𒊓𒅂𒁓𒐗𒐕𒐗 Steve the skeptic

"What is the cost of lies?

It is not that we will mistake them for the truth.

The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we will no longer recognise the truth at all."

The first words spoken in HBO's Chernobyl but somehow strangely relevant right now.

Looks like the US election polls were as bad as many republicans predicted. But in favour of democrats who seem to have outperformed polls by about 5 points (dems swing is +15%; polls thought maybe 9%). WOOT!

How to get British infrastructure built. Thoughtful ideas especially about the Cambridge to Oxford arc:
samf.substack.com/p/the-lost-arc

All the useful idiots promoting the idea that NATO expansion caused the Russian invasion of Ukraine seem to forget that no amount of NATO "pressure" ever persuaded Finland or Sweden to join...

@YvetteCooperMP hasn't been Health Secretary for long enough to grasp that NHSE policy on emergency care is a "shit show at the fuck factory". But it is: hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/…...