David Algonquin @surplustakes
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'The London stock market has suffered a fresh blow, with Darktrace, one of its few significant listed technology companies, agreeing to be taken over by an American private equity firm for £4.4 billion in cash.' thetimes.co.uk/article/darktr…
I spent a week as a Deliveroo rider. And learnt a lot. First up, Deliveroo likes to claim you should earn at least the minimum wage of £11.44 while working. Me? I worked for 22hrs 50mins, rode 105 miles, did 27 drop offs and earned £120.38. That works out at £5.28 an hour🧵
Crippling labour shortage latest: "too many Deliveroo riders"
Crippling labour shortage latest: "too many Deliveroo riders"
The ethnicity pay gap between is absolutely massive in London (while a uniquely low percentage of white Brits live in London) Makes sense of why being white and being well-off are often seen as going together in London
@surplustakes Sir Gus O'Donnell perfectly illustrates the problem. He had gotten it 180 degrees backwards and he should have been fired immediately if this was truly his world view. The nat'l government's primary function is to ensure the welfare of the nation's people.
For comparison: Hastings castle today and in 2028
If nothing else, the Oxbridge collegiate system is a reminder of the eternal power of small, tightly-knit groups of deeply evil people
I think - now that more than a decade has passed - I am ready to accept that my university staple of boiled pasta with feta, chopped ham and red wine vinegar wasn't actually "an instant classic"; I was just hungry
On the condition it's 100% market rate housing and the "value uplift" is not simply flowing directly from the state
On the condition it's 100% market rate housing and the "value uplift" is not simply flowing directly from the state
The British Deep State: "maximising global welfare" since the Cambridge Five
The British Deep State: "maximising global welfare" since the Cambridge Five
The fact that this wasn’t red-lined out of negotiations straight away is disgraceful.
The fact that this wasn’t red-lined out of negotiations straight away is disgraceful.
Rational that social media sites suppress each other's links and names to prevent users being captured by a rival dopamine loop - but can you imagine how powerful a yew tube/twitter merger would be?
"And do you know who else was short and faced insurmountable odds, Mr. Speaker? Paul Atreides."
The most important issues facing the country, according to Conservative voters
The most important issues facing the country, according to Conservative voters https://t.co/W9FBAooASr
"You know, I'm something of a Deano myself"
Note absence of glazing bars
Note absence of glazing bars
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@surplustakes An elusive reception, rude staff, an African nurse berating an eastern European patient for not understanding her poorly delivered instructions (my most recent experience).
@surplustakes I took my grandfather into casualty a couple of years ago after he had a little turn, on a Sunday afternoon. It was like entering a little chamber of Hell
Who pays for their research? The Arts and Humanities Research Council. Which is funded by UKRI, which is funded from the Science budget of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, which is funded by you!
A Bangladeshi man who can’t speak English gets into the country on a student visa, then puts in a claim for asylum & it’s granted. Social media is full of lawyers parading their success stories of gaming the broken immigration & asylum system. Last year 457,000 people were…
@surplustakes He is specifically considering a hypothetical England with housing sitting idle and a master-servant relationship between incumbents and arrivals.
This isn’t about being “fooled by averages”, this is about reckoning with the cumulative impact of millions of migrants being added at the lower end, whether it be exhausted infrastructure, marginal fiscal burden, or what happens when your country gets on average poorer.
It is fallacious to imagine that if an immigrant enters the UK and works in a sector with subaverage wages, then they somehow drag the rest of us down. But people get fooled by averages. All the time. My tweet has drawn some extraordinary types out of the woodwork -go look 4/
They should look like an old 747
Touchscreens are imperfect, but still the best way to consolidate the multitude of functions in modern cars, Klaus Busse says. trib.al/WYjqk5y
@surplustakes Sir Gus O'Donnell perfectly illustrates the problem. He had gotten it 180 degrees backwards and he should have been fired immediately if this was truly his world view. The nat'l government's primary function is to ensure the welfare of the nation's people.
@surplustakes A mad example is that it’s probably worth it to redevelop somewhere irreplaceable and net positive in the long run like pinewood studios, *if* there was blanket permission to build high density flats on its site, due to the market being so borked
@surplustakes You also have issues around the land use being locked down once the inevitably not dense enough housing is built. Core issue is the price of residential is high because of green belt restrictions, meaning the housing demand bazooka can obliterate potentially logical land use
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The Indian government want Britain to absorb their excess labour and a National Insurance tax exemption for their workers lmao A deal on National Insurance exemptions would benefit Indian firms like Infosys, Rishi’s wife holds an estimated £625mn in shares Who does Rishi…
@t848m0 The fact that this didn’t cause the government to end negotiations immediately is disgraceful.
I once asked for an espresso in a Greggs in Sunderland and the lady behind the till said (with some concern): “they’re just those little coffees mind”
i’m in bolton train station and i asked for oat milk in my coffee and the lady told me they don’t do that kind of thing here
So bizarre waking up to frost with the sun so high in the sky. My fingers were freezing but my shirt was hot from the sun.
@surplustakes We can’t have a hard border in NI, because…so maybe they could have a word with the French?
no glasses outside mate. not after 9pm. nope you can’t smoke there. not there either. can’t use the front mate. back entrance. have you got your tickets? have you downloaded the app? you need to download the app. nothing I can do mate. in a plastic cup please mate yeah? great.
This cold weather seems to have prolonged blossoming, I can’t recall a spring where cherry blossom has seemed to hang on for such a long time.
@FurtherOr @IronEconomist @surplustakes True although the counter point is I am increasingly seeing older adults be increasingly anti-social because of phones. Perhaps after holding out for so long they now are gorging on the mindless distraction.
@surplustakes We used to be a proper country.
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