I genuinely think its a fascinating question why we're not having one - or, at least, only highly engaged libs/soc dems here are. Reverse of the usual pattern. I think its partly because AI still isn't really understood - and the main focus in the media has been on X-risk, not these sorts of harms.

Think there's something particularly dispiriting about the Greek governments various moves against climate change initiatives because if your country routinely bursting into flames each summer doesn't drive it home, what will?

Did my good deed today by preventing our group from going to Brewdog for beers

Have we considered a moral panic? I think we should have a moral panic

IMO the *lack* of a widespread moral panic around this is genuinely very weird and the outlier in terms of social reactions in modern history

Amazing theyve actually found a law and order policy that is too mental for Reform voters. I'd have thought that was impossible

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

I do think people are underestimating the possibility that the House just doesn’t sit.

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

The concept of emotional labour (or at least how it is often used) it a pretty negative one. Commodatising being a normal, and decent, human

Amazing. 'It could be x because her behaviour changed in a tiny way and I noted it' What about the guy who forgot he had a medal and laughs nervously whenever you ask him if hes a traitor? 'Nah, 100% faithful that bloke'

Did he vote for a traitor even once? #celebritytraitors

Genuinely amazing how Alan has repeated given away being a traitor, but has got away with it through being Alan Carr #celebritytraitors

I think people may now be realising why Joe Marler is a legendary shithouse #celebritytraitors

For those who aren't keeping up, Mamdani is a Zionist now (for condeming swastika graffiti on a yeshiva)

... this is roughly $40k more than we pay the Prime Minister

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

Labour needs to stop fooling itself and lean in to the political logic of its choices. It is a high taxing, high spending government. www.ft.com/content/00a5...

Wrote about the rise of the anti-tax left. If Labour cranks up income taxes, the left will boo loudest economist.com/britain/2025...

Posted to Twitter eight minutes before it was copied and pasted onto bluesky

If you believe a wealth tax is easy to do and would raise huge amounts of revenue, you have to invent extraordinary conspiracies to explain why a Labour government desperate for higher tax receipts is not doing it. And that is exactly where we are. It is ridiculous.

It's easy to dismiss this as just a online thing - but increasingly the 'wealth tax/billionares will pay for it' is cutting through more generally You can see it on normal, non-politicos insta feeds-particularly driven by the Greens. It's hugely damaging to the leigitimacy of actual progressive tax

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

TBH the main things Wes has been going big on recently are anti-racism and harms of Brexit and, quite frankly, I think that's because he actually believes it. Both positions are very Blairite and, frankly, is it suprising a lad from a London Council Estate hates racism

Open, transparent government from Reform (or whats left of them) in Kent I see

A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

i mean, gilt yields are pretty well behaved for a situation where apparently everyone in the City thinks we're gonna default on.ft.com/43eNFhX

This would be a very positive and needed change.

Before they changed the constituency boundaries, I used to have Afzal Khan as my local MP. Every time we had Levy Pride on, he made a point of tweeting something nice, polite and supportive about it. And back in 2013 he voted for gay marriage when it comes to it.

I say this as someone who only just realised this, but I think those of us who spend large portions of our leisure time following/commenting/joking about politics underestimate the big ways that politicians are not more successful versions of ourselves but actually a very different type of person

Indeed, the last few years has been the big two ignoring multiple warning lights about how secure they are. The whole 'mid 2019 shows multi-partyism will just vanish overnight' thing is deeply odd. Like, the lesson you took there was how much people really loved the Tories and Labour?

I don't think this is wrong per se - negative polarisation is a powerful thing - but it does require that to still be the case in a few years time. Which isn't a given.

The principle that we all contribute to high quality public services and a welfare safety net is a good one. Solidarity is a virtue. It’s not progressive nor left-wing to attack it as a principle. We all contribute, but those with the broadest shoulders contribute the most.

Counterpoint: tax wealth *and* work. Or else explain the radical public service and welfare cuts you’ll make to fund so as not to tax work.

I am increasingly skeptical of Mainstream's ability to provide the soft-left organising hub that we need. The weird 'fanclub' vibe that it projects, the massively over aggressive comms and the focus on developing public policy are huge red flags that will limit its reach.

Embarrassing.

He chose this headline himself. Relatedly Giles did Tory Home/Foreign Office comms from 2022. It explains a few things. He's showing the same masterful touch at ConHome.

This headline is, erm, a choice

Meanwhile on @lbc.co.uk Nick Ferrari telling his US guest ‘good luck with your new Muslim mayor we have had one for ten years he’s been terrible ‘.

I wish those weather people on the radio would announce the currently unusual warm weather in a slightly less enthusiastic way. 18 degrees in November is not normal.

big, multicultural cities - they're good!

This is very, very good - would recommend. Captures something I think a lot of people have been dancing around - and a crucial flaw in many moderate social democrats where we get so obsessed by practicality that we lose the broader picture entirely.

this is genuinely wild

Yeah, I'm sorry but the idea that being a racist cunt is a protected characteristic now is extremely clearly not the intent of the law and it's ridiculous to pretend it is.

“The sad truth is that reader interest in African stories is very low; whereas in Israel and Gaza it is high. Data analysis allows media outlets to count these views and clicks very carefully — and take them into account when deciding whether to commission expensive foreign assignments.”

Labour is delivering on making Britain a clean energy superpower. The Green Party opposes it.

I live in London, and the mayoralty of New York City makes no practical difference to my life at all, but my goodness it’s been a while since I rooted for anyone as strongly as I’m rooting for Zohran Mamdani

One underrated aspect of Zohran is that he always wears a suit, always presents himself professionally while still doing fun and approachable retail politics. You don’t have to drape yourself yourself in hypebeast and post thirst traps, you can be fucking grown up respecting the office and be fun

The New World appears to be trying ti challenge The FT as *the* paper of Bluesky. Almost like good, interesting and deep journalism is back on the menu

EXCL: £800k raised in Your Party launch has not yet been transferred to YP Zarah Sultana is being accused by YP sources of delaying the transfer for political advantage Sources close to her deny this & say her request for access to documents is reasonable 👇 www.politicshome.com/news/article...