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Anyone who thinks a Reform-led coalition in the UK won't go down the same route as the US is naïve at best and a fool at worst.

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

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It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

The climate crisis has been far worse for the US economy than the Great Depression was. It's amazing how far US politics will allow the harm to continue and get worse. "In order to compare disaster-related costs with other major events, we used current dollar estimates of GDP-related impacts..."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Keir Starmer ringing round the whole of Nato and the G7 to schedule important meetings on Wednesdays because he is frightened of facing Kemi Badenoch directly. Honestly you'd hope that at least one Conservative frontbencher had the self-respect to have quit by this point.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Every time I read these stories I cant help but think of Vance who came to Munich to tell Europe that we have freedom of speech problem.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

Every manifesto win a majority since the financial crisis has basically relied on going 'at some point in the future, we'll just Remake The Social Contract' for the sums to add up. Our governments are running out of time to actually make a hard choice and not just posture about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The world stage will never feel like a Maga rally to Trump and he will resent that more and more www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Yes, yours

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

Even as "enshittification" is becoming a commonplace enough term to be cliched, we keep falling for it. One of the best arguments against LLMs is that it's cheap right now to get people used to using it and once people stop developing those skills, they'll up the price insanely high and have ads.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is a picture of the analogue internet.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing with his favourite topic, another fine piece by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on the necessity of reading:

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

So the US air campaign against Iran seems to have gone like this. 1) Trump does not want to get involved 2) he is told that Israel is having lots of success 3) he becomes desperate to join to he can be seen to “kick ass” 4) He bombs Iran one night

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I don’t know enough about hydrogen to comment on the subject, but that first stat is unbelievable. We need to stop this crazy, wasteful form of transport #flightfree

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What's going on with the economy? Four interest rate cuts, three trade deals, and faster wage growth in 10 months with Labour than under 10 years of the Tories. That's what.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

I have tried not to think about today's date - because it still makes me furious - but @chadbourn.bsky.social 's acid description of the protagonists deserves wider reach.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My latest, a deep dive into the Stewart report into HS2.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. ~ Carl Sagan

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

WCB’s analysis is very perceptive. Unfortunately.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Yep. You can see it from space.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I endorse this message. Well done, @benansell.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Still true: Britain is a success story Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well Multiculturalism is popular Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration Nostalgia is increasingly weird Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

submitted 7 days ago • 70 comments

Sobering, important read. Particularly struck by: "Like Narnia, where it was once always winter and never Christmas, modern political culture is now akin to a carnival which will never become Lent." There is indeed a sense of 'never consequences' which runs through this like mercury.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

New thing klaxon! How do you know if your organisation is mission-driven? Today we’re releasing a mission maturity framework I’ve co-authored with @danhonig.bsky.social and Vinuri Dissanaya at Georgetown Better Government Lab in collaboration with Nesta. Link: www.nesta.org.uk/report/on-mi.... 1/n

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

“The problem isn’t that there isn’t more that could be done. It’s that most of the gains to be had are safely locked up behind the UK’s red lines.” - @anandmenon.bsky.social and @jdportes.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-economic...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Notes on the resistant reader on.ft.com/3TyIHao

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If I’d known he was an Etonian, I’d have ignored him sooner.

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"The writing is getting better. The ideas are getting worse." Terrific @brianklaas.bsky.social essay on the trouble with AI, student essays and the decline of critical thinking. open.substack.com/pub/briankla...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely this. It's a dreadful, expoitative, wasteful and unsustainable practice.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Is Sergio Gor, a senior White House official, actually a Russian called Sergey Anatolyevich Goryachev? As crazy as this sounds, it might be true. www.linkedin.com/posts/bkrebs...

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process is how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

submitted 10 days ago • 210 comments

For decades the public has been told they can have US tax rates and European public services. If taxes are going to rise, the government might at least try to make a virtue out of honesty. Starting my holiday in the traditional way: by promo-ing an NS column about fiscal policy.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Will be interesting to see if certain media outlets just ignore the report from the Spanish government confirming the key role of thermal power plants in the Iberian power outage or still try to erroneously spin it as a failure of renewables. www.businessgreen.com/news/4515109...

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UK media is so wild. It is tough to properly convey how shockingly deceptive this article is. It's desperate I guess but a lot of people will still read this, and trust it bc it's coming from what looks to be a reputable media outlet. archive.ph/1z7Ie

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments