Ian Leslie
@mrianleslie
Author of 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'. Available now: https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/introducing-john-and-paul-a-love
Manifesto for moderates: - Stand up for incremental improvement! - Fight for the least bad option! - Sometimes the other guys have a point!
This is a great read on why sets of opinions now seem to go together like sets of consumer goods. Most people aren't capable of evaluating ideas so choose identities that offer them prepackaged instead.
ianleslie.substack.com/p/the-diderot-…
.@nytimes must end this kind of bias: "...when a female fencer declined to compete against her transgender opponent at a midlevel meet." The fencer declined to compete against her male opponent. It's not about bigotry— keeping trans people out of female sports. It's about…
Winning hearts and minds
Hey resident doctors, remember this: You owe the NHS nothing You owe the public nothing You owe the Trusts nothing You worked hard to become highly qualified and skilled professionals, it was all you You are owed a fair wage and NOT a pay cut! Same for consultants Strike hard
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future, out August 26 danwang.co/breakneck/
"There is little point in building housing that Southwark's residents can't afford." This is a toxic attitude based on a fundamental misunderstanding of economics and housing. New market-rate housing lowers rents for all. (Evidence in thread below)
The developer knows the rules: it was always unlikely to get permission if they did not provide the levels of affordable housing set out in planning policy (35%). There is little point building housing that Southwark's residents can't afford to live in.
Minister in supposedly pro-building govt opposes new houses in her constituency. Of course.
I support building homes on the Aylesham site- but they must include the right amount of social and affordable housing. With 18,000 on Southwark’s housing waiting list and thousands of kids in temporary accommodation, Berkeley’s 12% offer simply isn’t good enough.
Rachel Reeves claims that gutting the planning bill of anything that makes it easier to build is WORTH IT because it'll save two months in Parliamentary scrutiny! What is a couple of months compared to the YEARS of delays this will cause in the broken planning system?
Chicago has fallen
The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.
“I have my piano in my room so I'm spending a lot of time in there just playing and chilling. I don't think that there's a day that I go without playing it…especially on game days." England’s new footballing hero Michelle Agyemang: bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
Unequivocally YES. Many variants of cardiac arrhythmia (whole subspecialty within cardiology) with varying mortality-morbidity, aetiology and epidemiology by subtype.
Wonder how this compares with Starmer's reading list or if he has one x.com/jmichael424/st…
Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.