Here’s the real problem: it doesn’t matter WHAT the Epstein Files prove Trump did if nobody is able to prosecute him for it.

For a lot of people, voting for anti-welfarist politics is an assertion that the welfare they depend upon *isn't really welfare*. They're not doing it despite their dependence on welfare but because of it.

One of the reasons is that US immigration policy really is quite strict and people who have been living in the US for 5+ years, and have no criminal record, really SHOULD have been offered the opportunity to become US citizens. But because of anti Hispanic racism, we didn't do this

I actually do think people wanting children to care for their own parents is a subconscious motivation for a lot of anti-immigration sentiment

Ethiopia have banned the import of ICE vehicles for a year now. If you are not an oil producing nation this (reducing oil imports) is perhaps the biggest thing you can do for your national economy. furtherafrica.com/2025/09/19/e...

NATO was created after WWII to block Russian aggression in Europe. Every Russian leader in the past 75 years has tried to destroy NATO. Putin is finally succeeding by making Trump his bitch. As a bonus Trump is bankrupting America. Putin is laughing his ass off.

it is rational behavior once you realize that the marginal value of a billion and one dollars is actually zero relative to one billion dollars, whereas sexual access to one's subordinates is something they highly value

realised something earlier. Trump's "we deserve more this piece of land because we helped win WW2" is... essentially Russia's case for taking over large chunks of eastern Europe? so, that's a thing

A much more accurate name would be Executives United.

Why turkeys vote for Christmas.

1/ When even the *Cato Institute*—yes, libertarian, small-government, regulation-allergy Cato—comes out and says Biden did **not** have “open borders,” you know somebody just stepped on the narrative’s neck.

a liberal who believes in free markets & a socialist who wants an economy without (or with less of) them might seem like polar opposites but both want to rationally work out structures to maximise human welfare, both assume the moral equality of persons fascists just don't care about any of that

I keep hearing people ask why high levels of gun ownership in the US hasn't helped stop Trump's tyranny. It's because the kind of people who really like guns are on the tyrant's side. Most guns are owned by republican-leaning rural & suburban white men with lower educational levels.

A key part of the so-called "Boriswave" was a generous policy towards Ukraine & Hong Kong. Labour (rightly) backed that. This rhetoric just feeds populist claims of an establishment conspiracy to "experiment" on "the British people". It will not be Sir Keir Starmer KC who benefits from that mood.

The problems with Labour seeking to attack the Tories/Reform from the right on immigration, ie open borders policy are two fold: 1. It doesn't work. It ends up on ground that it inevitably has to concede. 2. It does work. So the policy has to shift to match mass deportation. Neither is good.

of course one of my canards is "the end of ZIRP is actually what everyone is mad about in the economy, we had inflation before and it was fine because of ZIRP"

Such a great piece of political communication - laser-focussed on people likely to sympathise with authoritarian politics, hammering the things they care about with concepts that feel natural - right down to the title!

Every now and then, I see people with stickers on their bikes, their guitars, "This machine kills Fascists." No, THIS machine kills Fascists.

This is a classic example of how everything Reform touch they make worse. Our high streets are dying largely because of car culture. People drive to out of town shopping centres. The 15 minute city concept promotes liveable neighbourhoods. Reform are pro car anti 15 minute city. And so it goes on.

This is where you end up when people imagine themselves primarily as consumers, not citizens. So -of course- they shop out of town, or on Amazon. They haven't got the time or inclination to do otherwise. And then they wonder why there's no sense of community any more, and blame it on immigration.

The only purpose of crypto is to create an unregulated shadow banking system, with ties to the legitimate banking system, in order to to enable fraud and criminality. It is doing so at scale.

Real Talk: Every like/share/re-tweet you get on Elon's nazi propaganda platform increases his net worth Delet your account. You're not saving Democracy or spreading truth THE ALGORITHM WILL NEVER LET YOU SUCCEED They'll keep tweaking it like they did Grok STOP FUNDING FACISM

If your MP is on BlueSky, do feel free to tag them. Remaining on X, a platform which that allows for the mass manufacturing of non-consensual sexual images of women and minors, is no longer endorsement. The government needs to leave it. Now.

Republican bullies deploy more threats against the UK to protect their big tech corporate allies.

