Its impossible to have too many books, and as for the cables, well you never know, worth keeping them in that dusty box just in case

Yeah, this is the kind of subtlety that gave us 3 Sims/Sims 3

One of my favourite instances of this was when one of these purportedly 'UK Patriot' type accounts got tripped up by not realising that Brum was a reference to Birmingham

TBF I'm not familiar with his early work, but since he has emerged as a public figure, for someone cast as a thinker, Glassman seems remarkably un-thoughtful. Like this is just rote 'anti-woke' verbiage that could've been published at any point over past decade

There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.

The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone

They'll just deport some more pro-Palestinian students and then the total sum of anti-Semitism will net out, same principle as carbon offsetting

No matter which way you cut it, this has become a very unpopular government - now at Johnson on resignation day and Corbyn in mid-2019 levels of dislike, including among their own voters. Only Truss-tier is yet to be reached, though with Reeves already at Kwarteng levels, it's not out of sight.

As someone who consumes a lot of political content in the current era I am pretty jaded, but this has genuinely blown my mind

Yes, if only we had an agency that could provide "food, doctors, and everything else that are desperately needed" in Sudan.

"In return, Moscow would promise not to further attack Ukraine or other countries in Europe, according to the officials, and would codify that promise in legislation."

62% of Israelis, and 73%(!) of Jewish Israelis, said they'd oppose Palestinian statehood, even if it's coupled with normalization with Saudi Arabia. The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

To quote @mcopelov.bsky.social, “‘Who was actually president in 2020?’ continues to be the central cleavage in American politics in 2025.”

Another missed opportunity to make a principled argument that people who have lived here a significant period of time during which they have contributed in various ways should have certain rights. In many cases these people will be in long-term relationships with UK nationals with dependent children

It's funny how American commentators will talk up the horrors of socialism and insofar as they ever expand on what that means in practice, its often this kind of stuff.

Am I missing something here or the government position that failings in the asylum regime are driving racism against non-white UK citizens, and that some performative toughness against newly arrived claimants will address this?

The tone of an organisation is set from the leader on down, and the tone of Keir Starmer's leadership has always been 'say it if it is convenient'.

i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate

Immigration policy needs to be taken away from the home office. They’ve failed to balance economic effects, humanitarian obligations and border control. It is so cross cutting it should probably go to the Cabinet office . The HO can then focus on the borders bit while the policy is done elsewhere

"highly trained specialists have been pulled into immigration work, such as analysts who assist in money laundering and counterterrorism" "new duties have included compiling addresses of undocumented immigrants...and making arrests at traffic stops [and] big-box store parking lots"

The seeming influence of Glasman is genuinely bizarre. What exactly are his credentials as a strategic political genius?

IDK how much more evidence you could possibly need to conclude that this agenda isn't about 'freedom of expression' in any kind of genuinely holistic sense

Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right

The asylum 'reforms' remind me of the proposed welfare 'reforms' in that rather than actually rethinking the system from first principles, we're getting arbitrary and badly-designed policies driven by short-termist considerations. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every single one of these stories deserves to be aired nationally, and talked about until the people responsible learn shame

For a former DPP, this is dismal

Fascinating look into how reputation laundering works in practice

So tariffs *are* inflationary now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Unless someone in the Treasury reassures the markets pretty soon, there’s every chance the UK will need to raise *more* tax for less in return. Total clusterfuck in the making, this. Having a budget fall apart more than a week before it’s actually be delivered might be a new record.

There's a bit in Fight Club where Ed Norton talks about his contempt for Giant Pandas who won't screw to save their species and I often think of it in the context of this Labour government

What is wrong with these people. They just spent two weeks rolling the pitch for a U-turn on a policy they didn’t even do yet?

Slight tangent, but this makes me think of Polish football hooligan culture which is simultaneously incredibly authoritarian and anti-Police, not least given the overlap with various criminal activities (drugs etc)

What would really unlock the Epstein scandal is finding out why Acosta cut that insane plea deal. Epstein plead to soliciting a minor. Which is bad. But not nearly as bad as what he was doing. And so the world acted accordingly. Some times in ignorance, some times with greed and cynicism.

I might be missing something but while the stuff that's come out in the Epstein e-mails isn't exactly great for Trump, its still not up there with him boasting about literally committing sexual assault, which didn't stop him from becoming President twice. So I'm bit skeptical this will do for him.

NEWS: Miami US Attorney prompted prosecutor resignations by demanding they sign statements under penalty of perjury naming those with whom they discussed an assignment expected to target Trump's foes, prompting office-wide fear of witch hunt news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

A passage that does indeed read rather differently to the "indivisibility of the internal market" positions of the past

I don't think Ed is the optimal solution but given where we are, he might be the least-worst? Certainly no one else really jumps out. And I think could be better suited to being PM than LOTO which is slightly different skill-set.

This has been normal British cabinet politics since 2016

Am fascinated by Starmer's own assessment of how and why we've ended up here www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just struck me, apropos of nothing in particular, that if we get indy majority in next year's Scottish elections and in next GE we get Reform majority in England (especially on relatively low vote share) and SNP majority in Scotland, odds of some kind of wildcat indyref would be relatively high

Really hard to try to work out the principal motivation of somebody who comes to mark Polish national independence day with a Confederate flag

The key point which is oddly absent from much of the wider debate on this

Internal dysfunctionality isn't necessarily an absolute bar to achieving short-term political success so I wouldn't completely write-off Your Party but in addition to being objectively hilarious, it does feel like it is hobbling its potential at critical juncture www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Absolutely useless and pathetic, the local elections can't come round soon enough 🗑️

It can mean pretty much anything, but regardless, it is almost always deeply cringe

Feel like the line should be 'Are we seriously claiming that Trump did not incite violence on January 6th in an attempt to overturn a democratic election'? The Russia stuff, while somewhat valid, just feels a bit stale.

Other than things involving actual death and suffering, this is probably the worst and most disturbing thing I've read in a long time

Joyce Carol Oates' assessment of Musk also reminds me of this brutal Stephen Collins cartoon

Fraser 'Brexit means UK no longer has a populism problem' Nelson