I don't fully share Stephen's view of the inappropriatness of this, but he's right that this is a 'sell' indicator for a future Rayner leadership bid:

BREAKING (and pretty jaw-dropping) NEWS: The "Quiet Revival" report which prompted huge excitement among churches over Gen Z flocking to church... Bible Society has now said the survey was "flawed". YouGov said many respondents were "fraudulent" They're withdrawing the report:

I love "the frontline barely moves" being said here as if it's bad for the *defender* in a war like this. Some real deep thinking behind that post, eh?

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"they go low, we go high" is still fundamentally correct. It does not mean not to fight back, like in the case of redistricting, but that you can't adopt a who cares attribute about basic human dignity because the other guys don't care.

As said down thread the instinct of a lot of people to abandon being bound to certain norms because the t other side doesn't respect them anyway is understandable, but it just becomes a populist race to the bottom of homophobia, antisemitism and conspiracism

Earnestness is the counter to this awful historical moment. It’s the way out. Unabashedly caring about others, about community and ideas, speaking the truth, standing for values. People want to believe in something more than a group sneer that looks down at others. @aselrod.bsky.social nails it.

i need all nationwide dems and dem candidates to fucking knock all of this shit off immediately

Like yeah they should but we’re gonna get German coproduction of PAC 3s and Kongsberg is ramping up European production too and there’s money to expand SAMP-T to double what it is now iirc. This isn’t the main concern for Europe if the US is unreliable it’s air mobility and ISR

there's a smaller contingent of people who genuinely don't like Trumpism but who have to imagine some kind of rationality to it because confronting the truth that the most powerful country in the world is in the hands of a senile racist lunatic is too psychially painful.

The Conservative Press Release has a MAP! What is the conspiracy being alleged here?

"It's not fair of environmentalists to point out that in addition to being finite resources that are actively destroying the planet, fossil fuels also leave us at the mercy of fragile supply and logistics chains significantly controlled by autocrats in geopolitically chaotic parts of the world."

Not sure why so many people appear to be in an emotional relationship with using fossil fuels.

This is great news: an immediate ban on political donations in cryptocurrency & a £100k cap on donations from UK citizens abroad. Yes, there's more that needs doing, & the door is left open to crypto in future. But we should celebrate (& applaud) the wins when they come. www.gov.uk/government/n...

BBC’s Health Editor Hugh Pym: Satisfaction in NHS in England, Scotland and Wales rises from 21% to 26% - first since 2019 when it was 60%. Analysis by Kings Fund/Nuffield Trust says this is positive but hard to say yet it’s a turning point

Reform UK's poll score is now heading downwards very quickly. Turns out that being really unpleasant, remaining disorganised, having loads of skeletons in their closet, being reliant on a very unpopular leader and hating almost everything the public thinks doesn't work for long. Who knew eh.

And I guess my question to this bit is "why should we prioritise fairness to political parties having the fund raising rules changed, over fairness to the British public in excluding foreign money?"

"my fundraising strategy was incredibly dependent on high value donations from a small number of people who don't live in this country" - really sounds like a you problem.

Resilience reports that say in the event of multiple conflicts our systems might struggle are telling us less about resilience and more about trying to avoid multiple conflicts.

Get rekt

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

I am very sorry to say this, but I’ve been mutuals with Hend for a while now, and unfortunately I’ve had no choice but to unfollow and block. This is just so sad but it is extremely hateful and watching her responses to people calling her in has been painful.

To defend her false flag theory Hend Amry is now posting a graphic about random Jews around the world lying. In the top left is a really far out claim that Elie Wiesel wasn’t actually a holocaust survivor. Bottom right is just racist caricature drawings. She’s going deep into antisemitism.

For all of the excitement in Westminster around the Danish model of social democracy the Danish Labour Party is heading for its worst election result since 1901. They’ll likely remain in power but the red bloc won’t have a majority. Meanwhile radical left and right parties gain.

Biggest comeback of the year just dropped

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

Wonder if some stuff might be going on that would explain this?

Operation Prop Up The Markets Garden.

the one which constantly gets me is "Zentrum were liberal centrists." no! they were the Catholic chauvinist party! they were confessionally aligned with the Syllabus of Errors! they just happened to sit in the middle!

Hend is someone I used to follow on Twitter and over here, because of the quality of her journalism. The fact she's gone off the deep end is a really awful sign of how antisemitism is becoming normalised more broadly in certain left-liberal circles:

This new era will be a contest for the metabolic souls of middle powers—the infrastructural and energy foundations on which their futures will be built. Unlike ideological allegiance, energy infrastructure is sticky—and that can be weaponized, Nils Gilman writes.

If nothing else, it shows how utterly lost "moderate" voices are that Phillips thinks a government pursuing some of the most aggressive anti-immigration policies of my lifetime are "dismissing anti-immigration voters" and Nick Timothy demanding a ban on Muslim prayer is perfectly legitimate.

CEO of National Careers Week btw.

Well what you need to remember is that when she took over the party, they were already *checks notes* oh clearly second? Like, Reform overtaking them has happened during her leadership when the Opposition Party should be at its strongest? Ok

It does seem reasonable that if the state is subsidising you then stakes should be an option. Especially at these values.

big sigh.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before. www.wired.com/story/the-tr...

New Hubble Space Telescope observations reveal 25 years of the Crab Nebula's supernova expansion By tracking its expansion over a 25-year period and comparing old data with a fresh image, astronomers have been able to measure the relentless growth of the supernova's aftermath.

Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.

so that nice @seatsixtyone.bsky.social decided to post some Thoughts* on twitter about the anti-Semitic ambulance attack *deranged x.com/seatsixtyone...

Goodwin's new book has even been slammed by The Critic. It must be truly dreadful. thecritic.co.uk/suicide-of-a...

What's great is that the entire last year has been No. 10 pushing the CMA to be more flexible, literally they fired people over it, in pursuit of balancing market concentration with investment and then they just stroll in here on the basis of a basic misunderstanding of price signals.

Apropos of nothing, the antinatalist line of “it’s immoral to bring children into this fallen world to suffer” is enraging horseshit, especially coming from comfortable Americans whose primary idea of suffering is vicarious through doomscrolling.

If you're replying to a post about torched ambulances in London with a point about Israel, you've crossed the line into antisemitism. And you're doing absolutely nothing to help any cause. Even if you consider yourself one of the good people. Maybe especially so. You've just caught racism.

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

Is the strait open? Has anything materially changed?

At this point the market makers want to be lied to

Not sure why everyone is taking the latest Trump statement so seriously when his current track record is directly contradicting himself on major Iran strategy at least twice every 24 hours. Maybe this one sticks! But maybe it doesn't!

huh. #time_flies ⌛