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Investor/chair of a couple of Scottish businesses; chair of constitutional think tank These Islands; keen analyst of Scotland’s economic data (particularly “GERS” #fml); occasional political commentator; runner, hill walker & dog lover - views own, obv
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We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Rieckhoff: That’s America’s Secretary of Defense. I wish he attacked Vladimir Putin as aggressively as he attacks CNN and others

submitted 1 day ago • 256 comments

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

he’s right - Google is actively destroying its own brand by showing AI generated slop before actual search results

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

submitted 2 days ago • 189 comments

A new low for the Republican party in the House of Representatives, with this call from a Congressman to denaturalise and deport a political opponent (after he won a Mayoral primary)

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

i think the best thing about Bluesky is the way it lets you play 18 seconds of a video before it just stops for no apparent reason

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

it’s hilarious that the “we can’t really be that sure of anything yet” line is being used by the same people defending Trump’s confident assertion of complete obliteration

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this is a very good quick read if you need cheering up (as i did)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

this is just shameless - explicitly castigating the free press for for having the audacity to challenge the state-mandated narrative? “land of the free” my arse

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

me, every time i hear an SNP politician claiming that full fiscal autonomy would protect public services in scotland “because levers”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

me, every time i hear an SNP politician claiming that full fiscal autonomy would protect public services in scotland “because levers”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

submitted 3 days ago • 107 comments

never believed i’d say this, but right now i simply would not travel to the USA

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I'm writing a patreon post about the Hereford Map, and I'll share it when it's ready. But, along the way, I made this little Antipodes explainer, and I thought I'd share.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

this chimes “I’m increasingly convinced that [xx] understands very little about figures and regards them mainly as pegs on which to hang rhetoric. Directly one discusses the details of the [yy] budget with him, his attention flags and he seems quite unable to follow even my most lucid developments”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

as a businessman he’s undeniably got balls of steel, but he’s not actually *that* smart, is he?

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Posted before, but it seems more relevant and applicable by the day.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Overheard just now. Two middle class middle aged Penarth ladies in convo as I’m walking slightly behind them. “I said I can accept you being gay. But the mullet. I thought you lot had natural style.” “What did he say?” “He said “bloody hell Mum.””

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

I forgot my favourite David Goodhart story! When I pointed out in my LRB review of "The British Dream" that he'd got some facts wrong, he emailed me to complain that "80% of the facts in the book are accurate"...

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments