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It turns out these companies include, er, BAE Systems and others whose work is essential to the defence of the United Kingdom (which, you know, includes Scotland). No surprise that the Greens take such a juvenile view but good to have their essential daftness reconfirmed.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Is there evidence to suggest Elon Musk actually has any friends? I mean genuine, long-standing, loyal, friends. Not colleagues, employees, acquaintances or sycophants. Am I right to suspect he has very few?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Sanctions against… Ukraine www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

Interestingly we have been noticing public anxiety coming through (including in a focus group I ran tonight of not highly engaged participants) the unpredictability of Trump and possibility of a scary event happening was what they wanted to discuss.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

When are the Democrats going to call out Trump for what he is? And keep shouting it loudly.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Unintended consequences like this will be widespread. 'Eliminating' jobs comes at a price: stuff stops working.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

There's a danger of overstating the challenge. Russia is a small economy, its population is ageing fast, and Ukraine is willingly destroying its army for us. This is not a WW2 or empire level challenge for Europe. Just containment of Russia.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Enjoying the @thetimes.com Gen-Z survey. Slightly frustrating they didn't adjust this for inflation, or at least acknowledge that £10,000 in 2004 is equivilent to £17,710 today.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who Trump named acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has reportedly shut down all CFPB operations - enforcement, investigation, everything - "pending a review" They're gonna let corporations fuck over consumers if they want to, dammit.

submitted 20 days ago • 27 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 20 days ago • 425 comments

Not even comedy, just an utter tragedy of errors.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

on.ft.com/3Q0dZ8m Hadn’t realised that the cash ISA total was now £300bn. Truly ridiculous. ISA allowances - in general - are far too high in my view.

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

Woke, liberal, expert encouraging nonsense.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

What happened last time, Canada edition. open.substack.com/pub/mostfavo...

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Trump does actually seem to use the stock market as a bell weather of the success, or otherwise, of his policies (rightly, or wrongly). Will he react to the market view on the tariff announcement? It has gone down like a bag of cold sick.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

i like asking deepseek questions which look like logical puzzles but are actually just nonsense and watching it go insane

submitted 23 days ago • 11 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 24 days ago • 876 comments

OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product. On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.

submitted 25 days ago • 340 comments

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

submitted 28 days ago • 462 comments

This is definitely worth all the water and energy. How have we ever managed without it.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The real concern should be that the White House can't even spell Colombia. They appear to want to sanction a US university or a sportswear brand.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

OMG. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was a wormhole to the future. Trying to explain tariffs when no-one is interested. Here, in 45 seconds, the US election. Anyone, anyone…

submitted 103 days ago • 42 comments

Well, this is bloody life-affirming. BBC really captures the joy too. Nods to Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass when he was still funny. Cheers, @rufushound.wtf x

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

#thetraitors is great tv and good game theory! Seer is poisoned chalice when the banished no longer reveal their identity. Doubt will be cast on both if they go after each other. Thus both will banished. Unless they collaborate initially. They won't. I reckon Leanne and Jake win together now.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

All 9 episodes of my Radio 4 series on the Arab-Israeli conflict are here:

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Where's the S&P500 going? Nobody knows for sure. But a few weird charts I've made to understand where it has come from. 1. Operating earnings (y-axis) vs PE ratio (x-axis). Index price is the product & colour coded.

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments