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Data scientist, Oxfordshire bicycle commuter, Christian, father and husband. Tooting on everything that interests me.

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2024-07-10 07:27:15

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if the government wants relatively well off middle class home owners, like myself, to pay for insulation and heat pump installations ourselves, they have to address the problem that gas is too cheap in the UK and increase tax on gas https://mastodon.energy/@janrosenow/112710627560795922

2024-07-03 17:37:58

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my hope is that he will negotiate agreements that are like e.g. the customs union, just not call it like that. That way, he might avoid some angry backlash from Brexiteers while achieving essentially the same.

2024-07-01 05:56:29

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or just acknowledge that of course it's not the "UK armed forces" that "defend our homeland", but the UK being part of the most powerful military alliance in the history of humanity. That it is the UK armed forces as part of NATO that defend us and our allies.

2024-06-30 09:01:44

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very similar happening in Germany. The tragedy is, it felt like mainstream politicians seemed to have understood that around 2016. Not just Merkel, but including the more conservative populist leader of the Bavarian Conservatives. But then Merz took over the leadership of the Conservatives with the promise to half the AfD vote share and has since doubled it instead by moving the whole discussion to the right. 😢

2024-06-26 08:11:29

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could it be because "markets" react to economic predictions, and thereby in a way pull forward the consequences. When Liz Truss scared the markets, pension funds where close to collapse the next day, mortgage rates sky rocketed and politics reacted. When politicians scare climate scientist by their inaction, it still takes another 20 years for the draughts, floods, and sea levels to react to it.