Nick Norton
@quietwun.bsky.social
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Palantir and UK Government keep saying "the data is secure".
But that's not the primary issue. It's having this tech embedded in critical health, defence and police supply and information chains. We're locked in- under the sovereign control of the US government.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
But that's not the primary issue. It's having this tech embedded in critical health, defence and police supply and information chains. We're locked in- under the sovereign control of the US government.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
Britain’s Labour government feels the heat over Palantir contracts
The U.S. data company is taking fresh flak in the U.K. — as the country’s reliance on U.S. tech firms shoots up the political agenda.
www.politico.eu
February 20, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Palantir and UK Government keep saying "the data is secure".
But that's not the primary issue. It's having this tech embedded in critical health, defence and police supply and information chains. We're locked in- under the sovereign control of the US government.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
But that's not the primary issue. It's having this tech embedded in critical health, defence and police supply and information chains. We're locked in- under the sovereign control of the US government.
www.politico.eu/article/brit...
"I did nothing," said the adjudicated rapist, convicted felon and years-long best bud of Jeffrey Epstein.
DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too?
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.
February 19, 2026 at 11:07 PM
"I did nothing," said the adjudicated rapist, convicted felon and years-long best bud of Jeffrey Epstein.
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Doesn’t help when bodies claiming to represent Jews like the Board of Deputies and the Campaign against Antisemitism both stayed silent over the antisemitic bullying allegations against Nigel Farage
So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.”
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...
Reform UK suspends by-election campaign activist over ‘antisemitic and misogynistic’ posts
EXCLUSIVE: Adam Mitula, Reform UK’s interim campaign manager in Tameside, has been assisting Matt Goodwin's Gorton and Denton by-election campaign
www.jewishnews.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Doesn’t help when bodies claiming to represent Jews like the Board of Deputies and the Campaign against Antisemitism both stayed silent over the antisemitic bullying allegations against Nigel Farage
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If there’s an opportunity for an own goal, you can be guaranteed that Starmer will take it.
Appointment of Antonia Romeo as head of civil service shows ‘poor judgment’ say former colleagues
Appointment of Antonia Romeo as head of civil service shows ‘poor judgment’ say former colleagues
First female cabinet secretary faced allegations of bullying behaviour in 2017, while working in New York consulate
Keir Starmer’s decision to appoint Antonia Romeo as the country’s most senior civil servant has prompted dismay among former colleagues who complained about what they considered bullying behaviour when she was a diplomat in New York.
Several people who worked with Romeo at the New York consulate nearly 10 years ago have told the Guardian they are upset by the prime minister’s decision to make her cabinet secretary despite knowing about their complaints. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:18 PM
If there’s an opportunity for an own goal, you can be guaranteed that Starmer will take it.
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February 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
February 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Wanna know what’s coming with the climate in the next 18 months or so? Check out this excellent summary of the recent science by @billmckibben.bsky.social
Finally the “doomer” trope used against those expressing more alarm than the mainstream seems to be fading away. We are fully in this now.
Finally the “doomer” trope used against those expressing more alarm than the mainstream seems to be fading away. We are fully in this now.
February 18, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Wanna know what’s coming with the climate in the next 18 months or so? Check out this excellent summary of the recent science by @billmckibben.bsky.social
Finally the “doomer” trope used against those expressing more alarm than the mainstream seems to be fading away. We are fully in this now.
Finally the “doomer” trope used against those expressing more alarm than the mainstream seems to be fading away. We are fully in this now.
Over 1% HIGHER than when Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney entered Downing Street...
February 17, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Over 1% HIGHER than when Keir Starmer and Morgan McSweeney entered Downing Street...
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We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Not a single strategic goal has been met. Russia's losing a Vietnam's worth of soldiers every few months. The economy is sprinting toward stagnation, while Moscow is turning more and more every month into a Chinese vassal—all while the Kremlin's allies topple elsewhere.
Staggering historic failure.
Staggering historic failure.
February 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM
We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
Russia has lost on every concievable axis
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Congratulations to Keir Starmer's brilliant government for handing Farage and Reform a pre-victory victory.
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Government cancels plan to delay local council elections in England
Polls in 30 areas had been due to be postponed as part of the government’s shake-up of English councils
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Congratulations to Keir Starmer's brilliant government for handing Farage and Reform a pre-victory victory.
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Still having a hard time understanding how we’ve moved past Musk’s DOGEdisbanding the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization, leading to an estimated death toll of 600,000.
February 16, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Still having a hard time understanding how we’ve moved past Musk’s DOGEdisbanding the world’s largest humanitarian aid organization, leading to an estimated death toll of 600,000.
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That it took so long for so many to publicly acknowledge Karp and Thiel's descent into madness is telling in itself
Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
That it took so long for so many to publicly acknowledge Karp and Thiel's descent into madness is telling in itself
Congratulations to Keir Starmer's brilliant government for handing Farage and Reform a pre-victory victory.
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Government cancels plan to delay local council elections in England
Polls in 30 areas had been due to be postponed as part of the government’s shake-up of English councils
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Congratulations to Keir Starmer's brilliant government for handing Farage and Reform a pre-victory victory.
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As I'll say until I'm blue in the face: Stick with Starmer, facilitate Farage.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Perhaps I’m too harsh but I don’t have it in me to sympathise with “roll the dice” voters anymore when the dice keep coming up snake eyes
🧵In today’s Times @joshglancy.bsky.social has a brilliant write up of our focus groups he sat in on. Definitely read it in full! But I want to focus on two voters: Kylie & Eve I think have outsized importance in explaining today’s politics
www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...
www.thetimes.com/article/b75e...
February 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Perhaps I’m too harsh but I don’t have it in me to sympathise with “roll the dice” voters anymore when the dice keep coming up snake eyes
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Great. This will go down well with Labour's core voters, who are famously eager to see more foreigners starve or succumb to disease.
Cuts to overseas aid by the UK are set to go further and faster than those made by the Trump administration in the US, as Sir Keir Starmer’s government wrestles with funding pressures
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
www.ft.com/content/ad52...
UK overseas aid cuts to outstrip those of Trump administration
Spending will drop 27% this year from 2024 levels to help fund higher defence budget
www.ft.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Great. This will go down well with Labour's core voters, who are famously eager to see more foreigners starve or succumb to disease.
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NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 AM
NEW from @tbij.bsky.social:
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
The government has rejected calls by its OWN independent Migration Advisory Committee for visa reforms to protect migrant farm workers from exploitation
Labour seems wedded to a model of immigration based on creating a subclass of exploited worker.
It's sick.
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February 16, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
New videos resurface showing Trump partying with underage girls
We’ve all seen Pam Bondi’s petulant performance before the House this week, screaming at members of Congress as they ask why various Epstein files remain redacted for Co-conspirators and perpetrators ...
www.dailykos.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:28 AM
The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Starmer ally Josh Simons faces fresh questions about digging dirt on journalists
Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
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Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath.
The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.
The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.
February 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath.
The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.
The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.
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Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.
2024 Reform UK voters are also less likely to describe themselves as anti-Russia (48%) than other voters (66-79%)
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
February 14, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.
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This is blackout poetry to me
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is blackout poetry to me
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Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Absolutely we should fear terrorism and seek to prevent it.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
But we should also fear those who use either real terrorism or bogus claims about terrorism to boost their own powers, restrict our freedoms and corrode our democracy.
Both present major threats to public life.
