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I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

think what grates most about Fraser Nelson's "a dramatic shift? of MY Overton window?" shtick is that those of us who kept talking about the Spectator's dangerous slide to the right were treated as hysterical, not able to see the humour in shock jocks, etc etc, when we were just clearly right!

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

A lot of people online would be well served by developing an ideology more sophisticated than "a dictator, but who only does stuff I like"

submitted 307 days ago • 31 comments

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.

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

sorry babe not now, a new state of matter just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

A number of prominent UK Conservatives' statements about Donald Trump resemble one of those news stories that begins with a magazine feature about a new age mystic who believes he can talk to bears and ends with a newspaper article about a new age mystic being mauled to death by bears.

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Big reception for Chloe Kelly

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Hannan used to cry crocodile tears about the Commonwealth and argue for free trade. Now he simps for the protectionist thug who demands to annex Canada.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 11 days ago • 452 comments

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Cooper DeJean, 22 today, is the first player in NFL history to score a touchdown in a Super Bowl on his birthday. It's been a great start for the Eagles, who lead the Chiefs 17-0. nyti.ms/3CLUy0b

submitted 15 days ago • 50 comments

Go Eagles

submitted 15 days ago • 99 comments

Wait. This seems quite tightly cropped... Are you, in fact, doing precisely what you accused everyone else of doing? Nah. You wouldn't, would you. You would check the context. That's what a journalist does. Right, Janice? Right?

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Sharing my exciting academic insights with my non-academic friends

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

UK government bonds have erased the bulk of their losses since Reeves’ October Budget, bringing long-term borrowing costs close to the level they maintained before her tax and spending plans accelerated a gilt market sell-off www.ft.com/content/0ead...

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

The Rise of The Nerd Reich

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.

submitted 19 days ago • 335 comments

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will be disconnecting from the russian power grid on Saturday, and thus, severing Soviet imperial era energy ties with russia: "We are now removing Russia's ability to use the electricity system as a tool of geopolitical blackmail” www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Ed Miliband is 'doing it to teach the countryside a lesson'. Or, you know, because we need to get energy from A to B.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 22 days ago • 1571 comments

In particular, the Brexity folks who claimed to be all about the Commonwealth are nowhere to be seen. More generally, anyone who claims to support free trade but also supports Trump should never be taken seriously ever again.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

WEDBUSH, on $AAPL: “.. Like Trying to Tackle Saquon...The Bears Miss Again”

submitted 25 days ago • 10 comments

We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...

submitted 25 days ago • 48 comments

only one in five LEAVE voters think that Brexit has been more of a success than a failure, that is nuts

submitted 26 days ago • 83 comments

Brilliant piece by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social on the false claims now being told about undocumented migrants and what lies behind them bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/h...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

I can be as critical as anyone of the government's occasionally muddled message on growth but Look! At! This! Chart!! Anything they've done pales next to this GIGANTIC UNFORCED ERROR COMMITTED IN 2016! (fagpacket maths follows) on.ft.com/4hzyvbJ

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

I'd love to see a proper analysis of how we're going to find the people to build the third runway at Heathrow, several new reservoirs, 1.5 million houses and various other new infrastructure without mass imigration.

submitted 27 days ago • 165 comments

Finding a typo in the submitted draft you re-read 800 times

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

We know the main reason that people don’t cycle is because they think it’s unsafe … but it appears the opposite is true, cycling makes you live longer in better health.

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

1st career TD in an NFC Championship Game. You'll always remember this one, willshipley2021! 💚

submitted 29 days ago • 24 comments

What I'm calling Arsenal's Big Three -- Saka, Odegaard, Saliba -- have all been in the Premier League starting XI in 10 of 22 matches this season. Include Rice and it's just eight. There has been one starting XI since August to contain White, Rice, Saka, Saliba and Odegaard (Chelsea, away).

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

Still true: Interpretations of elections > actual election results

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

Tropes, such as "Hidden Motives", are recurring narrative elements used to evoke familiar patterns in communication Our #COLING paper uncovers that tropes are used in 37% of the social posts debating immigration and vaccination 📄 coling-2025-proceedings.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/main/pdf/202... 👇

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Comfortable enough in the end. Telling that the second goal came when Martinelli just tried something a bit different, quality delivery and and a good finish. Good to see Odegaard on the scoresheet again, clean sheet very welcome too.

submitted 33 days ago • 18 comments

Great chart. Vietnam’s rise a lot more rapid than I thought. Five takeaways on Donald Trump’s opening trade salvo on.ft.com/3Wolx8M

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

reading books that keep getting upset about modernity breaking up communities. but 'community' being presented as an unalloyed good is always a red flag to me. many communities are bad! community can mean family, love, friendship but it can also mean insularity, clannishness, spite, shaming.

submitted 35 days ago • 73 comments

The public enquiry should also consider the behaviour of elected politicians during the investigation and prosecution of this case, and their willingness to confect rumour and spread inflammatory misinformation in the service of their own agendas.

submitted 35 days ago • 39 comments

Jay inquiry report author speaking to MPs this morning: She expresses serious disdain for the last government's response, or lack thereof, to her recommendations And is especially scathing of Suella Braverman's alleged lack of interest

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

After the Brexit vote, a stereotype emerged of a Brexit voter based on place-based economic ideas. Far too narrow given the heterogeneity in the vote. Here we highlight the role of wealth (e.g. home ownership) as insurance in political choice, and show the relationship of wealth and Brexit support.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments