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Sorry @washingtonpost.com could you clarify, is this personal liberty or free markets? Just trying to make sure we're following the rules

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

I have written a detailed account of Trump's relationship with Russia. "a reasonable analytical conclusion [is] that Trump has a political debt to the Russians which could prove problematic for him if fully ventilated" Trump is a Russian agent of influence. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Wealthy Teen Nearly Experiences Consequence theonion.com/wealthy...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

"You know when you've been Tango'd"

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Such a sensible idea.

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"Don't have nightmares."

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"There is within our current trade deal with the EU a provision to negotiate a deal on carbon trading. All it needs is for the British government to start talks and ask to do it." ~AA www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-c...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Massively enjoying the UK right-wing press's obvious discomfort at having to admit Starmer aced it with Trump.

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There are many reasons to be alarmed not just for the future of US health but for the present. Measles is obviously one. In my latest column for @theneweuropean.bsky.social I discuss how bird flu is another. www.theneweuropean.co.uk/philip-ball-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Always worth reminding people that Article 5 of the Nato treaty (an attack on one is an attack on all) has been invoked only once - after the 9/11 attacks on the US.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This was reported four years ago…

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 15 days ago • 89 comments

The populist commentator’s book on UK universities is filled with unoriginal argument, cherry-picked evidence and enormous self-regard. If he truly believes what he’s written, the only suitable response is pity

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Reform wouldn't exist without Farage but he is very unpopular which puts a ceiling on their vote.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

An important, essential column. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 26 days ago • 49 comments

REAGAN: “Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies… beware of demagogues ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, national security, and the entire free world—while cynically waving the 🇺🇸 flag.” Trump’s bad ideas are not new.

submitted 29 days ago • 161 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 32 days ago • 875 comments

Just seething with fucking rage about Marianne. How she had to had to be in Europe to 'earn' any artistic credibility. How this country's corrupt policemen and corrupt journalists conspired to demean and ruin her. She was loved though. By people who will put the fucking record straight.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Do you remember public information films where children were warned that it was up to them to not be killed by farm machinery and industrial plant? That’s what “the red tape” does. Stops kids falling into stuff. Transfers the burden to the people making money from it. Red tape’s great. More please!

submitted 33 days ago • 9 comments

YouGov find just 30% of people think we were right to leave the EU. The lowest number yet. Just 10% of 18-24 year olds think it was the right decision.

submitted 33 days ago • 165 comments

There were at least six orchestras at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Eighty years after the camp’s liberation, most of their music has been lost to history. Can conductor Leo Geyer change that?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Something I might get into about the 'should we have been told more' is the implicit logic there is that had the government said as early as possible "his parents are actually African Christians & he was born here", then, what, the rioters would have...gone home? Attacked a church or a data centre?

submitted 35 days ago • 17 comments

Perfect.

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“The president, perhaps inadvertently, wound up smudging the line between empirical verification and his own boundless optimism.”

submitted 35 days ago • 29 comments

Oh no. What if the AI guys’ have their idea stolen?

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

If anything, I think Musk's harrowingly shit sense of humour is under-discussed. The Florence Foster Jenkins of it all. The deeply unfunny freak who bought the joke factory and juiced its algorithm so he could subject all its users to... this. The gas leak comedy of a psychedelically humourless man.

submitted 39 days ago • 67 comments

"Trump is the wake-up call that liberal democracy has needed. But it’s not the first."

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Yields PLUNGE as markets get massively comfortable with Labour's economic plans

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments