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revisesociology
government
6h
The State's Best Defence Was That Nobody Could Be Bothered
The Economist has spotted a threat from artificial intelligence that isn't mass unemployment.... AI is very, very good at helping people complain. Tax appeals, benefit reconsiderations, planning objections,
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work
1d
The Rise of the 1am Job Interview
A quarter of all interviews conducted through one voice-AI recruitment platform now happen between ten at night and two in the morning. For manufacturing employers it's over a third. Nobody has scheduled
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revisesociology
uk
2d
Britain Has Become a Fire-Prone Country and Forgotten to Buy Any Aircraft
Britain now has wildfires. Britain does not have a wildfire capability. These two facts have been coexisting for several years and nobody in government seems especially bothered. A record that keeps needing
revisesociology
cent
3d
A Drought With a Hierarchy: Who Actually Gets the Water
There's been a fair amount of coverage about how much strain AI data centres are and are going to be putting on the National Grid, but not so much coverage about the strain being put on our water supply...
revisesociology
uk
5d
Your Call Is Important To Us: The Political Economy of Being Kept Waiting
There is a particular kind of latecomer who is not chaotic but precise. Not vaguely late — exactly late. A quarter of an hour, every single time, as though they had set an alarm to guarantee it. I have
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life
5d
Published via Ecency
A National Trust for the High Street..?
Walk down almost any English high street outside the prosperous south and you'll get the same experience... a vape shop, a barber, three charity shops, a Greggs, and a long stretch of shuttered frontage
revisesociology
runningproject
6d
Weeklyish Running Update..... BASE!
I've just been plodding along this last week, building up that base! So just three short easy runs... 17 August... Headed out to the local park for an Octopus session, no point doing these on the track,
revisesociology
uk
7d
A Leading Digital Economy With No Signal on the Train
Ministers of every party enjoy telling us that Britain is a leading digital economy. The claim is usually made from a stage, indoors, on wifi. Try making it from the 14:37 to Exeter, somewhere around Taunton,
revisesociology
uk
8d
Ten Pounds to Care: The Curious Appeal of Compulsory Voting
Every few years, when turnout disappoints, somebody dusts off the Australian solution. Make voting compulsory, fine the refuseniks a tenner, and watch democratic legitimacy come flooding back. With Andy
revisesociology
uk
9d
Vape Shops, Sweet Shops and the Slow Death of Paying Your Taxes
There's a particular sort of shop you'll recognise instantly on any British high street in 2026. The lighting is aggressive. The window display is three shelves of neon liquid and a life-sized Grinch.
revisesociology
economics
11d
London's IPO Market Is Poor....
The Financial Times' Lex column recently suggested that policymakers who look enviously at New York's glut of new listings should cheer up, because comparison is the thief of joy and things are not quite
revisesociology
life
12d
Pork Scratchings and the Death of the Awkward Question
There is a video doing the rounds of Andy Burnham eating pork scratchings in a pub, and another of him having a genial chat with Gary Lineker. Neither of these are news but together they tell you rather
revisesociology
runningproject
13d
Weeklyish Running Update - three short slow runs!
So I am happy enough with this last week's running... Three short simple runs, i've been on holiday so i'm very glad to have just kept things going TBH... In the mountains although I was more than happy
revisesociology
uk
14d
Nobody Wants to Live Next to the Cloud
Two years ago, if you were a governor or a mayor, an AI data centre was a gift. Billions in investment, a photo opportunity with a tech executive, a press release about jobs. Now it is the thing most likely
revisesociology
holidays
15d
Published via Ecency
Another couple days in Engelberg
Another coouple days in Swiss...two day trips - Titlis an d then Brunni -the two obvious ones -love the cable cars and chair lifts. Views... Found some nice beer... And an outdoor gym in the woods... All
revisesociology
tuesday
16d
The End of Reading — Or Just the End of a Brief Interlude?
Rose Horowitch has an article in The Atlantic which argues, more or less, that we are living through the second fall of the Library of Alexandria — only this time nobody has burned anything down. We've
revisesociology
life
17d
Published via Ecency
Holidays 2026
So we headed out of the UK this week... Via worthing in the picture above.... Had a night in Zurich and then train to Engelberg... Plenty room fror yer ash... And beautiful.... Mountains! Going to proper
revisesociology
media
18d
Boomers, Zoomers and the Slow Death of the Shared Screen
There's a comforting story we tell about the generation gap: it's about money. The old have the houses, the pensions and the triple lock; the young have the rent, the student debt and the resentment. Sort
revisesociology
runningproject
19d
Weeklyish Running update - Base Phase...
So I've got a new running strategy, focussing on base, build and race phases... it's pretty obvious which each is. Three cycles a year I'm gonna go for. ATM I'm in my first base phase, this means mainly
revisesociology
uk
20d
Attempt Number 23: Andy Burnham and the Great British Social Care Fudge
Twenty-two goes at reforming social care in thirty years. Twenty-two green papers, white papers, royal commissions, cross-party talks and "national conversations". Twenty-two failures. Andy Burnham
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