So I’m going to block vote for whoever is best placed to beat the Reform/Conservative block, while holding my nose. But how do I know who that is? It’s on its face a safe Labour ward. It’s younger, whiter and a bit more affluent than most of Birmingham. Not LD territory. Low Green vote last time.

Fantastic news!

Even yet even better!

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

If this isn’t AI, my cock’s a kipper.

If this isn’t AI, my cock’s a kipper.

BREAKING: DOJ investigates the Hungarian electorate for Mortgage Fraud

I mean, it wouldn’t. Not even a tad.

Insofar as they have any real effect (which, if you are reasonably careful and a bit creative, they don’t), they are a bad thing. Pseudo-quantification of the immeasurable and the unknown is pointless and retrograde.

Drinking is fattening, because when you drink you eat more cheese and pudding.

The language of genocide. Overt, and unabashed. Not one of these people should ever again be able to set foot outside the USA without fear of arrest.

For those with a sense of irony - the sole authority doctrine (ie the President has sole authority to use nukes) evolved to keep the decision out of hard-line bonkers military types and in the hands of a sane and legitimate civilian leader. Yup.

Well, yes. But let’s remember he’s doing it because Iran is a Russian ally, not because he cares about war crimes (like, for instance, waging a war of aggression, or abducting children in occupied territories. Those war crimes are fine).

Still, thank fuck for the dogs.

One meaning of ending the civilisation is he is going to do something truly awful. Another is that he’s talking moronic gibberish. How would anyone know?

They bloody weren’t all the same, there was a damn difference, and you can’t well-ackshewerly your way out of simply voting to stop the worst of the worst. A lesser evil than voting for, sure; absolutely so. But if you couldn’t choose the lesser evil then, don’t try to plead it as a defence now.

People have forgotten that the original purpose of social media was to post cat photos and make dad jokes.

Hah, hah, hah, hah Stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

A bit much this, from quite a few perspectives, not least that the US massively out-appeased NC.

See, weird clouds where this chap is, too.

What do these weird clouds MEAN?

I was thinking about this the other day and I feel like the publics response to Covid showed that people are willing to accept hardship if politicians are honest with them about why. If anything, that period showed that general population were less infantile than the political class.

On 4th April 1945 Italian partisan and Red Cross nurse Cecilia Deganutti (codename 'Joan of Arc') is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste [Thread] >> 1

I have just seen a reference to the Health Sec saying the Gov will replace the ambulances burnt in the antisemitic attack free. I don’t quite see why the Government should be saving the insurers money, though? Perhaps he just means pay the excess? Or is there some other factor?

Not very traditional, for South London. I mean, he handed them in. 30 years ago …

My surgery sends this …

Bodes well…

I’ve just passed a shop which says on a door “curated women upstairs”. What on earth can that mean?

Sunshine interspersed with violent winds and hail storms here. End times …

A real state of the nation story ➡️ A drunk 62-year-old “patriot” with 113 offences on his record assaulted a council worker because he wrongly thought the man was removing Union Jack flags from lampposts. (Via @manchestereveningnews.co.uk.web.brid.gy) www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Not sure we’ve come to terms with the difference between the blocs, we intending bloc voters. On the right, the bloc is two parties, one big and one small. On the left, there’s 3 pretty close in England, 4 in Scotland. It’s much harder for bloc voters on the left to know how to vote.

Blair’s Labour gave refugees permanent residence as soon as their asylum claim was granted. And. Nobody. Minded. Senior immigration officials delude themselves - and Ministers - that these distinctions matter to publics They don’t, only immigration bureaucrats care.

“People had repeatedly said they needed a “reason” to vote Labour.” Astonishing, if true

I must be being naive, but I just don’t understand what he meant by this?

I move between feeling sick at just how open so many people now are in their antisemitism and relief that people I admire are waking up to just how bad things are on what could loosely be called their 'side'. Twitter has more open Nazis. This site has more antisemites with 'be kind' in their bios.

If this indeed represents a moment when Trump is trying to end the Iran war, it should be noted that the only state to benefit from all this was Russia. Higher fuel prices, sanctions relief, Belarus rehabilitated, and a pro Russian government still in Iran. Funny that.

The consequence is that LLMs seem to behave like the worst kind of online 'history buff' - the apparently knowledgeable enthusiast who deploys historical information to prove a point and for confirmation of pre-conceived theories, and is actually the antithesis of the historian

One of the (many) reasons LLMs are terrible for history is their sycophancy; it's foundational to good history that we learn not to seek evidence that confirms our prejudices, yet LLMs have a strong tendency to do exactly this - to find a way, if they can, to say 'yes' to any query

Apparently, the Jews did it.

A lulu …

Statement by the Senate of Tel Aviv University

I’m not sure why you see the need to try to bring actual sense to this ludicrous, nonsensical word-salad.

If you're thinking of telling your students tomorrow about how King Harold sailed his army to Hastings, maybe make it a lesson in source criticism. www.marcmorris.org.uk/2026/03/did-...

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Once again Davos Man, after attending seminars on how the state matters less and less in a globalised world, will be calling upon the state as backstop.

These “hallucinated” cases: how often do lawyers here cite a case in a skeleton or pleading that they haven’t looked at, or AT LEAST haven’t taken from a reputable practitioner work or textbook?

Do I have a memory of him as a fairly decent old-style Tory, or am I thinking of someone else?

People go on about the wheel, but if you think about it, stairs are a pretty brilliant invention too.

For an internet platform, Audible is astonishingly rubbish at the internet. Trying to find a book that is missing from my library, I am looking at a page which, while telling me they are experiencing high call volumes, doesn’t actually have the phone number on it.

From Healey's autobiography. The quote from Kolakowski seems particularly relevant today as populists surge on the right and left of politics and we seem determined to forget what we already know.