# lowe (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lowe. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Pope Who Almost Names Capitalism](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-pope-who-almost-names-capitalism) _2026-08-19 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ In Magnifica Humanitas, Leo XIV sees monopoly, exploitation and concentrated technological power with unusual clarity. The system that continually produces them remains unnamed. ## [If AI Can Do the Work, Why Are We Still Working?](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/if-ai-can-do-the-work-why-are-we) _2026-08-19 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ If AI can do more of the work, the real question is who gets the time and wealth it frees. ## [Class Politics Is Not Woke 2.0](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/class-politics-is-not-woke-20) _2026-08-18 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Class politics is not Woke 2.0, but some of woke’s worst habits have survived in the online left. ## [The Conspiracy Is the Politics](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-the-politics) _2026-08-17 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Rupert Lowe turned a procurement notice into proof of betrayal. That small leap from fact to hidden intent explains how replacement politics works. ## [When Work Becomes a Moral Test](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/when-work-becomes-a-moral-test) _2026-08-16 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Reform and the Conservatives say Britain’s welfare system is wasting lives. Behind the numbers sits a harder claim: that paid employment is the measure of whether a life is useful. ## [Not One of The Lads](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/not-one-of-the-lads) _2026-08-14 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ How a Swedish death cleaning exercise helped me process my directing past ## [Farage Got His Mandate. Then He Needed an Enemy](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/farage-got-his-mandate-then-he-needed) _2026-08-14 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Clacton gave Nigel Farage what he asked for. More votes than in 2024 and a bigger majority. Somehow he still managed to emerge from victory complaining about the establishment. ## [The Telegraph Wants Its Right Back](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-telegraph-wants-its-right-back) _2026-08-13 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ The British Right is fighting over what comes next, and the Telegraph is trying to decide where the acceptable Right ends. ## [Alex Phillips Wants to Be the Victim and the Fist](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/alex-phillips-wants-to-be-the-victim) _2026-08-11 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Alex Phillips is right about the abuse. She is wrong to pretend she is merely an observer of the Reform-Restore civil war. ## [The Right Is Turning on Itself](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-right-is-turning-on-itself) _2026-08-11 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Farage wants Rupert Lowe held responsible for the people around him. The problem is that the same test can be applied to Reform. ## [International money transfers (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BUpe9IUS5VvJ) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Send money to other countries and manage multi‑currency balances online. ## [The Choice Farage Has Forced on Rupert Lowe](https://simonpearson1.substack.com/p/the-choice-farage-has-forced-on-rupert) _2026-08-10 · Anti-Capitalist Musings · Anti-Capitalist Musings_ Reform’s demand that Restore expel Downes has exposed something more important than the argument between two parties. It has shown what part of Restore’s political coalition thinks the party is for. ## [Invisible Threads: How I Find the Vision for a New Series](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/invisible-threads-how-i-find-the) _2026-08-06 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ Alexi asked me recently how I frame my thoughts when I’m about to start directing a new pilot or a series. ## [A Bike With Gears](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/a-bike-with-gears) _2026-07-24 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ How did I end up living in Hollywood for 20 years? It's a tangle of memories, circumstances and following my gut. ## [5 Ways to Make Your Self-Tape Stand Out](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/5-ways-to-make-your-self-tape-stand) _2026-07-17 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ Director Julie Anne Robinson shares a few tips on getting noticed in your audition ## [5 Things We Learned from Joy Gorman Wettels](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/5-things-we-learned-from-joy-gorman) _2026-07-10 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ Some people make television. ## [Escaping the Cage of Control](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/escaping-the-cage-of-control) _2026-06-26 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ How making space for creativity leads to soaring results ## [Thank You Jimmy Burrows!](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/thank-you-jimmy-burrows) _2026-06-22 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ How the legendary