Clearly they are the same size, the one on the right is just further away.

My great grandparents fled Tsarist Russia as teenagers to build a better life for themselves in America. Almost every Jewish family in America, including Katie and Stephen Miller, share this background. I'm not sure how people like the Millers lost their way, but it breaks my heart to see. 1/x

Germans are like: mash up two wildly unrelated Italian specialities but give the misbegotten fusion a French name so they will get the blame.

What a power move. A lot of people will be wondering how they can join the Assyrian Church of the East.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

Truly this has to be seen to be believed. Very disturbing but also revealing of how severe Trump's character flaws are. Hard to imagine how someone could be so petty and lacking in dignity to behave this way, but here we are.

Tory MP and "rising star" Katie Lam supports the mass deportation of families who came to the UK legally — a policy so unprecedented it has been compared with Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians. But did you know Lam has drawn sartorial, as well as policy, inspiration from the brutal Ugandan dictator?

Alexis Petridis called it, I think it works www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmZX...

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

There is something really puzzling about DonkeyGate as a political attack. When the heart of the issue is that your political opponent bought a field so that his disabled mother could look after donkeys there, and then sold it after his parents died, this is not obviously a winning attack line.

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

This is of course correct, but I think the blind spot identified here is actually too specific. To say that the far right cause harm for pleasure risks focusing too much on the causing harm, and not enough on the pleasure. People get emotional payoffs from their ideological commitments themselves.

HOPE not hate can reveal that Lee Twamley, photographed at the front of Britain First’s “March for Remigration” in Manchester this month, has served prison time for trying to smuggle Vietnamese migrants into the UK. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/19/e...

This vibe is indeed pervasive in the UK, but there is something odd about it. The worst piece of UK public policy in the last decade is Brexit, a policy driven explicitly over the heads of the governing class.

DUNE 3: JUST DESERTS

Somehow we allowed the meaning of "doxxing" to go from "exposing private information about people you disagree with in order to harm them" to "identifying the people doing crimes so they can be brought to justice". We should have called bs on this earlier.

Change my mind: some people need training to make them less assertive.

I haven't read Schuringa's book, so perhaps Setiya is unfair to him. But I do think it is worth expanding a bit on the discussion of the role of intuitions (since it seems to me that the true position is more nuanced than either acknowledge). So, a 🧵:

The thing with the whole "Joe Rogan, but on the left" discourse is that the problem with Joe Rogan is not fundamentally to do with his positioning on the right-left axis. The guy was a Bernie bro! Left-wing populists easily become right-wing populists because they have no intellectual standards.

"Katwala's paradox of racism" In a demonstrably less prejudiced society (attitudes shifted, esp across generations), I am in receipt of much more racism Minorities in 2020s have more equal opps than ever before - esp at very top - yet an increasingly unequal experience of more equal opportunities

Yes, but can he make the economy grow that way?

So Stewart Pearson is running for Governor of California? Ok, totally normal timeline, nothing to see here.

Takes like this irritate me so much. Here is what occurred: some people decided that the best way to support their (reasonable!) cause was to engage in highly obnoxious and borderline racist protests that alienated people and produced a huge (and even more obnoxious) backlash.

Looking ahead to the disability benefits green paper, this essay for @citizensadvice.bsky.social makes the case for a system focused on improving health outcomes. Co-authors @maddyirose.bsky.social, @victoria-anns.bsky.social & Simon Collerton We challenge the 5 big falsehoods underpinning cuts…🧵

Look, obviously my emotional reaction to that press conference is to punch a wall so hard either it or my knuckles break. But let put that on hold for a moment and ask, very dispassionately and calmly: What American national interest objective or foreign policy goal was served by that shit-show?

