Jack Aspinall

Materials scientist DPhil
Developing solid-state batteries at the University of Oxford.
Interested in British innovation across technology, science and society.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

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[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@iAmJoshHunt Theres little media coverage of anything substantive in parliament, soundbites not substance. If media (traditional and new) covered the substantive contributions more, and it formed a greater part of public conversation, then Parliament would become more useful.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@Fremond_ Completely agree

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@James_Treadwell Can you imagine?

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

Every single British university has essentially the same content as this on their websites:
1. Explicit objective to produce 'equality of outcome' or equivalent.
2. Promotion of career advancement mechanisms that are selective based on race.

Call me an old-fashioned liberal, but I believe we should judge everyone equally, irrespective of their ancestry.

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

The focus of debate around Henry Nowak's murder is turning to this document by the National Police Chiefs Council - its 'Anti-Racism Strategy', from 2025.

It states:

"Producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances and experiences...

"It does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’ (racial equality)."

Kemi Badenoch says it is "virtue signalling" and should be scrapped. Reform UK calls it 'two-tier policing'.

A source close to the Home Secretary says the wording is "clumsy".

Tonight, the NPCC says it is already reviewing the language and willing to amend it. But it stands by the principle of the document.

https://t.co/boyKJBJdc8

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@davidad Its SOO annoying!!!!!

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55k Peak District ultra done

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@createstreets Street Kintsugi

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

Enough is enough

[nicolas, 30 ans @nic_carter]

the Henry Nowak murder sounds like a completely outrageous parody of the british criminal justice system. it's hard to believe it's real.

- native Britons can't legally carry a breadknife
- for some reason Sikhs get a special carveout and can carry "religious use" knives of any length. even over 50 cm
- 18 year old boy Henry Nowak is walking home peacefully, is fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa with his "ceremonial" kirpan
- Digwa claims to the police that he was racially abused and the responding police immediately believe him and shackle the dying Nowak, ignoring Digwa and his co-conspirators
- Nowak informs the officers that he has been stabbed and the officer says "You've been stabbed? Whereabouts? I don't think you have, mate."
- the officers do not check on his condition, cuffing him roughly as he bleeds out. as they read him his rights, he dies.
- Digwa's mother, Kiran Kaur arrives at the scene and takes the knife with her, attempting to conceal it
- Digwa's brother Gurpreet Digwa made the 999 call and attempted to concoct a defense for his brother, claiming he had been the victim of a racial attack
- Despite the "life sentence" the court meted out, Digwa will be eligible for parole at age 43
- there have been no consequences whatsoever for the police officers that shackled Nowak and left him to drown in his own blood while his killers watched. none of the officers have even been named

each fact is more radicalizing than the last.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@TheCityMentor The amazing thing about the City of London is the way it blends both.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@Benleo "How'd you get over here?"

"Aeroplane"

😅

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

The 100 little things are often more impactful and easier to change than the 1 big thing. This is cool

[quibble @QuibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL

[George Jefferson @GeorgeJeffersn]

I was lucky enough to be born + grow up in the Cotswolds in the UK.

It is one of the nicest places on earth, @paulg was ahead of the curve.

It is most definitely not a failed state. And if you haven’t been, you should go.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@antibearthesis Yes, Tesla actually makes things

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@stianwestlake When you put it like that... nuts!

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@rcolvile Its why housing needs to be centrally led. Opposition is concentrated and local, beneficiaries are diffuse.

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@lfg_uk It's a long rectangle of tarmac...

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@AlmorTech The sp3 is such a special car

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

Key point, theres spare low co2 capacity in heatwaves. More demand is good

[Ed Hezlet @watt_direction]

Last Sunday, Britain experienced its lowest recorded level of demand on the transmission network - 12.6 GW between 13:00–13:30.

We should be using the electricity infrastructure we have already built to cool down our homes 🏡

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

@RDinsdaleRound Would just like to be able to send an email, lets not get ahead of ourselves 😅

[Jack Aspinall @jackaspi]

Nice!!!!!! Gdp +10% YoY here we come! LfG

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Great British Railways is set to connect more than 1,400 trains to low-Earth satellites to allow "ultra-fast" Wi-Fi speeds of 200Mbps

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

Creeps me out how the U.K. media all act in unison to push laws that attack civil liberties