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Unzoomed #670 5/6 🟡🔴🟡🟡🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com infuriating

Not sure about this advertising campaign

If Shabana is the designated successor of choice to Starmer of the Labour Together faction, explain to me as if I were a small child how this is supposed to get her elected first by the PLP and then by Labour Party members?

The older I get I realise that I’m fundamentally (ho ho) an Anglican agnostic.

The Mahmood doctrine seems to be "we must be performatively cruel to refugees to keep the existing POC in Britain safe?" IIJM or is this as dumb as shit? At least with Patel or Braverman you could chalk some of this up to islamophobia. This just seems nuts?

Ah Viz

The excessive "hesitancy" around deporting children + families obviously refers to the 2010-24 governments. It is Labour's argument that Theresa May, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick and their colleagues were too hesitant about child deportations + that need to be tougher

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tfw your on every page of a textbook called "introduction to political science" under the heading "how not to do this"

All of this white paper is heinous in the extreme but this is hideous [Alt text added]

"Bolshevik mice" for a few of you who know who you are.

Man goes to doctor Goodwin and says “Doctor I’m so sad and depressed and my political project is failing “ “You should go own the libs; quick win, makes everyone happy.” “But Doctor, my voters are the libs”

Oh fuck him in the ear hole

I hate it but my contempt would be less disdainful if they were actually successfully keeping public opinion on side, but they aren't, and it is so galling to be told I am out of touch by these idiots.

Sure, but what is the continued viability of the Labour Party and the right of minorities in the UK to live their lives free from bigotry when weighed against McSweeney's self-image as a man who makes good strategic choices?

Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.

"The Defendants apply by notice dated 13 May 2024 to strike out the claim, brought by the First Claimant, Mr John Wyllie ("Mr Wyllie") and two of his companies, which is advanced in the sum of £292,806,729,326,976,872,097,543,994.24, alternatively £377,594,620,661.41, as at 29 March 2024. "

Picked up The Go-Between and just what is the point of footnotes like this

this is of course 100x worse from this lot than from the previous one because here the correct direction is also the one that feeds a core clientele of yours, just shit policy for shit reasons, AND to shit in the boots of your own people (whom revealed preference shows you hate)

this is nowhere more blatant than in higher ed. World class export, cross funder for your domestic needs in the sector, balancing the current account w/ a touch of soft power, and you one-shot it to chase foreigners of the very type that no one really objects to, and who for the most part won't stay

Finding out that who passes for an ideological guru for this lot seriously believes the future of Britain is blue-collar reindustrialisation explains a lot tbh

Both are grim, but I almost think the 'jewellery snatching' policy is a distraction from the other one; that someone the UK legally agrees has rightfully fled here out of fear for their lives can be forcibly removed after spending 19 years and 364 days here.

Another highly insightful battlefield update from Konrad Muzyka. Russian drone use vs Ukraine's rear "has created a dynamic in which Ukrainian losses among logistics personnel and drone crews now exceed those among infantry" rochan-consulting.com/impressions-...

Unzoomed #669 3/6 🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

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

Everywhere I look, something reminds me of her

So… the idea here is for McSweeney to position her as Starmer’s successor? I can see some problems with this approach given the routes to get there

Your Sunday night dinner is probably healthier than mine but…

Reading a fantasy novel and trying to figure out whether the Old Language being spoken by the colonial subjects happens to be Esperanto is a Big Clue or just lazy world building

Ultimately the vision of britain that starmer has is profoundly cynical, nasty and just not true. He thinks that abidicating his responsibility in showing that another option is maturity and doing the difficult thing, but he's literally just creating the hateful country he is so afraid of

The two universal use cases for a smart speaker: A) playing music b) setting timers

Hilariously I’ve just found out that Ricky Gervais’s New Romantic band failed to become Big In Japan but instead managed to become Big In the Philippines which sort of feels like a too on the nose metaphor for his career

The lost New York of (checks notes) 2018

Don't worry, more gimmicky policies based on a simple reading of issue polling will sort this out

What I love most about this story is the NYT’s obliviousness to the fact that in other anglophone cultures the slang for tight male underwear or swimwear is ‘budgie smugglers’ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

Huh, generally not a fan of the nostalgic English pastoral, but A Month In The Country has the shard of steel in the nostalgia to make it a short book that will stay with me for a long time

Unzoomed #667 5/6 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com annoyingly my first guess was this or another city in the same country but I underestimated the country’s size

incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy

So anyway, cars.

CHOON (Just a shame about the film itself)

Happy Nov 14th, everybody!

Unzoomed #666 3/6 🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com oh ffs

youtu.be/6bfKredivMU middle aged British people on here contemplating the current government

I would genuinely love to know what specifically has caused this cold feet at almost the last minute. Lads you gave yourself an extra month or so to get this right.

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?

Once more with endless feeling

Further proof if you need it that while the leadership circle of this government love to roll out rhetoric about hard choices, they don’t actually have the gumption for action.