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me: great news! been wanting to write more about free markets for ages! I've got a pitch about the cloud computing monopoly, comparing it to Bell Telecom ... Bezos: you have ten seconds before I release the hounds

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Conservatives: We can't jump to conclusions about what the people Sieg Heiling from the CPAC main stage have in their hearts. Also Conservatives: Here's the 93rd book this year about how how liberals regulating sugar content in childrens' breakfast cereal "evokes" or "echoes" fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

i am mystified by the influence of noah smith, among the most ignorant and incurious people i have ever seen on the internet. just a total dummy.

submitted 3 days ago • 257 comments

The Starmer aide/AI stuff feels a bit canary/coalmine because this isn't letting electoral factors triumph over good governance or sinply doing something I don't like - things every government does - this is falling for a scam. There are people in Nunber 10 who are just idiots.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

POV: You're 16, believe being in advanced placement math class means you're a once in a generation genius, and have just discovered Reddit.

submitted 4 days ago • 330 comments

Employment rates by country of birth: historically, non-EU migrants to UK had relatively low employment rates, mostly reflecting low participation rates amongst women from some countries. No longer the case. [usual caveats on LFS data, but consistent with other sources.]

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

VG from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but as others have said the historical analogy is wrong. Chamberlain wasn't a Nazi fellow-traveller. AfD supporter and far-right propagandist Goodwin is much closer to Oswald Mosley.

submitted 13 days ago • 53 comments

What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.

submitted 15 days ago • 252 comments

Here @rcolvile.bsky.social's defense of his "dog-whistle racism" is: "In my article about recent arrivals, mostly from India, Nigeria, etc, I chose to cite out-of-date statistics about women who migrated here from Pakistan etc long ago, because they were the most negative ones I could find."

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

This is the pivotal point, which the Starmer government must understand electorally if it can't understand it politically

submitted 17 days ago • 137 comments

In what possible universe do low paid workers not contribute?

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

"Hence the urgency of implementing now the second part of the Conservatives policy - the encouragement of re-emigration." Wait - that's not @rcolvile.bsky.social below (though it's what he's arguing). It's Powell's Rivers of Blood speech. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

I describe this reference by @rcolvile.bsky.social - in an article which purports to be about recent arrivals, mostly from India and Nigeria - as "dog-whistle racism". I stand by that.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

This faux-outrage from @rcolvile.bsky.social would be more credible if his article wasn't full of obvious racist dogwhistles... 😉 [for example, the almost entirely irrelevant reference to women from certain countries not working]

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Yeah, “whoever controls the treasury controls the government” is such an unheard of concept that only a genius could think of that it was the first fucking thing Henry I did in 1100 after his brother William II Rufus died

submitted 21 days ago • 100 comments

The Daily Mail has now corrected the fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners being "illegal migrants." The original source for this scaremongering nonsense - @telegraphnews.bsky.social - has yet to correct. But they will.

submitted 27 days ago • 11 comments

Was just disinvited by @bbc5live.bsky.social to a discussion of Brexit 5 years on- on the entirely reasonable/correct grounds that I know what I am talking about and would give an expert, objective view. What they actually wanted was a "hard Remainer" (to balance a know-nothing Brexiteer). FFS.

submitted 27 days ago • 79 comments

This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

submitted 32 days ago • 94 comments

"If you miss #TheTraitors, don't worry, The Apprentice is back next week" yeah alright, if you miss Christmas don't worry, it's Ash Wednesday next week. Fuck are you on about.

submitted 33 days ago • 23 comments

this is slightly hard to get your head around, but 4chan trolls do Nazi cosplay ironically in a way that is also completely sincere

submitted 35 days ago • 23 comments

Not getting my hopes up, i fully expect leanne and jake to believe charlotte's lies #TheTraitors

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Hardly worth debunking this xenophobic garbage from Telegraph. FWIW they seem to to have taken the (implausible) upper bound of @pewresearch.org's old, completely debunked estimate (1.2 m) and then assigning a % of those to London. And then got London's actual population wrong! archive.ph/a8MHX

submitted 35 days ago • 237 comments

Media: "Elon Musk stirs debate by changing the logo of X to the swastika, a Hindu glyph symbolizing the sun, prosperity, and good luck."

