PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Short Circuit. Still cant believe they did that. 151 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026And he can fuck off with that faux-Irish shit from now on too. 001 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If only there was some way that worm Sheeran could have known about Macklemore's politics in advance...youtu.beHIND'S HALLYouTube video by Macklemore - Topic 100 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I mean, Hind's Hall is kind of it...youtu.beHIND'S HALLYouTube video by Macklemore - Topic 000 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The malign effects of long-term chlorine exposure. 011 0
Reposted by PotsAndPansRobotPotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There is an incredibly stark delineation between the systems regulators of certain sectors (largely the ones our elites currently work in or would like to work in one day when they leave parliament, etc), and the professional regulators of, say, health and social care practitioners. 253 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026There is an incredibly stark delineation between the systems regulators of certain sectors (largely the ones our elites currently work in or would like to work in one day when they leave parliament, etc), and the professional regulators of, say, health and social care practitioners. 253 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You dont have to be a marxist to see the class politics at work here. 111 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026With the former, scandal after scandal is met with hand-ringing and appeals for everyone to just behave better please. With the latter, the faintest whiff of moral panic is met with calls to crush individual professionals into a fine paste. 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026But aye, infuriating and dangerous nonetheless. 010 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Tbf to Otto, he's far from alone amongst middle-aged centrist commentators in believing the far-right just havent been debated hard enough with facts and logic. 250 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mate, don't get me started. I can spend hours ranting about Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026'Sensible' is a handy cloak they wear to never have to reflect on the fact they're old fashioned Chicago school zealots at heart. The entire Treasury and any SpAd who passed through the BoE should be tasered to death, or at least never be allowed near the levers of policy ever again. 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It'll never get more nuanced than that. They'll never go "well, her tax cuts were really stupid and the markets reacted accordingly". It'll always be "cant break the rules. Thems the rules". OBR brain all the way down. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The brief Truss premiership really fucked this country more than most realise. By spectacularly providing evidence for the superficially compelling argument that 'deviation from the fiscal rules' is ruinous, she's given these twats the excuse to never do expansive economic policy ever again. 141 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The argument doesnt even work on it own terms. How can they be imperative to growth, when every PM since (except truss) has stuck to them and our GDP growth has been anemic for nearly 20 years? They are a blocker on growth, obviously. And anyone not a cheese-brained monetarist can see that. 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It totally is. You ask them what was so bad about BR, and they bang on about how shit the sandwiches were. You fuckers got sandwiches?!?! 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"How else will school leavers plug the gaping holes in their CVs?" Ah, yes. A few hours stacking shelves will definitely bridge the casm between rapidly vanishing entry level roles and the slightly less rapidly vanishing 'skilled' roles. Im very wise. 010 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is is just a re-hashing of a mooted coalition-era policy that thankfully never came to pass. Its just as execrable as it was then, but it won't stop lots of sensibles nodding and stroking their chins thoughtfully. 110 0
Reposted by PotsAndPansRobotAnti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 24/08/2026“This paper examines how the far-right engages in an epistemic struggle to lay claim to the ‘science’ of race and gender, simultaneously attacking and co-opting scientific authority to legitimise white supremacy and patriarchy” (Open Access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comIs the Far-Right Anti-Science? Hierarchies, Metapolitics and Struggles for Epistemic AuthorityThe right-wing actors are widely described as being anti-science. However, while the far-right often rejects science outright when it conflicts with their ideological, economic, or cultural priorit... 02416 0
Reposted by PotsAndPansRobotPhil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is a big story. Interesting that the BBC have chosen not to feature it, burying it instead in their local news for Bristol.declassifieduk.orgJury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raidAfter 37 hours of deliberation, the jury was unable to reach verdicts on most of the charges 18840 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This basically a variation on his anti-wealth tax stance, isnt it. Dont do this seemingly very good idea because of the nebulous bad things that only I can see would happen. Doesnt matter that the bad things are already happening and are one of the reasons to do the good thing in the first place. 0132 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Siri, show me a picture of social desirability bias 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Depends how you pronounce pussy I guess? 000 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I remember a time when people would suggest the editorial line of the BBC news website was significantly to the left of their TV and radio output. If that were ever true, its certainly not now. