Rascar Capac
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"Those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War." – Peter Cook
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If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
If people become insecure, we find they’re three times more likely to desert Labour than if they become more concerned about immigration. Around one-third of Britons felt economically insecure as of April 2025.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
Focusing on immigration is a ‘red herring’ when financial security is so foundational.
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I mean the thing about trying to govern with no political ambitions is that your opponents can just project whatever they want onto it and there's nothing you can really do to stop them
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I mean the thing about trying to govern with no political ambitions is that your opponents can just project whatever they want onto it and there's nothing you can really do to stop them
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we’re about to see if “left on economics, conservative on social policy” is in any way electorally viable - we’ve had a varying cast of people claiming for close to 17 years that this was the silver bullet to assure Labour success
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
we’re about to see if “left on economics, conservative on social policy” is in any way electorally viable - we’ve had a varying cast of people claiming for close to 17 years that this was the silver bullet to assure Labour success
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Bit of a test case here for “is liberalism still a real thing, or is it just a political version of a collection of Labubus that you show off to your friends” IMO.
![NEW: The Government is set to scrap trial by
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Only murder, rape, manslaughter and a few public interest cases will go to a jury, while all other cases will be decided by a single judge
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November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bit of a test case here for “is liberalism still a real thing, or is it just a political version of a collection of Labubus that you show off to your friends” IMO.
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Now to take a big sip of my hot drink and check who reinstated him onto the Labour Party
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Now to take a big sip of my hot drink and check who reinstated him onto the Labour Party
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RIP Udo Kier, star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 AM
RIP Udo Kier, star of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
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"The inquiry report says imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England"
"Toxic and chaotic" attitude from the government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
"Toxic and chaotic" attitude from the government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
Covid inquiry live updates: UK did 'too little, too late', leading to thousands more Covid deaths, says inquiry
The inquiry says an earlier lockdown could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England - and lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
"The inquiry report says imposing lockdown a week earlier could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England"
"Toxic and chaotic" attitude from the government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
"Toxic and chaotic" attitude from the government.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
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Bluesky has the juice. If anything, too much juice. This is the kind of suicidal personal candidness you got from celebs on Twitter c 2011
Btw about this from Lizza's reply: Olivia and I lived together for 4+ years (4 b'days, 4 Xmases, 4 anniversaries). That's like $1250 of jewelry per celebration. And her apartment was a writing studio. And I made an f-ton then. What was I supposed to do? Get her a lot of Gift Certificates from Kmart?
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bluesky has the juice. If anything, too much juice. This is the kind of suicidal personal candidness you got from celebs on Twitter c 2011
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Bluntly, it’s no coincidence that we have spent fifteen years screaming in mortal terror at the same groups of Asian sex offenders, throughout the whole period when our ruling class has been exposed as inveterate arse grabbers and sex criminals.
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Bluntly, it’s no coincidence that we have spent fifteen years screaming in mortal terror at the same groups of Asian sex offenders, throughout the whole period when our ruling class has been exposed as inveterate arse grabbers and sex criminals.
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🎶 data guy, data guy
🎶 does whatever a data guy does
🎶 can he use common sense?
🎶 no he can't, that's not data
🎶 does whatever a data guy does
🎶 can he use common sense?
🎶 no he can't, that's not data
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
🎶 data guy, data guy
🎶 does whatever a data guy does
🎶 can he use common sense?
🎶 no he can't, that's not data
🎶 does whatever a data guy does
🎶 can he use common sense?
🎶 no he can't, that's not data
My ★★★★★ review of "Miller's Crossing" (1990):
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A ★★★★★ review of Miller's Crossing (1990)
Jesus, Tom. At the height of Prohibition, Irish gangster Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne ) is the trusted advisor to gang boss Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney). A mob war is looming with the rival Italian gang,...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My ★★★★★ review of "Miller's Crossing" (1990):
boxd.it/bHCGQT
boxd.it/bHCGQT
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One of the biggest problems with the "means testing of everything" is it pushes the UK into the same zone as American attitudes towards public transit funding "services for the poor tend to be poor services"
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
The UK just has incredible attention to detail when it comes to making sure the people who pay all the taxes can’t have nice things. Child benefit? No. Free Child car? No. Cut price bike to cycle to work? No.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Functionally we are telling people they pay too much tax to get anything from the state.
Rachel Reeves is setting the Cycle to Work scheme on fire as part of the war on salary sacrifice policies! on.ft.com/4oKXNrC
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
One of the biggest problems with the "means testing of everything" is it pushes the UK into the same zone as American attitudes towards public transit funding "services for the poor tend to be poor services"
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state
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pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
November 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes
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I guess it's obvious in retrospect but "it's stolen work" was less persuasive in turning public opinion against AI than everybody just seeing a ton of it constantly and getting sick of not being able to trust your eyes. Hey, that works too. Whatever it takes, really.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I guess it's obvious in retrospect but "it's stolen work" was less persuasive in turning public opinion against AI than everybody just seeing a ton of it constantly and getting sick of not being able to trust your eyes. Hey, that works too. Whatever it takes, really.
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Probably not good that the bubble has gone well past the “to big to fail” line and is now rapidly passing the “too big to actually even be bailed out when it fails” line
NVIDIA, $NVDA, marketcap equals 16% of the US GDP.
It has a larger market cap than all the banks in US and Canada combined.
It has a larger market cap than all the banks in US and Canada combined.
October 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Probably not good that the bubble has gone well past the “to big to fail” line and is now rapidly passing the “too big to actually even be bailed out when it fails” line
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RIP William Hootkins. Thanks for all the memories!
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
RIP William Hootkins. Thanks for all the memories!
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As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
October 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we await a verdict in the trial of Soldier F, another reminder that in 2010 the Bloody Sunday inquiry found
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
- the killings were unjustified
- none of the 14 dead (7 of whom were children) had guns
- no warnings were given
- no soldiers were under threat
- the troops were the first to open fire
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when I get this pop up on IG and the subsequent shadowban
October 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
when I get this pop up on IG and the subsequent shadowban
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ok but that's not how bread works
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
October 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
ok but that's not how bread works
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Fascinating insight from the last chair of Northern Rock
October 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Fascinating insight from the last chair of Northern Rock
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Prince Andrew should turn things around by bringing back the "Randy Andy" nickname
October 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Prince Andrew should turn things around by bringing back the "Randy Andy" nickname