No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
Remains a source of genuine astonishment to me that governments are deemed recurrently failing in so many countries and there's no apparent systemic analysis.
I sort of want to write about this but I'm not sure how, but essentially: a lot of policy making has to take into account the fact that a lot of people are quite to very stupid, and that's fine, it's just not usually spoken about, but it's something we need to take into account wrt AI
You have to match socks?
Call me old fashioned, but I think it might be best if the news media went back to reporting things that have happened, if significant, rather than reporting on the 8am news that something significant *might* happen later that day, then finding what actually happens is not really that significant.
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
Got to be. Surely !!
Strangely they haven’t mentioned his ethnicity or immigration status. Ah yes, we only do that when we want to inspire a far right riot.
And every year they crown the "Tax King" and the "Tax Queen", i.e. the man and woman that paid the most taxes in Iceland that year.
A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...
If you are upset about DC‘s crime rate while voting for a felon, you are a special kind of stupid.
If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut then my last boyfriend was a gynecologist.
Displaced Palestinians return to refugee camp Jabalia, bombed by Israel, in northern Gaza, during a ceasefire, 19 January 2025. By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look. Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
If every EU member did so, would they be assisting in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
Nature’s masterpiece! Behold the beautiful Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Members of the public applauded the 8 brave people arrested on the steps of Truro Cathedral yesterday for the "crime" of holding signs saying: I OPPOSE GENOCIDE. I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION. These protesters are not terrorists. They are the best of us.
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
once upon a time google was a weird name for a website
try duckduckgo.com, includes better privacy
What the latest Trump tariff shenanigans should remind us is that the top priority should be disentangling ourselves from dependence on the U.S.
Are you sure they are not here to claim asylum?
It would be good @mrjamesob.bsky.social if you could have a spokeperson from the DWP on your show to answer questions from your listeners. Particularly some of the brilliant as usual calls you had this morning. Do you think it could be arranged.
Irish passport is the best, free access to EU, free access to Common Travel Area!
Who would have guessed that someone for whom all business and legal negotiation is based on bluff and bluster would have had nothing other than bluff and bluster in international affairs.
Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.
If your take is "I oppose Trump's fascism but support him lawlessly bombing this other country" maybe pause and give that a think.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
Energy bills are too high because we let the price of gas set the price of everything else.
They are all going to remain unwatched on my recorder
So if it happened because of Brexit then it counts as a Brexit benefit. Number 1!
There are now so many fiber-optic cables from tethered #drones laying around in Ukraine, birds integrate them into their nests www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...
Handelsblatt just wrote that Trump’s Oval Office now looks like Versailles. A Versailles ordered on Temu. 🤭
IMPORTANT: When cities create new parking strategies, they should specifically state that they will NOT expand required parking space sizes to accommodate bigger personal vehicles. Just like more lanes induce more driving, bigger parking spaces induce bigger vehicle purchases.
“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!” - UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues. “Brexit Betrayed!”
The struggle is real
The world needs more of this and less of most other things
While Clinton was in office, I worked in Big Consulting. We published a book on TQM in Govt with a Case Study of Bill's process improvement efforts in Arkansas as the Gov. We sent him a signed copy of the book. The White House returned it because they couldn't accept gifts worth more than $25.
It would be rude not to accept it
Vance: "Which regime in the world has civil nuclear power and enrichment without having a nuclear weapon? The answer is - no one." Germany, Netherlands, Brazil and Japan all have civil nuclear power and the ability to enrich uranium. None have nuclear weapons.
The number of (daytime) butterflies in the Netherlands reached its lowest level on record in 2023. Since 1992, populations were reduced by more than half.
For the avoidance of doubt, the ICO has chosen to ignore the fact that many experts reckon "pay or be tracked" isn't compliant with GDPR's requirement that consent is freely given. I think it's obnoxious, and that the ICO has let consumers down. www.cookieyes.com/blog/cookie-....
Telling Denmark it’s not doing enough for Greenland—when both have universal healthcare and your country can’t even guarantee insulin or an ambulance without bankruptcy—is peak American delusion. You don’t get to lecture nations that take care of their people when yours lets them die in medical debt
They were chosen because they are shameless and incompetent, and their shameless incompetence is why they will remain.
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Thames Water wants to be spared billions of pounds of costs and fines over the next 5 years. TW ripped off customers, dumped sewage in rivers, neglected investment, borrowed money to pay dividends. Laws must apply. No public bailout. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise for nominal sum.
Where are the Democrats? Obama, anyone? The Clintons? Anyone??
Nice place [Ukraine] you got there. Be a shame if something [ongoing Russian war crimes] happened to it [unless you give us half of your mineral wealth].
This.
When Russia's friends in the EU (Hungary's Orbán and Slovakia's Fico) hold up decisions on support for Ukraine etc., the other 25 should find a way to move on without them.
I’ve heard US executives say they like it because it’s a shield against being extorted for bribes by foreign officials. They get to say “Sorry, we’d love to pay you, but it’s against US law.”
If flagship AI messes up cheese facts, maybe we shouldn't let it take over the running of the US Treasury quite yet eh. BBC News - Google remakes Super Bowl ad after AI cheese gaffe www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greece installs 2.6 GW of PV capacity in 2024 www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/05/g... - very good news from #Greece
People in EU dont buy American cars because there is a tariff on them, they dont buy them because they are not as good as EU/Korean/Japanese/Chinese cars
Hilarious how the meme traders have a better sense of what’s coming than Goldman fucking sachs
I’m not sure giving government money to a club that paid £100 million for Antony could exactly be considered prudent. Anyway, spending that £100 million on social housing would have done more to improve United’s results.
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
I have deleted my previous tweet, as Reeves never said that like this. 👇 (never post before your first coffee) The Times is deliberately misquoting her here. Shifting the Overton window further towards Trump. So the world is going mad, but maybe Reeves not yet. ;)
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
Lost for words, flying in by helicopter to visit a food bank :/ www.thelondoneconomic.com/lifestyle/ki...
Well, well, well...🙄
Dear @lbc.co.uk contrary to what Natasha Clarke has just said we do indeed remember the last 14 years of Tory misrule, it's only the media who have collective amnesia.
He wants to be able to verbally abuse his subordinates because he's incapable of managing them otherwise.
I’ve got one: stop fucking with the migrants who are already here in the UK. Give them security of status and stop fleecing them £££££s for applications. www.thetimes.com/article/be46...
Dear God, they really should've sorted this and got rid of her. The problem isn't that she's Brexiter. It's that she's an idiot.
Something beautifully British about having meaningless little awards posh people give other posh people so you can all spend a week having a collective freak out about who was chosen before never thinking about it again.
Upon my sickle I catch the sun And by my power I cast it on Across the sky The light to bring To rouse the gods To send the spring #WinterSolstice #Solstice #Midwinter #PlaymobilInfestation
This is Rafah, a city in Gaza on the border of Egypt. It lies in rubble. Early this year, Biden asserted Rafah was a “red line” in terms of provision of US weapons to Israel and later continued to claim the Israeli incursion there was “limited.”
