London-based writer. Often climbing.

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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • ‘Hello, I’m a left wing person. We have lots of social and economic problems and actual crises, and we need radical action to fix them, in the form of left wing politics. My key dispute with the current Labour party is that its policies are insufficient to fix the problems and what I mean by that, specifically, is that they’re neither radical enough nor left wing enough’.

    ^This bit, I’m on board with. This bit is basically me, give or take an Ed Miliband here and there.

    ‘… and that’s why I’m going to spend a lot of time getting offended if people on the internet refer to me, the politicians I like or, indeed, the radical, left wing action I’m proposing as “radical left”’.

    ^This bit I am baffled by.


  • They do address energy storage in the full plan e.g.:

    • The Government is therefore committed to a fundamental and urgent reform of the connections process, as set out in the Clean Power Action Plan. The Plan included connections capacity allocations for onshore wind for 2030 and 2035
    • The Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (SSEP) will support a more actively planned approach to energy infrastructure […]. It will do this by assessing and identifying the optimal locations, quantities and types of energy infrastructure required for generation and storage, including onshore wind, to meet our future energy demand with the clean, affordable and secure supply that we need







  • No. You’ve taken one thing - the BBC pressurises their journalists to cover Israel positively, which I agree is true - and assumed it means a second thing - that (1) the BBC (2) smeared Corbyn (3) as an antisemite (numbers here because these are three separate claims that you haven’t justified, within the broader claim you also haven’t justified). You’ve then additionally taken that bundle of unproven claims as evidence of another different claim: that ‘the media’ as a whole, i.e., not just the BBC, ‘smeared Corbyn’ because he ‘opposed Israel’.

    With respect, this is exactly what I meant about conspiracist thinking: you’re taking loosely related ideas (some of them true, some of them not) and bundled them together to claim a vaguely defined malevolent entity (‘the media’) is out to get someone. This is conspiracist thinking! That’s what that is!




  • I’ve been meaning to read some stuff about how to approach criminal justice if we don’t have free will, but I keep reading other stuff instead. So many books, so little time!

    I still think prisoners should be treated well, no matter the crime.

    Yes, absolutely. Even for the worst of the worst, their should be rehab attempts, whether it’s anger management, getting them away from gangs - whatever it is they need. I think there are only small numbers of people, if there are any at all, who are really irremediably violent and dangerous, but even for them I’m not exactly happy about putting them away indefinitely.