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

I have an ominous feeling that the people currently saying “it’s not a Nazi salute” will soon be saying “it’s just a symbol from Hinduism.”

submitted 37 days ago • 54 comments

I know it's great to have someone to hate in these shows but this series is so uncomfortable to watch. Joe is a bully. I cannot believe this guy is a teacher. Every week we have to watch him get personal with someone and nothing happens. Fair play to Alexander for not losing his cool #TheTraitors

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

"Don't be afraid to get it wrong because you will never get it right" – Guy who has been getting it wrong everytime #TheTraitors

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to that Daily Mail front page retracting its calls for Reeves to resign

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

These faithfuls really hate well spoken people. How is frankie on the hitlist for something joe started #TheTraitors

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Uhm, sorry, what? Starmer thinks AI is going to DOUBLE UK productivity in less than 5 years?

submitted 44 days ago • 92 comments

The radicalisation of much of the right in Britain far exceeds that of the left under Corbyn. (I say that as a staunch critic of Corbyn). It's essential that decent Conservatives speak out, if they don't want the likes of Cummings, Oakeshott and Jenrick to prostitute their tradition to an arsonist.

submitted 45 days ago • 60 comments

Don't think that could have gone worse. Out of the FA Cup, lost Gabriel Jesus to potentially serious injury, missed a load of chances, missed a penalty, played 30 mins of extra-time ahead of a North London derby, and the heartache of losing a penalty shoot-out. A disaster of a day.

submitted 45 days ago • 136 comments

Leon has done nothing but kick faithfuls out. His terrible pokerface has now possibly got fozia murdered, fozia who is only there because linda has a weird obsession with her even though many are on to linda. Horrible episode #TheTraitors

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Francesca if you still felt dan was a faithful why didn't you sort out your weird thing about the task outside the roundtable instead of bringing up there to help steer attention away ffs #TheTraitors

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Linda is getting suspected and detective dan is on to minah, what an episode so far #TheTraitors

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate nothing matters and double standards are just how we roll now, but if major political leaders were accusing the right of being IN FAVOR OF CHILD MOLESTATION (!!!) we would get fifty thousand op-eds from very serious people scolding us for radicalizing them through meanness.

submitted 50 days ago • 21 comments

Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.

submitted 51 days ago • 186 comments

The Telegraph have now published a correction admitting that the immigration numbers in Nick Timothy's bizarre rant (original at link) were pure fantasy. archive.ph/xk7fK

submitted 51 days ago • 31 comments

That mad cunt is talking about invading Britain. And the right wing press, who spent the last few years banging on about their love of sovereignty, seems entirely indifferent.

submitted 52 days ago • 110 comments

The Times has now, belatedly, after losing at IPSO, published a second, further correction of Matthew Parris's ignorant and bigoted article about people claiming disability benefits. The original version is here: archive.ph/UIXn2

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

If Corbyn had responded to antisemitism in Labour by saying that we need to have "tough conversations" about (say) the dual loyalties of British Jews, the reaction would (rightly) have been near-universal outrage. The silence here is deafening.

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

Labour's antisemitism problem was rightly a big focus of attention for months. I have struggled to find much mention of Jenrick's Islamophobic remarks. This is bad - the press should defend the interests of British citizens of all backgrounds.

submitted 52 days ago • 30 comments

The kas doctor thing made it personal and to make it worse, dumbos like joe think kas is even more of a traitor for the emotional reaction. How would he like it if someone said they think he's a traitor cos he's a teacher and the teacher/nonce thing 'works so well' #TheTraitors

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I wish she'd just left after this and everyone expected Charlotte to translate #Traitors #TheTraitors

submitted 55 days ago • 5 comments