I'm not fully in one camp or the other on the social media ban. However, I've realised I'm utterly relaxed about it because, like almost everything the government announces, it's going to be backtracked-on, u-turned, u-turned again, filibustered and ultimately abandoned.
The flaw in your logic is that such is their competence, they'll probably end up with legislation to ban it for adults, whilst mandating special classes to promote it to 8 year olds.
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
The specific mandated charges that would disappear include: Renewables Obligation (RO): ~15% of the bill Contracts for Difference (CfD): ~6% of the bill Feed-in Tariffs (FiT): ~4% of the bill Climate Change Levy (CCL): ~3% of the bill (currently billed at 0.801p per kWh) Capacity Market (CM) & RAB Nuclear Levy: ~3% to 4% of the bill
I don’t know how much of these could be removed without the government breaching commercial contracts.
Gemini reckons you’d get a roughly 30% reduction in commercial electricity cost if you cut the above which is not insignificant. The treasury would need to find £5b in revenue from elsewhere.
Damned stupid that we have any additional charges on electricity at all given we want businesses to move to consuming more of it relative to oil, gas, fuel etc. Shift that cost onto fossil fuels if you want to retain the revenue.
The small manufacturing firm I have personal exposure has moved to as much solar and battery as possible - only makes a minor dent in costs because their consumption is so high but the ROI is great given the cost of getting it from the grid.
I am not entirely convinced by this argument in terms of mapping the performance onto the UK as a whole, but the statistics are pretty clear, and a little embarrassing for the Brexit camp.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London. https://x.com/b_judah/status/2066400581413908675
The specific mandated charges that would disappear include: Renewables Obligation (RO): ~15% of the bill Contracts for Difference (CfD): ~6% of the bill Feed-in Tariffs (FiT): ~4% of the bill Climate Change Levy (CCL): ~3% of the bill (currently billed at 0.801p per kWh) Capacity Market (CM) & RAB Nuclear Levy: ~3% to 4% of the bill
I don’t know how much of these could be removed without the government breaching commercial contracts.
Gemini reckons you’d get a roughly 30% reduction in commercial electricity cost if you cut the above which is not insignificant. The treasury would need to find £5b in revenue from elsewhere.
Damned stupid that we have any additional charges on electricity at all given we want businesses to move to consuming more of it relative to oil, gas, fuel etc. Shift that cost onto fossil fuels if you want to retain the revenue.
The small manufacturing firm I have personal exposure has moved to as much solar and battery as possible - only makes a minor dent in costs because their consumption is so high but the ROI is great given the cost of getting it from the grid.
The Renewable Obligation costs are worse than the headline numbers. Most of the time, gas generators set the wholesale market price via their prices, which include the RO costs.
This inflates the wholesale market price for *everyone* by the RO cost, with the inflated price just being a handy bonanza for the renewable generators. It's difficult to think of a worse way they could have designed the system if they actually want to promote electrification.
Labour MP (Feyral Clark) on LBC News wants under 16 exemptions for platforms she likes.
A youngster was asked how long she had been online over the weekend and said 9 hours
When asked what she would do if she could not go online she said 'stare at the wall'
One despairs
God forbid they properly interacted with other teenagers in person !
Can I relate an incident from Friday night? My two youngest daughters play cricket. Practice is on a Friday night; and the session segues seamlessly into a sort of free-for-all of kids playing. We watched this unfolding from the bar on Friday night - 20-30 boys and girls, aged roughly 9-14 engaged in huge games of their own devising. At one point they were all playing British Bulldog. Like other humans, kids love interacting with each other in person as much as they ever did. They sometimes just need a bit of a prompt to do so. (When we were young, that prompt was provided by boredom - perhaps the root of our problem is that life isn't boring enough any more!)
Labour MP (Feyral Clark) on LBC News wants under 16 exemptions for platforms she likes.
Bluesky ?
We really are governed by utter morons
Bluesky has an exemption because it's small - but they implemented the required code for Australia so they've already said they will implement it here...
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Labour MP (Feyral Clark) on LBC News wants under 16 exemptions for platforms she likes.
A youngster was asked how long she had been online over the weekend and said 9 hours
When asked what she would do if she could not go online she said 'stare at the wall'
One despairs
That’s not the win you think.
She was smart and articulate. It was clearly a comment to evoke a response
Irrespective it shows the social damage that is happening to our young people and I see that in our own grandchildren
I am not sure how well it can be policed, but apparently Starmer also wants to restrict access to 16 and 17 year olds but at the same time give them the vote
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Job fairs are a minority sport.
Because “online is better”
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
The online model didn't fail, but AI has made it beyond painful for absolutely everyone.
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Job fairs are a minority sport.
Because “online is better”
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
The online model didn't fail, but AI has made it beyond painful for absolutely everyone.
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
I am not sure there should be the correlation you suggest. I would ban suicide and self harm sites to anyone under 150 years old, not just under 18s, but they can still keep their vote.
The specific mandated charges that would disappear include: Renewables Obligation (RO): ~15% of the bill Contracts for Difference (CfD): ~6% of the bill Feed-in Tariffs (FiT): ~4% of the bill Climate Change Levy (CCL): ~3% of the bill (currently billed at 0.801p per kWh) Capacity Market (CM) & RAB Nuclear Levy: ~3% to 4% of the bill
I don’t know how much of these could be removed without the government breaching commercial contracts.
Gemini reckons you’d get a roughly 30% reduction in commercial electricity cost if you cut the above which is not insignificant. The treasury would need to find £5b in revenue from elsewhere.
Feed in tariffs can't be phased out of the charge portion because they're baked in from as late as 2019 for 20 years onward as receipts to recipients unless you borrow more generally to fund them. They'll dovetail out and be out completely from 2039 though. Mind you they've changed the inflation measure to CPI from RPI unilaterally though which will save them a few pennies.
Declaration of interest: I'm a recipient of the FIT.
Well money is fungible. You can fund that expenditure by taxing something else, perhaps something less harmful to the economy.
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Job fairs are a minority sport.
Because “online is better”
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
The online model didn't fail, but AI has made it beyond painful for absolutely everyone.
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
The online model has failed (partly due to AI) - but it was pretty shit before.
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Job fairs are a minority sport.
Because “online is better”
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
The online model didn't fail, but AI has made it beyond painful for absolutely everyone.
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
I am not sure there should be the correlation you suggest. I would ban suicide and self harm sites to anyone under 150 years old, not just under 18s, but they can still keep their vote.
You seem to switched context, my comment was regarding @Malmesbury and the fact online recruitment is now failing due to every job advert getting hundreds of AI generated crap applications.
Every contract I've got over the past 10 years has been by via personal recommendation and from what I'm hearing things have got way worse over the past 18 months.
On the subject of jobs and the recruitment system not working, a proposal.
A Job Fair with a difference. At each employers stand, you talk (as usual) with some people for the company. If they like what you say in 1-2minutes of conversation, they book you in for a first round interview. A slot, in a side room, *that day*. That evening, you get a go/no-go for the second round.
Job fairs are a minority sport.
Because “online is better”
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
The online model didn't fail, but AI has made it beyond painful for absolutely everyone.
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
I am not sure there should be the correlation you suggest. I would ban suicide and self harm sites to anyone under 150 years old, not just under 18s, but they can still keep their vote.
You seem to switched context, my comment was regarding @Malmesbury and the fact online recruitment is now failing due to every job advert getting hundreds of AI generated crap applications.
Every contract I've got over the past 10 years has been by via personal recommendation and from what I'm hearing things have got way worse over the past 18 months.
Sorry I was replying to BigG. Not sure how that happened.
I am not entirely convinced by this argument in terms of mapping the performance onto the UK as a whole, but the statistics are pretty clear, and a little embarrassing for the Brexit camp.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London. https://x.com/b_judah/status/2066400581413908675
A few questions come to mind: - why from 2015? (makes me instantly suspicious!) - what were the trends in previous ten years (has NI been reaping a long term peace dividend?)
Then there's stuff that could still be seen as Brexit related - mix of industries and trade with ROI for example - that would be useful or unpick the differences and causes.
I am not entirely convinced by this argument in terms of mapping the performance onto the UK as a whole, but the statistics are pretty clear, and a little embarrassing for the Brexit camp.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London. https://x.com/b_judah/status/2066400581413908675
If NI had underperformed, Ben Judah would have been writing about how that was the fault of Brexit. Conclusions first, arguments second. He has form.
It would be interesting to know the actual reasons for this outperformance, mind.
I am not entirely convinced by this argument in terms of mapping the performance onto the UK as a whole, but the statistics are pretty clear, and a little embarrassing for the Brexit camp.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London. https://x.com/b_judah/status/2066400581413908675
If NI had underperformed, Ben Judah would have been writing about how that was the fault of Brexit. Conclusions first, arguments second. He has form.
It would be interesting to know the actual reasons for this outperformance, mind.
Northern Ireland has long been really poor. Maybe there is an element of catchup? Would be interesting to see a plot pre-ceasefire, and post ceasefire at the various stages.
Labour MP (Feyral Clark) on LBC News wants under 16 exemptions for platforms she likes.
A youngster was asked how long she had been online over the weekend and said 9 hours
When asked what she would do if she could not go online she said 'stare at the wall'
One despairs
That’s not the win you think.
She was smart and articulate. It was clearly a comment to evoke a response
Irrespective it shows the social damage that is happening to our young people and I see that in our own grandchildren
I am not sure how well it can be policed, but apparently Starmer also wants to restrict access to 16 and 17 year olds but at the same time give them the vote
If the Telegraph’s reporting is correct, the only reasonable interpretation of Serco’s position is that it now believes itself to be an alternative power base to the duly elected government of the United Kingdom, and is willing to act contrary to the interests of the British electorate.
If this were true, a Reform government would be left with no choice but to view Serco as a threat to national security.
I have given Serco until 6pm to clarify their position.
Should they fail to do so, we will take the following steps to decouple the British Government from Serco:
1) On forming a Government, we will initiate an accelerated review of all Government contracting with Serco with the aim of removing Serco as a public contractor within our first Parliamentary term.
2) Where Serco has breached contracts or break clauses are available, we will terminate those contracts and continue to exercise break clauses as they come due.
Labour MP (Feyral Clark) on LBC News wants under 16 exemptions for platforms she likes.
A youngster was asked how long she had been online over the weekend and said 9 hours
When asked what she would do if she could not go online she said 'stare at the wall'
One despairs
God forbid they properly interacted with other teenagers in person !
Can I relate an incident from Friday night? My two youngest daughters play cricket. Practice is on a Friday night; and the session segues seamlessly into a sort of free-for-all of kids playing. We watched this unfolding from the bar on Friday night - 20-30 boys and girls, aged roughly 9-14 engaged in huge games of their own devising. At one point they were all playing British Bulldog. Like other humans, kids love interacting with each other in person as much as they ever did. They sometimes just need a bit of a prompt to do so. (When we were young, that prompt was provided by boredom - perhaps the root of our problem is that life isn't boring enough any more!)
Your last point is, I think, spot on.
More generally you can claim that technology in general seeks to remove the friction from life, but it's often in the friction that interesting things happen. I'm not wanting to turn the clock back, but I think we could do with thinking about how much we do things just because we can, and how we might choose to do things differently.
The sentences are fine - but the jurors should have been told what they were actually charged without the terrorism bits hidden from them.
Mitigating and aggravating factors aren't normally put before jurors are they? Indeed its often illegal to do so, as it can prejudice the jury either way.
Maybe they should be in all cases, but perverse to complain about just this one.
It isn’t an aggravating factor - it’s a whole different law they’ve been sentenced under. If you are going to use a jury they really should be allowed to decide if it’s terrorism or criminal damage and it should be up to the prosecution to argue the point.
It bloody is an aggravating factor and that is the law.
The sentences are fine - but the jurors should have been told what they were actually charged without the terrorism bits hidden from them.
Mitigating and aggravating factors aren't normally put before jurors are they? Indeed its often illegal to do so, as it can prejudice the jury either way.
Maybe they should be in all cases, but perverse to complain about just this one.
It isn’t an aggravating factor - it’s a whole different law they’ve been sentenced under. If you are going to use a jury they really should be allowed to decide if it’s terrorism or criminal damage and it should be up to the prosecution to argue the point.
It bloody is an aggravating factor and that is the law.
Check sentencing guidelines.
It’s also been used several times before and has been the law for a while.
Odd it’s only been an issue with the chattering classes now it’s some fluffy, middle class, green types. MC Hammertime aside.
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The small manufacturing firm I have personal exposure has moved to as much solar and battery as possible - only makes a minor dent in costs because their consumption is so high but the ROI is great given the cost of getting it from the grid.
Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.
https://x.com/b_judah/status/2066400581413908675
This inflates the wholesale market price for *everyone* by the RO cost, with the inflated price just being a handy bonanza for the renewable generators. It's difficult to think of a worse way they could have designed the system if they actually want to promote electrification.
We really are governed by utter morons
https://dieterhelm.co.uk/energy-climate/the-cost-of-energy-and-what-to-do-about-it/
Like other humans, kids love interacting with each other in person as much as they ever did. They sometimes just need a bit of a prompt to do so. (When we were young, that prompt was provided by boredom - perhaps the root of our problem is that life isn't boring enough any more!)
She was smart and articulate. It was clearly a comment to evoke a response
She was smart and articulate. It was clearly a comment to evoke a response
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
Which it isn’t. The online model has failed.
I am not sure how well it can be policed, but apparently Starmer also wants to restrict access to 16 and 17 year olds but at the same time give them the vote
Now that really is not thought through
So I can see real world interactions becoming more and more important..
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q9BzDAyouug
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qN9aipM437U
Every contract I've got over the past 10 years has been by via personal recommendation and from what I'm hearing things have got way worse over the past 18 months.
- why from 2015? (makes me instantly suspicious!)
- what were the trends in previous ten years (has NI been reaping a long term peace dividend?)
Then there's stuff that could still be seen as Brexit related - mix of industries and trade with ROI for example - that would be useful or unpick the differences and causes.
Oh, and confidence intervals!
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/did-trump-poop-his-pants-viral-video-of-potus-after-walter-reed-visit-sparks-concern-101779912356060.html
Starmer needs to ban social media for the under65s.
It would be interesting to know the actual reasons for this outperformance, mind.
NEW THREAD
He's great, but in necessarily small but regular doses.
He's wrong on liking kissing gates, though.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A9ulxBJ7w0w
https://x.com/ZiaYusufUK/status/2066509662413832452
If the Telegraph’s reporting is correct, the only reasonable interpretation of Serco’s position is that it now believes itself to be an alternative power base to the duly elected government of the United Kingdom, and is willing to act contrary to the interests of the British electorate.
If this were true, a Reform government would be left with no choice but to view Serco as a threat to national security.
I have given Serco until 6pm to clarify their position.
Should they fail to do so, we will take the following steps to decouple the British Government from Serco:
1) On forming a Government, we will initiate an accelerated review of all Government contracting with Serco with the aim of removing Serco as a public contractor within our first Parliamentary term.
2) Where Serco has breached contracts or break clauses are available, we will terminate those contracts and continue to exercise break clauses as they come due.
More generally you can claim that technology in general seeks to remove the friction from life, but it's often in the friction that interesting things happen. I'm not wanting to turn the clock back, but I think we could do with thinking about how much we do things just because we can, and how we might choose to do things differently.
Check sentencing guidelines.
In the first one the guy quotes Alan Partridge - ‘lovely stuff’
Second is how good the quality is of the videos, in terms of definition. Especially the second one.
Odd it’s only been an issue with the chattering classes now it’s some fluffy, middle class, green types. MC Hammertime aside.