Mike Page

Engineer, Prof of Cog Psych; NN models of serial memory & word learning; zero-C housing design @ Green New Deal/UBI/Degrowth/Sortition

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@Benpagelondon One off, or regular? If the latter, maybe get the band back together…

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@Benpagelondon *checks Northern Line.

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@BristOliver Not at all. Appreciate your maths stuff, esp. re. COVID, but yr summary of that poll (“scrapping”, “easier”) was inaccurate in a way you wouldn’t like it if it was about you. Your ex-cathedra pronouncements about energy balance aren’t as up-to-date as you’d want, I believe.

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@BristOliver Tom Brown’s work is good on this

https://t.co/7WBwLerX3S

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@BristOliver I disagree. “Phasing out” might mean not replacing old nuclear at end of service life (and, thus, not building new nuclear). And there are reasonable scientific analyses that suggest solar, wind, tidal, some biomass, and batteries might be the cheaper/faster route to net-zero.

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@JohnRentoul Yes, a thread in which she doesn’t seem to contradict a single thing that ZG said in her original post.

[UCU Hertfordshire @UCU_UHerts]

Senior managers spend nearly £14,000 on an awards dinner in Edinburgh.
read more here: https://t.co/tYPFdKazzZ

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@BristOliver What makes you believe they don’t know this? Surely the point is one of degree. By all means criticise the detail of the stats notes (inc. 2.2) here https://t.co/xeGJy2RqWY but talking about their “tiny minds” looks unfair to me.

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@PhilBeaman Who’s the other one?

[RTÉ One @RTEOne]

“They are deliberately killing children by purposely starving them.”

LIve Aid campaigner and musician Bob Geldof condemns the Israeli government’s role in the Gaza crisis as he speaks to Miriam O’Callaghan amid mounting deaths from hunger.

#RTEPT

[North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign @NHertsPsc]

@CIJ_ICJ @ActionAid @alistrathern @kevinbonavia @Andrew_Lewin_ @JoshDeanMP @NEHertsLabour @ForensicArchi @GoldsmithsUoL @NimerSultany @voxdotcom @sfardm @FranceskAlbs @amnesty @LeeMordechai @hrw @MSF @OU_Nederland @genocide_watch @KenRoth @JosepBorrellF @AdHaque110 @volker_turk @Alonso_GD @SarahChampionMP @DrMelOB @IDS_UK @PhilipProudfoot @ochaopt @_jwhittall Ex-UK Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption:

Israel’s apparent aim “is to induce Palestinians as an ethnic group to leave the Gaza Strip… by bombing, shooting & starving them if they remain. A court would be likely to regard that as genocide”
https://t.co/8wle9H2spA

[North Herts Palestine Solidarity Campaign @NHertsPsc]

Lisa Nandy with Israel’s ambassador to the UK, 9 July 2025

Two days after Israel announced plans to build a concentration camp for the entire surviving population of Gaza on the ruins of Rafah

[Mike Page @Mike_Page]

@holland_tom Nice to see you, albeit briefly, at the cricket today. Needless to say, am actually intensely pleased with the well-deserved success of all your projects. And to ghost Brian Lara…sublime!

[JewishVoiceForLiberation @JVoiceLiberatio]

Letter ‘War can never be waged for revenge or expansion’ From Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen and others
Financial Times: Apr 25 2025
As Jewish religious leaders in Britain, we too are horrified by the Israeli government’s relaunch of attacks against Gaza (“As British Jews we can no longer stay silent on the war in Gaza”, Letters, April 16). We feel it is our duty to remind Israel’s leaders of the core Jewish teaching that war can never be waged for revenge or expansion. The Israeli government must uphold international law, and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. We stand with all those in Israel-Palestine seeking to bring about a just and lasting peace. We share in their call for an end to the bombing; an end to the siege; and the safe release of the hostages.
Rabbi Robyn Ashworth-Steen
Rabbi Daisy Bogod
Rabbi Barbara Borts
Rabbi Janet Burden
Rabbi Douglas Charing
Rabbi Howard Cooper
Rabbi Frank Dabba Smith
Rabbi Janet Darley
Rabbi Colin Eimer
Rabbi Adam Frankenberg
Rabbi Ariel Friedlander
Rabbi Paul Freedman
Rabbi Roberta Harris-Eckstein
Rabbi Michael Hilton
Rabbi Margaret Jacobi
Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner
Rabbi Leah Jordan
Rabbi Gabriel Kanter-Webber
Rabbi Daniel Lichman
Rabbi Jeffrey Newman
Rabbi Judith Rosen-Berry
Rabbi Elli Tikvah Sarah
Rabbi Reuven Silverman
Rabbi Jackie Tabick
Rabbi Lev Taylor
Rabbi Daniela Thau
Rabbi Lee Wax
Cantor Rachel Weston
Rabbi Alexandra Wright
Rabbi Igor Zinkov
https://t.co/LHdzS7YoIi

[Joe Guinan @joecguinan]

Periodic reminder that the Third Way “centre left” leaders all got filthy rich whilst consolidating a political economy in which your wages stagnated and your public services and infrastructure were privatised or fell apart. Quite a good deal for them; not so much for you.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

Israel blocks all aid for starved women and children in Gaza funded by the US, Germany, the UK, the EU and Scandinavians. 

NRC alone has 34 trucks waiting endlessly to enter Gaza. 

The situation is utterly desperate.
We have fully exhausted our stock inside Gaza of critical items, such as tents for the homeless.  

We may soon be unable to even continue water trucking for the displaced.  We call for the immediate access of aid and restoration of basic services. 

It is a grave violation of international law to starve innocent children for political purposes.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production.

The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and ensure good housing, healthcare, and public transit for all. They could have abolished deprivation, unemployment and economic insecurity. But they did not.

This exposes an extraordinary betrayal. It reveals that the European working classes have been lied to, over and over.

The European Commission has suppressed production of public services, not because it has been fiscally necessary to do so, but because it ensures the conditions for capital accumulation.

[Barnaby Raine @BarnabyRaine]

Plot twist as it turns out Keir Hardie loved workers so much he wanted them to work harder and longer for less, ideally making bombs, and make sure they have no help if the boss sacks them