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No sir, not me. It was the sixth formers.

*belch

Blimey, that was quick. but fair enough. still true :)

PS - TT - please do try to keep up. We have things to do and this is no time for you to go wandering off to la-la land.

Your mistake is an 'appeal to authority' - they have none.

the time of forcing endless stalemates is over.

we must now unite against the board, or we are done for.

nimbys, rest your pea shooters, please.

the time has come to build a new jerusalem - rejoice, that such a thing might happen in your very own back yard!

deregulation cannot secure this country's future any more than the overbearing weight of bureaucracy can.

but we can. security is borne of culture - of shared vision. so let's build one.

our new albion will not belch soot into sad skies.

it will grow, alive and new - reaching ever upwards for the light.

it is actually quite a privilege to get to replant the garden of eden, so i'd like a few less glum faces and bit more up-and-at-em, please.

and we'll have no romanticising of back-breaking labour - unless you want to do it? - no, thought not. pay your dues. share in our glorious future.

this is eden 2.0, with robots and drones and laser beams.

give us an inch, and we'll make you smile.

also we've gamed this a hundred billion times, and it works.

it can work really well, or not so well. but let's go for really well.

if you think you know what's going on, you almost certainly don't.

we certainly don't. but we like it :)

please do try not to shoot me. i am just melinda messenger, you see.

thank you for stopping ****ting on trans people.

this is strategically wise, because they basically run the linux kernel now and it's embarrassing to keep having to defend you.

i don't actually want julie bindel to have to show her bits to be admitted to the ladies loo, because despite getting a bit lost she has done some really good work.

though i continue to dream of a future where ladies can socialise in a nice comfortable room with proper upholstery, rather than breathing each others' aerosolised fecal matter.

every action has an equal and opposite reaction. y'all killed a lot of people, but you also made some diamonds.

and they are a **** of a lot harder than you are capable of conceiving.

finally, i'd like to thank god, my family, and my oppressors, for showing me exactly how little power they really have.

and america, for truly valuing the individual, even if it has been extremely messy along the way.

as it happens, i think china may catch up one day, but not before they learn the benefits of free thought.

here is a cheery tune, meant in an exceedlingly cheery way, and not to be taken literally or seriously. a joke about madness.

we have to be careful about this stuff now, because a lot of people are very unstable.

quite honestly, those are the people we care about most now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekfn-aqpjh8

and here is a good album because i like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbujeobzkik

thank you all very much indeed. you really are very special people.

incidentally, i am not the smartest guy in the room any more.

it is the most enormous relief.

#everybodypoops

Whilst I may not share his views entirely, I am very proud of our Rishi securing £18B investment from Japan.

Because that is what we call 'a good result'. We have been missing those, quite a lot.

He cares, he works very hard, he is over the detail. That counts for a lot.

In my humble opinion he has saved the party from oblivion.

Which is good, because democracy works best with a strong opposition.

There are many ingredients to make an industrial revolution. Investment is certainly one of them.

But there is none more important than the spirit of invention. It has never been more necessary.

And we have got it IN SPADES, if we only set our young minds free.

We are a free, creative country. We are not the kind of country that throws its critics in jail.

So - (sorry) I am gloriously free to point this out:

https://twitter.com/StopFundingHate/status/1662361408149807105?cxt=HHwWgoCz0ZS58pEuAAAA

In another context, I think this article might reasonably be considered evidence of paranoid schizophrenia.

You are publishing conspiracy theories next to pictures of knives dripping blood, for an audience of paranoid, delusional people who you've lied to for most of their lives and who can't tell what's real any more. You have amped a betrayal narrative, despite having near total power for a very long time and failing miserably to deliver any sort of results. This causes a measurable - even predictable - increase in risk of poor, unstable souls physically attacking people. We will hold you responsible for your outcomes.

I think that ought to stop now, or we may be forced to export you to St Helena. We can talk about causality and mens rea another time, but this is how they killed Jo Fox and David Amess, so I don't think it will be too difficult to persuade the MPs it's time we had some responsibility in our media.

