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Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
This is why... Huge amounts of wind being thrown away (light blue area)
(chart from Amira Technologies)
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Wow. FIRE data shows male students are more tolerant of ideological enemies than female students are of ideological allies. Read that again and then click the link.
expression.fire.org/p/male-s…
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
So we've hit £50 million in balancing costs for the day. The record is £52 million
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I earn £100 grand a year.
I have a detached house. 2 cars and my wife is a full time home maker.
I can just about afford this. I probably couldn’t afford the house I own if I was buying for the first time today.
My salary puts me in the top 5% of earners in the UK.
Top 5% to have a similar standard of living to Homer Simpson.
That is a disgrace.
We have a flatter salary distribution than Soviet Russia and the highest taxes and borrowing costs we’ve seen in generations.
Success is almost impossible because our tax system means hard work makes you a stressed out tax cow, not wealthy and certainly not free.
We need something radical.
Less state.
More family.
Less handouts.
More reward for risk.
Instead. Tomorrow, Labour will offer another batch of policies which will send one message to aspirational Brits: why bother.
I read a piece in the FT this week about the price of being middle class in Britain now and it said a couple earning £436,000 combined take home £216,000. That’s a crazy amount of tax, and it doesn't include VAT on purchases, council tax, stamp duty or other taxes (I think does include pension contributions). I can’t stop thinking about it.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Exactly this.
People are always baffled when I say I stepped down from management last year at my place. But I got paid £2.5k more per year for all the stress and workload that comes with managing my store.
Or I could go be the stock boy & not think about work after clocking out.
Absolute no brainer for me, I stepped down.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Liberal Tories never, ever learn about immigration. Never. The British government predicted about 10s of thousands of Poles would arrive after EU expansion in 2004. Close to a million did in a few years. Mass immigration between rich & poor countries is inherently dysfunctional.
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Both of "Westminster." Both live in Zone 1 London accommodation with easy access to the best facilities and largest jobs market in GB and yet likely living on benefits and arrested for plotting against us.
Thanks for integrating, lads.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Is today going to be a record day for balancing costs? Highest ever was £52 million a couple of weeks ago
Today £42 million and counting
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Despite the tragic outcome, this WAS a story and Jack was doing his job properly. There will be weeping and gnashing in certain quarters but it’s right that the journalism is recognised…
Very happy to have been shortlisted in the Specialist Journalism category in this year's British Journalism Awards for my investigation into Cambridge University professor Jason Arday and the extensive plagiarism in his PhD thesis #BJA2026
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
The Quakers have become credal.
Doctors do harm.
Therapists affirm their patients' delusions.
Teachers abandon safeguarding.
Regulators condone professional misconduct and punish whistleblowers.
I could go on.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
But this ideology breaks everything.
Stonewall has become homophobic.
The Civil Service has lost its impartiality.
Universities set themselves against academic freedom.
A breast-feeding charity enables men who want to abuse children by having them suck on their nipples.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Student loans were sold to students as "you'll earn more, so it's only fair you pay some of that back towards your education cost"
Unless changed, of the five plans students are on - three of the repayment thresholds will now be *below* the minimum wage.
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
.@timeshighered journalist @jgro_the, who investigated PhD thesis of late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, is in the running in the Specialist Journalism category in the British Journalism Awards 2026 #BJA2026 #PressGazette
timeshighereducation.com/new…
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Jack Grove spent months investigating Jason Arday's alleged plagiarism, fraud and serial fabulism. But Times Higher Education spiked his investigation in the face of an ominous overture from a fearsome defamation law firm. Now his work is being recognized nevertheless:
Very happy to have been shortlisted in the Specialist Journalism category in this year's British Journalism Awards for my investigation into Cambridge University professor Jason Arday and the extensive plagiarism in his PhD thesis #BJA2026
Jonathan Jones 🦆 retweeted
Susanne Yelin @JQInews: when optimizing a control protocol, expand your search space to unphysical solutions---as, in Portal, you jump between physical regions through an unphysical one. I was less startled by the strategy than by the juxtaposition of the speaker with Portal.
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Another Judge we're not allowed to criticise because it might upset legal twitter and Sir Bufton Bedwetter KC.
‘Bright lad’ who stabbed girl 10 times should not be jailed, judge ruled
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
