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Public affairs. Politics. Labour. Have opinions, unfortunately.
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From the guy suing advertisers for not wanting their brand associated with his platform.

submitted 12 days ago • 155 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

The whole thing with USAID and NED has really demonstrated to me how many people are detached from reality, and how they create elaborate fantasies about organisations and individuals they don't like based on each others' delusional thinking.

submitted 24 days ago • 42 comments

We reported over the weekend on a network of fake companies that tried to steal a Ukrainian gold mine. Some of the trails lead to the KGB and apocalypse cults, and that's way beyond our little think tank. Here's a list for any journalists/OSINT people wanting to pick it up:

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

Someone should tell him that none of these countries do much refining, so good luck making planes with rocks

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Can we stop giving this stupid Doomsday Clock credibility. During the Cuban Missile Crisis - when the only thing that stopped nuclear war was one dude on a boat vetoing two colleagues* - the clock was 7 minutes to midnight. Yet today it's somehow far closer at 89 seconds to midnight?

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Middle Eastern and Asian nations are subsidising airlines and airports to the end of the earth pursuing global hub status. Britain had a global hub airport by accident and is losing it through inaction. Heathrow expansion is no brainer. In fact it's the bare minimum.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

So Microsoft added a Copilot button to my task bar against my will, and although that button remains on my taskbar, they now they have disabled it and replaced it with a hyperlink to Copilot that only opens in Edge. Are they actually this dumb

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

UK bond rates falling pretty fast today as - inflation lower than expected (+expected interest rate cuts) - US rates also falling Useful corrective to some of the breathless "market believes X" reporting over past week

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

YouGov update Views of Elon Musk 19% Favourable 64% unfavourable Views of X platform 16% Favourable 61% unfavourable Was Musk buying Twitter Good 10% Bad 47% Neither 17%

submitted 65 days ago • 28 comments

A lot of rich parents are very upset at the government for charging VAT on private school fees. Maybe they should instead ask why private schools have put up fees so far above inflation over the past 15 years. www.ft.com/content/852b...

submitted 69 days ago • 80 comments

I do not follow Andrew Tate on Twitter. I do not interact with him. I do not read his Tweets. Why am I receiving this push notification?!

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Russian Government in a few days: “this was an air to air missile fires by Ukrainian F-15s.”

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

And we all thought the mini budget was unforgivable...

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

Thanks @octopus.energy, he loves it!

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

And presumably.. resign?

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Fifty. Million. Pounds.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

“I’m not sexist, the problem is menopausal women.” Says the man who definitely isn’t sexist.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

This word should definitely still be in use

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments