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My piece for ConHome on why the Conservatives, after the disastrous local election results, need a radical change of direction (and why they won’t pursue it). conservativehome.com/2025/05/05/d...

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

100 days on from Trump's inauguration, and following last night's results in Canada, one thing is clear: Licking his boots has consequences. Watch out Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

From the White House to Dante's pit of excrement... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Reform UK Easter reading: "I was hungry and you said I could make a meal for 30p, I was a stranger and you told me to fuck off back where I came from, I was sick and you said we need an insurance based healthcare system..."

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

If we give up on the Online Safety Act, we give up on society

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

🥬 Why we shouldn't get too...well, too anything about this utterly vacuous announcement. (Like, share, follow, comment, etc...if this content chimes with your own views.) open.substack.com/pub/uglypoli...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

A very strange UK politics where it seems the two traditional parties are targeting the same ~20% of the population and nobody very much cares about the remaining 80%.

submitted 22 days ago • 98 comments

The truth has become basic. Trump is a fool who is fucking everything up. There's no more to it than that. But there's only so many times you can write that column. So people are forced to construct 'well actually he has a point' arguments and 'hidden strategy' think pieces.

submitted 24 days ago • 102 comments

Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

"Given that the US economy is entirely dependent on Chinese sources for vital goods (pharmaceutical stocks, cheap electronic chips, critical minerals) it's wildly reckless not to ensure alternate suppliers/adequate domestic production before cutting off trade" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

submitted 25 days ago • 39 comments

Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

submitted 26 days ago • 124 comments

On a positive note, at least Russia is in the passenger seat of the car that Trump decided to drive off a cliff. Oil prices are now over 30% below what was needed for their 2025 budget and they blew through all their financial loopholes in 2024.

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold

submitted 27 days ago • 175 comments

Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

submitted 27 days ago • 52 comments

Why Carney’s experience as Governor of the Bank of England makes him uniquely well-qualified to lead a global coalition of the willing to stand up to the dangerously ignorant populist in the White House. From my latest newsletter open.substack.com/pub/nixons/p...

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Bingo. HT @williamcb.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Some disparate thoughts on the second day of the financial apocalypse iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...

submitted 31 days ago • 25 comments

We have to stand tall with our allies in Canada and Europe against Trump's tariffs and show that Britain will not be bullied. That means preparing potential tariffs including on Elon Musk's Teslas, and urgently negotiating a better trade deal with the EU.

submitted 35 days ago • 44 comments

There's a lot to criticise Trump II for, but it has been a powerful vindication of my view that political culture is far more important than institutional design in the health of a democracy, with the US a) already having an awful and worsening political culture, and b) dogshit institutional design.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Meanwhile in London.

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

submitted 38 days ago • 543 comments

Keir Starmer needs to speak to the nation directly about the danger that is Donald Trump. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 38 days ago • 62 comments

First, it was British steel. Now, it's British cars. Who will stand for Britain? Not Keir Starmer. Not Kemi Badenoch. Not Nigel Farage. That much is clear

submitted 39 days ago • 13 comments

Sir, you've just been accidentally added to Osama Bin Laden's stag weekend group chat.

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

This is the article recommended by @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk this morning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 40 days ago • 6 comments

"The more it went on, the less you realised he knew." The man responsible for negotiating peace between Russia and Ukraine has been parroting Kremlin propaganda. Is this exactly what Putin planned? articles.globalplayer.com/2GXq8SgPZwUQ...

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

submitted 43 days ago • 332 comments

'If you're a Tesla owner, people will assume that you're a backer of the man who's currently trying to rip the heart out of the US government.' As Tesla's sales - and reputation - plummet, does Tesla need a new CEO? articles.globalplayer.com/2GXqFELvtMh3...

submitted 46 days ago • 18 comments

The speed of the liberal collapse in the US is harrowing.

submitted 47 days ago • 48 comments

Fuck me, he's had his Weetabix

submitted 48 days ago • 57 comments

So for work reasons I'm watching GB News on YouTube. My algorithm is stuffed, but let's not worry about that now, because I've spotted something weird. (Mini-🧵 sorry)

submitted 52 days ago • 19 comments

I just saw a Cybertruck with a "Baby on Board" sticker and thought that was very self-aware of the owner.

submitted 53 days ago • 465 comments

Orangemandias... open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

submitted 53 days ago • 13 comments

Superb article by #SidneyBlumenthal @theguardian.com, best read in the voice of Gore Vidal

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Exciting to watch Elon Musk pivot so elegantly from making his cars toxic to the demographic most likely to consider one, to making his Starlink a national security risk for all the governments who might have wanted it.

submitted 57 days ago • 72 comments

The last seven days? What we have always feared? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”

submitted 57 days ago • 342 comments