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submitted 12 hours ago • 72 comments

The dangerous decline of child vaccination in England. Such a worrying trend at several levels.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

submitted 20 hours ago • 97 comments

Three men sit in a cell in El Salvador. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned. He replies, "Because I criticized Elon Musk." The first man responds, "But I am here for praising Musk!" They ask the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back. He answers, "I AM Elon Musk".

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Reform member (1) wants to retire to Spain, (2) thinks there are too many immigrants in the UK, (3) would vote Remain

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Learned helplessness

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

What Robert Jenrick understands about politics that Keir Starmer doesn’t. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

Controversial opinion: crime is bad and we should be mad at people who do crime, even if Robert Jenrick is annoying

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

EXCUSE ME. He WHAT. From www.ft.com/content/bfe4...

submitted 10 days ago • 25 comments

Open invitation to Mr Duffy to come stay with me in London and I’ll show him around by tube; he’ll love it

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

President Trump considers pardoning men convicted of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 722 comments

Today (er, yesterday) on Volts: "community choice aggregation" allows towns or cities to opt out of their utility & procure their own power -- often cleaner & cheaper -- directly. I talk to the head of the oldest, biggest CCA about the challenges & opportunities.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Australian woman, a former police officer, was detained, jailed overnight and deported from the US despite traveling there legally on a tourist visa to visit her US military husband. Is there no end to our shameful behavior? www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

submitted 16 days ago • 74 comments

Pro-growth policy idea: UK govt offers to cover the cost of transferring all of Harvard’s international students to top UK universities, provides them a stipend and a guaranteed visa to stay post-graduation. It’d cost the Treasury next to nothing and restore the UK’s reputation as a talent hub.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Gerontocracy strikes again

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible scenes from Kemi Badenoch’s speech on our trade relationship with Europe.

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Btw, the fact that Euroskeptic, far-right Simion quickly backed down from his initial claim he had won, conceded, and congratulated his opponent is the second sign that Romanian democracy is more robust than the American one right now.