First described (2004) #databasestate. ex-GenSec @NO2ID. MD @MarjacqScripts. @FIPR_infopol board. Cassandra. Memorious. Irony in the soul. Purity-test failure.
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Guy Herbert retweeted
Yet when I buried landmines in my front lawn, it was all 'conspiring to cause explosions'.
Come on Wes, sort out your messaging, lad.
Defence Secretary urges British public to be ready for war within 1,000 days
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Guy Herbert retweeted
I don’t care about Oxford Street, a horrible road in a city I don’t live in, but people who get excited by pedestrianisation (AKA pedophiles) are weirdos who nearly always have terrible opinions about everything else.
Guy Herbert retweeted
After the Budget, millions will use online tax calculators. But there's a privacy catch: we tested the seven most popular, and every one sends your income to a server.
Here's what MoneySavingExpert sends:
Guy Herbert retweeted
It seems to have been a struggle to find volunteers to fill the room for Reform UK’s pre-Budget announcement today. Watch now on @GBNEWS.
"Mazzucato wants you to read all this as a paradigm shift. It reads, instead, like a repackaging of ideas that were tired before she was born, run through a jargon generator and illustrated with arrows."
Both the left and the populist right are blaming the free market for problems created by state intervention. Julia R. Cartwright reviews Mariana Mazzucato's "The Common Good Economy," warning that a state-directed economy will only breed more cronyism.
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I don't think I've ever seen the Economist harsher.
Asking for money and not getting it is the new-ish chancellor’s main achievement in politics economist.com/britain/2026/1…
Britain, of course, used to be an even more important counterweight, working with market-friendly countrues like in Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Czechia... Britain leaving changed the EU as well as Britain.
Brussels was once a place where France’s instincts for state intervention collided with Germany’s faith in markets and (relatively) free trade—and usually lost. No longer economist.com/europe/2026/10…
Guy Herbert retweeted
Even within Labour’s “no return to austerity” constraints, we could close the deficit with only mild spending restraints. It mainly requires a shift from expensive but popular taxes to effective but palpable ones.
Here’s how to do it. Paywall down.
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Guy Herbert retweeted
RIP Geoffrey Chaucer, whose poetry was a great source of pleasure & inspiration to me during the recent plague years…
Today is the anniversary of the death of Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry… 📜✨
Historian @holland_tom uncovers the impact of the Black Death on Chaucer’s life, and how it influenced The Canterbury Tales...
Watch lecture: gres.hm/pilgrimages-holland
@TheRestHistory
Guy Herbert retweeted
Britain has too much social housing already. Just let people build a house on land that they own.
EXC: The Chancellor John Healey is set to announce a £1billion boost to council housing which can deliver up to 10,000 homes in the Budget. The government also plans to help more councils borrow for housebuilding by extending preferential rates.
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/c…
Guy Herbert retweeted
Braverman was born in Harrow. The hideous Hesp would never have tweeted this had she been white. But apparently she’s not at all racist.
Guy Herbert retweeted
This is an absurd campaign. Is the New West End Company going to rescind or breach its contracts for the use of Harry Potter intellectual property and the completed installation of the lights? No. Can the Mayor intervene in this and would or should he? No, no, and no
The parakeets are making a racket and chasing each other round the trees. Economy size budgies. The mystery of Ms Creasey's discovery is that she found one on its own.
