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Spent the morning going over the AI’s homework that I assigned it last week, correcting it and filling in the gaps. Still quicker than doing it myself? Not sure, although I found its formatting helpful to follow, and that surely saved me some time.
Virtual meeting completed eventually after the organiser (initially) and my boss (all together) failed to appear.
Quick lunch and out for two back-to-back in-person meetings (likely with all the same people).
Not on our side.
So now we have it. Rachel Reeves's claim that a third runway at Heathrow Airport would boost economic growth comes from a report commissioned by .... Heathrow Airport. Instead of acting in the national interest, she's channelling corporate lobbyists. [www.theguardian.com/environme...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/01/ree...) bsky.app
Is Trump doing a Truss and will “the deep state” intervene?
Trump’s nightmare 2025 is going as I predicted https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02/03/trumps-nightmare-2025-is-going-as-i-predicted/ Trump is dragging financial markets down - and people in the US, from the MAGA to Trump's donors - are not going to like that.
More evidence, should you need it, that in the last 50 years capitalism has disproportionately advantaged the top 10% of earners (and we also know that within that top 10% there is a further division between the richest - the top 1% - and the rest).
In the last 50 years the reductions in inequality of the post-1945 period have been reversed confirming that the governance & regulation of capitalism after 1945 to make it more generally beneficial was a blip not a trend
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us, https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/113938704626685539
My Dad has been radicalised by the far right on YouTube, and now he’s started using emojis in messages.
Last weekend I was discovering the joy of listening to Leeds-based band English Teacher, whose singer Lily Fontaine hails from Colne, near Pendle, in Lancashire.
This weekend I’ve been rediscovering the joy of listening to Leeds-based band Chumbawamba, whose singer Alice Nutter hails from Burnley, near Pendle, in Lancashire.
One of English Teacher’s songs “The World’s Biggest Paving Slab” references the Pendle Witch Trials.
Alice Nutter, of course, was the name of one of the Pendle witches, and Chumbawamba’s Alice Nutter went on to write a play about the Witch Trials.
Big kid always leaves his pizza crusts and asked me to make a stuffed crust instead.
I forgot all about, so just folded over the edge at the last moment before it went in the oven. It’s delicious, but looks and feels more like a pie, and no. 1 son didn’t like it at all!
Talking of Chumbawamba has sent me down another memory hole today.
I have some hazy memories of following another anti-fascist band, Blaggers ITA, around in the early ’90s. I seem to remember playing football with them in Manchester at one time. That was after the pub closed on a hot Sunday afternoon to kill some time before their gig in the evening.
In 1988, the great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to the human race of 2088.
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