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I don't think anyone has put what is unfurling before us better.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

So depressing how few social democratic politicians actually talk about helping the worst off or wanting a fairer society. Nowadays the line is just "Oh we want government to work" and "GROWTH". The language of fairness in political comms seems to be absent when we need it most.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Someone said NTS radio breakfast shows are too chill and assume all the listeners are getting in from a night out. I knew there wasn't something quite right about it and it's this! I love NTS but most of their listeners are probably commuting to work on a Monday morning, give them some adrenalin!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

28 today but my three (much younger siblings) have all texted to say happy 30th.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I buy the theory that Musk's destruction of Twitter empowered other social media companies to say fuck it and stop pretending to care about the damage they cause. All Zuckerberg needed was permission to do what he wanted all along.

submitted 52 days ago • 11 comments

In the last 48 hours, Musk suggested the US invade the UK, Andrew Tate started a new political party and bid to become the UK prime minister, Trump says the US should own Greenland. I can't help but feel this is little more than the clickbait politics that reigns supreme on X. In other words, dw.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

There's a quote from an unnamed minister in this that got my head in my hands. That (somehow) the government will defeat far-right populists through winning the argument and not changing the rules over donations.... The naiivity!

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Having a terrible cold together with a fly infestation whose origins I cannot seem to uncover and prevents me from storing food in the house seems like a biblical curse for having no Christmas tree as of the 4th December.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

"Having “completed” your education at 21 you may feel licensed to close your mind for the rest of your life." Probably one of the most accurate observations I have heard in a long time.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Last night I was Called to the Bar at Temple Church. Tradition is that you can't wear a barrister's wig in Temple Church, so here I am in all the kit, minus the wig. It felt pretty special.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

It has to be said that blaming the previous government for X group's feelings of strife only works in the (very) short term. Takes only one look at the US election to see just how quickly people forget the wrongs of a previous government, or don't care.

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Observed an interaction on Saturday which I think neatly sums up today's core cultural divide: There was a climate march going past Holborn station. On my way to the bus stop, I saw one of the march stewards approach a (non protester) family who presumably were visiting to go to a West End show.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Politicians often have to say the voters are never wrong and blame themselves. Sure, the Dems settling on their final presidential candidate 2 months before the election wasn't ideal for Harris. But in this case, the writing was always on the wall. And Americans still voted for the man.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

When I worked in Parliament I once discovered a meeting room I booked had not been dusted in years, smelt putrid, had windows that could not open and no obvious fire escape. Baffles me how people forget Parliament is a workplace and its workers have the right to work in a safe environment.

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote this before Sue Gray resigned as the PM's Chief of Staff, but here is my overview for Il Fatto Quotidiano on Starmer's first few months as PM. Io per il Fatto su i primi mesi del Primo Ministro inglese Keir Starmer.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Freebiegate is interesting because it opens up the disparity between politicians on one hand needing to 'stay humble' to not alienate voters, and on the other, the 'celebrity' aspect of a politician's life: the need to look the part and do their jobs safely and effectively.

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

This may be a tad authoritarian from me but part of me thinks that there is a need for some cultural leadership from the state. Absent any kind of decent liberal middle ground on culture from the state, it's easy to see how extremists might strive to fill the gap.

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

Is the name Slobodan formally cancelled? As in, can people in Serbia still call their child 'Slobodan'? Recently discovered, to my surprise, that the name 'Benito' is not actually banned in Italy, you just can't call your child 'Benito Mussolini'.

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks to living in London for much of my adult life I am somehow a decade into driving and I still cannot parallel park without at least five goes at it.

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

Anecdotally when I scroll through my 'X' feed, I'm increasingly just getting pop/celebrity culture news littered with comments from OnlyFans accounts and barely anything from anyone I actually follow. On here, my feed shows me stuff I care about and not Blake Lively feuding with a co-star.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Most parents can't afford to pay for university tuition fees. Most parents also work hard. 'Hard-working' parents who educate their children privately may be hard-working, but they also earn a LOT of money. I wonder why that escapes some people who went to private school.

submitted 214 days ago • 1 comment

Combination of what is happening in the run-up to the presidential elections in the US and watching Fallout is making me very scared.

submitted 229 days ago • 0 comments

My piece for Il Fatto Quotidiano on the UK general election: how Sunak has made things so much worse for himself, and how Starmer's inner technocrat has not just saved the Labour Party, but put it on course to win a huge majority on Thursday: www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2024/07/02/e...

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

Wrote about the potential upshots of Julian Assange's extradition appeal at the High Court for Il Fatto Quotidiano

submitted 366 days ago • 0 comments

Sat my first in-person in an exam hall exam in six years. And no, it really isn't nice.

submitted 403 days ago • 0 comments

Came up with a radical idea called 'voluntary hibernation' in which you can get hooked up to a drip, sleep all winter, and be given some form of allowance throughout this period. Now almost everyone seems to have covid and is sick in bed, I don't think it's a bad idea. Winter is not for working.

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Anyone else find it a bit concerning that Elon Musk goes on trips to visit world leaders as though he's an elected politician? I can see why the Israelis invited him to visit a site of a kibbutz massacre, given his recent posts about the war and plenty of antisemitism on X. But it's still jarring.

submitted 459 days ago • 0 comments

My money is on a UK general election called in either: a) Late May 2024 if the Tories' Autumn Statement closes the gap with Labour a bit or, more likely b) October 2024, as ultimately the best shot the Tories have to narrow the gap in the polls is to wait off Starmer's peak popularity

submitted 464 days ago • 1 comment

For those wanting a detailed overview of the Supreme Court Rwanda judgment, I've written one for Landmark Chambers. Despite Sunak's urge to press ahead with the Rwanda policy via a treaty, this judgment shows there is no quick fix. Non-refoulement is spread across our constitution, and rightly so!

submitted 470 days ago • 0 comments

Can they please name him Lord Cameron of Aylesbury Nando's. I say this because he was PM he apparently dined at my hometown's Nando's branch when he spent the weekends at Chequers.

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