The real issue isn’t immigration, it’s the feedback loop: platforms amplify anxiety → voters feel it → politicians chase it → hollow policy follows. Until we break that cycle, we won’t get functional decisions or functional democracy.

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Briefed to the Times. How's the "battle for the soul of the nation" going, Starmer?

a take which I thought was too basic to write up but I clearly should have written up lol was that one underrated success of the 2024 Trump campaign was to manage to make it *look* like the Kamala campaign was back-to-back culture wars, they did a very good job on that front!

When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing

NYT article on the State Dept designation of four foreign “antifa” groups as terrorists. FINALLY someone points out that three of them are simply not “antifa” at all, while the fourth is not a structured group. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

“The kids are alright. The real problem might be older generations projecting their own racial anxieties onto them.” This is a must-read piece by two of the finest scholars of U.S. politics, @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

It's real, and it's mind-blowing. A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.

….seven explosive devices, an airsoft rifle covered with things like the 14 words, references to the Christchurch terrorist and the perpetrator of the 2017 Quebec mosque attacks and the Romanian Iron Guard ‘St Michael’s cross’, a TikTok video with a spinning Black Sun, and more…

www.ft.com/content/fce7... "OpenAI appears to have spent more than $12.4bn at Azure on inference compute alone in the last seven calendar quarters. Its implied revenue for the period was a minimum of $6.8bn."

They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

Aside from being transparently awful, there's no way that the bot would know anything about what the woman liked or didn't like as a fetus, so it's just feeding these people multigenerational hallucinations plagiarized from some TikTok wellness influencer.

Ketan Joshi on the environmental toll of Meta’s genAI advertising product newrepublic.com/article/2028...

Not the first to make this point. But there is a tyrant in charge of another country who is accused of being heavily linked to a paedophile sex ring - and supposed ‘patriots’ in this country are passionately willing him to take down our national broadcaster. Madness.

Ooof. I can’t believe X chose this case, and this place, to fight a global takedown order. Canada is the one country with a Supreme Court decision supporting global takedowns. The case came out of BC, like this one. It was about trade secrets. This is an ugly NCII case involving a trans person. 1/

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

this pope’s got bars

A year and a half after far right riots stoked by anti-immigration rhetoric, the government has moved from "process cases quickly" to "refugees will never obtain permanent status" and the opposition is arguing for mass deportations, despite immigration figures collapsing in the same time.

If you didn't know who this guy was, you wouldn't be able to guess if he was a Labour, Reform, or Tory candidate. And that's a super quick guide to British politics in 2025.

“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar. “.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

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At the very least the Starmer government needs to be honest with itself and voters that any asylum and refugee policy that hinges on the ability to declare post-conflict states as safe will need an increase in EU/UK development and military aid to those states.

"The era of permanent protection is over" Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...

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this is how you do investigative journalism

This picture of why EU leadership is particularly susceptible to AI hype rings true to me. Extending @epopppp.bsky.social's view (in HTLE) of motivating governance metaphors, it feels like a successful bid to move elites from technical or cost-benefit thinking to a management picture.

This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform. Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The government just keeps doubling down on the strategy that’s taken it to genuinely historical unpopularity ever harder. The horse will be flogged until it sprints.

With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

One thing I will say is that this immigration-bashing "strategy" is now indelibly Starmer's. It is Starmerism. Cooper was inertia personified but Mahmood is Starmer's key departmental promotion, brought in to do just this And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?

Terrific but depressing by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. LLMs are, I am convinced, the worst thing to happen to fair hiring since the end of legal discrimination:

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This is the kind of political thinking, elevating "narrative" and message above literally every actual real world policy question, that makes me want to smash my head into a wall over and over again

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Anthropic's AI cyberespionage report feels as odd as the last one. Just 13 pages, it has none of the traditional components of a usual threat intel report (IoCs, payload hashes, etc.) and it seems to bury the lead re: technical sophistication. I wonder if a target will come forward. #infosec

There are thousands of things like this in tech. Why is search bad in Gmail. Why does Bluetooth suck. Why are most streaming apps bad. Why is file transfer still annoying. Every day it feels like I've got random issues with tech stuff while these companies sink billions into AI

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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

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A must read post

EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.

I wrote on the UK's reported suspension of some intel sharing with the US on legal grounds. I spoke to several former intel officials & all agreed that they could not think of a comparable case over decades. Some expressed serious concern over retaliation www.economist.com/britain/2025...

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If the War on Terror were Orwell's Animal Farm, today we come to the last page.

Anti-racism is of course welcome but the nonsensical phrase “woke right” is a very clear sign that a writer as lost it