# @AllForProgress_: Topical List Profile: [[Users/@AllForProgress_/AllForProgress_-x-profile|profile]] · Topic: [[Topics/History of Computing/History of Computing|History of Computing]] · Analysis: [[Users/@AllForProgress_/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - AllForProgress_ on British Computing History (2026-11-02)|Post Analysis]] > **Coverage.** These are the 50 items X returned for this account (44 posts, 2 threads, 2 reposts, 1 quote, 1 reply), from Aug 7, 2026, 11:05 AM CT to Nov 2, 2026, 12:27 PM CT. It is a recent sample, not the full archive of 3,904 posts. Metrics are an X API snapshot from X API, Nov 3, 2026, about 9:50 AM CT, so the newest posts have had little time to collect likes and views. Themes were assigned by keyword rules and may misfile a few items. "thread" means a reply to his own post. ## Theme counts | Theme | Posts | Likes | Views | |---|---:|---:|---:| | UK politics | 10 | 2,614 | 129,715 | | Crime and justice | 5 | 6,714 | 264,876 | | British culture series | 7 | 88 | 5,147 | | Other | 28 | 2,257 | 317,222 | | **Total** | 50 | 11,673 | 716,960 | ## UK politics (10) | Date (CT) | Type | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Nov 2, 12:27 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2117322599382290702) | post | Labour have just taken 215,000 jobs out of the British economy over the next four years. Or at least that's what the OBR says frozen income tax and Na… | 16 | 624 | | [Oct 29, 1:19 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115871035056705570) | post | Another hit from this laughably - thankfully? - flaccid budget was the removal of the standing charge off your gas bill. But Labour are never going to… | 2 | 291 | | [Oct 28, 1:08 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115505878681927843) | post | Of everything John Healey announced today, my favourite is the Pension Tax Allowance: a tax break for pensioners worth, at the very most, £94 a year,… | 2,004 | 100,215 | | [Oct 26, 2:12 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114797233073975370) | post | Barclays announced last week that it made £2.3 billion in profit in 3 months, and that it is cutting about 5,000 jobs, a twentieth of its workforce, a… | 11 | 700 | | [Oct 26, 10:19 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114738581285535840) | post | In 2025 Britain lost two of its oil refineries in a matter of months. Grangemouth, Scotland's only refinery, stopped refining, with 450 jobs gone. In… | 468 | 20,137 | | [Oct 25, 11:09 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114388806157656557) | post | "[In Britain], we treat [entrepreneurs] as a bit of a sideshow." That is Alex Depledge, on how this government regards the people who build Britain's… | 10 | 1,353 | | [Aug 16, 5:31 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088936586310250546) | post | Police in England and Wales recorded 74,727 rapes in the year to March. It is the highest figure in the country's history, 4% up on the year before, a… | 52 | 2,137 | | [Aug 16, 5:23 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088934565372911979) | repost | RT @AlanJLSmith: In the 24 months since Labour came to power, we've seen; • Employer National Insurance increased from 13.8% to 15%. • Th… | 0 | 29 | | [Aug 15, 5:24 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088572476418658644) | post | And so history that began as farce has repeated as tragedy, with Jason Arday being found dead at an address in south London on Friday. 41 years old, a… | 22 | 3,055 | | [Aug 12, 10:30 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2087562476300751201) | post | The Burnham government is going to set new high-watermarks in failure, and they will put paid to the old Metropolitan class consensus for good, while… | 29 | 1,174 | ## Crime and justice (5) | Date (CT) | Type | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Oct 28, 10:54 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115472246856708366) | post | In June 2024 the Lord Chancellor of the day and the Lady Chief Justice decided that a judge had done "significant reputational damage to the judiciary… | 212 | 8,169 | | [Oct 21, 11:44 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2112948257835872697) | post | Matthew Caton holds the children's portfolio on Wakefield Council, which makes him the man answerable, in law, for the safety of every child in the di… | 3 | 456 | | [Aug 11, 7:04 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2087148240021889320) | post | In 2013, the man who would become Anurag Mohindru KC told the panel interviewing him for a prestigious position 23 Essex Street that he had studied at… | 974 | 52,049 | | [Aug 8, 4:53 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2086209202125500436) | post | A woman walked into a police station in Tottenham in January last year. She had been raped in a car park. She had a broken collarbone. The officers ra… | 5,515 | 203,497 | | [Aug 7, 11:05 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2085759304192111000) | post | 176,361 children in England missed at least half of school last year. Not a fortnight here and there. Half of an entire academic year. The Department… | 10 | 705 | ## British culture series (7) | Date (CT) | Type | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Nov 2, 9:21 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2117275791285277136) | post | Britain pays for its electricity twice. The grid operator pays wind farms to stop generating, and then it buys the power again from somewhere else, of… | 5 | 483 | | [Nov 2, 3:15 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2117183830775726312) | post | The current convention on care work in Britain is that someone can be here on a work visa with no employer and no lawful job. And nobody knows how man… | 7 | 606 | | [Oct 27, 7:05 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115052220274090182) | post | One of the dominant strains of life in Britain under the administration of the Metropolitan class - who've been ascendant prior to 1997 and dominant s… | 8 | 695 | | [Oct 25, 8:32 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114349256160968937) | post | In September 2025, in the week of the American state visit, Microsoft and a young British company called Nscale announced that they would build the la… | 2 | 388 | | [Oct 24, 11:18 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114028764791235050) | post | Among the backers of the most promising quantum computer in Britain, as of this month, are the bar staff and schoolteachers of Australia. Universal Qu… | 5 | 494 | | [Aug 10, 1:17 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2086879689830781203) | post | Since January 1st 2026, 765 people have filed sickness reports with Surfers Against Sewage after bathing at 406 locations around the British coast: ga… | 20 | 860 | | [Aug 8, 7:51 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2086072709994238076) | post | Imagine British industry paying 7 pence for a unit of electricity. Today it pays 26.63p, the highest in the International Energy Agency, 125% above th… | 41 | 1,621 | ## Other (28) | Date (CT) | Type | Post (verbatim, trimmed) | Likes | Views | |---|---|---|---:|---:| | [Nov 2, 7:19 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2117245109129384110) | quote | The English Gentleman Will Rise Again. (Though he will have his shirt tucked in when he does...) https://t.co/COqR0DL3T4 | 2 | 303 | | [Nov 2, 6:29 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2117232579141132508) | post | Every computer on Earth - from the phone in your hand to the humming, intelligence-stoking halls of compute on which the great powers of the world are… **Analysis: ✅.** | 19 | 1,752 | | [Nov 1, 7:24 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2116884103991619614) | post | Twelve months is all a sponsor formally commits to under the Home Office's new refugee route, which opened on Thursday, while the refugee gets five ye… | 10 | 473 | | [Nov 1, 3:23 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2116823406058299743) | post | For those of you following along with events in Warsaw, Donald Tusk's coup is not the opportunistic work of a few weeks', but has been progressively b… | 703 | 27,310 | | [Oct 31, 2:30 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2116613691772633241) | post | Kelvin Blake is 63 and has worked for Poundland for 25 years. "I've spent half my life here," he said on Thursday, outside the head office in Walsall,… | 81 | 28,044 | | [Oct 31, 12:06 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2116577510179659797) | post | If you go to Lincoln Square in Manchester, you'll find a statue there with a letter cut into its plinth. In the winter of 1862 the blockade of the Ame… | 7 | 627 | | [Oct 29, 9:17 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115810213341053093) | post | There are 940,000 young people in this country with no job, no course and no training. That's 195,000 more than two years ago, and youth unemployment… | 12 | 682 | | [Oct 27, 7:05 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115052223822774690) | thread | https://t.co/DkzShWdnGb | 0 | 157 | | [Oct 27, 4:50 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2115018269711073481) | post | I suspect there's a Big Thing - at least one, in fact - in Andy Burnham's future. For now, though he's the Prime Minister of All the Little Things. Fo… | 5 | 728 | | [Oct 25, 2:00 