"BiBiCorp is too left wing"

Neo-conservatism, which now dominates on both sides of the Atlantic, is an exercise in concluding "this is an unknowable mystery" in response to extremely well-understood events.

Revelations about RW social media accounts being run from Russia correspond perfectly to data already revealed by the Panama, Paradise & Pandora Papers: Russian money streamed thru offshore accounts funds virtually all right-wing "populist" parties in EU & NAmerica. Same goal: undermine democracy.

1p on Income Tax would raise 20 times this, cost the average person around £30 a month at most, and, crucially, not risk collapsing one of our most valuable sectors.

More things UkLabour Know; but can’t admit ( becuase Bannon & Glasman , McSweeny & Starmer won’t let them)

We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?

Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.

While the rest of the world was at #COP30, the U.S. government was busy rolling back bedrock environmental protections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

The only guarantee of peace in Europe is a Ukrainian victory over russia.

#COP30 - “Our elementary school kids are reading textbooks that are more science-based and in line with reality than the [draft] text we have here, where we are supposed to fix this problem” says Juan Carlos Monterrey, climate envoy for Panama #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The Economist on the British government's proposal that the country with the comparatively best record on integration in one generation could emulate Denmark, which struggles in integration, and where the tough line on asylum presents further barriers

Child Poverty % Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1%

AI empowers the worst people to write more emails and create more Excel sheets and, ultimately, take up more of everyone else's time. We've lost about a year's progress at work trying to implement it.

thus far AI has empowered my boss to: - write more pointless emails that waste everyone's time - create public facing content that is more confusing and worse and undermines faith in our service because it reads like ChatGPT - waste six months pursuing meaningless trends he identified w/AI

Yes, this was always the ultimate destination and it’s where all those Sensible people who have been hectoring us for years are likely to end up, if they don’t pull out of their collective nosedive.

The stuff she said about lower grade immigrant workers not being “net contributors” really annoyed me. You don’t have to measure contribution financially. A nurse or cleaner contributes to society immeasurably.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't raise energy bills. Migrants didn't close community centres. Know what would help solve Scotland’s problems? Taxing the super-rich and building an affordable country for all.

endless self-owns by this government cos they'd rather listen to the austerity/fascism/techbro bullshit peddlers rather than acknowledging that the UK has incredible soft power assets that could actually do some good in the world - ditto, the wholly avoidable destruction of the universities

'neo-royalism' is a good gimmick but I think kleptocracy and technofascism/technofeudalism describes it better

Cop30: dozens of countries threaten to block resolution unless it contains roadmap to fossil fuel phase-out Countries supporting a phase-out of fossil fuels at the Cop30 climate summit in Brazil have threatened to block any agreement that does not include such a commitment.

The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Narinder Kaur, "They're disgraceful rules and they've pushed me from being a lifelong Labour supporter, to thinking about going over to the Greens" "Labour are not Labouring" "They're basically Reform UK policies"

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

It took a two year campaign of digital deep mining, bullshit and screeching to convince the public Old Jezza had a racism issue. This government is straight out wearing black in front of a billowing sixty-foot Union flag like Norsefire, promising to fuck up the migrants. These things are different.

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

Shot + chaser

It is genuinely mortifying how the only people I see pointing Reform's links to Russia out are /not/ Labour.

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

I don’t need to paint in AI backgrounds and generate fake voices and make ill informed searches and miss-the-point summaries badly enough to spend a fortune doing it. For free? Maybe it’s a giggle. Price it properly to cover costs, and you’ll find I’m doing something else instead.

AI is enormously complex and expensive, with insane overheads. If all it does is summarise shit moderately badly, draw queasy pop culture crap, and lie, but cost shitloads to use, it’s not a workable business. It’ll switch off. And you won’t be using it.

Are we headed for an actual climate disaster? "Growth of GHG forcing has diverged dramatically from that scenario (RCP2.6), with reality being close to the extreme RCP8.5 scenario" This is catastrophic. RCP8.5 will basically wipe out civilisation as we know it jimehansen.substack.com/p/warning-th...

“The interview which stood out the most was with Zach Polanski, it was refreshing because he does this thing where he answers a question then stops and says next question” Trevor Phillips

Angrily response to latest #COP30 draft negotiating texts, as group of European and developing nations insist they cannot back a deal that fails to provide a roadmap for tackling fossil fuels. www.businessgreen.com/news/4522191...

It's essential that a fossil fuels phase out roadmap is added to the #COP30 agreement. Let's keep the pressure on everyone who's there to make them understand that a habitable future for our planet depends on it.

this has “monopoly issues” written all over it www.ft.com/content/cd8e...

Just so: the financial crisis laid waste to Thatcherism but our politicians and media are all Thatcherites, so they have spent all the time since desperately trying to prop up the Thatcherite consensus. Doing this has led them to the verge of fascism.

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

That the richest man in the world is determined to jam fascist misinformation into mainstream discourse is an emergency. I don't know how else we can talk about it. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Never forget, never forgive

If you're wondering why a large chunk of ostensibly left-of-center pundits are waging war on environmental protections in the form of an "abundance agenda," it's because Silicon Valley has quietly developed a culture of rampant pollution.

This seems like a good time to remind people that everyone in politics and media knew very well that Johnson was a bent, disastrous imbecile and that he was made Tory leader *specifically because* he was the candidate the Mail, the Sun, the Times, the Telegraph and the Express would all get behind.

Obvs

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage. www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...