A lot of our discourse seems to assume that 1) these wrong beliefs somehow arise naturally and 2) politicians have a duty to behave as if these wrong beliefs are true. It saves asking questions about old and new media, or doing anything brave, but it’s rotting our society and economy.

Labour moving on from its past mistakes by recreating them identically.

It could further reduce traffic to publisher's websites, or it couldi increase it as people switch away from this monstrosity towards an actual search engine that does actual searches ...

i cannot. I CANNOT.

Kudos to whoever made this.

Truly, a pressing question in our age of perpetual antagonism ...

Well in America it's meant higher eviction rates and larger rent increases so not so fast

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I'm forgetting things in my old age, but I am sure there is a word for people who take foreign money to sow discord inside their own country.

The British press, today

I’m sorry but if you aren’t sure of a citation, whether what it means or that it exists… why are you citing it. why are you referring to something you haven’t read or don’t understand? that defeats the entire bloody point

This is my shocked face. Look at me, being shocked. And stunned. I am shocked and stunned by this utterly unprecedented happening. Never before in human history has Andy Burnham revealed he does not share the strong progresssive values his supporters project on him.

Frankly, pick your context

every day i thank god that he took neil postman from us before the latter was forced to watch all of this dissolve around him.

Genuine concerns

Seeing as that Guardian list is very much part of today's bluesky discourse, I can say that I have definitely read 17 of them. I can also say that I can barely remember a single word of any of them. So they clearly didn't make a great impression.

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Record numbers of UK renters crowdfunding to cover bills

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

I honestly think banning MPs' second jobs is the single most powerful immediate thing the Govt could do to dent Reform support. It's the right thing to do. It would be a strong move (and message) in cleaning up politics. And it would shine a light on the person hit hardest: Nigel Farage.

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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

Bigotry hates knowledge and understanding.

I wouldn't ban these. I would just require every man who buys a pair to have to wear a hat saying "PERVERT!" and ring a bell when out in public while shouting "Creep! Unclean!"

Our prestige media are trading in pure reality illiteracy, apparently in a bid to put Palantir in Downing Street.

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

A lot of the disinformation these people perpetrate is on things I don't know a great deal about. But this is home territory, so to speak. There is plenty of evidence that Housing First can be effective. So this is straight up incorrect.

But he doesn't face questions. He evades them and the conversation just moves on. No accountability, no consequences. Just relentless polluting the democratic river. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seems like no more than stating the obvious ...

Here's the problem. The twat *doesn't* face serious questions, about anything, from anyone, media or regulators. He bats them off and our spineless or approving msm let him.

I can't see that Streeting, Minister for Palantir, would be any sort of improvement.

At this point the UK would probably be a happier place if it was run by an imperial proconsul appointed by the EU Commission

Seems less than ideal ...

It is probably worth pointing out to Britons that the immigration proposals now being made in the UK by parties like Reform are far more extreme than anything even Trump has suggested in the US, and Labour has not only miserably failed to oppose them but has actively egged them on.

The answer is never Chuka Ummuna

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

Agree. Here's one I wrote ten(!) years ago: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/against-po...

Not watched it, but it sounds like Starmer has been starmering all over the place again this morning. Can't believe that is going to help very much.

Monday

What comes out clearly in the early episodes is that Fascism only really got going when rich landowners and industrialists started to subsidise it. Worth remembering that. westcountryvoices.com/harbornes-27...

I’d hypothesise this happened here too: hospitals, magistrates courts, police stations etc concentrated in bigger centres, so solid jobs go, local services then fold, shops close - a downward spiral 1/2

Statecraft at its best ...

Tice and his mates know they only need to style it out for three years, ducking and diving and refusing to say anything... Then Laura K and her colleagues will all be out of a job, the BBC will be gone and Reform's ultra-rich mates can move in and buy the media. Exactly the Trump scheme.

I have heard some incredibly optimistic 'here's why it will be different in a general election' takes from parties in trouble in my time, but the Badenoch Conservatives 'actually: we're winning!' continues to take my breath away.

Who gives someone £5m without expecting anything in return? No one, that's who.

Half marathon eve again. Seems to come around quicker each year.

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

Breaking: it turns out that a strategy that literally every political scientist went 'No, don't do that. That's nuts!' is, in fact, nuts.

It's just... it's unbelievable. They did the thing! The Morgan McSweeney strategy was what they adopted, and then lost to Reform anyway!! They're then taking that as vindication of their approach when it literally brought about the precise exact result it was supposed to prevent!!