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Happy Christmas
Thank you for reading and I trust you all have a wonderful time over the coming days.
Dec 23
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Simon Cooke
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West Yorkshire's Great and Good need to write a better transport plan: one without a tram
The obsession with trams resulted in approaches to transport policy that do not, and will never be able to, meet the needs and wants of most residents…
Dec 21
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Simon Cooke
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Cosplay, vanity and performance: on the Right's co-opting of Christianity
Being a Christian should not be a political statement in a Christian country and must be resisted, whether it is Tommy Robinson, men who like dressing…
Dec 15
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Simon Cooke
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How Europe got a nose ring and green hair then screamed about Trump, Musk and Vance
Europe’s leaders will see the implicit (and, in parts, explicit) criticism of their security policies as unacceptable. And the response will be to…
Dec 7
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Simon Cooke
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The Hubris of the Verdant Throne: using AI for table top role playing
I’ve been experimenting with using AI to help, speed up, the process of preparing sessions for D&D - here are a few comments and thoughts. Don't expect…
Dec 5
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Simon Cooke
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November 2025
Selds, exchanges and municipal markets: thoughts about Not-the-High-Street
Shopping is a private matter and success in retailing comes from meeting the needs and wants of private buyers. And most of the time these days our high…
Nov 30
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Simon Cooke
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The Tribes of the Right (and why this is bad news)
The descriptions below of eight right-wing tribes isn’t intended to be comprehensive but to try and illustrate how the route back for the political…
Nov 22
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Simon Cooke
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We're still in a bit of a mess: how sensible people have failed us
There’s an urgent need to act, to free up the economy, to respond to crime, to get immigration under control, to fix vital services in health and care…
Nov 20
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Simon Cooke
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“Whizz Whizz Zoom Zoom”,“Tariffs and Deportations” or“Billionaires hoard all the wealth”: take your pick
We should look at these statist solutions and tell their proponents that the things they propose won’t make people’s lives better and may even make them…
Nov 8
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Simon Cooke
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The problem is the city itself and electing socialists doesn't change this
Socialists win because, for all its stupidity, their platform offers hope (at least until they fail). The alternatives in city leadership simply offer…
Nov 5
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Simon Cooke
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October 2025
The YIMBY Alliance aren't YIMBYs, they're just city boosters
It isn’t YIMBY to tell people they can’t have the suburban life they want and offer a mansion flat without outdoor space, nowhere for the car and…
Oct 29
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Simon Cooke
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Why the ethnonationalist right agrees with the woke left about Katherine Birbalsingh and her school
The ethnonationalist right dislike her because overt values-led education flavoured with patriotic symbolism doesn’t match their idea that disorder and…
Oct 27
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Simon Cooke
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