Mastodawn

Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP. That’s about £2000 per person

https://pca.st/episode/baf8c45a-61a0-4896-9bbf-df43e5bed693

Would rejoining the EU be the best growth strategy?

How much did Brexit cost the UK? Would rejoining make us much richer? And if US managers are PSG players, are British ones more like Aston Villa’s? Robert talks to Stanford Professor Nick Bloom…

Pocket Casts

Gareth May 3

As JCB have just given £200k to the UK far right party Reform, it’s more urgent than ever to get the money out of politics https://www.monbiot.com/2026/05/03/get-the-money-out-of-politics/

Get the Money out of Politics

There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich.

George Monbiot

Gareth Mar 13

Follow the urban truth collective for more ways to make our cities better

https://bsky.app/profile/urbantruth.bsky.social / https://www.instagram.com/urbantruthcollective / https://www.linkedin.com/company/urbantruth/

Gareth Mar 13

Did you know that ChatGPT’s president was the largest donor to Trump’s superPAC - 25M$ last year.

That’s one of the reasons I’m quitting ChatGPT #quitgpt

https://quitgpt.org

QuitGPT — ChatGPT takes Trump's killer robot deal

Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

Gareth Feb 28

Follow the urban truth collective for more ways to make our cities better

https://bsky.app/profile/urbantruth.bsky.social / https://www.instagram.com/urbantruthcollective / https://www.linkedin.com/company/urbantruth/

Gareth Sep 17, 2025

Me in my bubble thinking that the problem is the far-right fascists/racists in their bubble or the leftist anarchists/Marxists in their bubble when the real problem is the people who are creating our bubbles

Gareth Jul 15, 2025

Zelda Perkins bravely broke her silence about Harvey Weinstein. Now she’s leading the fight against NDAs that hide abuse and protect the powerful.

🎧 Listen: https://www.theguardian.com/p/x2m3h2

The law change that could transform toxic workplaces – podcast

Zelda Perkins was Harvey Weinstein’s PA – and has spent the last eight years campaigning against the non-disclosure agreements used to silence abused employees. Now she has won a major victory. Alexandra Topping reports

The Guardian

Gareth Apr 3, 2025

US trade deficit is $918 Bn. The $ being the intl reserve currency is worth $1 Tn. It’s not a coincidence that these numbers are similar.
If USD wasn’t the reserve currency the dollar would drop and imports would become cheaper.
We should respond to tariffs with a 1% tax on all transactions in USD

Gareth Mar 30, 2025

Great advice from a superbly written post : “use AI as an assistant, not an expert, and use it judiciously”.

The whole article is worth your time : https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202503/horseless_intelligence.html

Horseless intelligence

Some thoughts and opinions about AI. In a stretch, I compare AI to automobiles.