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submitted 1 day ago • 375 comments

I expect Musk is bright but that that is the source of the succession of mistakes he has made and is making. 1. Judgement is not determined by IQ 2. Because he thinks he is a genius, he doesn't listen to others who have good judgement. /1

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Is Trump worse this time? Or was it 4 years at this pitch of idiocy last time and we just blanked it out?

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 13 hours ago • 216 comments

Evening.

submitted 13 hours ago • 71 comments

Soviet legacy is a real thing. Even in the Westernmost West.

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

"Think I'll watch the football for a change." Turns on to hear Michael Owen. Turns off.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The problem of states that build dual structures because of ideologies - the Soviet Union, Communist China, Nazi Germany - where people working for the state never quite knew which of the two structures (party? state?) they have to obey.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Undergraduate contract lawyers, your time is now.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Surely Poilievre provides a better model for the Tories than Trump? Especially if they want the votes of under 60s. Free speech absolutism has never had much traction in the UK. The country not being made up of fools.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

It is harder for the London clubs to win the league than 40 years ago. The increase in the number of London southern teams in the league increases the number of local derbies. Conversely, the northern teams have been thinned (eg no Leeds, no Sheffields) so easier for those remaining.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

In a crushing blow to free speech, the University of Cambridge is asking a High Court for an injunction *through February 2030* to arrest anyone who protests on certain properties "in connection with Cambridge for Palestine or otherwise for a purpose connected with the Palestine-Israel Conflict."

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Never expected a world where JD Vance would refer to Niall Ferguson’s arguments that dictators shouldn’t invade sovereign states as ‘moralistic garbage’.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments