Ed Davey and the inexorable drift towards conservatism by @jamesgraham.theliberati.net www.theliberati.net/quaequamblog...?

Screaming hot take: It’s entirely possible that Somalis test out on standard IQ tests with a lower mean than western people (100), because IQ is meaningless racist, sexist, colonial, eugenicist bullshit designed to produce exactly such a result. IQ is bollocks. Utter, total bollocks.

The one man who could keep Starmer in his job.

@pimlicat.bsky.social does being proved right eight thousand times a day make up for constantly having to repeat the bleeding obvious to utter half-wits with similar frequency? #BestforBritain

Jesus wept. When Brexit-Penfold is sorta landing blows on you.

joy is a weapon against despair.

He actually did bring a claymore.

‘I know he’s a devious slimy bastard but I thought he was our best chance of dealing with Trump’ would be serving Starmer much better than whatever *waves at the HoC* that bollocks was.

Starmer has outsourced his biggest tell onto Reeves' face.

@pimlicat.bsky.social explains the findings of our latest report on LBC News. A majority of voters more strongly support rejoining the EU than they do the government’s current approach to UK-EU relations. 🇪🇺 You can find our report here: https://www.bestforbritain.org/is_time_eu_membership

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic! Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

John McDonnell making the case that Mandelson's appointment was part of his reward, along with 'debts' paid to McSweeney and Labour Together for getting Starmer into No. 10. Grim. Labour needs a root and branch clear out. They are working for themselves, not the country.

I had not fully appreciated just how furious his own MPs are with the PM

I'm afraid it all stinks. You only had to be paying scant notice to Mandelson's decades long career, punctured with sackings, scandal and sleaze, to know that he was unfit for re-appointment to a Government position. And knowing any of it, you'd ask to see the vetting report at the very least.

torn between "we need to soften IP law to stop the calcification of the culture" and "we need to give the Tolkien estate the right to extrajudicially execute these clowns at will"

THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN MAY IS TONIGHT go get em folks www.gov.uk/register-to-...

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

I’m sorry, you’re telling me Dungeness isn’t in Scotland. Are you high? It’s the most Scottish sounding place I’ve ever heard of. Get it moved! x

🟨 Print Edition — How Labour Became a Party of the Super-Rich The Telegraph journalist Charles Moore once remarked that whereas Margaret Thatcher believed in privatisation, Tony Blair just liked rich people.

Increasingly convinced that the function of Palantir is not to provide practical defense services, but to model corporate interfacing with fascist government

It’s the Transatlantic Starmer Strategy.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

If Bluesky is good for anything it should be for telling each other about creative stuff made by imaginative humans.

Pancreatic cancer usually kills within a year or two of diagnosis. In this trial, nearly all 8 responders are still alive six years later. The 5-year survival rate is usually only around 12%. We should be increasing federal funding for mRNA research, not cutting it.

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

the roadmap to technological fascism is both terrifying and deeply insufferable our wannabe overlords are evil, and dangerous, and also total dweebs

Streeting too. Game recognizes game.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

Excellent. Nail the twisted little fucker.

Whatever you do,

Obama and Mamdani ❤️

Today, a lot of people will be talking about the manifesto that Palantir released. In addition to pouring over what those words mean, I invite you to ground the conversation in what Palantir has already done. Its work with Israel and ICE show us exactly what it stands for.

This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money

Wouldn’t it be safer to lock up everyone in Reform and have them prove their complete innocence to be released?

Talking of things needing to be razed to the ground.

"Some cultures are dysfunctional and regressive," say the white guys deliberately trying to make ours dysfunctional and regressive.

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts. A trans woman enters the room. Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts. Fucking clowns.

I’m so fucking bored of waiting for rejoin. Brexit is a catastrophe by every possible metric. Are we really going to waste another fucking decade handwringing about the inevitable?

I'm just going to gently ask @jolyon.goodlawproject.org if he would take a look at this, with the Equality Act (and data privacy) in mind ... because this is just appalling.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Example. The recently privatised Royal Mail has just delivered to my mum (presumably because this is more profitable) an entire months backlog of mail. Including four editions of the Radio Times, three of which are out of date.

Quick tangent on stuff that needs funding because it’s a public good and ‘making a loss’ is the wrong framing. ‘Bloody cheap and necessary’ is what the framing should be.

If there is one podcast that feels most like being bathed in glorious sunlight it’s this one.

The decision of a Prime Minister Only one person decided to appoint Lord Mandelson The Empty City blog emptycity.substack.com/p/the-decisi...

Incredible.

Careful now. I still haven’t gotten over the tomato. 🍅

“Greens who were long dismissed as “idealistic” & “unrealistic” now look like hard-headed pragmatists & true patriots. They’re years ahead of their rivals in demanding a transition that makes sense on every level: environmental, economic & political” - great article from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇

What about the extremely legitimate concerns of trans people being denied rights, or people of colour being harassed at sharply increasing rates?