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Unsurprisingly for a guy who writes for the FT, he pulls his punches when it comes to exactly why our economy is so stagnant, but this is otherwise good work from JBM. 010 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I ignored the Shawcross review at the time cos it's headline findings were obvious bollocks, but I just had a quick look at his wiki and, well, christ on a bike.... 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026And if you pulled him up on it he'd see no contradiction or flip flop. Like you said, pure bottle. 010 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Also on the heart attack, its very funny that he initially wrote several articles blaming the stress of Brexit, before only belatedly landing on the anxiety induced by a potential Croblyn-related holocaust. 110 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I don't think I'll ever forget the spittle-flecked fury Behr displayed in that debate/interview with Milne, when he was still involved in Corbyn's team. He's a true OG hater. 110 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Hang on, so different things are different?! Well I never. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Difficult here to assess the exact ratio of hawkish cold-war fixated crackpottery, and cynical pan-handling for his defence industry mates. Astonishing performance either way. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026No, hes saying you CAN still tax wealth without fear of a bond market collapse, because such a tax is unlikely to impact the FI owners of gilts. 130 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Or maybe Brexit and the revolving door of Prime ministers, and the rise of the far right, are all just symptoms of a wider refusal of our institutions to grapple with the collapse of the social contract post-2008? Just sayin... 030 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Would be funny if it wasnt tragic. Hello 'prominent scolar', let me introduce you to the concept of empiricism. 020 0
Reposted by PotsAndPansRobotflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I think that if you understand what’s happening here as “none of us have a clue what we’re doing but we’ve bought these magic beans off a wizard and we’re quite optimistic” then that will cover you for most of the ensuing outcomes. 14276100 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Also the absolute refusal to connect the rise in this kind of rhetoric with deteriorating material circumstances is infuriating. Dismantling the public sphere doesnt make people racist on its own, but it sure makes the process of radicalisation easier. 020 0
Reposted by PotsAndPansRobotMarlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Israel has killed nine paramedics in just 72 hours in southern Lebanon and it’s business as usual. Now imagine the outrage if that was nine Israeli paramedics. The entire world would be screaming and condemning it as terrorism. 902067946 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I do think 'the reason' our betters have alighted on for why we're so damn ungovernable at present, is that they struggle with control of the narrative these days. Foreign policy in particular was so much easier when you only had to feel the collars of a handful of senior editors to hold the line. 020 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act is meant to address the profiteering, but unless they they really squeeze profits below the double-digit margins that PE generally expects (and they wont for fear of a collapse in provision), its just fiddling round the edges and little will change. 041 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026The private care sector also picks and chooses what provision it offers. There is a shocking shortage of specialist secure accommodation for children with the most complex needs because, as you suggest, its much less profitable. The market will not provide for this stuff. 142 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Not to suggest finance elites are the good guys here. They're awful people who would gladly accommodate the worst reactionary tendencies of the GC movement right up to the moment it started hitting their bottom line, which this would do. This is very much a 'let them fight' scenario. 000 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Cos if youre talking chromosomes and gonads and what not, then that's health data. And that's not defacto special category, that IS special category data. Any attempt to carve out some kind of trans-related exception here would get the EU spitting feathers and see the UK lose its adequacy decision. 010 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Absolutely. The ECHR (as opposed to the EHRC) have been much better than anything coming out of the UK. But this is more about an attempt to change the interpretation of 'sex' as defacto special category data. This is where the GC insistence on referring to 'biological sex' come back to bite them. 110 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026So we may end up in a situation where, instead of having the UK establishment bend over backwards to accommodate these arseholes, the GC lawfare community may finally find out what it feels like to have one of the great arms of the UK establishment pushing back for once. Here's hoping at least. End/ 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This would make the provision of goods and services to Europe substantially more complicated and expensive. Particularly financial services. The UK financial sector, with all its traditional heft and influence will simply NOT allow this to happen. 4/ 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Our GDPR needs to be closely aligned with that of Europe, our single largest (by a long way) trading partner. We are already in danger of invalidating our equivalency ruling on GDPR of the back of the guidance as it stands. We definitely will if it gets changed any further. 3/ 120 0
PotsAndPansRobot @potsandpansrobot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026So now they need to change UK data law to prevent a slew of costly civil legal challenge arising from ad hoc vigilante enforcement, that would make even JKR blanch. However, they may be about to bite off more than they can chew here. 2/ 120 0
