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One big partisan asymmetry is Democrats have tended to approach politics as “find out what voters care about, then talk about it a lot,” and Republicans have tended to approach politics as “talk about it a lot, then voters will care about it.”
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
One big partisan asymmetry is Democrats have tended to approach politics as “find out what voters care about, then talk about it a lot,” and Republicans have tended to approach politics as “talk about it a lot, then voters will care about it.”
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
two contradictory ideas that i hold in my head at the same time: 1) i think the threat to both SNAP recipients and federal workers is significant enough now that even bad deals are worth making to prevent further harm, and, 2) everyone who caves now should retire in shame
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
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If you're an angry BBC journalist with information that can wreck the careers of people you don't like, there is now a situation where it might make sense to leak it to media outlets or activists rather than run it through the BBC editorial process
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you're an angry BBC journalist with information that can wreck the careers of people you don't like, there is now a situation where it might make sense to leak it to media outlets or activists rather than run it through the BBC editorial process
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1. The BBC will not disappear.
2. Risk aversion, especially towards events in the US, will mean BBC journalism will play down or misread key trends in American politics until long after they are obvious to everyone else.
3. Pissed off BBC journalists with a grudge are now a threat to all sides
2. Risk aversion, especially towards events in the US, will mean BBC journalism will play down or misread key trends in American politics until long after they are obvious to everyone else.
3. Pissed off BBC journalists with a grudge are now a threat to all sides
November 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
1. The BBC will not disappear.
2. Risk aversion, especially towards events in the US, will mean BBC journalism will play down or misread key trends in American politics until long after they are obvious to everyone else.
3. Pissed off BBC journalists with a grudge are now a threat to all sides
2. Risk aversion, especially towards events in the US, will mean BBC journalism will play down or misread key trends in American politics until long after they are obvious to everyone else.
3. Pissed off BBC journalists with a grudge are now a threat to all sides
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It's blood libel. The way Tucker Carlson talks about Zelensky, conjures up an image of a Jewish leader who sacrifices Christians for nefarious ends, is the most obvious indicator of his antisemitism.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's blood libel. The way Tucker Carlson talks about Zelensky, conjures up an image of a Jewish leader who sacrifices Christians for nefarious ends, is the most obvious indicator of his antisemitism.
Briefly turned on Times Radio. Sting Abel taking to Nadine Dorries. That's Britain's decline right there. You'll get more wisdom listening to two 4 year olds having a natter 🤷
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Briefly turned on Times Radio. Sting Abel taking to Nadine Dorries. That's Britain's decline right there. You'll get more wisdom listening to two 4 year olds having a natter 🤷
Increasingly feels like all across the Western world, were reaching a point where talking to the right will not yield results. At some point one of them will refuse to hand over power peacefully, and that will blow the whole thing wide open.
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Increasingly feels like all across the Western world, were reaching a point where talking to the right will not yield results. At some point one of them will refuse to hand over power peacefully, and that will blow the whole thing wide open.
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lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules
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Siegfried Sassoon
November 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Siegfried Sassoon
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Over 5 years after my client, Ian McGrail, called for there to be a public inquiry into the reasons behind him leaving his post as Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police, the report by former High Court Judge Sir Peter Openshaw has now been delivered to the government.
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November 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Over 5 years after my client, Ian McGrail, called for there to be a public inquiry into the reasons behind him leaving his post as Commissioner of the Royal Gibraltar Police, the report by former High Court Judge Sir Peter Openshaw has now been delivered to the government.
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My wife and I both started using ChatGPT a lot around a year ago. Initially both very impressed. It's helped me do a lot of useful jobs, although our view was always "this is good progress" rather than "this will change the world". However, over time we noticed it making errors, and some of...
“.. if anything, [OpenAI’s] endless barrage of statements, interviews, and communications .. is starting to become counterproductive (anyone, whether it’s a company or politician, that insists on saturating media cycles .. usually isn’t doing so from a place of confidence).”
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November 9, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My wife and I both started using ChatGPT a lot around a year ago. Initially both very impressed. It's helped me do a lot of useful jobs, although our view was always "this is good progress" rather than "this will change the world". However, over time we noticed it making errors, and some of...
Interesting little chat here. I honestly do not know who's right...feel like it could go either way 🤷
I don't think that's true but even if it is it's not inconsistent with most voters taking those positions given you only need 30% to win an election.
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Interesting little chat here. I honestly do not know who's right...feel like it could go either way 🤷
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The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
Mamdani's first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
After someone spraypainted a swastika on a yeshiva, Zohran Mamdani condemned antisemitism. Somehow, this generated conspiracy theories.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The pro-Palestine group Within Our Lifetime has already decided that Zohran Mamdani has sold out the pro-Palestine cause... by condemning swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn. forward.com/culture/7822...
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
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"Putin attacked Ukraine, not Russians" fails to grapple with why millions of ordinary Russians were willing to follow orders in a devastating war against Ukraine.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Putin attacked Ukraine, not Russians" fails to grapple with why millions of ordinary Russians were willing to follow orders in a devastating war against Ukraine.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
This stuff open up questions over how far Russia as a society will come to terms with the past after Putin is gone.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
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November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935)
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For me, it is objectively ridiculous that the UK left knows and cares a lot more about Zohran Mamdani than it does about Pedro Sánchez - the left-wing Prime Minister of Europe's fastest growing economy.
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
For me, it is objectively ridiculous that the UK left knows and cares a lot more about Zohran Mamdani than it does about Pedro Sánchez - the left-wing Prime Minister of Europe's fastest growing economy.
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
November 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The charge being, "Assault With A Deli Weapon."
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Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.