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Happy “Make yourselves poorer and more isolated” day… £40Bn ongoing hit to economy and 10% inward investment drop confirmed… But hey ho… Who needs economic strength or strategic clout when you have super-special-sovereignty? 9 years on. And stupider every year. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 12 hours ago • 39 comments

I think it is fair to say that the @bylinetimes.bsky.social @adambienkov.bsky.social story that the BBC is intending to ratchet their programmes to favour ReFuk even more than they have been doing is likely to be pretty accurate. See the reply to my complain. A last straw

submitted 23 hours ago • 46 comments

🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

submitted 13 hours ago • 13 comments

Man, it's like our country was built on an old Indian burial ground or something.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

We requested comms between Tesla and the Texas DOT ahead of today’s Robotaxi launch — and Tesla sent a letter to the Texas AG trying to block the request. Plus some on-the-ground details from @niedermeyer.online Story with @kirstenkorosec.bsky.social: techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

With the roadmap now set out for the UKG reset and for the Gibraltar deal, we're solidly into the next phase of Europe-UK relations. This brings new dangers. The first is Swissification. A 🧵

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It's weird how the worst AI scenarios are actually coming to pass. But in a way that is completely opposite to what was imagined. It is precisely because the current models are so fundamentally stupid and useless that they are so dangerous. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

The only consolation is that Trump will quickly get bored and by tomorrow he will have latched onto a new way to get us all gibbering in abject terror. I admit it's not that much of a consolation.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

And in another news, my cat is ‘on course’ to be next winner of Eurovision.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

On EU referendum eve here's something I wrote five years ago about the long road to Brexit and Dan Hannan's childhood radicalisation bylinetimes.com/2020/01/31/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.

submitted 1 day ago • 430 comments

This…this is real. He really typed this with those greasy fingers.

submitted 1 day ago • 1662 comments

AI chatbots are quite obviously way more useless than conventional chatbots. But they are far more arrogantly self-confident.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

He was humiliated last weekend. This weekend he bombed someone. My guess is there is a relationship between those two events.

submitted 1 day ago • 589 comments

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

submitted 1 day ago • 893 comments

Most voters now support referendum to reverse Brexit – YouGov www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 1 day ago • 230 comments

The messaging this time doesn’t even seem to pay lip service to the welfare of the Iranian people. I might have expected some cant about liberating them from a horrendous regime, even if we’d all have seen through it as a motivation and doubted the alternatives. But no: it’s just smash it up

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

submitted 1 day ago • 482 comments

Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

I'm not at all surprised that Trump's team, with their collective experience of national security affairs, fell for the "just one surgical strike" fallacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Ah yes. To understand Trump's attitude to war you just have to ask yourself 'What would Jeremy Corbyn do?'

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

submitted 2 days ago • 906 comments

Seems important.

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

Not sure that this is the statement the British people wanted to hear...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Five things to remember about war:

submitted 1 day ago • 152 comments

This ⬇️ genetics isn't the answer to everything and geneticists will tell you that if you bother to ask them, Wes.

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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

submitted 1 day ago • 1815 comments

The ghost of the idiot Cummings can never be laid to rest.

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Microsoft recently suspended the email acc. of an Intl Criminal Court prosecutor in The Hague. It wasn’t just a technical glitch. The move sparked fears that Trump could use America’s tech dominance to go after its critics, even in friendly countries like the Netherlands. apnews.com/article/icc-...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Very few people are psychologically, mentally, emotionally fit to push through a prolonged time of uncertainty & no guarantees. And this is what autocracies count on.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

21 June 1899 | Czech Jewish composer Pavel Haas was born. Student of Leoš Janáček. Among his notable works are song cycles & string quartets. In 1941 he was imprisoned in #Theresienstadt Ghetto where he also composed. Pavel Haas was murdered in #Auschwitz on 17 October 1944.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Terrific thread.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

What a 🧵 👏👏👏 And one that goes to the heart of any rejoin movement.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Removing “don’t knows”: That’s 64.4% to 35.6%, the British public think it was wrong to leave the EU - by 62.2% to 37.8%, they want to rejoin the EU 61% of Britons say that Brexit has been a failure - who do they hold responsible? Conservatives: 88% Johnson: 84% Farage: 67% May: 66% Sunak: 64%

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

General public + Reform voters Right to leave EU: 35% (71%) Wrong to leave EU: 55% (16%) Closer relationship outside single market public 66% to 13% Refom voters: 51% to 33% support Loosen UK-EU ties public 17% to 62% Reform: 47% to 30% Should rejoin EU: 53% (16%) Join single market 49% (21%)

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