme gimme gimme", because of the Abba song called "Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight": Well, he did actually put it in. A few people were amused to discover it, and we mostly forgot about it until today.
November 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM