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The Government have now published the impact assessment into Martyn's Law. Under the most likely scenario, the costs to society are 70 times greater than the benefits. Under the worst case scenario, the costs are 474 times greater than the benefits.

The Government's own assessment of this law says it will make society worse off by £1.8bn.

An unintentionally wonderful insight into a particular way of viewing the world.

Alpine running a Wish McLaren livery I see #F1

Why can’t Britain build anything anymore? The news this week of the £100m ‘bat tunnel’ gave us some clues. Here’s the story of this tunnel, which has been 12 years in the making, and some thoughts on what it tells us

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has passed its Second Reading. A historic first step to meet the aspirations of the public, who overwhelmingly support having choice, dignity, and compassion at the end of their lives. #AssistedDyingBill #YestoDignity #AssistedDying

Fantastic news 🙂

Downing Street says the PM does not want children to stop eating porridge despite the govt including it in a new list of junk foods that will be banned from pre-watershed advertising on TV

Low IQ liberals don’t realise you can use howitzers to simply bombard the hurricane into submission.

The halfwits at Nesta want state-owned restaurants now. nesta.org.uk/feature/future…

These parasites represent everything that’s gone wrong with the UK. thecritic.co.uk/nesta-i-detest…

Three years of resistance. Three years of gratitude. Three years of absolute heroism of Ukrainians. I am proud of Ukraine! I thank everyone who defends and supports it. Everyone who works for Ukraine. And may the memory of all those who gave their lives for our state and people

This NYT piece on Brexit is off-base, IMHO. The parallels with the Trump tariffs are extremely tenuous. While Brexit has raised non-tariff barriers to trade, the UK’s effective tariffs on all goods are actually *lower* now than they were before Brexit. The drop in trade since

Some of the things you'd need to believe for the national-security case on nationalising British steel to hold up—not an impossible set of premises, but a weightier than advocates typically acknowledge. From my latest S*bstack post, link ⬇️

According to Nesta, banning two-for-one pizza offers and temporary discounts on chocolate bars would have a similar impact on obesity as a mass roll-out of Semaglutide. Is this really plausible?

Very happily married!