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I remember talking to Fraser on Twitter years ago about this, too after a particularly racist piece from an American author. He dismissed me. But few people are as responsible for the rise in racism in the UK as Fraser Nelson, and he needs to own his shame

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Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

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The Arse of the Deal www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I don’t like saying this but BBC News is utterly failing in its coverage of Trump. Go elsewhere to find out what is actually happening

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This is the use of US power to serve Musk's interests

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if Trump gets a state visit let’s organise for crowds to line the streets, boo, and show him our backsides

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Wonderful that @theverge.com, the place I most frequently contribute to, got Molly for this.

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What's being missed in the Fraser Nelson stuff is that the rot is much deeper than just one magazine. It has set in across pretty much the whole of the right. Not so much a long march through the institutions as a devastating blitzkrieg lasting just a few years.

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Cette administration n'est pas un gouvernement mais une forme de mafia. www.lefigaro.fr/medias/depen...

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Heroin addict and steroid abuser wants the rest of us to to make as smart decisions about our health as he has.

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[High as a kite waving a chainsaw close to the head of one of my children that I brought on stage as a prop] -We need to restore decency and responsibility in society

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Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

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Bonjour et bon week-end à tout le monde. 👋 Un peu d'humour sur le dos de #Sarkozy 🙂😄🤣

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they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment make it stop

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Why is X challenging court orders investigating Irish far-right violence?

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Oh I see you think the rise in overt racism has nothing to do with you as former editor of the Spectator that loved to publish Douglas Murray, Rod Liddle and Lionel Shriver

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La victimisation : une illustration

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Of course, HP are the poster child for enshittification.

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No shade, but if you didn’t know this attack on science, medicine, and public health was coming, you haven’t been paying attention.

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found an awesome application for #rstats to simplify some financial reporting -- can retire a 45 mb spreadsheet that took almost 3 days to update with a 40 line script and a simple linear model

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The US dismantling its research powerhouse. Britain abandoning higher education. Germany stuck in the 1880s. Netherlands cutting budgets faster than the speed of light. There goes the Knowledge Economy. Also: Welcome to China’s century.

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The last line of the piece is the real kicker.

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You cannot recover from this with future investments The data uncollected are lost forever

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Nobody actually has “immigration concerns” that Starmer can in any way address! They want someone to perform joyous cruelty on migrants, and he’s simply not got it in him to be joyous!

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Hurrah - Bluesky gets a mention! Turns out Ch 4’s “poll” about 52% of Gen Z asked would support a “strong leader” is, er, opaque to say the least & flies in the face of 8 other surveys in recent years Who knew? Private Eye

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Until recently, I talked all the time about how weird it was to be the top Google search result for 'ketamine president'. Turns out it's much, much, much weirder to no longer be the top Google search result for 'ketamine president'.

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Patterns: in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium, life expectancy went up a lot. In Greece and the UK, it didn’t grow much. Poverty doesn’t seem to be mentioned as a possible cause and I don’t understand why not.

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Trump will pardon him

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The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

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I’ll admit it: I am a pearlclutcher who really dislikes it when people use this dehumanising phrase to talk about people, and who cannot understand why people don’t immediately grasp why it is distasteful.

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I'm beginning to think that appointing a junior minister for AI who has never used an LLM before was a gigantic mistake. Read Niamh Smyth TD's speech here and weep - she doesn't have a clue what she's on about and has bought every ounce of snake oil. No critical thought whatsoever!

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The Irish Times asks, 2015-clickbait-style: "With car prices surging, where can budget-conscious drivers turn? The answer may surprise you" I'm not linking to the article, but if the answer isn't "electric bicycles", the Irish Times has missed a trick (again, obvs).

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30 years separates these machines. 🤯

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extremely ‘I write editorial comment for the FT’ voice. Completely agree with this and also feel like it’s in part a manifestation of how UK has turned inwards. Even much of the political class seems unaware of how important and significant all this is for UK prosperity and security.

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I mean

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The Gardai didn't even bother to translate her suicide note, which was written in Turkish. Rest in peace, Nilay, you sound like you were an amazing person.

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Have you seen how many seasons of love island were made? That should be a good proxy.

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Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

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Sable a bar argent between two automobiles proper Motto: Allow Extra Time

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Trump was always on Putin's side. 77 million American voters decided that our country should be on Putin's side too.

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linktr.ee/jesseduquette

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Similarly, being white is less and less important a criterion for being a British racist. For example, Patel, Braverman, Badenoch.

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