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

You GUYYYYSSSSSSS The military choir sang Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis at the governor's dinner at the white house. Thanks to @beebrookshire.bsky.social for helping me fact check tihs one. As far as I can it's only "officially" been posted on Dan Scavino's FB

The sad thing about this rubbish from Douglas Murray is the feeling that this kind of stupidity could be averted if he had simply done the reading. In this case the relevant reading is probably some Benedict Anderson. As an *imagined community*, the nation can be imagined inclusively or exclusively.

Apparently Trump said that a necessary condition for saving one's country is that one does not violate any laws. I guess the people who disagree think that committing a minor traffic offence is compatible with saving one's country, but not sure what the fuss is about.

read this letter. seriously, just read it. Trump’s quid pro quo with Eric Adams is an impeachable offense and democrats need to start raising hell

On Letby - summary of my posts last year: 1. No idea if she is innocent or guilty. 2. Defence chose (perhaps for good tactical reasons) not to put in their own expert evidence. 3. This meant that jury was perhaps not placed in best position to assess soundness of prosecution expert evidence. >

I’m tired of hearing about bats. Do you want to hear a story about jumping spiders and the town that disappeared? I think I might be breaking this story – do come be the first to read it.

There's a (famous?) scene in "Thank You for Smoking" where a lobbyist explaining his sophistry to his son says that to be effective in political arguments you don't have to win the argument in any conventional sense - you just have to discredit the other side. /1

Elon Musk has posed as a champion of those poor bereaved families in Southport but the killer watched a violent video just before his killing spree *on X* and Musk is refusing to take it down despite numerous official requests from UK & Australian authorities www.ft.com/content/3c89...

There's an interesting passage going around from this essay by Paul Graham where he compares "wokeness" to Christianity. www.paulgraham.com/woke.html One response will be obvious to political philosophers: the liberal impulse to be neutral between different value systems has some limits. 1/

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

The fact that people are continually surprised by the fact that bad people can make good art, even art that is good in part because of its moral insight, shows that we are still trapped in the mindset where moral failings always stem from a lack of moral understanding.

1/ I think the greatest success of the far-right hasn't been in marketing racism for its own sake, but rather deceptively positioning of it as an effective if perhaps distatestful answer to major policy problems. Like it's a necessary evil you have to swallow if you want to address the big issues.

Matthew Booth is on the run after being recalled to prison, accused of restarting a relationship with his ex. By @rajeevsyal.bsky.social It should be unbelievable, but sadly it's not #IPPscandal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Imho, content moderation is a lot like Frodo ending up with the One Ring (i.e. as a burden and obligation). Congrats, you run a very important site and have made a bunch of money. Unfortunately, you have to carry this cursed ring to a volcano while the of Darkness tries to kill you. Good luck!

Since the HS2 bat tunnel is back in the news (turns out it may actually kill the bats), time for one more story. Which came first – HS2 or the bats?🚄🦇🧵

This whole article is amazing - remarkable story full of crazy details. A lot of the behaviour described is obviously terrible and destructive, but so weird that you have to laugh.

Two of my wonderful Leeds colleagues have new Cambridge Elements out and free to access for the next 4 weeks! Kal Kalewold (@kkale.bsky.social) on Metaphysics of Race: www.cambridge.org/core/element... Al Wilson (with Amanda Bryant) on Modal Naturalism: www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky

This is of course right. One thing that gives me a little bit of pause is the Kripke case. Obviously the only person who thinks McGinn is irreplaceable is McGinn. But maybe people really did think that Kripke was more or less irreplaceable, and were prepared to make allowances.

State your hypothesis before reading the thread (and specify a mechanism). Then go on a scientific adventure!

A new paper from @labourtogether.bsky.social supports calls for a National Immigration Plan, outlining their proposal for it include a range of targets based on govt's aims and policies for different visa and immigration routes with parliamentary oversight www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago 🧪 #IDsky www.science.org/content/arti...

This is an excellent piece. A few thoughts informed by it/in the same vein: (1) This assassination was wrong even if the victim was a bad enough person to be liable. (2) There are possible societies where the rule of law is so degraded that such assassinations become permissible.