NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

“I voted for none of this." Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

With the government bringing in new restrictions against immigration, many people assume net immigration will nevertheless remain high. However, the evidence actually suggests that immigration will fall dramatically over the coming years and reach lows not seen for decades (pandemic aside). (1/x)

Just horrific.

Just watched Starmer's speech - easily the best I've ever seen from him.

New video from me! youtu.be/tSv9DzQc6eA

Many people and institutions that fight back are winning. This is a large part of the reason to scorn the people and institutions that have caved. When this is over their lives should be made miserable. More, I mean.

Kimmelist forces seize control of communications infrastructure.

When Richelieu said "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them which will hang him" trials were much lower quality. Despite world being complicated many people actually behave honestly; we need more trust in politics. www.reuters.com/world/us/no-...

Pretty astonishing stuff. Going after members of the Fed who don’t do what you want: bad. Going after them with wrong information that will definitely come out: stupid as hell.

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

Many media types and Dems continue to operate as if Trump is a politically invincible figure, a "Teflon Don." But in truth he's becoming an increasingly weak, failing, diminished, unpopular, naked-emperor figure, and it's time to treat him as such. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2000...

If a Labour government with 400 seats which has nailed its colours to the masts of planning reform and the green transition can't steam roller people like this and their ridiculous selfish BS objections, then what on earth is the point of it?

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions and this fuels populism www.ft.com/content/9251... via @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

The world is full of young men who lived dissolute lives, who think as they approach middle age, that ideological rigidity and moral posturing are the path back to self-respect and redemption.

Timeline cleanse

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

This is a good thread but zero sum worldview is not limited to the right! Tax rises that target the rich are often supported from a sense of 'screw them even if it makes the country poorer'

I just want people to know that being a dad is great

But state control of business was historically a key attribute of socialism - ownership of the means of production, clause 4 etc. Odd to call this history a kind of brainwashing.

Yes, the stakes here are large. Very large.

this has proven a useful shortcut to finding out who to mute. Anyone moronically asserting that Starmer is further right than Thatcher, implying international atrocity unheard of before now, that 20% unemployment in the North better than what we have today, needs to sit down with some history

I always enjoy reading the TripAdvisor London Forum because I'm fascinated to see what foreign tourists expect, what they ask about and what surprises them. I thought this post from someone from Texas was a really lovely and cheering comment about riding the tube late at night

It’s ironic that at its historic peak Labour was economically radical and culturally conservative and that despite all the changes in Britain since Attlee that’s what it needs to be again.

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Trump Approval - 18-29 Year Olds: February 7, 2025: 🟢 Approve: 55% 🔴 Disapprove: 45% July 18, 2025: 🔴 Disapprove: 72% 🟢 Approve: 28% - YouGov -

Feels like doing any "release files" story as a distraction is bound to fail

New video: youtu.be/_dgU9bK-Tx0

Alligator Alcatraz = internment camp. This broke me… “32 individuals inside a cage. It was 81° where we were standing…inside it was probably even hotter. How do I know? Because there was individuals sweating with their shirt off, while they chanted libertad, libertad, libertad.” - State Sen Jones

The Times have allowed me to print the distilled essence of my life philosophy - I wrote this about why everyone should be a pessimist. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

No one wants to defend Trump's bullshit policies before the courts. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Trump administration really, really sucks at governing. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

I think the extent to which Trump has sustained desires and beliefs beyond some core self-aggrandising impulse (and, specifically, a love of tariffs) is a genuinely hard question.

It's true that the government lacks imagination and was underprepared for office. But there's a wider dearth of thinking in British politics about how, in concrete terms, to address its multiple crises. That's left a yawning vacuum for those who want to exploit, rather than solve, those problems.

It’s amazing what people get away with observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

It's a misread of public opinion to see opposition to Israel as a woke metro elite thing (though progressives care about it a lot more). In a recent YG poll just 12% thought Israel's actions in Gaza were justified.

A good assumption is that, as perhaps the most successful sustained political party in the world, the Conservatives will come back from defeat and that they have some idea about how to do so. A second good assumption is recovery involves winning over more people. But reality offers us...

Why the Prime Minister regrets using the phrase "island of strangers" and writing about incalculable damage, in his Observer interview with Tom Baldwin observer.co.uk/news/politic...

New video from me: youtu.be/iyrKK8T8n8c The Flaw That Makes Israel Weak

This is Kemi Badenoch defending Israel's attack on Iran. Yet she backs its assault on Gaza that targets city centres, high-rise housing, hospitals & civilians - and reportedly tells MPs to stay silent over Trump cuddling up to the Kremlin. So many layers of hypocrisy swirling around this conflict

Another poll showing Trump’s approval rating on immigration falling. And in this one, it’s falling quicker than his rating on other issues open.substack.com/pub/yougovam...

Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some in my audience get frustrated when I change the title of a video. But look what a difference it can make. How Trump Wants to Trap the Left ➡️ Trump Set the Trap. But It's Not Working...

U-turn on this, on Abrego Garcia, and his ratings on immigration returned to negative territory. Commentators overreacted to awful LA riots and missed that Trump has had a bad week on immigration.

A whole YEAR after barring my kids anywhere near my Spotify - the algorithm recommendations are FINALLY back on point.