Step 1 might be to check whether his name is actually Tommy Robinson. Step 2 might be to call up the Quilliam Foundation (which doesn't exist anymore) and ask about the time that he became an anti-extremist working with them

If we expect AI to resolve climate change… brace for AI to eventually spit out ‘well, it might have worked if you hadn’t abandoned any thought about co2 in developing ai data centres, you fools’

Maybe this, not the data centres, is the infrastructure payoff from the AI bubble.

"omnidirectional incoherence" captures Trumpism perfectly

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

this part alone should be a big news story, and enough to dispel the lie the the gvt are in any way trying to 'fix the economy' or cost of living. even if you dont shop with (for eg) amazon, the stuff you buy in tesco costs more because of this stuff because thats how these things work

The problem with these weirdos is that they are as much in denial of the past that they purport to wax nostalgia over as they are over the present. The only way these sad little men with their sad little fantasies can operate is by refuting reality in every conceivable dimension.

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

The Wran, the Wran, the king of all birds...the tradition lives in Dingle in West Kerry and in other part of the country where traditional music is strong. jrnl.ie/6908042t

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

I've signed this. I spent three years in and out of Caversham for a thesis on one particular aspect of the BBC's history. But the BBC is one of the UK's four or five most crucial institutions of the last 100 years. Impossible to write much of that history with limited access to those archives.

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

Sigh. Really? bit.ly/4saL3fK if you’re going to dip your toe into the bitcoin stream makes sure it’s a toe you can afford to lose

Vance makes an explicit no enemies to our right + no racism boundaries at all ("self-defeating purity tests") offer to the Trump coalition.

Pleased to see this piece. Personally, I find these uses of synthetic data v concerning and I find the traction and endorsements that this work has to be quite baffling, esp given the well-storied role of algorithmic targeting in undermining democracy

New post: The shifting politics of transatlantic influence intelligencehistory.substack.com/p/the-shifti...

The economic data in general isn't great but there is one exception.... Investment. Business investment has grown significantly this year. Either (i) there is more underlying confidence than appears (latest PMI backs this up) (ii) some statistical oddity. Would love to hear thoughts.

Read some of the stuff written by Irish hunger strikers who survived. These people will suffer the impact of this on their bodies for the rest of their lives, if they survive and, at this point, that is getting increasingly unlikely.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Though worth noting the French and Italians argue that in bouncing the Germans and Finns into accepting a path towards Eurobonds they have put EU Europe's geopolitical ambitions on a more sustainable long term footing

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

Before and after DOJ realized they left Trump’s name in an Epstein document:

Appeal to all MI5 staff for information in BBC spy case www.bbc.com/news/article...

I don’t think “Reform and the Greens are the same actually” is ever going to fly. Voters aren’t fools.

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

NEW: "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials.” www.foxnews.com/politics/eps...

Every agency, under every president, has hidden or classified politically inconvenient and embarrassing information. This is partially bc there are no ramifications for overclassification - and there should be. Things that may help include financial penalties for willful and habitual overclass.

Is that who I think it is……?!

Paul Marshall - the presiding genius of every British disaster from coalition austerity to Brexit. Blame the managerial class for failing to implement the whims of the donor class properly. Don't blame the whims.

There is much to applaud in Labour's new inquiry into foreign interference in British politics But it needs to go much further if it's to tackle how foreign influence really works - and properly protect British democracy New by me on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labours-fo...

🔺 NEW: Sir Keir Starmer has appointed a career diplomat as Britain’s ambassador to the United States after Lord Mandelson was forced out over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

When I was in Moscow during Soviet collapse and Fall, Russian ‘patriots’ raged against Soviet Union in this exact phraseology. Russia made Baltics and Ukraine rich w subsidies. “Russian money for Russians”etc. And same xenophobia against migrants. Many of those today rage against Soviet collapse.

A major Tory donor has been sanctioned in the UK and EU for his alleged role in the Russian oil trade. The oil magnate Murtaza Lakhani was hit with a UK asset freeze and travel ban on the grounds that his activities were assisting Russia. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

Now this is an abstract.

In general, the following is simply fundamentally true: Europe's inability to take a stance on Israel that is 1% less complicit really discredited us, damaged our credibility (including among our own people), and spaffed away a lot of popular consent for (extremely necessary) continental rearmament.

You can tell this map was done by English people because they didn't even try with Ireland and Wales.

The government's keenness to protect "good jobs" in manufacturing contrasts with its inaction in the face of the destruction of "good jobs" in universities. What's going on here is something other than economics.

EU-Mercosur is, my apologies, a no-brainer. The US no longer wants a close relationship with Europe. Everyone is shouting for diplomacy and engaging with others. But quite frankly: who would those others be outside Europe if we are not ready to engage with South America?

Historical revisionism isn't what it was in my day. I remember New Labour putting the wrong turn at 1900 and the formation of the Labour Representation Committee.

"How far should teenage Farage’s behaviour influence public views of his credentials today as a political leader? That can be the subject of reasonable debate. What is no longer in serious doubt is the credibility of the allegations". - my column last week www.easterneye.biz/nigel-farage...

2025: Priti Patel says Labour adopting Erasmus is a betrayal of Brexit 2020: Priti Patel was Home Secretary when her boss Boris Johnson said Erasmus would not be taken away because of Brexit

Woah. Potentially a big story. A shenzhen team completed a working prototype of a EUV machine - ASML's most cutting edge - in early 2025. It was built by former ASML engineers, but has not yet produced working chips. China hopes to produce by 2028-30. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

This kind of statement would once be made inside the most rarified councils of state, some ultralimited Special Group, wherein POTUS & his most trusted advisors would commit to never putting anything in writing yet some handwritten archival scrap excavated 50 years later would reveal the truth.

Not sure if its better or worse that he's not banging on about the integrity of the inter-American system, a la John Foster Dulles on the Guatemalan coup of 1954. Naked geopolitical id.

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

The BBC Charter review should be a democratic public debate about the BBC's future. But the government's consultation launched this week doesn't give the public a genuine role & is fixated on replacing public funding with advertising or subscription Our vice-chair Dr Tom Chivers spoke to LBC News:

Ted Heath still getting credit for the Three-Day Week, I see.

Very good news, and a signal to many UK universities that it is crucial to rebuild closer relationships with European partners.