This is a really good point about regulation more widely. A lot of regulation gets complicated because the industry being regulated likes it that way.

It is actually possible to regulate gambling advertising, and while designing such a regulatory regime could be complicated, it can also be very simple, such as "there shall be no gambling advertising".

Wonder what's happened to the USS Abraham Lincoln. IRGC claim they damaged it, marinetraffic reckons it's somewhere near Indonesia. Not somewhere it'd be if it was participating in the war.

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them. "How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

It's quite incredible how it's somehow taboo to say the obvious truth about the UK, which is that it's a well integrated society where most people just get on with their lives no problem. Apart from a core of extremely insulated journalists and politicians who refuse to be integrated.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

Bombers, famously a purely defensive weapon.

Me: "I don't want to vote Labour because Starmer supported the Gaza genocide" Labour: Why do have all these impossible purity tests? Me: I'm voting Green because I like what Zack Polanski is saying Labour: How can you vote for him after HYPNOBOOBS!

The "Why can't the Green party stay as a narrow niche party we can safety ignore?" Is becoming quite a popular genre of article.

I have questions like: Why a Seat Leon? And also was it a stylish Mk1 model or one of the later duller variants?

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Just read this story and it is very misleading. It mentions wiping out £18.7bn in wealth, but that wealth only exists due to the right to rip off leaseholders. The £8.7bn "landlords" windfall is because some of the leaseholders benefitting will be landlords. www.standard.co.uk/business/mon...

This "you can't solve many problems by taxing the rich" has been the conventional wisdom for ages among wonks but I'm not sure it still holds. The sheer number of problems you can trace back to the ever increasing wealth of the rich is just huge.

The Trump administration is desperately searching for a way to back down that isn't a complete humiliation.

Interesting little snippet

Gonna take this one with a pinch of salt since only the only source on it is the US.

Here in the UK it's taken a generation for an insurgent movement in the form of the Green party to reach the stage where it might dislodge Labour. In the US it's even more dire.

Saw the MEN story about the attack on Hannah Spencer on Facebook and there's a comment falsely claiming that actually her supporters started the violence with over 1,100 likes. That platform is just so fucked.

Delete this. In the Silmarillion they explain that he has an experian score of 860

Lots of very good points about NATO in this thread.

I'm really shocked by the extent to which developers use AI. I get the idea of using it to write code, but using it with something as dangerous as Terraform seems incredibly irresponsible.

Trump really stretching that line about the "reality based community" to absolute breaking point.

Ready to receive them in the Bi of Biscay

Apparently Mothin Ali has been receiving death threats off the back of the statement in the commons the other day, well done Starmer for allowing this to take hold and not shutting it down at the time

The Economist never fails in it's ability to give us the insights of a smug 23 year old Tory PPE graduate.

A big part of why these people were ignored is that they were dismissed as "out of touch middle class" and that shut a lot of people up for a while because they kind of suspected it might be true.

There's a non-zero possibility of a coup in one of the gulf states against their pro-US/Israel leaders.

I got so much flak from Labour and NAFO types for calling bullshit on the "defending our allies" line. Now we've joined the US in a war that's a moral and strategic disaster.

Keynes "In the long run..." quote is coming to mind.

Guy called Medmannews on telegram is claiming that Qatar is using PAC-2 air defence missiles made all the way back in 2000.

Pretty sure Trump thought he could do a repeat of Venezuela, take out the senior leader, replace them with a more pliable figure, make a deal, declare victory. It's all got horribly out of control.

The very obvious point our political class refuses to recognise.

Btw

This is a defamatory lie @AlecShelbrooke. I am proudly anti-war and anti-racist. I make no apologies for attending a Stop the War protest. That does not mean I support the Iranian regime. I dare you to repeat your libellous statement outside of parliament.

The US spent a lot of it's munitions defending Israel last year... Can it run out of munitions? www.ft.com/content/c2cf...

The US officially confirms that 3x USAF F-15E Eagles were accidentally shot down by Kuwait in a friendly fire incident this morning.

Starmer must withdraw permission for the US to use UK bases to launch airstrikes on Iran and parliament must be given a vote on any UK involvement.

The Trump regime needs to end, quite frankly, the US needs to end.

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

This whole panic over "family voting" seems like right wing anti democratic move being dressed up in language about "safeguarding democracy"

Anyone on the left who wasn’t actively involved from 2015-19 needs to know what’s coming. 1, they’re going to throw multiple, often contradictory lies at the wall to see what sticks. Polanski will be simultaneously weak and strong, timid and aggressive, passive and dictatorial, old fashioned and

The "family voting" thing is surely just elders who don't know English getting their younger relatives to show them which box to tick.

Hello darkness my old friend...

[throwing my 'the ecoterrorist monsters want to turn your daughter into a drug-addicted prostitute' placard in the bin as I enter the pub] Thank god for our progressive alliance, right lads?

Before seeing this, I didn't know: - What those leaflets actually said - That the leaflet featured Netanyahu as well as Modi. The message on them is just so inoccuous. People complaining about them should be checking their own racism.

This graph is just a giant argument for electoral reform. FPTP just gives you a dominant parties that get taken over by lobbyists and undermines actual democracy.

Don’t look back in anger… on Friday. Only Labour can beat Reform. 👇🏻 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It's polling day! Vote for Labour's fantastic candidate Angeliki Stogia. Labour are the only party that can stop Reform. Vote for unity and hope over division and hate.

We are positive going into polling day because it’s only Labour that maintains support across both parts of the constituency. That’s why we are the main contenders.

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.