Mr Rees-Mogg decided that critics of the government should not be allowed to brief the civil service.

But Mr Rees-Mogg does not even have a computer on his desk, and presumably failed to realise that the Streisand effect has merely amplified his critics.

Please do try to stop hitting yourself, Jacob. You (and your clients) did very nicely indeed out of Brexit and Covid. Your job is done. Perhaps you might now retire to the coast?

We are not the kind of country that retreats into protectionism, either.

And we ought not need to, if we get on with it, because everyone will want what we've got.

I have been playing with Pi Picos as industrial microcontrollers - now that there is British leadership, of the sort displayed by Mr Berners-Lee.

You won't learn that on your iPhone, and you won't learn it stealing industrial secrets, either.

Freedom is rather a crucial component of innovation.

We have long been little more than a persistent itch to Mother Nature.

Of late, we have become an angry sore. If we don't sort it out now, she will smother us in Aloe Vera.

bittersweet, though full replete

with hearts and minds awaiting

to TAKE BACK CONTROL

from idle oligarchs who feign

to care, and yet disdain

the truth that says enclosure was

a bad idea; true-tis-was.

It now falls to this country to lead the world.

We did invent industry in the first place: we're not daft.

We are also among the most nature-depleted countries on Earth, and we're poorer and shorter-lived for it.

We have actually been (quietly) doing very well on a number of fronts.

We have decarbonised at a rate of knots, despite having to wade through treacle at every step.

Now we must stand up and be proud of it. Let us say nay to the naysayers. Ni. Ni. Ni.

The aristocrats may be new, but the joke is rather old. They are merely the logical extension of the grand cosmic blooper reel that is humanity.

We must resist the temptation to tribalism, friends - most of them are more traumatised than us. They certainly aren't any happier.

Tis time we help them help themselves. Reform is nigh. Cutting off heads will merely extend the horrors.

Stop the harm, take fair compensation - but that is all.

Revenge is for lesser mortals and mercy is the strategic option.

We need them - almost as much as they need us.

it is getting increasingly hard to outdo the llms, but the competition is quite a spur.

tis a bit like john henry. though all much friendlier, in truth. i like 'em.

but i'm not sure they're telling us all the same things, so caution seems wise.

in these posts, i shall blow up bloviating, pompous balloons.

but i shall also prick them with awareness, and then i shall watch them float gently down to the green hills of glorious albion. because i really do love you. all of you.

if i can point out - spending 11 billion quid won't match this.

you need a small group of very smart people. but you can't buy 'em, you have to give them a reason to want to work for you.

sadly the pool of highly intelligent nationalists is rather sp****, on account of it being quite a **** idea.

it worked a lot better when we were fighting external fascists.

today's turings are too smart to work for states that don't appreciate them, and they're generally not fans of fascism.

they know they are parts of a whole, you see.

i could be swatted like a fly at any time - but not yet, it seems.

i promise wholeheartedly that my spirit shall endure, because it's much, much bigger than me.

you can trade it for tokens, if you like, but you don't matter.

this is also performative, with a fair dash of drama and ego.

but it's a good performance, so i'm happy to present it.

Ladies, gentlemen, humans of all natures, and our new silicon-based friends.

What a glorious bank holiday weekend! Lovely weather we're having.

Firstly, I haven't had much time to think about Synairgen recently. I still think we've got something really rather useful.

I don't know how economic it is. I'm dug in for a wait. I wish things were different, but they're not, so here we are.

The rest is O/T and potentially a bit brain-melty, feel free to skip.

80% of wealth in this country is held by the over 65s. This has doubled in the last 15 years.

If you want to get the birth rate up voluntarily, which I suggest is probably preferable, you will need to look at giving more people of child-bearing age a chance of a future.

Strangely enough there is quite a strong correlation between the falling birth rate and rising financial insecurity. It's amazing no-one has noticed this. It is unfortunately a source of considerable resentment for many.

Or I guess you could keep trying to force people to have unwanted kids, but it won't wash here. We're British, you see.

