Labour supporters believe exactly the same thing, as if all the government's problems are down to The Sun and GB News. Given older Brits don't watch/read them, but young people do, online, it just looks like the old complaining about the young, as seen throughout history.

honestly as a non-american the pardon power truly baffles me. who thought it was a good idea that the executive branch can just un-crime someone? genuinely like how did that come about

Wrapped 2025 has dropped 👀👀 How has Britain's democracy performed this year? Let's check...

With the exception of Leeds, York, Cambridge and Nottingham/Rushcliffe, it's accurate to call the Danelaw the heartlands of Leave, but there is a lot of Leave within Wessex too.

Trump refused to pardon turkey after turkey failed to purchase enough TrumpCoin.

We could do with an updated version of this broadcast about the need for electoral reform and proportional representation. But party politics aside, John Cleese makes a good summary of the basic reasons for reform and for fairness in our voting system. youtu.be/3bDIxI8HV8g?...

As a starter, proportional representation, SCOTUS reform, and making the US prosecutors independent of POTUS, yes. After this past year it's clear that the institution of the American Presidency can never be trusted again. I go bolder in this @liberalcurrents.com piece: bsky.app/profile/denn...

the weird thing on bluesky is that activists would prefer boats to keep coming than have Labour win the next election because they stopped coming, even if they are Labour supporters.

the latest trend in media hype about wrongly-named AI is that the media is overhyping a technology that doesn't add any value. Stock market idiots still pricing in returns that require it to become dangerous enough to be a Hollywood movie villain in 5 years, when it just won't.

My new Capitolism @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social digs into an under-discussed way that Trump's tariffs are kneecapping American businesses: their INSANE complexity. You think you know how bad it is? You have no idea. "Welcome to Tariff Complexity Hell" 🎁: thedispatch.com/newsletter/c...

The same thing is happening with all scientific debates. People defer to what they hear about vaccines or global warming instead of understanding the science for themselves. bsky.app/profile/post...

2028 presidency hangs on Chad... and Stacy. If only Democrats would stop ignoring them. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sto...

Accurate damning stuff. The problem is that tens of millions of Americans believe Trump is the ultimate dealmaker, while Ukraine and Gaza plans have fizzled into nothing. Reality TV isn't real but has massively warped perception of reality.

I know why Remainers made a huge fuss about the remote chance of war with Spain, as gently implied by Michael Howard. It's not just because that's two members of Nato. It's because they think 1808 is ancient history. If they think Labour's 1980s euroskepticism is ancient, that's not surprising.

Norwegians? @robinwigglesworth.ft.com

From a sharp friend: “I left the room before they killed him” is the new “I did not have sex with that woman.”

even if a computer can do AGI in 10 years, why would you spend $140K on electricity and the amortization of hardware to do the work of a human who would cost you $45K ?

"Companies are choosing to leave the U.S. for a new home north of the border, thanks to changes in trading policies, immigration practices and even energy regulations under the Trump administration." share.google/29W1zfUa4toh...

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

I wish people would stop implying that Marxists are cool enough to also be wiccans

Sounds like that auto-beatnik poetry from the 1960s.

The unspoken truth here is that the "right" level of migration is "the one which makes voters stop saying migration is a problem en masse". In theory the big drop in numbers should reduce salience (they have been linked in past) but there are complications... 1/2

Every week, more voices in the media are coming out against First Past the Post. @fromtga.bsky.social is right: FPTP could allow any kind of dangerous populist to take power on a minority of the vote, or by taking over the ruling party. PR would help safeguard our democracy.

What is China's primary goal in bringing fentanyl to the US? Is it just to make money? Or is it to cause decay in the US society that it can exploit to make itself relatively stronger?

Breaking: Costco is suing Donald Trump for his tariffs, declaring them illegal and demanding a “full refund” for raising prices nationwide.

Labour has alienated business *and* has shed votes to the populist left: because it is sceptical of its instincts where they have been best, and indulgent of them where they have always failed in the past. This week's column:

Over the past half century, a nominal $140K household income has shifted from "cartoonishly rich person" to "lower end of upper middle class". I wonder how much this money illusion colors non-wonk discourse

This seems plausible. Are we surprised that the people who believe Trump’s stories also suffer from money illusion?

Trump: capital letter, exclamation point, close brackets, period. grammarians: AAAAAAAH

the Nazis were all hard-left, mysticism-loving hippies in uniform with their quack medicine and drug habits. It wasn't just Gregor Strasser who was on the far left.

If Ireland really wants to show solidarity it should join Nato. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

An addendum to today's post paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-...

"The point of this exercise isn’t really to get a conviction — it’s to intimidate current or retired officers who might be tempted to speak out about Trump and Hegseth trying to compel the armed forces to do their bidding regardless of the law," @maxboot.bsky.social writes. https://wapo.st/4rAW89S

Obama not sure America survives Trump. Neon alarm. A strongman corroding checks, gaming power, punishing critics. Holder stays hopeful, but Obama’s worry says the risk is systemic and accelerating.

"Needless to say, I had the last laugh with this well-argued reply"

This is the Putin playbook. Freedom of speech will be dead in about 6 years if this continues. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Muslim integration is going "so well" in Europe. #ReformUK

Starmer really shouldn't be bothered by lefties who spend 100 times as much time talking about the Belgrano or Iraqis as they do talking about the millions killed by Pol Pot, Stalin or Mao. Communism is still the deadliest idea in history.

Both those offences require the victims to be human. The Trump administration doesn't consider non-white people to be "proper humans." There is no body of law to hold them accountable in practice, including the UN or "the Hague". bsky.app/profile/sant...

Burnham sounds like he's giving us fiscal cakeism. Keep borrowing a lot every year, but completely ignore the bond markets. It's one or the other.

But none of this would particularly matter if we weren't all forced to fund it. If C4 News did this, we would all shrug that it's typical of them and doesn't matter.

No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

the big lie is that Trump is "only" calling for the death penalty for "seditious" Democrats, when of course he will try to kill any brave and noble Republican too. He's going to take down the entire US political system. If illegal orders are obeyed it's all over.

It seems obvious that the UK has already reached this point, mostly thanks to lax policy under Blair and Brown, but no PM since the 1960s is unguilty.

'London should become a city state after hard Brexit' http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/london-should-become-a-city-state-after-hard-brexit-a3494331.html

behold: mtg's base

somebody has got America's number

Labour still plotting "The revenge of Chaos With Ed Miliband" for summer 2026