Matty Philpotts
@themattyjmp
#UoN #Physics | #HerefordFC ⚽️ | 2nd most average town in the U.K.™ | Tweets on STEM, urban design, transport, nuclear, policy | 2006 Time Person of the Year
That our working pop is only 4m higher than in 1944 despite 20m (officially) larger pop is insane
Today I learned that in 1944, the UK had a working population of 24m against a total of 48m, and today has a working population of 28m against a total of 69m. In the 80 intervening years, worker productivity growth has exceeded 2% per year, on average, for a total of over 5x.…
There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”
First look at Nick Frost as Hagrid in the ‘HARRY POTTER’ TV series.
“Lads, it’s the 90+16th minute, don’t do anything stupid.”
Terrible news. Absolute waste of a day
Made it to Alexadria. Hear they have a fantastic library. Cant wait to check it out.
My culture isn’t like the others. When it’s warm and sunny, we get together with our friends and consume alcoholic beverages outside.
I’m of course always aware of the superiority of French civilization but having apéritif with friends in the summer somehow makes my French supremacism almost fanatical. This is actually how Foodgate happened.
We really don't appreciate the skill of roadmenders, look at this, perfectly blended in, you can't tell where the original road ends and the repairs begin.
Probably the worst thing about drones is that they are ruining the aesthetic quality of armored vehicles by forcing them to wear thick sheets of cable and caging. Once a noble beast, the tank now looks like an unkempt Pekingese.
Can we have our ball back please? 🙏 #WeAreBarrow
Perfection. 😍
2 pensioners on £35,000 a year income each Have a lot more disposable income than a family of 4 with one earning over £65,000 and the other earning £15,000 Yet Labour have now decided that the pensioners deserve to receive winter fuel allowances, but the family deserve to start…
He’s not wrong Boomers are, perhaps through no insidious plot of their own, a very entitled generation They have benefited from decades of asset inflation. In their day walking into a job was easy
The Elizabeth and Letitia segments are just the exact same every single week... They don't communicate enough because the older one went to Italy over a decade ago. We get it. #RaceAcrossTheWorld
The CCP watching Taiwan, an easily blockaded island, shut down its nuclear reactors and make itself dependent on LNG tankers for energy.
This morning, Taiwan decommissioned its last nuclear reactor, entering the last phase of its "nuclear-free homeland" energy policy. In 2024, Taiwan imported 97% of its energy, making its energy intensive industries potentially vulnerable to blockade. Given the ongoing interest…
New 'Lehman Brothers' for Summer 2025
Klarna losses widen as more users miss payments; 100 million now on platform — FT
“they’re not getting paid back on the burritos”
Klarna losses widen as more users miss payments; 100 million now on platform — FT
These are ALL subprime loans All of them. And there’s no collateral. Are they going to repossess the Gucci perfume you sprayed all over yourself and never paid for?
“The fintech, which offers interest-free consumer loans to allow customers to make retail purchases, on Monday reported a net loss of $99mn for the three months to March, up from $47mn a year earlier.” 👇🏼
Tilt-shift photography makes real events look like toys/dioramas
I don't think I've ever seen a better correlation than: 1) places that voted Reform; and 2) places I'd least like to live. Absolute dives, each and every one of them.
This is the difference a Labour government is making for our NHS ➡️
This is the difference a Labour government is making for our NHS ➡️
Does anyone else have a weird nostalgia for that special decade, between about 1997 and 2007, when it seemed that all would be well?
Does anyone else have a weird nostalgia for that special decade, between about 1997 and 2007, when it seemed that all would be well?