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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

London does that. You come for a bit and before you know it the most amazing city has pulled you in and you never want to move away.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

3 coffees. Down from usual because the infernal office coffee machine was down for a software upgrade. What is the world coming to when the bloody coffee machine has software?

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Or to put it another way “Wandsworth Council Tax to rise to match neighbouring Lambeth”.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026

This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Routinely carry my son’s double bass to lessons!

A kid-sized double bass in the front of a cargo bike.

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Mike Godwin @mnemonic.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Rowling, summed up: There's a vas deferens between men and women. Broadly speaking. (Thank you for coming to my TL;DR Talk.)

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bloody hell, this is an excellent piece from @wonkhe.bsky.social Well worth reading. It's complicated, but reveals something quite shocking in the devolution settlement. I really hope the devolved administrations take note and push for change: wonkhe.com/blogs/the-tr...

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The Treasury is bankrupting three nations' universities

With funding reviews underway in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Justine Pedussel and Jim Dickinson worry none will examine the hidden accounting rules driving the crisis

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CPN @oksettledown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!

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Tracey No™️ @traceyno.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

hey @support.bsky.team umm what are you doing? This election is happening now, current tense

Trending on bluesky gives erroneous election result for Clacton.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

STV with single member constituencies reduces to AV. This fixes the wasted vote problem but is not in any sense proportional (indeed it can be even less proportional than FPTP). It also doesn't address the issue of inequality in power of votes at all. Better than FPTP, still not actually good.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

After all, we don't think there is a lack of constituency link with local councillors who represent multi-seat constituencies (albeit in England elected by FPTP, which is gratuituously silly).

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Surely multi-member constituencies elected by STV also maintain the constituency link, don't have multiple classes of MP, and have the distinct advantage that for the vast majority of voters, at least one of their constituency MPs will be of a party fairly close to their preference.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There always were. To exercise freedom of movement you have to be working, actively looking for work, studying or economically self sufficient (e.g. retired with pension). The UK never tried to enforce the corner cases where none of the above apply.

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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Will you stop Reform from decimating our NHS by deporting healthcare staff? It's in your hands. #Clacton #Farage #NHS #healthcare #EssentialWorkers #ukpolitics #bbcpm #r4today

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

One wonders if they cherry-picked Dulwich. There is a particular issue there that a huge proportion of the land is owned by the Dulwich Estate who fight tooth and nail to block institutions like mobile phone masts.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is pretty much how EU mobile phone roaming law and airline passenger rights happened: it personally affected MEPs and commission staff.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This morning I booked a blood donation. 12 minutes later I was there, and an hour later I was home again. Couldn't be easier. If you're eligible (and most people are), what are you waiting for? www.blood.co.uk/the-donation...

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Well right. To be more precise, the question is whether HMRC will come to the conclusion that it was not purely a gift. That’s much harder

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pure bile, pure evil, pure selfishness. I beg to differ. There is plenty pure about him.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Pure gifts are not taxable. The question is whether this was a pure gift.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’ve done that a couple of times. It’s a lovely way to nip over to .nl for a day.

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Al Ryan @alryanradio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The end of an era - After almost a century we said goodbye this morning to our great companion of the airwaves Radio 4 198 LW. I shall miss her warmth and crackle. Here’s the final sign off at the end of #theshippingforecast before she fell silent… ❤️

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Please, please, please check your facts, though. The last frost fair on the Thames was in 1814. Anthropogenic climate change is an observed fact, but the demise of the Thames frost fairs is not it.

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This is what political bravery can achieve. Thousands of lives saved, tens of thousands of hospital beds not occupied, countless days off work not taken. Sadiq Khan stood up to the critics, the doubters and the bad faith experts and made London better. A true leader.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Naturally, the tide in question is full of human excrement.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In the "not publications" disciplines (for me this is maths and geoscience), I think there is no expectation that work hasn't been presented before. Indeed you might talk about work recently published in a journal. In the "publications" disciplines (e.g. computer science) novelty is expected.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think the distinction here is between fields that publish conference proceedings and hence consider conferences to be publications and those that don't. Special issues are usually a feature of the "conferences are not publications" camp.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It’s the new rules: no pints on the job.

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Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

To be fair it was entirely tongue in cheek. E-bikes burn 🍺 too.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Filling up acoustic bike: 🍺🍺

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

That’s not how the maths works. Losing 8% per year means losing 49% over 13 years- which is still implausible but we shouldn’t also be in the business of making up numbers.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

No, it really is. If we were using virtually any other voting system, “not enough switched from Labour to Green” would not cause a Reform win. This is all on FPTP.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Well that’s also a FPTP failure.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Very few did. As John Curtis has pointed out, it’s often Labour voters switching to Green that leaves Reform as the winner under FPTP.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

That survey doesn’t have an option for people who are turned off by Labour‘s anti-immigrant stance. Anecdotally in Lambeth I think that’s a factor. Probably one which correlates with the trans rights issue for related liberal values reasons.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Fly tipping is dire in Lambeth, though to give the council credit they do clean up quickly.

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David Ham @davidham.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is completely untrue as you can tell by looking on the council website. Bulky waste collection must be booked and, for non-recyclables, is chargeable: www.lambeth.gov.uk/rubbish-recy...

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Bulky waste

Find out how to arrange collection of large household items that cannot be reused or recycled.

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