Sir Henry @ Rawlinson End
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If a billionaire fell in a forest and there was no one around to hear him, that would be perfect
January 23, 2025 at 11:25 PM
If a billionaire fell in a forest and there was no one around to hear him, that would be perfect
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Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
From the US Embassy in London today.
December 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Remember this as a bipartisan coalition of folks in Congress tell us over and over again that they're trying to protect children online. Meanwhile the US embassy is saying even kids can't have private social media accounts if they want to visit the US.
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"this is a freaksome lynching the likes of which we will look back upon with a dazed compunction," I say while watching the coyote run full speed into the wall with a tunnel painted on it
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"this is a freaksome lynching the likes of which we will look back upon with a dazed compunction," I say while watching the coyote run full speed into the wall with a tunnel painted on it
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Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fascinating that the cause of collapse of both major parties has not just been basically identical (cost of living and service failings creating unpopularity, chasing radical right tail on immigration fuelling in-bloc schism), but that doubling down has persisted long after failure became clear.
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just watched The Ballad of Wallis Island, a folksy sometimes silly movie which packs a surprising emotional punch towards the end - highly recommend
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
just watched The Ballad of Wallis Island, a folksy sometimes silly movie which packs a surprising emotional punch towards the end - highly recommend
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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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Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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republicans believe poor people deserve to suffer because they're lazy and weak, whereas the democrats have a much lengthier explanation
November 15, 2025 at 10:34 AM
republicans believe poor people deserve to suffer because they're lazy and weak, whereas the democrats have a much lengthier explanation
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
March 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
[if Chuck Schumer replaced Liam Neeson in Taken]
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
CHUCK SCHUMER: [on phone] I don’t know who you are or what you want, but I will find you and I will help you kill my daughter
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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"I've not had a shit since punk."
October 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"I've not had a shit since punk."
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The US 20-point-plan is awful even as an early draft.
The surprisingly positive welcome it received (e.g. in al-Jazeera) is due to the fact that
(1) there's a genocide going on and the top priorities are stopping the killing, getting aid in
(2) no-one reads it as more than a starting point
The surprisingly positive welcome it received (e.g. in al-Jazeera) is due to the fact that
(1) there's a genocide going on and the top priorities are stopping the killing, getting aid in
(2) no-one reads it as more than a starting point
September 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The US 20-point-plan is awful even as an early draft.
The surprisingly positive welcome it received (e.g. in al-Jazeera) is due to the fact that
(1) there's a genocide going on and the top priorities are stopping the killing, getting aid in
(2) no-one reads it as more than a starting point
The surprisingly positive welcome it received (e.g. in al-Jazeera) is due to the fact that
(1) there's a genocide going on and the top priorities are stopping the killing, getting aid in
(2) no-one reads it as more than a starting point
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More than 80% of the death toll in Gaza took place under President Biden, with his very active support.
Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation.
But without Biden we wouldn't be here.
Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation.
But without Biden we wouldn't be here.
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
More than 80% of the death toll in Gaza took place under President Biden, with his very active support.
Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation.
But without Biden we wouldn't be here.
Under Trump, the genocide has taken a different shape: starvation, complete destruction of cities, and an explicit green light for annihilation.
But without Biden we wouldn't be here.
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Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link here: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...
September 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Good news everyone! My long overdue second book - The Revenge of Reason - is currently at the printer and is now available for pre-order on the Urbanomic website (estimated to be sent out mid-October). Link here: www.urbanomic.com/book/the-rev...
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EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants
Thug convicted of bid to murder child is part of far right ‘save our children’ vigilante group in east Belfast
A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is part of a far-right vigilante ‘save our children’ group patrolling Belfast’s streets.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants
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Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.
We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
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reforming the entire religion so that all the followers pay indulgences to get their pope into heaven …evangelicalism has mutated into its final form as bizarro catholicism.
September 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
reforming the entire religion so that all the followers pay indulgences to get their pope into heaven …evangelicalism has mutated into its final form as bizarro catholicism.
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Well this made me cry.
September 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Well this made me cry.
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I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.
NEW: Keir Starmer has said he hangs the English flag in his home and 'always sits front of a Union Jack'
He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
He told the BBC: 'I'm very encouraging of flags. I think they're patriotic and a great symbol of our nation.'
September 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I feel like it's hard to get across to my English pals that if the Taoiseach **made a point of insisting to the press** that they put Irish flags all over their house, and made sure to 'always' sit by one in their office, then they would immediately, and forever, be tainted as a massive weird freak.
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
September 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
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"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
August 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
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[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
“Lacking legitimacy”: Sen. Bill Cassidy breaks with RFK Jr. after CDC leadership exodus www.notus.org/health-scien...
‘Lacking Legitimacy’: Sen. Bill Cassidy Breaks With RFK Jr. After CDC Leadership Exodus
He called on a key government vaccine panel to postpone its upcoming meeting.
www.notus.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
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NEW
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
August 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
NEW
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
The UK constitution is even more vulnerable than the US constitution
In the face of an illiberal radical assault, what has happened politically in America could easily happen in the UK
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...