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If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
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We've had some great coverage on VGC recently, but with Google continuing to erode small publishers’ reach, it’s going to be a tough Q4 for independent sites.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We've had some great coverage on VGC recently, but with Google continuing to erode small publishers’ reach, it’s going to be a tough Q4 for independent sites.
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Incredibly interesting thread! 🧵 I had GamePass for PC when it first came out. Cancelled once I started to recognised a lot of the behaviour mentioned here.
I used to work for a company called GameTap, we were probably the first "Netflix for games," started around 2006. It didn't go well. I used to think the idea was ahead of its time, and maybe it was, but I also think times have changed and this no longer makes sense. 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Incredibly interesting thread! 🧵 I had GamePass for PC when it first came out. Cancelled once I started to recognised a lot of the behaviour mentioned here.
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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Can you tell I'm having a "must read/share all the articles in these open tabs" moment today! 😅
August 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Can you tell I'm having a "must read/share all the articles in these open tabs" moment today! 😅
Another really good piece worth a read! - Rebuilding Britain: ten tips open.substack.com/pub/daviesri...
Rebuilding Britain: ten tips
If in doubt, just copy Lille.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Another really good piece worth a read! - Rebuilding Britain: ten tips open.substack.com/pub/daviesri...
Few weeks late on this one, but yeah, stunning bit of reporting from @londoncentric.media - Utterly infuriating! - The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
August 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Few weeks late on this one, but yeah, stunning bit of reporting from @londoncentric.media - Utterly infuriating! - The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
Jonn's excellent piece on the myth of "empty homes" is now free to read (which you should definiately do because it's excellent) - No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...
No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis
It may be a vote winner. That doesn’t make it right.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jonn's excellent piece on the myth of "empty homes" is now free to read (which you should definiately do because it's excellent) - No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...
Really excellent and informative thread! 🧵
Energy in Britain has gotten scarce—and thus expensive.
Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European average than any point in at least 40 years (barring the 22/23 shock).
What's behind this, and is it crimping growth? I took a look for @economist.com. (🧵)
Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European average than any point in at least 40 years (barring the 22/23 shock).
What's behind this, and is it crimping growth? I took a look for @economist.com. (🧵)
July 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Really excellent and informative thread! 🧵
We’re so screwed 🫠 - They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We’re so screwed 🫠 - They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
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These vacous people, who by any measure have got exactly the government they were asking for in 2013, but who are so detached from both policy thought and the people they ventriloquise that they simply have not noticed and never will:
Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose, Energy And A Story To Tell
Can Blue Labour help Keir Starmer’s government develop a clear direction and sense of purpose? Sienna Rodgers talks to Jonathan Rutherford, a polit...
www.politicshome.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
These vacous people, who by any measure have got exactly the government they were asking for in 2013, but who are so detached from both policy thought and the people they ventriloquise that they simply have not noticed and never will:
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A big part of the UK's problems can be summed up by the fact that because of the referendum and the pandemic, we haven't had 'now we are in governing mode' government of any type since 2013. Many of Labour's problems would go away if they became one for a bit.
May 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A big part of the UK's problems can be summed up by the fact that because of the referendum and the pandemic, we haven't had 'now we are in governing mode' government of any type since 2013. Many of Labour's problems would go away if they became one for a bit.
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In one of the best books about the creation of South Sudan, Pete Martel's "First Raise A Flag", there's this amazing anecdote about a young naive American advisor on the new country's constitution who pops up with the quote: "you've got to nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, man."
one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much
March 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In one of the best books about the creation of South Sudan, Pete Martel's "First Raise A Flag", there's this amazing anecdote about a young naive American advisor on the new country's constitution who pops up with the quote: "you've got to nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, man."
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(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")
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So could we, as a country, not accept the 'let's get angry over some obviously undeliverable cuts and an inadequate increase in defence spending' stage of our politics has been running for a decade now and has gone on long enough?
Starmer vows to ‘spend more’ on UK defence but other areas face cuts
Departments asked to model savings of up to 11% as government battles chronic squeeze on public finances
www.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So could we, as a country, not accept the 'let's get angry over some obviously undeliverable cuts and an inadequate increase in defence spending' stage of our politics has been running for a decade now and has gone on long enough?
BEST! SUPER BOWL! EVER! 🤣 (not an Eagles fan, just pleased to watch the Chiefs suffer)
February 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BEST! SUPER BOWL! EVER! 🤣 (not an Eagles fan, just pleased to watch the Chiefs suffer)
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Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
Indian Railways will be fully electrified next year (it’s at ~99% currently)
UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
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UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
😫
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
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Again I beg politicians to know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to AI. They look like mugs.
Uhm, sorry, what? Starmer thinks AI is going to DOUBLE UK productivity in less than 5 years?
January 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Again I beg politicians to know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to AI. They look like mugs.
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It's really good to see that people have absolutely not learnt the lessons from hyperventilating and prognosticating about the local elections of 2021.
MRP poll by JL Partners for what it is worth points to Lab minority govt supported by Lib Dems thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
December 28, 2024 at 7:19 PM
It's really good to see that people have absolutely not learnt the lessons from hyperventilating and prognosticating about the local elections of 2021.
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Wonderful affectionate profile of Games Workshop and Warhammer by @louisashworth.bsky.social on.ft.com/3ZSTJLH
Warhammer is weird. That’s why it works
Making sense of London’s latest blue-chip stock
on.ft.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Wonderful affectionate profile of Games Workshop and Warhammer by @louisashworth.bsky.social on.ft.com/3ZSTJLH
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This bit of the MI5 chief's annual threat summary has been living in my head rent-free since October, now it can be in all your heads, too.
December 9, 2024 at 11:31 PM
This bit of the MI5 chief's annual threat summary has been living in my head rent-free since October, now it can be in all your heads, too.
Good thread (i.e. I agree with it, but couldn’t have put it so succinctly)! Mass despondency within a party that’s been out of power for 14 years because decades of underinvestment and ignoring obvious problems haven’t been immediately fixed by a couple of months on the job and a single speech!
I don't get how a speech can be deemed to have "flopped" after two days
NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read
Keir Starmer has triggered alarm across Labour over his poor performance in his first 5 months as PM, after Thursday’s reset speech flopped
His party wants bolder policies, a clearer purpose and much sharper messaging
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Keir Starmer has triggered alarm across Labour over his poor performance in his first 5 months as PM, after Thursday’s reset speech flopped
His party wants bolder policies, a clearer purpose and much sharper messaging
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
December 7, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Good thread (i.e. I agree with it, but couldn’t have put it so succinctly)! Mass despondency within a party that’s been out of power for 14 years because decades of underinvestment and ignoring obvious problems haven’t been immediately fixed by a couple of months on the job and a single speech!
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This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
December 5, 2024 at 3:50 AM
This is one of the most well-written explanations of certain kinds of AI errors I’ve seen to date. (The whole article is great too.)
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
Yeah. Checks out (see also, painting miniatures) 🙃
New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than actually playing games
www.gamesindustry.biz/new-report-c...
www.gamesindustry.biz/new-report-c...
New report claims gamers spend more time watching videos about gaming than playing games
Gamers are spending more time watching videos about gaming on YouTube and Twitch than playing games themselves.
www.gamesindustry.biz
December 2, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Yeah. Checks out (see also, painting miniatures) 🙃