Sense Check
Sense Checks slow a claim down before it becomes accepted wisdom. The focus is on numbers, definitions, incentives and the difference between what was promised and what actually happened. These articles are less interested in winning a shouting match than in finding the part that survives contact with evidence. Read the newest check first, or choose a topic when one kind of nonsense has arrived in bulk.
Reform UK’s Trumpy Mirage and the Brexit Hangover Returns
Reform UK sells anger as common sense, but Brexit damage, Trump politics, donor money and weak sums make the public bill too costly to…
When Imagination Built Science and AI Borrowed the Mask
A dry sense check on imagination, science, souls and AI consciousness, where human creativity still outruns the machine dressed as tomorrow’s prophet.
Britain Sold Hard Work, Then Let Rent Eat the Young Alive
UK workers are told to blame welfare, tax and youth weakness while wages crawl, rent bites, graduates queue, and AI sharpens the landlord’s knife…
King Charles Shows Congress How to Roast a Wannabe King
King Charles told Congress what both parties fear saying out loud: America was built to reject kings, while Trumpian power keeps flirting with crowns.
Romania’s Reform Button Meets the Patronage Machine Again
Romania gets a reformer, then the patronage machine panics. A roast on Bolojan, PSD, AUR, EU funds, corruption and voters choosing the old circus…
Reasoning AI Models: Clever Parrots in Lab Coats
Reasoning AI models are better assistants now, but confusing longer thinking with actual intuition is how the circus buys lab coats.
The AGI Race Is a Swimming Pool With No Water Yet, Lads
Tech influencers keep betting on which lab reaches AGI first, but the real race may be a breakthrough no benchmark or podcast table can…
Streaming Ate Cable, Then Became Cable With More Apps Again
Streaming was sold as freedom, then became cable with apps, adverts, price rises, and one modest salary asked to fund every logo on Earth…
Council Tax Bullies And The Peaky Blinders Payment Trap
Council tax arrears turn one missed payment into a yearly threat, while public services plead poverty and richer players keep loopholes polished and legal.
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