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“Better candidates will hold out for better pay” is the assumption I’m challenging. Better candidates don’t necessarily maximise salary. People trade income for purpose, influence and meaninful work. Otherwise academia, science, medicine and much of the public sector would have no talent at all.

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“Pay peanuts, get monkeys” assumes pay equals quality. It doesn’t. We don’t assume academics, doctors or other public sector workers are mediocre because they earn less than others with ability. Talented people are motivated by purpose, influence and the work itself.

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£100k not buying what it once did is a different issue. It still puts you among the highest earners in the country. If that isn’t enough for a good life, that says something pretty alarming about life in Britain. I’m not sure the answer is to make MPs even more financially insulated from it.

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No, I am not. £100,000 is a good salary. Money is not the only motivator. Look at CEO pay in the charity sector vs private. You can not compare MP salary to the private sector. If you want to do that, I would argue the PS pays executives too much.

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If £100,000 is not enough for you, then you are not civic-minded.

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America invading its own bond market. Bold strategy for a country that issues the bonds. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Research on "false balance" has shown that exposure to a minority scientific position can make audiences substantially underestimate the degree of expert consensus, even when they are told that a consensus exists.

Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You know you guys sent this abomination over to us.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Same with nurses and doctors.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There are many rage inducing moments of the excelent documentary www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... on the water indusatry but Michael Howards continued defence of privatisation is almost to much to stomach.

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Understand - Rinsed - 1. The Bridge - BBC Sounds

After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two neighbours fight back.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I had a potential legal dispute with my neighbour. I outlined my position and the LLM told me I was completely in the right and explained why. In a separate chat I posed as my neighbour, this time they were in the right. They are sycophant machines.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Also the whole point of locks is to keep the water from running downstream to keep the water in the canal.

Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I have today learned that the foremost medieval history of Scotland is called the Scotichronicon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotich...

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Scotichronicon - Wikipedia

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/04/2026

Experts are saying it: SUVs damage our roads more than ordinary passenger cars. I’ve asked TfL to look into the effect of supersized SUVs in London as more of these vehicles take up space on London’s roads.

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SUVs are making Britain’s potholes worse, say scientists

Engineers link reduced lifespan of roads to shift to heavier cars, some bought to navigate damaged surfaces

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

You would need about 30 panels per sign.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Tennis ball from one of my teachers. He was very accurate. And it would hit you, right in the middle of the fourhead. Thunk!! He also pushed a boy down the stairs. Nothing happened.

Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Step 1 create a buffer zone Step 2 Settle buffer zone Step 3 new buffer zone required Step 4 goto step 1

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It tastes like what I imagine Soylent Green tastes like. 🤮

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

🎯 The Australian investment firm Macquarie Group (often nicknamed the "vampire kangaroo" in UK media) was a major owner and financier for both NCP and Thames Water

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

And yet Dr. Lisa Ritchie is still in denial about this. NHS policy still talks about droplets. She is still in post.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Will they be worse than the Daily Mail? Hard to believe that is possible.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Lords debated the safety of cyclists this afternoon, and it was – with a few exceptions – as crap as you'd expect. Mix of victim blaming, poor understanding & assumption that zone 1 London is a valid national example. DfT minister Peter Hendy was disappointingly bad as well.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Casualty rows, other road user column. So I think cyclist involved in 1 pedestrian, 1 cyclist, 1 other death. Car driver that died hitting a pedestrian may have vered off the road. I am guesing. I am not familiar with this dataset but then I am not debating safety in the HoL. If I was I would be.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"This breakdown illustrates, for example, how the majority of pedestrian fatalities are in collisions with cars, and that there are very few deaths in collisions involving pedestrians or cyclists other than the pedestrians or cyclists themselves."

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

It a shame there is not some national data set that they could base rational argument on. Oh wait... www.gov.uk/government/s...

Chart 9: Reported road fatalities in collisions by road user type and (other) main vehicle involved in the collision, Great Britain 2024 RAS0601

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Years ago now but left my phone on a wall at Notinghill Carnival. It arrived through the post about a week later. No Idea how it got back to me.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

💯. A colleague was talking about his friend whose academic work was flagged as AI when it wasn't. I asked if his friend was Nigerian. He was. (A lot of AI English was fine tuned by Nigerian workers)

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Do you know what they are actually proposing here?

Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair had put no direct cash of their own into regenerating the huge old Redcar steelworks site 👇

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Louise Haigh @louisehaighmp.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

They want a dictator. A dictator doesn't need to worry about laws whilst attacking scapegoated minorities. It's a feature not a bug.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I think I have hit my limit. Got stero sound. Treble and base do not work properly. Balance is off. That said it sounds great. May seek expert help. Think the problem is is the tone/bance/treblle part of the circuit which is fiddly to say the least.

Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

He should be thanking them for excessively platforming him whilst not holding him to account in the name of balance.

Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Hell yes. 1.9Gbs home internet over wifi.

Image showing internet connection speed 1.9Gbs

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The media need to give their head a wobble and ask themselves if they are for the truth. If one person says it's raining and another says it isn't. Don't give equal weight stick your head out the window. Being a passive conduit for misinformation is not unbiased. See also far right talking points.

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Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Pretty sure this is what is happening in the UK too.

Dave KP @dave-kp.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Not taking into account London housing costs is mad.

Graph shows relative poverty before and after housing costs. London goes from mid to max when taking into account housing costs.