Related to this, I think it’s under appreciated how much the radicalisation of Trump from his first term is because he doesn’t understand why becoming president didn’t make him respected.

I think what this gets to, for me, is that there are two models the world can take with America and we’re placing all our chips on the “managing up” model that keeps failing, and losing leverage we’re going to need for the “trade union” model we’re eventually going to have to adopt.

Part of the problem we face is today is that since roughly the 1980s politics and journalism has been increasingly dominated by people who think it’s inherently extremist to believe that some political decisions can be extremely dangerous.

Slippery Pete

a lot of people in entrenched positions of power (and law school profs qualify) are more worried about the left than about fascism, because they see fascism as upholding established hierarchies. 1

I see anti-trump Americans getting tetchy at being blamed for Trump or for not putting themselves on the line to stop him, and I do get it. But at the same time, there is nobody coming to save you. Nobody else can. We’d like to as it impacts us, but only Americans can solve an American problem.

Online safety is for making queer kids feel isolated and suicidal, not about stopping CSAM.

You may have heard ChatGpt won't believe Trump attacked Venezuela and kidnapped Manduro. I decided to test this and it is so resistant to the claim that if you push the point it starts questioning your mental health and suggests to contact a doctor.

So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Always a good time to mention that Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, one of the seeds of Italian Fascism, is about Marinetti feeling manly and powerful after crashing his car.

The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.

The US attack on Venezuela is an illegal act of aggression against a sovereign country (with lots of oil). Venezuela has become a more deeply repressive dictatorship & urgently needs democratic solution but this is unjustified & unjustifiable. Look forward to seeing swift UK Government condemnation.

Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist. Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

If one more meme-brained normie calls this a distraction from the Epstein files, I’m gonna fucking scream. The fascism isn’t a “distraction.” It’s the goal. They put it out years ago as a 900-page goddamn master plan, for fuck’s sake.

Metroid Prime 4 is a masterpiece. It's one of those rare revivals of a dormant series where it feels absolutely cut from the same cloth as the originals. A genuine masterclass in environmental storytelling and game design.

For the doubtful, just find any clip of Starmer speaking and look at this picture while listening.

The most important thing to understand about Kier Starmer is that the person he sounds like that you can never quite put your finger on is Tom from Tots TV. You're welcome.

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

It just seems unfair to suggest that a man who has made his career on racist politics was racist as a child with no evidence except multiple other children's corroborating accounts of racist behaviour.

if what I did was a "war crime" then how come I'm not in trouble

The Babylon 5 Problem: When a show is so good it builds a lasting reputation for everything except how cheap it was.

The @therestpolitics.bsky.social Zack Polanski interview is a fascinating listen. Perhaps the first time I've seen Polanski on the back foot in an interview and not actually coming out clearly ahead. Some signs of his other weaknesses, i.e monologuing around difficult questions.

Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.

What did they get in exchange for - say - categorically ruling out stage two of the Leveson Inquiry, and would we say that was in the public interest in the same way that this was

im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad This journalist basically agrees with Graham on everything and tries to write this sympathetically but also he is…mad archive.ph/2025.11.27-0...

I'm guessing that 90%+ of £2m+ properties are in London, which by sheer coincidence is where 90%+ of media whingers live. The ones that aren't in Florida or Dubai, anyway.

Some choose to go to their graves keeping their work for the resistance secret, and I respect their wishes.

Exceptionally nasty, in the quote below. Do you notice how, if the press wants damning evidence of Farage’s hateful views and behaviour, all they have to do is ask whether anyone has encountered it?

Budget Day #BudgetDay

Honestly, the takes on this place.

Are electrical outlets mad at me? Many users feel like they're looking at an angry little guy

Imagine going through life like this

I've never met a programmer who was actually any good and thought AI was useful.

Is this platform still massively against scabies or has it moved more towards acceptance?

there's that now-famous internet line about how climate change means watching clips of climate disasters on people's phones until you're the one filming it, and it feels like there's some parallel about watching fascist deportation goon squad videos until it's filmed on the streets you recognize

Is this platform still massively against NFTs or has it moved more towards acceptance?

i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

This is the first wapo op ed that I've agreed with in ages though

I am just so unfathomably angry at the conditions trans people in the UK have to live in. A man screaming in a teenage trans girl's face about how she's a pedophile, sissy porn addict, etc, is cleared of wrongdoing. The BBC coins the incoherent term "teenage trans woman" to deny her vulnerability.

Considering the number of typos, it's even worse

an underrated part of the British crisis is that the justice system is under massive strain, not least because criminal barristers are often being paid *less for taking a case than their costs in doing so.*. www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug... www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

I remember the last cross-examination question was about whether Sophia had been arrested. It wasn’t revealed at the time it was literally the convicted bigot who SWATTED her.

RIP Sean Connery you would have loved saying this headline