Why are buildings far uglier today than in times past? Part of the reason is that regulations punish builders who use materials deemed to be high carbon. What materials does the government deem to be high carbon? Bricks. Yes, bricks. Mad regulations suggest bricks wear out and have to be replaced after just 60 years, which will come as a surprise to anyone, like me, who lives in a victorian house. In fact, @createstreets has estimated that nearly half the country's homes are made out of bricks that are more than 60 years old. These regulations have undoubtedly played a part in helping to shut down our brick factories. Production has collapsed from two billion bricks in 2022 to 1.3 billion bricks in 2024. We've accidentally created a de facto ban on one of the most sustainable building materials we have. Thick as a brick.

Never forget how the elites responded to Brexit. They called us racists, fascists, pig meat (gammon). They did everything in their power to overthrow our votes. It was one of the most sickening assaults on democracy in our history, says Brendan O’Neill buff.ly/zUxWuGV

Lord Hermer resurrects Chagos Islands 'surrender' deal and tells MPs the Government is 'determined' to see it signed trib.al/zGTFt2O

Oh for fuck’s sake give it a rest… Brexit was FACTUALLY a de minimis footnote (I voted remain in 2016 so don’t even start…) when compared with a raft of the worst policy decisions imaginable since the end of WW2 across virtually all policy areas, by fuckwit politicians… To name some of the biggest offenders: - Most expensive energy in the developed world fuelling inflation across every good and service going - and net zero cultish insanity crippling our economy; we now make virgin steel only via emergency nationalisation in all but name - mainly because windmills and solar don’t produce the joules to produce concrete or steel, to build stuff - Shuttering North Sea oil whilst buying the same stuff from the Norwegians who banked the oil: two trillion in the tank, three hundred grand a head, a quarter of the budget paid forever - PFI. Blair and Brown fancied hospitals that didn’t trouble the books, so they put them on tick with loan sharks. £60b of buildings, £300b out the door, NHS still paying through the nose for a car park and a leaky roof. - Tories borrowed the best part of £400bn at 0%, the cheapest money in three hundred years, and what have we got for it? Furlough, a fortune in PPE that didn’t work, and ~£20b handed to chancers with fake ltd co’s. Nothing built. Nothing that pays you back. The lot, gone. And here’s the one nobody says out loud… Money was free. Risk free. Rates at zero for the best part of a fucking decade. If a govt or their perm secs had any sense that was the moment to issue a 30y infra bond and build the grid, the reactors, the track, the housing, lock the cost in at basically nothing and let it pay for itself for two generations. Norway would’ve had it done by lunch. We didn’t issue a penny of it. Now the long end’s at 5.5 and the door’s now bolted shut. We had the cheapest money in history and spaffed it all. - Capital markets that don’t work since Blair and Brown’s various legislative and regulatory changes, making pension fund allocations lower going into British companies, and making it harder and more costly to raise capital to grow and keep businesses here paying taxes and employing people - the collective cost of this to British households is conservatively estimated to be around £20trillion (per @andyroocraig’s figures) and countries that were literally communist within living memory are on track to overtake us this decade, on the IMF’s own numbers. Oh, and Mississippi HAS already overtaken us on GDP per capita basis (they are the butt of all poverty jokes in the US) - Brown flogged 395 tonnes of gold, over half the national reserve, in 17 auctions between 1999 and 2002, at about $275 an ounce, near a twenty-year structural low. They call it “Brown’s Bottom” for a reason. Pocketed $3.5b but I t’d be worth around $52b today. So that socialist genius cleared the lot at the bottom of the market and torched the thick end of £40b in one decision (because he like many politicians since the 90s is a retard with no real world understanding) - P90/P10 wage compression under social democracy is demonstrably worse than even the Soviets managed under Gosplan ffs - Selling off and sweating various other national assets to fund our absurd debt borrowing pile that has mostly been spaffed up the wall on zero return or loss making initiatives / welfare socialism etc - Series of the worst trade deals imaginable (pre and post Brexit) - Too much of people’s money tied up in the resi property Ponzi scheme doing nothing (other than now: losing value in realtime) - Planning laws that stop anyone building infrastructure on housing I could go on… Plus we have rising long yields now, which are (TL;DR) the price of having destroyed your own structural buyer base and then issuing into the gap while the central bank sells on top. Brexit doesn’t appear anywhere in that mechanism either. So, this creepy obsession you have with Brexit is weird, lame and entirely worn out. Bin. 🚮

The concept of private land is actually insane if you consider it for even a moment

Temperatura powyżej 40 stopni w Polsce zdarzyła się tylko 3 krotnie od kiedy oficjalnie zaczęto mierzyć ją w 1779 roku. Niektóre modele przewidują temperaturę ponad 40 - aż trzy dni z rzędu - od niedzieli do wtorku. 247 lat pomiarów i zaledwie 3 pojedyncze dni teraz zrobimy w zaledwie... 3 dni. W dodatku w czerwcu - kiedy to rekordowe były zawsze lipiec i sierpień. A i tak znajdzie się debil z wypranym łbem, który powie, że to normalne.

You should have seen the European heat waves in the Medieval Warm Peroid... at preindustrial levels of CO2.

It's going to be forty fucking three degrees in my town in the fucking 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 of France on Tuesday ! and if you don't believe we've fucked up the climate, you're a fucking idiot ! Excuse my French 🤡

GO GREEN, GET ASBESTOS Asbestos from China discovered in 1,000 UK wind turbines Massive cover up as industry known for many months; scandalous Secretly replacing components, hoping would go undiscovered thetimes.com/article/573e5f7…

Norway bans AI access in schools for kids ages 6-13, while also restricting AI for kids 14-16 to prevent academic decline