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Fewer cars are a better solution. And fewer single occupant cars are a higher priority.

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The party has always been a magnet for weirdos outcasts and neurodivergent obsessives. Zach has been great at connecting environmental issues with the cost of living concerns of mainstream voters.

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Are electric cars saviour of the environment or the motor industry?

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The party is a magnet for oddballs, outcasts and neurodivergent obsessives. Gaza is a virtue signal. an opportunity to finger wag and scold which they find too delicious to resist. Zac has been transformative in linking true green issues to mainstream voter concerns. But the kooks are a liability.

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Big business excels at extracting wealth via market power and funneling profits to shareholders. Small business keeps capital circulating locally, creating real value and distributing wealth across the community where it belongs. Prosperity isn't just growth; it's distribution.

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You deserve to be rinsed for that.

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just in time for the market open on Monday.

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Astonishing incompetence. If there is one thing's Americans are good at it's killing other Americans.

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Mummy's little patriot got himself a new house after all.

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

How much of this is going to be spent on tiktok Facebook Instagram etc.? It's time for govt to take control of the algorithm.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 04/09/2026

You’re going to hear a lot about how this crisis is about government borrowing levels. That’s largely bullshit. The cause of the global bond sell-off was investors freaking out about inflation - not governments spending too much money. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

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Who’s afraid of the bond vigilantes?

This week’s bond sell-off wasn't about government profligacy - it was about war, oil, and inflation. And as ever, it's the global South paying the price.

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There are lessons from brexit here. There weren't enough bigots and racists to swing Brexit on their own, they needed to mobilize the left behinds. This story drives a wedge between the grifters and the grifted

Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's in the same delusion category as Trump renaming Lake Ontario

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Lake of Trump's Wrung-Out Diaper

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Until we force the top end to face real costs and give the bottom end something real to lose, we're just running a slow-motion experiment to see how fast society turns into a battle royale. Until then, keep playing nice—someone has to be the dove. 11/11

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Fix 3: Restore the "shadow of the future". People only play fair today if they believe it leads to a better tomorrow. Accessible upward mobility and strong public assets give everyone a genuine stake in keeping the overall collective "pie" growing. 10/11

Fix 2: Make penalties scale proportionally. Flat fines are useless against elite Hawks. Legal fines, regulatory sanctions, and penalties must be calculated as a percentage of overall net worth or global turnover so that Hawkish behavior actually hurts at the top. 9/11

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Fix 1: Floor the downside risk. Universal baseline security (housing, healthcare, income safety nets) removes the desperation trap. When people have a secure baseline to protect, the personal cost of taking a Hawkish, law-breaking risk suddenly spikes. 8/11

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Appealing to morality won't fix this. In game theory, altruism loses to self-interest every single time. To stop the machine from shaking itself to pieces, we have to fundamentally re-engineer the payoff matrix so that cooperation is the smartest play for everyone. 7/11

Where does that leave the rest of us? As perpetual, miserable Doves. We queue politely, pay our taxes, and feel existential guilt over an unscanned avocado, while watching the ultra-rich hoard the lifeboats and the desperate poke holes in the hull. 6/11

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So society gets hit by a double-whammy of Hawkishness: the desperate are forced into high-risk extraction to survive, while the super-rich engage in high-risk extraction because they're entirely immune to the consequences. 5/11

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Meanwhile, at the top, elite "Hawks" play a completely different game. For a billionaire or a giant corporation, a flat fine isn't a deterrent—it’s just a transaction fee. Steal £20m, get fined £2m five years later? That’s not punishment; that’s just taking out a cheap loan. 4/11

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Except inequality completely shatters that balance. At the bottom of the pile, if your future is three zero-hours contracts just to afford a damp room, being a rule-following "Dove" isn't noble—it’s self-sabotage. If you've nothing left to lose, the penalty cost drops to zero. 3/11

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The Hawk-Dove model breaks down human strategy simply: • Hawk: Aggressive, self-serving, takes what it wants. • Dove: Fair, peaceful, cooperative. In a healthy society, high penalties for conflict keep the Hawks in check and allow the Doves to thrive. 2/11 *

Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We’ve built a society that functions like a broken arcade game with only two settings: Bastard or Victim. Game theory calls it the Hawk-Dove model, but in reality, high wealth inequality acts as a massive super-fertiliser for sociopathic behaviour at both ends of the ladder. 1/11

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The people of Clacton have sent a clear message. 'Nigel get back to parliament and account for your dodgy donations'

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Gary Clarke @garyclarke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

People have always been self-centered and rightly so. But thatcherite neoliberism has tricked them to be selfish. People I've lost the idea that being part of a strong team is better for the individual. The British have never been so divided and ruled over.

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Show me your evidence for that assumption.

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There's also no suggestion that no case can be made for any large data centres. Just need to reserve those for when we need large capacity in one place. Tailored model on a a local device is more than adequate for normal use. But tech Bros wants us to rent all AI from them. There is another way

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Seems like you think it's a binary choice. Toe the Tech Bros line or go back to the stone age

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Standing charges are the most unfair component of energy bills. That's the link that really needs breaking.

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But it's also plenty good enough already to be useful.

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TINA? That's exactly what the tech Bros propaganda want us to think. For many use cases AI is already good enough it needs to get no better. The Chinese have also shown another way. I'm equally suspicious of the Chinese as I am the silicon Valley gangsters.

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