Guy Herbert
@guy_herbert
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First described #databasestate @NO2ID (2004). MD @MarjacqScripts. FIPR board. Cassandra. Memorious. Irony in the soul. Boo to "transparency" & empathy.
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Joined September 2011
I'd rather sign an ultimatum than a petition. The petitioner deems themselves a slave.
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RT @Birdyword: Useful chart from @andrewbatson here covering one of the most under-discussed and useful macro metrics around. China's capit….
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RT @AshleyAFrawley: Will Rogers' comedy spoke to the everyman who just wanted to get on with life and avoid "self-styled reformers" who con….
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Americans, it is often observed, have lost their capacity to laugh. The culprit for the widely lamented “death of comedy” seems clear enough.
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RT @s8mb: Absolutely risible stuff on housing in the FT. This kind of argument only makes sense if people don't care if they live in London….
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RT @BridgetPhetasy: My response to anyone left or right or center saying “if you don’t believe [INSERT WHATEVER THAT PERSON BELIEVES] you d….
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RT @LondonTrafficW1: Tube strikes: Full list of dates and lines affected in September walkout
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London Underground workers will walk off the job for four full days, causing disruption from Sunday to Friday. Here's everything you need to know about the dates, times, and lines affected.
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RT @CityPolice: ❗APPEAL❗. Help us identify this man. We would like to speak to him in connection with two random unprovoked attacks in the….
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Scrapping the HRA/ECHR will do precisely nothing to make individuals freer. It will, however, mean the effectively absolute modern British state not having to use as much effort to get round one of its few constraints. What could go wrong?.
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Your regular reminder that the "Laffer curve" is just maths. If economic things are plausibly continuous functions, it has a maximum somewhere - which we need not be past. But the mechanism is people reacting to incentives: tax something and you get less of it, slowly or quickly.
In 1978 Labour taxed the rich at 98% on savings income and 83% on “ earned”. The richest 1% paid just 11% of total income tax. Now at 45% top rate they pay 30%. Higher rates lose you rich people and cost you lost revenue.
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RT @Babygravy9: First impressions of Paris: people who say there are “no French people” in the city have either never been here or are just….
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No. Constitutional protections have weakened, and official and legislative culture changed, very significantly in the quarter century since the HRA. Britain's government is more overbearing and operates rule-by-law. The HRA duped such as Liberty, but the tyranny is freestanding.
No, the ECHR does not ‘defend’ our liberties. Most of our rights have been weakened, not protected, since we signed the convention and brought in the Human Rights Act. Leaving the ECHR is nothing to fear, says Luke Gittos.
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The thing is. We see this plainly with Trump because he's vulgar and displays his egoism like a medal. But put mighty industrialists with any government committee or minister in the world, and there is a parallel exchange. Tycoons before governments are as flies to wanton boys.
“Mr. President, your ideas for the tech industry are so innovative. And you definitely do not have a small penis.”
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RT @RichardHanania: Been radicalized on the Indian issue. Anyone complaining about H-1Bs has somehow adopted the dumbest version of racism….
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RT @CompSciFact: A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer u….
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RT @WingsScotland: Is there a single fucking competent person left anywhere in Scottish (or UK) politics?
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RT @ReemAmirIbrahim: Among 10 - 17 year olds, energy drinks contribute just 10.5% of total caffeine intake. Shall we ban tea? A can of cok….
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RT @SBarrettBar: We live in a bloated bureaucracy - a rats nest of law . And daily we see symptoms of that. Here is another. Building regs….
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RT @andrew_lilico: If the government is going to attempt, yet again, to introduce a system whereby everyone must carry an ID card & the pol….
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RT @MRJKilcoyne: Earlier in the day at the same conference they decided to spend time worrying about the fact that EU firms and governments….
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