🎶 data guy, data guy 🎶 does whatever a data guy does 🎶 can he use common sense? 🎶 no he can't, that's not data

In the context of whether a tax rise was needed or not, "optimistic forecasts" for wages must mean pessimistic forecasts?

raising taxes is just another shit sandwich that doubles in size every week you don't eat it

Fred Goodwin (for it was he) once told me that RBS developed one of these systems but threw it away because it caused nothing but problems. Every Category 1 customer has a friend or relative who is a Category 5 and when you treat them obviously differently it always angers both.

Who could possibly have predicted

As Casey Stengel said, can't anybody here play this game?

I see people saying this but it's basically trying to build your way out of social change. Once 2 income households are the norm this is going to be factored into land prices. This is not going to be a market outcome even if you wildly expand the boundaries of what you're prepared to call "Chatham"

I know. I’m such a scold because I think you shouldn’t rape any children at all, and if you knew about the rape of children and didn’t say anything you’re officially a bad person.

This might seem cute but it isn't. Government spokes people only do this when they've been sent out to make a fool of themselves in front of their friends and colleagues and are pissed off about it

I’m fine conceding that a bunch of nebulously incriminating Epstein statements do not a story make, but in that case neither does the Biden Parkinson’s nonsense, or literally any component of the various Clinton/Wikileaks pseudo-scandals, or tons of other right-wing stuff the paper has laundered

It’s clear when the paper’s Politics Knowers think something is important, journalistic standards are no obstacle. They find a way to get that thing on the front page nonstop, whether it’s “reporting the controversy,” repeating right-wing info dumps, or meta-coverage of how it’s affecting politics

🎶 Donald where's yer coupon?🎶 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The whole ruling class loves Pedophile Finance Guy, a lovely Finance Guy that molests children! *two decades later* We regret to inform you the Finance Guy is a Pedophile

I had never heard of the guy until much later, but that's largely because I WAS NOT ONE OF HIS MATES! If he had been inviting me to island holidays, I think I would have noticed when he was convicted for noncing

He looks like he's saying "I think a lot of people used the armed struggle as a kind of excuse ... And I wouldn't deny I was one of those people"

I mentioned it last week - but the lack of any sort of moral panic around these models which, you know, literally generate child porn on demand if you get around the fairly week guardrails is remarkable. As you say, it's treated as some sort of whimsical thing rather than a serious societal issue

We do this constantly in Britain, usually by saying: “My new book is coming in April! ‘Travesty of Horseshit: How everyone was lying about the catastrophic events, and we all knew but repeated their drivel and kept quiet for five years about the bad stuff’, at all good bookshops RRP £14.99”.

At one time the greatest whaling people in the world, the Dutch and Germans are now among the least

One of the biggest problems with the "means testing of everything" is it pushes the UK into the same zone as American attitudes towards public transit funding "services for the poor tend to be poor services" You may not like it, but people like to see they get something back from the state

I think "adults in the room" takes on a very different vibe now.

"proximity to a huge pile of money often creates the impression of genius, even in the most unlikely cases" - JK Galbraith

stop shaming them and check your privilege, some governments can't just "get their own economic data" and telling them to "read the report" is basically eugenics

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

That noise you hear is approximately 5 dozen New York Times reporters typing the words "podcast suggestion" into an email title bar

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Ireland's media regulator has launched an investigation into X It has good reasons to suspect X is not meeting its legal obligations to run a legally compliant complaints system in Ireland. It is not giving users who report unlawful content the chance to appeal www.cnam.ie/coimisiun-na...

There is a debate underway about whether supervisors should criticize bank managerial competence. History supports that very long tradition. See more ar open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

hasn't been enough reporting on his creepy science funding, tbh.

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

the Thames Barrier (protects London from flooding) was recommended for replacement in 2013 due to climate change raising river levels much faster than expected and currently the Bodies Are Arguing about it but as somebody who used to live just east of it on the riverfront, there is a reason we moved

“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein

The front bench has both: the theory of growth is deregulation, airports, AI and let's hope the Bank cuts interest rates. The strategic view of taxation and spending is 'let's hope the the theory of growth is right'.

Careful how you edit this lads, wouldn't wants to be treating anyone unfairly

James Bond discourse reminds me that an ex's nan sat in solemn silence through the whole of Austin Powers, then said "Well I don't see how he gets all those women"

Fresh questions, and yet in another sense they are pretty much the same questions

at the 'stack, I suggest that many decisions in British politics ought to be handed over to foreigners, as they're less emotional about things. backofmind.substack.com/p/the-cognit...

If there's one place with a cost-of-living crisis as debilitating as New York's, it's London. Anyone who knows someone who'd like to run for mayor, or launch a national-level leadership challenge, and needs to learn how to talk about prices, do sign up. 👇

One of Benjamin Franklin's achievements was debunking a fad for "animal magnetism" by having a Mesmerist zap a tree in his garden, then leading a little boy blindfolded around. The boy began to have extreme reactions to one of the trees and began to shudder, foam and faint. But it was the wrong tree

So is that an idiotic stunt that went wrong, or is it an idiotic stunt that succeeded? I really have no idea at this point.

In all honesty I wish I had a more useful psychic superpower, preferably one that worked on the horses

The “reading out very obvious bullshit WhatsApp messages from brazen liars on the Ten O’Clock News” situation has developed not necessarily to Britain’s advantage

It's literally the only normal thing about them

With alt text.

*taps sign*

this would of course mean that it would become illegal for any European country to extradite Hamas terrorists

I don't think lobby journalism is good or valuable, but on a night like tonight, getting rained on while sipping lager in the smoking area of a bad pub as some SpAd workshops his "Celebrity Traitors" banter, I guess they are earning their money. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens

Hades for the ladies, Hellas for the fellas

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