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Musk has just tweeted 'why is he in prison?' Above a Tommy Robinson post. Things like this make me rather contemptuous of the alpha males from Twitter who regard ideological objections to that site as some kind of quaint, effete character flaw.
November 24, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Musk has just tweeted 'why is he in prison?' Above a Tommy Robinson post. Things like this make me rather contemptuous of the alpha males from Twitter who regard ideological objections to that site as some kind of quaint, effete character flaw.
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One of the best pubs in London struggling for survival because planning is stacked in favour of some powerful NIMBYs. Everything that’s wrong with Britain.
November 21, 2024 at 6:45 PM
One of the best pubs in London struggling for survival because planning is stacked in favour of some powerful NIMBYs. Everything that’s wrong with Britain.
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John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
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"It's 'free speech' when they 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 what's being said."
After backlash over a police investigation into a journalist's tweet, The News Agents discuss the right’s so-called "free speech absolutism" which, as it turns out, comes with conditions.
After backlash over a police investigation into a journalist's tweet, The News Agents discuss the right’s so-called "free speech absolutism" which, as it turns out, comes with conditions.
November 18, 2024 at 7:44 PM
"It's 'free speech' when they 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 what's being said."
After backlash over a police investigation into a journalist's tweet, The News Agents discuss the right’s so-called "free speech absolutism" which, as it turns out, comes with conditions.
After backlash over a police investigation into a journalist's tweet, The News Agents discuss the right’s so-called "free speech absolutism" which, as it turns out, comes with conditions.
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I find the number of people saying they want to block her as a response to this genuinely baffling. You don't need to like her. She's the leader of the opposition. Even if you're absolutely convinced she's wrong about everything, why not listen to ideas you disagree with?
November 17, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I find the number of people saying they want to block her as a response to this genuinely baffling. You don't need to like her. She's the leader of the opposition. Even if you're absolutely convinced she's wrong about everything, why not listen to ideas you disagree with?
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All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while
Is making a guy with a white nationalist tattoo who says diversity corrodes military fitness the Secretary of Defense one big power grab
November 16, 2024 at 4:53 PM
All three branches of government are now controlled by a rapist who campaigned on purging the country of nonwhite immigrants and driving trans people out of public life, supported by a Nazi billionaire, I think maybe you can ease off the Has Woke Gone Too Far beat for a while
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Amused by people on FB (etc) who feel compelled to state their dislike of of Bluesky because “they had a look and it was boring” or, more puzzlingly, “all I could see was embroidery and lefty artists”. Mate, if you’ve followed a load of embroidery accounts to make yourself cross, I can’t help you
November 16, 2024 at 7:29 AM
Amused by people on FB (etc) who feel compelled to state their dislike of of Bluesky because “they had a look and it was boring” or, more puzzlingly, “all I could see was embroidery and lefty artists”. Mate, if you’ve followed a load of embroidery accounts to make yourself cross, I can’t help you
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A good example of my "Orwell Rule" that the people who use his name the most are those he would have despised most intensely.
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
A good example of my "Orwell Rule" that the people who use his name the most are those he would have despised most intensely.
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Surely this isn’t rocket science? Why can’t we honestly admit that one of the worst things the Conservatives did 2010-24 was decimate #SureStart; the cut that goes on deepening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Sure Start’s legacy: investing in children brings rewards | Editorial
Editorial: A reduction in serious youth offending can now be added to the benefits brought about by Labour’s flagship family support programme
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Surely this isn’t rocket science? Why can’t we honestly admit that one of the worst things the Conservatives did 2010-24 was decimate #SureStart; the cut that goes on deepening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Christopher Wren absolutely off his tits on churches. Man needed an intervention. "Chris mate don't you think you've had enough?" his friends cry. I CAN STOP ANYTIME!!! he yells. Three more churches fall out of his pocket.
September 16, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Christopher Wren absolutely off his tits on churches. Man needed an intervention. "Chris mate don't you think you've had enough?" his friends cry. I CAN STOP ANYTIME!!! he yells. Three more churches fall out of his pocket.
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I have given this a great deal of thought, &I think that the majority of Brits are over-reacting to Starmer‘s visit to Berlin, one way or the other.
No, he is not 'reversing Brexit‘ (if only),
nor is the reset 'in tatters‘.
It is just all agonisingly slow &complex and yes, it might go wrong.
Might.
No, he is not 'reversing Brexit‘ (if only),
nor is the reset 'in tatters‘.
It is just all agonisingly slow &complex and yes, it might go wrong.
Might.
August 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
I have given this a great deal of thought, &I think that the majority of Brits are over-reacting to Starmer‘s visit to Berlin, one way or the other.
No, he is not 'reversing Brexit‘ (if only),
nor is the reset 'in tatters‘.
It is just all agonisingly slow &complex and yes, it might go wrong.
Might.
No, he is not 'reversing Brexit‘ (if only),
nor is the reset 'in tatters‘.
It is just all agonisingly slow &complex and yes, it might go wrong.
Might.
7 weeks tomorrow, the first half of this is as if somebody scooped the soggy, swirling thoughts in my brain and put them on a page.
Good morning your gifts today include Lucy Prebble on the physical horrors of night feeding from a series of essays - text and photographic - in the magazine which you really need to see in print (Weekend FT! On sale now!) on.ft.com/3AEkdpZ
Lucy Prebble: breastfeeding is body horror
[FREE TO READ] My husband is trapped in a nightmare. I am the nightmare
on.ft.com
August 18, 2024 at 9:02 AM
7 weeks tomorrow, the first half of this is as if somebody scooped the soggy, swirling thoughts in my brain and put them on a page.
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Superb by @hugorifkind.bsky.social British Jews should beware illiberal allies
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/073f...
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/073f...
British Jews should beware illiberal allies
Vuk Valcic/ZUMA Press WirePro-Palestinian prostesters marched down Regent Street, London, on Saturday. Posters of Israelis kidnapped in the Hamas terror raid of
www.thetimes.co.uk
November 7, 2023 at 11:25 AM
Superb by @hugorifkind.bsky.social British Jews should beware illiberal allies
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/073f...
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/073f...
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I was pleased to be at the AI Summit at Bletchley Park this week to try and bring social science/humanities/civil society perspectives. One thing often forgotten is how many of the code breakers at Bletchley had a humanities background www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/r...
Lost without translation: Why codebreaking is not just a numbers game
The recent film ‘The Imitation Game’ has portrayed the part played by the mathematician Alan Turing in decrypting the messages sent from the German Enigma machine in the Second World War. But Nige...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 4, 2023 at 8:29 AM
I was pleased to be at the AI Summit at Bletchley Park this week to try and bring social science/humanities/civil society perspectives. One thing often forgotten is how many of the code breakers at Bletchley had a humanities background www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/r...
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Exec: so what are the names of the gross pasty nerd billionaire and his weird girlfriend?
Writer: Musk and Grime
Exec: and the embezzler?
Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime?
Writer: Don and Don Junior
Exec: get the fuck out of my office
Writer: Musk and Grime
Exec: and the embezzler?
Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime?
Writer: Don and Don Junior
Exec: get the fuck out of my office
November 3, 2023 at 1:16 AM
Exec: so what are the names of the gross pasty nerd billionaire and his weird girlfriend?
Writer: Musk and Grime
Exec: and the embezzler?
Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime?
Writer: Don and Don Junior
Exec: get the fuck out of my office
Writer: Musk and Grime
Exec: and the embezzler?
Writer: Sam Bankman-Fraud
Exec: and the politician and his son who do organized crime?
Writer: Don and Don Junior
Exec: get the fuck out of my office
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The “soap opera” isn’t something separate from the main drama. The dysfunctional structures & relations, sexism, decisions taken by a tiny (mostly male) cabal, side-lining most of Cabinet let alone parliament, “follow the science” - all go to the quality of governance, decision- and law-making
November 2, 2023 at 7:08 AM
The “soap opera” isn’t something separate from the main drama. The dysfunctional structures & relations, sexism, decisions taken by a tiny (mostly male) cabal, side-lining most of Cabinet let alone parliament, “follow the science” - all go to the quality of governance, decision- and law-making
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ORIGIN STORY: Boomers
Everything you had to know about the generation that fucked your future
listen.podmasters.uk/OriginStoryS...
Everything you had to know about the generation that fucked your future
listen.podmasters.uk/OriginStoryS...
October 30, 2023 at 8:13 AM
ORIGIN STORY: Boomers
Everything you had to know about the generation that fucked your future
listen.podmasters.uk/OriginStoryS...
Everything you had to know about the generation that fucked your future
listen.podmasters.uk/OriginStoryS...
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Don't think it works the other way round. I can happily bloot without engaging with Godwin types at all.
November 1, 2023 at 10:40 AM
Don't think it works the other way round. I can happily bloot without engaging with Godwin types at all.
@marksaunders.bsky.social better photo :)
November 1, 2023 at 10:42 AM
@marksaunders.bsky.social better photo :)
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the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"
November 1, 2023 at 2:19 AM
the objectively funniest period in history was just after the fall of the soviet union because neoliberal academics all got so tremendously fucking high that they wrote shit like "history is over" or "it is physically impossible for two countries to go to war if both have a McDonald's"
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-What did Cummings say about me, Humphrey?
-He ventured that, while colourful, some would even argue aesthetically pleasing, and doubtlessly valuable at both termini of the traditional procreative process, he finds you to be more genital than genial.
-In English!
-He thinks you're a cunt, minister.
-He ventured that, while colourful, some would even argue aesthetically pleasing, and doubtlessly valuable at both termini of the traditional procreative process, he finds you to be more genital than genial.
-In English!
-He thinks you're a cunt, minister.
October 31, 2023 at 5:55 PM
-What did Cummings say about me, Humphrey?
-He ventured that, while colourful, some would even argue aesthetically pleasing, and doubtlessly valuable at both termini of the traditional procreative process, he finds you to be more genital than genial.
-In English!
-He thinks you're a cunt, minister.
-He ventured that, while colourful, some would even argue aesthetically pleasing, and doubtlessly valuable at both termini of the traditional procreative process, he finds you to be more genital than genial.
-In English!
-He thinks you're a cunt, minister.
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How the Middle East conflict could escalate further across the region on.ft.com/3FEf1lw
America, Iran and the threat of a wider war in the Middle East
None of the region’s big powers wants further conflict but it could happen nonetheless
on.ft.com
October 30, 2023 at 10:29 PM
How the Middle East conflict could escalate further across the region on.ft.com/3FEf1lw
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guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up
October 30, 2023 at 9:55 PM
guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up