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The Many Interacting Handymen Theory: How I Bend Reality to My Hammer’s Will

The Many Interacting Handymen Theory: How I Bend Reality to My Hammer’s Will There is a serious idea in physics called the Many Interacting Worlds theory. It suggests parallel universes may not be floating harmlessly beside one another like polite neighbours pretending not to hear each other arguing through the wall. Instead, these worlds may interact. They may push against one another. They…

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Bitcoin at £48,000: The Bargain of the Century—or Just Another Trapdoor With a Rocket Emoji?

Bitcoin at £48,000: The Bargain of the Century—or Just Another Trapdoor With a Rocket Emoji? Bitcoin is hovering around the psychological equivalent of a pub doorway at closing time: slightly unstable, surrounded by shouting, and nobody is entirely sure whether it is about to go up, down, or fall face-first into the pavement. The headlines are currently offering something for…

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Britain Won’t Collapse with a Bang — It’ll Collapse Through Your Bank Account

Britain Won’t Collapse with a Bang — It’ll Collapse Through Your Bank Account There is a strange feeling spreading across Britain.Nobody can quite explain it, but people can sense that something is wrong.They are delaying purchases, cancelling subscriptions, keeping their cars longer and quietly moving more money into savings. Not necessarily because they feel wealthy—but because the future…

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Welcome to Britain: Please Take a Number, a Room Key, and a £10,000 Invoice

Welcome to Britain: Please Take a Number, a Room Key, and a £10,000 Invoice Britain has officially reached that magical stage of national decline where everyone is being billed for everything.Leaving the UK? Lovely. Don’t forget your tax tail.Coming into the UK? Wonderful. Here’s a towel, a temporary room, and potentially a bill large enough to make your dinghy try to reverse back to France.Yes,…

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Bitcoin, Michael Saylor, Trump, Iran, Diesel and the Mystic Meg Ball of Doom

Bitcoin, Michael Saylor, Trump, Iran, Diesel and the Mystic Meg Ball of Doom Bitcoin is having one of those moments again. You know the type. The candles go red, the headlines start sweating, people on crypto apps start using words like “bear market,” and suddenly everyone behaves as if the entire future of money depends on whether Michael Saylor has had a stressful Tuesday. Apparently…

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How to Turn an Old Android Phone into a Home Server — and Why It Might Beat a Raspberry Pi Most of…

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Plug-In Solar Could Be the Next Big Thing for UK Homes — And Handymen Are Going to Be Busy

Plug-In Solar Could Be the Next Big Thing for UK Homes — And Handymen Are Going to Be Busy For years, home solar has sounded brilliant in theory. Free energy from the sky. Lower bills. Backup power. Less dependence on the grid. A warm fuzzy feeling that you are saving the planet while your neighbour’s smart meter is having a nervous breakdown. But then reality kicks in. Traditional solar and…

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Sir Stephen Watson: The Rhodesian-Raised Police Chief Britain Needed

Sir Stephen Watson: The Rhodesian-Raised Police Chief Britain NeededThere are certain people who seem to arrive at exactly the right moment in history.Sir Stephen Watson, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, feels like one of those men.Born in Warrington and raised partly in Rhodesia, Watson saw something most comfortable modern British officials have never truly understood: what happens…

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Physicists Just Found “Negative Time” — Because Apparently Normal Time Wasn’t Weird Enough

Physicists Just Found “Negative Time” — Because Apparently Normal Time Wasn’t Weird Enough Physics has done it again. Just when you thought reality was behaving itself, sitting quietly in the corner with its shoes on the right feet, physicists have discovered that atoms can appear to spend a negative amount of time in an excited state. Yes. Negative time. Not “late for work” time.Not “waiting…

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Is Bitcoin About to Be Murdered by a Quantum Computer? Probably Not, Calm Down

Is Bitcoin About to Be Murdered by a Quantum Computer? Probably Not, Calm Down Every few months, Bitcoin gets declared dead again. Sometimes it is regulation.Sometimes it is China.Sometimes it is energy usage.Sometimes it is banks.Sometimes it is “my mate Dave saw a chart on YouTube and now he’s an economist.” And now, apparently, the latest assassin creeping through the digital bushes is the…

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Good People, Bad People, and the Great Human Sorting Hat

Good People, Bad People, and the Great Human Sorting Hat Service to Self vs Service to OthersThere are two types of people in this world.Not left wing and right wing.Not rich and poor.Not people who return their shopping trolley and people who abandon it in the car park like a wounded animal.No.There are people who serve themselves, and people who serve others.That is the real divide.Some people…

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The UK Housing Crisis Just Got Worse: Are House Prices Really Rising, Or Is Our Money Just Dying?

The UK Housing Crisis Just Got Worse: Are House Prices Really Rising, Or Is Our Money Just Dying? Everyone loves saying the same old line: “Property always goes up.” It gets repeated like gospel in Britain. Buy bricks and mortar. Get on the ladder. Stretch yourself. Take the mortgage. Don’t worry, mate, houses only go one way. But here’s the awkward question nobody seems to want to ask: What…

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1.5 Million People Taken to Court Over Council Tax: Britain’s Favourite Subscription Service You Can’t Cancel

1.5 Million People Taken to Court Over Council Tax: Britain’s Favourite Subscription Service You Can’t Cancel There are many signs that a country is doing well. Happy people. Affordable housing. Working public services. A government that does not treat ordinary taxpayers like an endless cash machine with mild depression. And then there is Britain, where at least 1.5 million people were…

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Bitcoin and the 200-Week Moving Average: When the Market Starts Screaming, the Smart Money Starts Looking

Bitcoin and the 200-Week Moving Average: When the Market Starts Screaming, the Smart Money Starts Looking There are many ways to measure Bitcoin. You can look at price. You can look at volume. You can look at ETF flows. You can look at miners, whales, funding rates, bond yields, the Federal Reserve, inflation, debt, the moon, the stars, your neighbour’s dog, or that one bloke on YouTube with…

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Britain: Where Skilled Workers Are Packing Their Tools and Leaving

Britain: Where Skilled Workers Are Packing Their Tools and LeavingBritons used to move abroad for the weather.Now they are moving abroad because apparently “being able to afford food, rent and electricity” has become a luxury lifestyle choice.According to a recent report covered by The Independent, many Britons are no longer leaving the UK just for sunshine, beaches and the dream of not needing a…

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Henry Nowak, Equal Law, and the Dangerous Road to Two-Tier Justice

Henry Nowak, Equal Law, and the Dangerous Road to Two-Tier JusticeThere are moments when a country has to stop, look itself in the mirror, and ask a very simple question:Do we still believe in one law for everyone?Because if we do not, then we are not really living under law anymore. We are living under negotiation. We are living under fear. We are living under a system where who you are, what…

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Britain’s Economic Washing Machine: Benefits In, Inflation Out, Everyone Dizzy

Britain’s Economic Washing Machine: Benefits In, Inflation Out, Everyone DizzyBritain has reached that wonderful stage of national economics where the system appears to be held together with council tax, food banks, mortgage stress tests, and the blind optimism of people who still think “growth strategy” means opening another Pret near a train station.The latest warning comes from Alan Milburn’s…

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