'Musk’s Twitter has no interest in cleaning up its act. It works actively to undermine our democratically elected government and is, as we speak, causing harm to children' It is time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter, writes Labour MP and former transport secretary, Lou Haigh

Don’t ban it, just make it completely unacceptable to be on it! Don’t feed the beasts, just make them look like scum for supporting it! Labour can start by closing their X accounts. Stating they cannot support a platform that allows paedophilia and sexual exploitation. Over to you Keir Starmer!

The people clamouring for Alaa Abdel-Fattah to be stripped of his birthright citizenship on grounds of anti-British tweets are not giving the British a good name with their opinions on Anthony Joshua and his two departed friends.

It should also be irrevocable, or it’s not really citizenship just a premium visa status. Even if they commit heinous crime they’re now your nation’s problem to deal with. Because commitment cuts both ways.

By opposing density -- for workers at *all incomes* -- they are (I hope unwittingly) opposing every other element of progressive agenda they claim to support. You can not squeeze water from stone, and you can not achieve progressive outcomes by only "taxing the rich." Everyone has to contribute.

19th-C American patriotism was basically _republicanism_ as an ideology (in a world still dominated by monarchies) and the "Know-Nothings" saw republicanism as fundamentally Protestant and feared that Catholic immigrants would destroy it. 1/3

"In taking Palestine Action activists to court on charges of criminal damage, [the Govt] risk exposing the chasm between government policy and public opinion [jury nullification returning innocent verdicts]. It is not terror the government fears, but embarrassment." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

If you’d told me in the 90s that the standard conservative/right attitude to Russia would be a kind of limp occasionally simpering subservience, I’m not sure I’d have believed you.

"There's no sense of community anymore", says man who lives in isolated car-sprawl suburbia, drives to a job where his colleagues do the same from across three counties, picks up dinner and a copy of the Mail at the out-of-town supermarket, goes home and watches TV all evening, "must be immigrants".

The tendency of left-wing thinkers to search for economic explanations for political phenomena has consistently pulled the entire left-of-center away from the obvious explanation for MAGA, which is that they find torture and domination psychologically rewarding, and are seeking that reward.

Agree. The failure to quit X for their official comms is such a morbid symptom, because it is the definition of 'good money after bad' - that website is not going to become a warm home for 'our message about interest rates' *ever*. Accept that and move on!

It's interesting that "immigrant vs native-born" is much more prominent than the more directly ethnic "white vs non-white" or "Muslim vs non-Muslim". Perhaps the true divide is "mobile vs immobile" (for which "immigrant vs native-born" is a flawed proxy as all immigrants are mobile by definition).

If the US holds Venezuela, we will seize 17% of oil -- yesterday's technology. If China uses this precedent to take Taiwan, it will own 60% of semiconductors -- tomorrow's technology. See what happens when you elect evil & stupid at the same time? Really American FB

Venezuela seems like less of a war or invasion than a Viking plundering campaign from the Middle Ages. They surprise attacked, they stole stuff, they killed some people, they kidnapped the king, they left. It’s medieval—which makes sense because we’re rewinding to before the Treaty of Westphalia.

Oil wars are a natural outcome of NIMBYism & car culture. If you don't like oil wars, first thing to do is, live that way if you can. If you can't: at least help make it easier for more people to live without oil wars. But as long as NIMBYs and carbrains control our cities, there will be oil wars.

Trump's approach to foreign policy:

The hill ill die on: You can’t do massive infill without massively advantaging sustainable transpo. Otherwise, you’ll just bring in the too-many-cars the NIMBYs fear. You can’t do massive sustainable transpo without allowing easy infill. Otherwise, you’re building a moat to control access.

Biden sells arms to Guyana so they can protect themselves against invasion from Venezuela: Hands off Venezuela! Trump literally bombing Venezuela: crickets from the "anti-war left"

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

What an embarrassing prospect, and one that will make no difference. Our future lies in Europe.

One random Poly-Sci observation: Democrats routinely overestimate how Biden did in 2020. The truth is that, electorally, he won by 44k votes in three states... a massive underperformance in a year that was crafted for Dems. When you look at Biden, HRC, Harris there are many similarities

I've often said it, but a major factor in what drives the MAGA movement is that they've created communities that are unwelcoming to young people — and then they get mad young people want to leave. And the only "solution" they can think of is to trap them. jessica.substack.com/p/tradwife-c...

Morning Prime Minister... This is what speaking out against fascism looks like. As opposed to offering it state visits... 🤮