Historians will note that the sacking of Sir Tom Scholar was a signal to short the pound. It was a sign of weakness not strength, an unwillingness to listen to independent advice and a foretaste of what was to come. Plenty of leadership lessons here

Did some thinking about the state of play around the time of the MapReduce paper. Found Google's R&D budget in 2003 was only 90 million USD! bnikolic.co.uk/blog/aws/bigda…

500 Mt for 1.5 GW of power generation capacity... remarkable!

🇫🇷 FRANCE: 66g CO2/kWh 🟢 using 67% Nuclear, 10% Hydro and 8% Gas 🇩🇪 GERMANY: 315g CO2/kWh 🔴 using 53% Wind, 19% Coal and 8% Biomass Provided by Electricity Maps, data is about live consumption as of 05/01/23 13:00 Berlin's time.

#tilesonTuesday The architect Leslie Green gave corporate identity to his Edwardian tube stations by cladding them in tiles in a distinctive colour called 'oxblood red'. The name of this colour dates back to the 17th century when oxblood was used as a pigment in dyes & paints.

前陣子學到的技巧：讓 Makefile 偵測 CFLAGS 的變化 bnikolic.co.uk/blog/sh/make/u…

British Non fungible token, that PM as Chancellor asked Royal Mint to develop by last summer, now “not proceeding” Treasury minister tells TSC Chair…

So Brighton University have carried out their threat of 100% deductions for MAB this month. They say they'll be clawing back pay from May too! And this while they're selecting 24 people for compulsory redundancy. #SaveBrightonUni #BrightonUniStrike #FourFights

Long-running strike action with security officers at Heathrow Airport has ended. Workers have accepted between *15.5 and 17.5%* pay increases. Unite the union: join a union

Sometimes you make a chart that surprises yourself. From Peter Foster's look at the UK's infrastructure gap on.ft.com/3U9UTQF (link is free to open)

Two points on today's GDP figures. 1. What matters for prosperity of individuals & sustainability of public services isn't GDP, but GDP per capita - worse than GDP, because of population growth 2. What matters isn't q-by-q growth number, but long term trend - which is terrible

Michelle Donelan, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, has today tweeted a full retraction of her false allegations about Professor Kate Sang and agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to her. Read more here: bindmans.com/knowledge-hub/…

The inquiry is governed by an Act of Parliament... It is an MPs main job to make and amend these acts....

In 1854, so 170 years ago: - Liverpool had more inhabitants than Moscow - Manchester was larger than Madrid - Leeds was larger than Milan - Birmingham was larger than Rome - Dundee was larger than Valencia - Bath was larger than Frankfurt - and Paisley larger than Athens

Zadie Smith in today's The Guardian remembering English higher education as a publicly funded public good.

Odeon Cinema, Leicester Square 1937 Andrew Mather and Harry Weedon bit.ly/4lBsNJf

Hampstead NW3, long lost 🍺 Flats and facials…

(Good lawyers don't just answer the client's literal question. They answer the question the client should have asked)

"Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’." From a UK government minister, in case anyone was wondering why the universities here are collapsing. lbc.co.uk/article/britis…