director gave me an opportunity of a lifetime ## [5 Things We Learned From Intimacy Coordinator Lizzy Talbot](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/5-things-we-learned-from-intimacy) _2026-06-18 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ When Saturday Night Live’s Kate McKinnon and Bridgerton actor Regè Jean Page spoofed director Julie Anne Robinson prepping for a sexy scene with the help of an intimacy coordinator, it was more than just a humorous skit. ## [My Top 8 Tips for Better Zoom Auditions](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/my-top-8-tips-for-better-zoom-auditions) _2026-06-11 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ Director Julie Anne Robinson shares her advice on virtual casting ## [How to Glow with 50 Needles in Your Face](https://holdingforparrots.substack.com/p/how-to-glow-with-50-needles-in-your) _2026-06-04 · Holding For Parrots · Holding for Parrots_ Brave(ish) Adventure Part 2 ## [AI publishing with human taste (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9BK4Aq07gbW1) _2026-06-04 · **Sponsored**_ Convert AI research into blogs, podcasts, and newsletters with optional human review. ## [Our archive of Bus Open Data](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2026-04-30-our-archive-of-bus-data) _2026-04-30 · Open Innovations News_ By: Stuart Lowe Last July we described how we'd started making an open archive of Bus Open Data Service (BODS) data because nobody else seemed to be doing that. We used an old 8TB hard drive and set up some scripts to store the daily timetables as well as the live bus locations as both GTFS-RT and SIRI-VM files every 30 seconds. Well, those scripts have been running ever since and the disk will… ## [It's goodbye from us](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2026-04-14-it-s-goodbye-from-us) _2026-04-14 · Open Innovations News_ By: Kathryn Connell, Paul Connell From May 2026 Open Innovations will not be commencing any new work, we will be archived. All our work - tools, data, blogs and everything else - will remain on our website and in our open repositories for anyone to access, use and share but we will not be actively completing new work. We would like to thank everyone who has been involved and supported what has… ## [Storm overflows 2022-2025](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2026-04-02-storm-overflows) _2026-04-02 · Open Innovations News_ By: Stuart Lowe If you've watched Channel 4's Dirty Business you may be familiar with "storm overflows" - the discharge of sewage into our waterways. If you haven't, it is worth a watch. The Water and Sewerage Companies submit what are known as Event Duration Monitoring data to the Environment Agency as part of their regulatory Annual Return. The Environment Agency then publish yearly summary data… ## [Find my area](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2026-01-07-find-my-area) _2026-01-07 · Open Innovations News_ By: Stuart Lowe A while back someone on Mastodon asked if there was a way to find out which (UK) county they were in with a little bit of Javascript without "the cloud". I made a tool to do just that and this blog post goes into the details. A cloud-free outlook Obviously there are services that will tell you things about a set of coordinates (or for a postcode ) but the person asking the question… ## [Warm spaces for winter 2025](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-10-14-warm-spaces-for-winter-2025) _2025-10-14 · Open Innovations News_ By: Stuart Lowe Over the past few years the cost-of-living crisis and rising energy costs have meant that many people in the UK have struggled to stay warm during the winter months. To address this, many third sector and public sector organisations started creating directories of offers of warm spaces in libraries, community centres, churches etc. This huge effort resulted in well over 150… ## [Comparing future energy scenario data](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-09-03-comparing-future-energy-scenario-data) _2025-09-03 · Open Innovations News_ By: Stuart Lowe One of the ways we are funded is through our sponsors . Two of our current sponsors - Northern Powergrid and National Grid - work in electricity distribution. Each year they create Future Energy Scenarios (FES/DFES) that model everything from the number of electric vehicles to the amount of solar power generation they expect at different points in the network for every year until… ## [Summer Newsletter](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-08-20-summer-newsletter) _2025-08-20 · Open Innovations News_ By: Kathryn Connell Being #RadicallyOpen Welcome to our summer newsletter. As temperatures soar in the UK we have hidden in the shade to write up some of our latest work and the impact we have. Its a short read and we hope it offers some tips and insight. The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. -- Tim… ## [An archive of Bus Open Data](https://open-innovations.org/blog/2025-07-30-an-archive-of-bus-open-data) _2025-07-30 · Open Innovations News_ By: Luke Strange, Stuart Lowe If you've been following our work for a while you'll know that there are some topics we get very animated about. One of those is buses. We've shared our experiments with bus open data , we've written thoughts on franchising , we've investigated phantom buses, hosted workshops about bus open data , and much more. We think buses are very important. Thanks to the Bus…