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114431801514958865) | post | For months Paris Shears did not know who was doing it. Someone behind a fake Instagram account was sending her nude images of herself that had been ma… | 73 | 3,945 | | [Oct 25, 11:09 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114388809651765265) | thread | https://t.co/OjgyGpWtw0 | 0 | 123 | | [Oct 24, 1:20 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2114059347609231681) | post | Michael Ashton was 28, worked for the council, and on the way home from a night out with his girlfriend in September 2025 he was sick in the back of h… | 119 | 35,835 | | [Oct 23, 2:00 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2113707028413665750) | post | I've spent the last few days since the 221st eve of Trafalgar trying to think about what to say of Nelson, and that day when a century of destiny was… | 6 | 618 | | [Oct 23, 12:20 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2113681959561920740) | post | In 1910 a man called Fritz Sauter began making time switches in Grindelwald. This week the company he founded, still owned by his descendants 116 year… | 2 | 430 | | [Oct 22, 10:52 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2113297385895919886) | post | Late in September, on a disused airfield at Machrihanish on the Kintyre peninsula, a scaled-down orbital rocket was bolted to a stand and fired for 45… | 5 | 322 | | [Oct 22, 2:45 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2113174893743198538) | post | Regular pay in the public sector rose 6.3% in the year to August. In the private sector it rose 3.0%. Those are the Office for National Statistics' fi… | 5 | 820 | | [Oct 20, 4:11 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2112471835447078991) | post | We were told, before festivities had really begun, that the riots developing in France, and which came to a head on October 17th, grew out of a protes… | 9 | 875 | | [Oct 19, 2:14 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2112260997817811100) | post | This adorable little fellow's name was Finlay Roberts. He was 2 years and 11 months old when, in July 2024, his mother, Liz, took him to the Whittingt… | 531 | 49,951 | | [Oct 19, 12:13 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2112230576300208260) | post | Karen Haynes has sold her house. She is 54, a special needs teacher from Wales, and she is packing boxes with her daughter, 26, and her son, 17, to em… | 310 | 123,392 | | [Oct 19, 8:20 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2112171963989029160) | reply | @philmcraig @timothy_stanley I've thought something similar... https://t.co/fbRkwoH8Wb | 1 | 185 | | [Aug 15, 12:46 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088683838125838415) | post | The headline from yesterday's ONS release reads...ok, at a glance: GDP up 0.4% in Q2, in line with forecasts, 1.2% up on the year. The composition is… | 4 | 346 | | [Aug 15, 3:54 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088549766162489412) | repost | RT @peterrhague: No, I’m sorry, you don’t get to play the race card. We don’t tolerate frauds in high places in this county, even if they… | 0 | 16 | | [Aug 14, 8:06 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088250995000197416) | post | On a Thursday morning in April, in a theatre at St Bartholomew's Hospital, a 76-year-old retired detective named Ian MacLeod had a lung cancer operati… | 28 | 841 | | [Aug 14, 5:47 AM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2088215897626300830) | post | On Sunnyside, in the village of Aughton in West Lancashire, stands a house with a £180,000 extension containing a kitchen, the boiler, and a bedroom p… | 25 | 3,088 | | [Aug 12, 12:56 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2087599107300892809) | post | As of the beginning of August, the Renters' Rights Act is in force. Section 21 is abolished. Every tenancy in the country became periodic in May; rent… | 239 | 33,875 | | [Aug 11, 3:47 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2087279836142399559) | post | Next month the Treasury starts putting up the price of petrol. The 5p cut in fuel duty, introduced as a temporary kindness in March 2022 and extended… | 15 | 576 | | [Aug 9, 1:11 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2086515711611150543) | post | "Don't walk alone. Only carry items you need. Be prepared to give up your cell phone, purse or wallet. Do not argue or fight with the criminal. Be pre… | 13 | 891 | | [Aug 7, 3:23 PM](https://x.com/AllForProgress_/status/2085824245968605366) | post | 43% of A&E patients over 80 wait more than 12 hours between arriving at hospital and reaching a ward. For patients between 21 and 30, the figure is 19… | 33 | 1,017 |