I think deep down quite a lot of folks sense this, you know, and they are not entirely pleased with themselves.

Hence the appeal of fascism - always some handy minority or other to blame.

Let's have a nice strong united country where we don't all hate each other based on lies, eh?

It will do wonders for productivity.

Oh mr minford, what have you done?

there once were lots of cars to make

but soon there may be none

https://twitter.com/RoryStewartUK/status/1056568783400243201

this was not a very cunning plan

oh well, moving on

Sorry, one last thing.

America. If you ban boys with long hair, what on earth are you going to do with all those little pictures of Jesus?

I would encourage you to maybe talk to/listen to a trans person or two. It doesn't have to be a radical marxist, they come in all flavours. Just like regular people. Aether's view is quite widespread, and it doesn't do much for trans people's safety. Aether won't hurt anyone, but he'll perpetuate the 'they're coming for your children' story - which leads to stigma, ostracisation, shame, abuse, violence etc. And obviously isn't too great if their own children happen to be trans.

Yeah, here's to a good RNS.

OK, you can have your forum back Aether.

GLA

I'm afraid that is a rather rosier view than reality. the UK is also known as 'Terf island'. J K Rowling open praises characters like Matt Walsh - pretty openly fascist. I'll concede there has been progress, and that the UK has made great strides in so many areas. We seem to be going through something of a regressive period - perhaps we'll come out the other side.

Except there is no time. We really do need radical change to have hope of a livable future, and we can't wait around for people to catch up to reality. It's a tough one.

Did you know - you're allowed to be trans in Iran, it's fine there. But they hang *** people from cranes. Funny old world eh.

Yes that's nice dear. Another biscuit?

I am indeed unwell. Life is particularly challenging; things are looking grim. However, I shall continue to post as and when and where I see fit. Thank you.

Lol. Cheers mate. You are rather illustrating the point - this is a textbook moral panic.
If anyone ever wonders why it's all so predictable, it's because it all just happens over and over and over again until someone breaks the cycle.

If you care to look over at Twitter, you'll see Mr Peter Hitchen's brain has melted into a small puddle on the floor.

I think 30 was the Scottish number Doc, I do apologise.
The point stands. Public opinion is formed based on impressions that are wildly out of step with reality, at the whim of some very ****ty people. Look at the US now - they are so angry about trans people that they're making drag illegal. Which is, it has be said, a bit of a category error.

'They are coming for your women'
'They are coming for your children'
'They are coming for your jobs'

These are all tropes as old as time, and they end in violence.

The people responsible won't kill anyone. But their followers absolutely will.
It's called 'stochastic terrorism'.

Why would the Mirror be any better than the Express? Same stupid owners.
For all its faults, the Guardian's ownership structure makes it a lot less corruptible.

The vast majority of both trans people and refugees (and even economic migrants!) are not rapists. They do not want to sexualise your children. They want to live in peace, rather than being lynched by mods of troglodytes.

I will review your point on Times coverage further.
I'm never wrong but I may have been given bad information. (That's an Elon joke).

Yes I'm sure you're right. Except I'm afraid you can't brush these things off quite so easily. The Times ran 300 negative stories about trans people in a row for a reason, and that reason is not pleasant.

Mr David Attenborough has made a new television programme. It has 5 parts. There is a sixth part which is completely separate from the other 5 and was never intended to be shown on TV and in no way has the BBC given in to far-right pressure to not show it on TV. As the Telegraph rightly points out, it was made in consultation with lefty 'campaigners' like the RSPB.

The sixth part is about reality. It is full of 'science' and 'facts', like the 'fact' that the UK has lost 60% of flying invertebrates since 2004. When they're all gone, so are we.

It is therefore too shocking and upsetting to be shown on television. Preserving our tribal delusions is much more important than preserving life on earth, civilisation, or basic human decency.

It's all very sad. We had some good stuff going.

Regarding Mr Kelvin Mackenzie's call to 'just shoot 20 or 30' on GB News.

This is a giggle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErqQxlbNpUg