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Tories in 2019: Corbyn wanting to disband NATO is irresponsible: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
January 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Tories in 2019: Corbyn wanting to disband NATO is irresponsible: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
With the government not disabusing them.
Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
January 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
With the government not disabusing them.
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Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
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you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.
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About that social mobility issue.
Exhibit A and then B.
Exhibit A and then B.
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
About that social mobility issue.
Exhibit A and then B.
Exhibit A and then B.
I see one of the most self-pitying accounts from X, a Gerasite, has also moved over here.
January 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I see one of the most self-pitying accounts from X, a Gerasite, has also moved over here.
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On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
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wow, everything I see here is unfolding almost exactly the way it would if the people I have spent my career disagreeing with about everything were right about everything (even though, obviously, they are still wrong about everything)
Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”
January 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
wow, everything I see here is unfolding almost exactly the way it would if the people I have spent my career disagreeing with about everything were right about everything (even though, obviously, they are still wrong about everything)
The obvious follow up was to ask ‘so what part of international law was breached when Putin invaded Ukraine…you knew that pretty much straight away’
Govt minister Darren Jones is asked what element of international law gives the US the right to abduct the leader of another country.
Jones says he's not qualified to answer that question and he's not a spokesperson for the US administration.
Jones says he's not qualified to answer that question and he's not a spokesperson for the US administration.
January 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
The obvious follow up was to ask ‘so what part of international law was breached when Putin invaded Ukraine…you knew that pretty much straight away’
God I hate this BS.
Trump must really be panicking about those #epstein files to feel the need invade a whole country and start a war just to get people to change the damn subject.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
God I hate this BS.
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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
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Starmer has declared his ambivalence in the strongest possible terms and announced that the British government will equivocate with immediate effect.
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Starmer has declared his ambivalence in the strongest possible terms and announced that the British government will equivocate with immediate effect.
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This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
This Upton Sinclair quote never misses
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Of course it’s nothing to do with the very hierarchical and stratified eduction system that’s been in place forever.
January 3, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Of course it’s nothing to do with the very hierarchical and stratified eduction system that’s been in place forever.
No matter how rancid and degraded your WhatsApp messages are about a black MP it doesn’t disqualify you from having a byline in a ‘paper of record’.
January 3, 2026 at 9:42 AM
No matter how rancid and degraded your WhatsApp messages are about a black MP it doesn’t disqualify you from having a byline in a ‘paper of record’.
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something like this?
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
something like this?
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me: reactionary centrists don't understand why people criticise them
john: the line hundreds of people think applies to me? def not about me
john: the line hundreds of people think applies to me? def not about me
I need examples of what Mamdani was talking about, which definitely was not people like me
January 2, 2026 at 2:20 PM
me: reactionary centrists don't understand why people criticise them
john: the line hundreds of people think applies to me? def not about me
john: the line hundreds of people think applies to me? def not about me
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Ludicrous IMO but what the hell: does Starmer *not* deserve to get an avalanche of bad faith screeching, for failing to check what a guy he’s never met was saying on Twitter dot com in 2014? Of course he does, it was him that very stridently made this stuff the cornerstone of his public persona.
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ludicrous IMO but what the hell: does Starmer *not* deserve to get an avalanche of bad faith screeching, for failing to check what a guy he’s never met was saying on Twitter dot com in 2014? Of course he does, it was him that very stridently made this stuff the cornerstone of his public persona.
The obvious point here is that Jenrick would have been indulged by the Labour Right to beat the Left if this had happened 2016-2019.
Immensely sad to see another Tory considered "moderate", embrace the unprincipled vulgarity and revolting Reform UK cosplay sweeping through her party.
Kearns was on the Foreign Affairs C'tee 2019-2024 and its CHAIR for the critical last two years. Any information she needed was one question away.
Kearns was on the Foreign Affairs C'tee 2019-2024 and its CHAIR for the critical last two years. Any information she needed was one question away.
December 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The obvious point here is that Jenrick would have been indulged by the Labour Right to beat the Left if this had happened 2016-2019.
Ah John Mann. Of course a Labour leader from 2016-2019 would elicit the same response.
December 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ah John Mann. Of course a Labour leader from 2016-2019 would elicit the same response.
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‘On the ground, the Palestinians’ asymmetrical fight for survival on a few scraps of land is no further along than it was when Dimbleby wrote the book. On the contrary.’
Jeremy Harding on Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin’s reissued portrait of 1970s Palestinian life
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jeremy Harding on Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin’s reissued portrait of 1970s Palestinian life
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jeremy Harding · Something Shameful: Britain and the Palestinians
To read The Palestinians nearly half a century later is to recognise that the many defeats the Palestinian population...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘On the ground, the Palestinians’ asymmetrical fight for survival on a few scraps of land is no further along than it was when Dimbleby wrote the book. On the contrary.’
Jeremy Harding on Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin’s reissued portrait of 1970s Palestinian life
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jeremy Harding on Jonathan Dimbleby and Don McCullin’s reissued portrait of 1970s Palestinian life
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
Hang on, Noam Chomsky was in Epstein’s orbit!?
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Hang on, Noam Chomsky was in Epstein’s orbit!?