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Even ignoring the subject of the post this is nonsensical.
Can something that's bad get worse?
Yeah I reckon it can Jolyon!
Can something that's bad get worse?
Yeah I reckon it can Jolyon!
Personally I'd be pleased to see BBC News disappear entirely. To argue, as many do, that British politics or our news environment would be so much worse without the BBC you have to explain why British politics and news environment is so very bad with the BBC.
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Even ignoring the subject of the post this is nonsensical.
Can something that's bad get worse?
Yeah I reckon it can Jolyon!
Can something that's bad get worse?
Yeah I reckon it can Jolyon!
Turnout figures from the New York mayoralty: I think Susan Hall really could do it, you know: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Turnout figures from the New York mayoralty: I think Susan Hall really could do it, you know: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Turnout isn't worrying at all. 170k voters (when the membership might be 300k max) for an incredibly low stakes election is absolutely fine. People being very silly about this
Powell’s election is a sign of the disillusionment of Labour members - but there is a much much bigger and more worrying sign.
Turn out was just 16%
Turn out was just 16%
BREAKING: Lucy Powell is elected Labour’s deputy leader
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Turnout isn't worrying at all. 170k voters (when the membership might be 300k max) for an incredibly low stakes election is absolutely fine. People being very silly about this
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MHCLG SoS in his “build baby build” cap at conference
September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
MHCLG SoS in his “build baby build” cap at conference
the scolding will continue until the user base increases
September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
the scolding will continue until the user base increases
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One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.
It's important to assume that Reform in Government would indeed try to do this. The right thing is not to tell the public that this won't happen - so they can therefore vote for Reform without guilt - but rather that a vote for Reform is a vote for the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.
None of this will ever happen, and it's incumbent on the BBC to at least indicate that everybody who knows anything about this topic says it's a load of baloney. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
One of two very good threads by Adam on this. A startling number of people - responding, in part, by the tone set by their government - just have this very complacent 'oh, no, this plan will never work'. I mean, 1) it could but also 2) they will definitely try.
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Essentially every core understanding a Labour leader needs to follow to succeed is contained within Tony Blair’s 2011 foreword to the Unfinished Revolution.
July 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Essentially every core understanding a Labour leader needs to follow to succeed is contained within Tony Blair’s 2011 foreword to the Unfinished Revolution.
People being remarkably dismissive of the possibility of extensive riots given they last occured a whole 12 months ago
July 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
People being remarkably dismissive of the possibility of extensive riots given they last occured a whole 12 months ago
Need a serious unserious big things small things political compass
July 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Need a serious unserious big things small things political compass
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This stuff is so maddening. The top part says 10b litres *a year* and then later there is a 5bn/a day shortfall. Ie data centers are irrelevant. 10b litres a year is trivial! A single reservoir will be 100-150bn litres! Later it says we don’t even know if the data center one is solid!
July 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This stuff is so maddening. The top part says 10b litres *a year* and then later there is a 5bn/a day shortfall. Ie data centers are irrelevant. 10b litres a year is trivial! A single reservoir will be 100-150bn litres! Later it says we don’t even know if the data center one is solid!
incredibly funny watching the americans drive themselves insane debating the ethnicity of a ugandan asian
July 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
incredibly funny watching the americans drive themselves insane debating the ethnicity of a ugandan asian
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[posts same tweet but with positive connotation]
I am sure these Oasis gigs will be a lot of fun, but can't help feeling they'll be upscaled version of going to a pub in the City during a world cup. Lot's of semi-interested, pissed-up, middle-class people doing their best impressions of a 90s Lads Mag editor for one night only
July 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
[posts same tweet but with positive connotation]
Seems fine. Nothing to worry about whatsoever
June 28, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Seems fine. Nothing to worry about whatsoever
if you cant find anything interesting to talk about with Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bezos then I think the reflection should be directed inwards
That Bezos-Sanchez wedding looks about as much fun as a skiing holiday in the Netherlands.
A bunch of not very interesting people cosplaying "movie stars of the 1960s on location in Venice."
For THREE DAYS
What the hell did they all talk about?
A bunch of not very interesting people cosplaying "movie stars of the 1960s on location in Venice."
For THREE DAYS
What the hell did they all talk about?
June 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
if you cant find anything interesting to talk about with Brad Pitt, Oprah Winfrey and Jeff Bezos then I think the reflection should be directed inwards
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Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning
An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.
foreignpolicy.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Air conditioning is an absolutely vital life-saving technology on a swiftly-warming planet, and people who claim it's somehow more shameful to cool a home than it is to heat one are idiots.
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
I wrote this a few years ago and still stand by it:
foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/c...
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It's time to get over the eco-austerity mindset and embrace the technology of air conditioning.
On hot, sunny days, the grid runs almost carbon free. We have the power to stay cool, you just have to get over yourself.
On hot, sunny days, the grid runs almost carbon free. We have the power to stay cool, you just have to get over yourself.
June 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's time to get over the eco-austerity mindset and embrace the technology of air conditioning.
On hot, sunny days, the grid runs almost carbon free. We have the power to stay cool, you just have to get over yourself.
On hot, sunny days, the grid runs almost carbon free. We have the power to stay cool, you just have to get over yourself.
Progressives not using and not supporting the proliferation of AI is not going to end well I fear
June 20, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Progressives not using and not supporting the proliferation of AI is not going to end well I fear
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V interesting from @dantomlinson.bsky.social and @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social on reform of the ECHR - very much coming onto the radar of Labour MPs
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Reform of ECHR vital to allow Britain to deport more foreign criminals
Ripping up the convention would be disastrous for the European effort against Russia. Instead, we must lead the change
www.thetimes.com
June 17, 2025 at 8:07 AM
V interesting from @dantomlinson.bsky.social and @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social on reform of the ECHR - very much coming onto the radar of Labour MPs
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
counting is very important but so is public perception and telling people that actually they should be satisfied with a certain level of crime... well, good luck I guess
My latest, a response to the tedious ‘but people are wrong, crime is actually falling!’ brigade. Shout out to @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk who inspired the piece.
Stop gaslighting people about crime
Yes, crime statistics show long-term decline, but the numbers don't tell the whole story.
open.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
counting is very important but so is public perception and telling people that actually they should be satisfied with a certain level of crime... well, good luck I guess
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So only thing you can do is improve people’s experience of the status quo to the extent they don’t think system needs tearing down - show government can deliver on cost of living, nhs, immigration and also address regional inequality and community neglect/decline.
May 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
So only thing you can do is improve people’s experience of the status quo to the extent they don’t think system needs tearing down - show government can deliver on cost of living, nhs, immigration and also address regional inequality and community neglect/decline.
I'd love people to try this on the doorstep
Incidentally London has just been ranked the second best city in the world.
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
www.timeout.com/london/news/...
London is officially the second-best city in the world, according to a prestigious new ranking
We’ll take it.
www.timeout.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I'd love people to try this on the doorstep