Can’t help but feel that U.K. had plenty of sort of scientists and engineers in this country who could have developed systems for renewables that we could have sold all over the world and if we’d had people in government who actually cared about this stuff we‘d be doing ok economically or whatever

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Housewife pauses from mending to give maid grocery money. Golden Age domestic economy by Michiel van Musscher, 1669.

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who wants to do a podcast episode with me on the history of dumplings?

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Fear and othering are the easiest emotions to activate. They comfort – to a point. Then, constant division with no actual solutions becomes exhausting; self-defeating: keeping people trapped in a trap they start to recognise as a trap. Burnham's defeat of Reform shows endless rage doesn't win.

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Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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