For decades the British establishment has run on asymmetric identity politics.
Minority identity = moral credit.
Majority identity = moral debt.
The same apparatus that hyper-sensitised discourse to minority identity also desensitised it to majority belonging.
Now that belonging's reasserting itself
Minority identity = moral credit.
Majority identity = moral debt.
The same apparatus that hyper-sensitised discourse to minority identity also desensitised it to majority belonging.
Now that belonging's reasserting itself
PM joins Health Secretary in recognising return of racism ("that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago" - a slightly detached tone)
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
My column this week is about why government needs to go beyond calling out language/rhetoric about racism + act on it
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For decades the British establishment has run on asymmetric identity politics.
Minority identity = moral credit.
Majority identity = moral debt.
The same apparatus that hyper-sensitised discourse to minority identity also desensitised it to majority belonging.
Now that belonging's reasserting itself
Minority identity = moral credit.
Majority identity = moral debt.
The same apparatus that hyper-sensitised discourse to minority identity also desensitised it to majority belonging.
Now that belonging's reasserting itself
Sunder admits diversity isn't exactly what he's been supporting all along.
Reform voters are (always) different
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Sunder admits diversity isn't exactly what he's been supporting all along.
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
The desperation from legacy media is palpable.
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The desperation from legacy media is palpable.
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Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
Her criticism of another’s lack of “human expression” online exposes the counterfeit nature of her own.
When display becomes the measure of depth,
those who don’t display become the only ones left with any.
When display becomes the measure of depth,
those who don’t display become the only ones left with any.
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Her criticism of another’s lack of “human expression” online exposes the counterfeit nature of her own.
When display becomes the measure of depth,
those who don’t display become the only ones left with any.
When display becomes the measure of depth,
those who don’t display become the only ones left with any.
Legacy intellectuals operate inside institutions that depend on legible morality: shorthand cues that mark them as safe nodes within the network of approved discourse.
To omit moral signalling would risk contagion: association with the “tainted” figure (Watson) could propagate reputational noise.
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To omit moral signalling would risk contagion: association with the “tainted” figure (Watson) could propagate reputational noise.
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I met Watson several times, and every time it was replete with sexism and racism, often comically idiotic. We learn nothing new from showcasing his awful bigotry. But there is much still to be understood in the story of biology in the 20th century. This is where my interests lie.
November 11, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Legacy intellectuals operate inside institutions that depend on legible morality: shorthand cues that mark them as safe nodes within the network of approved discourse.
To omit moral signalling would risk contagion: association with the “tainted” figure (Watson) could propagate reputational noise.
1/
To omit moral signalling would risk contagion: association with the “tainted” figure (Watson) could propagate reputational noise.
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Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Started / going
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Here's a view of Jupiter from NASA's Juno spacecraft, now in orbit there. science.nasa.gov/mission/juno
Image processed from raw data by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
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The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The first surviving successful image of Jupiter was taken in 1879 by Andrew Ainslie Common in Ealing, London, using his 36-inch Newtonian reflector and the wet collodion process invented in 1851 by portrait photographer Frederick Scott Archer
The News Agents are trapped between epochs. They are voices from the analogue afterlife, still trying to curate a centre that no longer exists with the panic of a lighthouse realising the ships have GPS.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The News Agents are trapped between epochs. They are voices from the analogue afterlife, still trying to curate a centre that no longer exists with the panic of a lighthouse realising the ships have GPS.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The BBC once served as a shared clock signal for British informational synchrony. Over time, feedback loops collapsed: delayed error-correction, insulation from user-level feedback, and over-optimised signaling toward elite peer-approval rather than the general cognitive field.
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The BBC once served as a shared clock signal for British informational synchrony. Over time, feedback loops collapsed: delayed error-correction, insulation from user-level feedback, and over-optimised signaling toward elite peer-approval rather than the general cognitive field.
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The 'discover' tab on Bsky is just Sunder and Otto endlessly posting communist propaganda. Very dull.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The 'discover' tab on Bsky is just Sunder and Otto endlessly posting communist propaganda. Very dull.
How would a rational scientist steel man the opposition to industrial abortion/tissue farming?
Human fetal tissue research has saved millions of lives and continues to drive biomedical innovation. Restricting it would not alter abortion rates, it would force scientists to discard an irreplaceable research resource for treating devastating diseases.
Restrictions on fetal tissue research would threaten progress on breakthrough treatments for devastating diseases — and yet not prevent a single abortion
The U.S. government may restrict funding for research that uses human fetal tissue. The move would undermine medical science and prolong patients' suffering from devastating diseases.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
How would a rational scientist steel man the opposition to industrial abortion/tissue farming?
Another strange post from Katwala: rejoicing the establishment maintaining it's grip.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Another strange post from Katwala: rejoicing the establishment maintaining it's grip.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
A strange post from leftist commentator Katwala, seemingly endorsing Musk's fact checking on X.
A strange post from the Ukip leader, pictured at the Aldershot memorial, but seeming to want people to believe/imagine it was the Cenotaph
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A strange post from leftist commentator Katwala, seemingly endorsing Musk's fact checking on X.
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Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
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Oklahoma is beautiful, actually. All scenes were captured in the last 2 years. #photography
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Oklahoma is beautiful, actually. All scenes were captured in the last 2 years. #photography
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Institutions lost epistemic liquidity, so people anchor trust in the logo. “Lancet” is a proxy node for epistemic certainty, not the content itself.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Institutions lost epistemic liquidity, so people anchor trust in the logo. “Lancet” is a proxy node for epistemic certainty, not the content itself.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
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This isn’t really about Cummings... it’s a small act of moral liquidity.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This isn’t really about Cummings... it’s a small act of moral liquidity.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
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Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
On the way to the Festival of Remembrance, with Indi, 13. My thoughts in my column this week on how these traditions were invented to fill the identity gaps of the 1920s and how renewing them in the 2020s can be one way to bridge divides in polarised times
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
Notice that the entire content from the Left on bsky, is about their opponents elsewhere.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
This is in such incredibly bad taste.
Yes, Nigel Farage made an actual promo video of his poppy performance in Walton-on-the-Naze today.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Notice that the entire content from the Left on bsky, is about their opponents elsewhere.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
When a social wave amplifies a label, demand rises; when the infrastructure (institutions, discourse) recalibrates, demand may recede.
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans
Transgenderism is in rapid decline among young Americans, indicating it was a social contagion.
A few weeks ago, I
published results
from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Right...
www.skeptic.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When a social wave amplifies a label, demand rises; when the infrastructure (institutions, discourse) recalibrates, demand may recede.
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/