My hottest take re the Nuzzi book is, even if done entirely cynically, had she told her exact story with an "Even I Don't Know What The Fuck I Was Thinking, What A Moron I Am" tone, I reckon people would have lapped it up. Thankfully, she went for "Consider That I, Mr Bean, Am A Poem In Many Ways".

The fun thing is that he doesn’t actually “explain UK debt” in any meaningful way, it’s just a grown man making piles of biscuits while saying things like “Japan’s yer mate who’s always in his overdraft” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wes Streeting wants to give this man access to the NHS data.

Wes Streeting wants to give this man access to the NHS data.

IANAL but it seems these organisations have been advised that it is safer to knowingly breach the equalities act by discriminating on the basis of gender assignment than to face the costs of being sued by terf bigots being bankrolled by, well, some of the worst people in the world.

Remember when it was imperative that we take Haidt seriously?

Remember when it was imperative that we take Haidt seriously?

So the Home Office, which is responsible for the welfare of asylum seekers & for determining their claims, has decided to call them “illegal migrants” & tell everyone it’s “furious” about them being here, but I’m sure this is fine and not a symptom of a culture of disbelief & gratuitous cruelty

Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.

Recruited by the CIA at 15 you’ve just got to be shitting me

Former Director of the UK Border Force.

In other news, Taki is back in the Spectator, with apologia for his conviction.

I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.

In other news, Taki is back in the Spectator, with apologia for his conviction.

I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are

Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'. One wonders what *would*.

Sometimes wonder if what the UK needs is a thinktank that doesn't do any new research, it just repeats obviously true statements that people try to ignore because they're inconvenient. International students cross-subsidise home students. Your pension is paid for out of general taxation.

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink. per this morning's education committee.

I don't think anyone is saying his racism doesn't matter and of course it should be called out The issue is that it is done so as an individual flaw rather than as part of a wider political project which has been cleared for decades and enabled by mainstream actors. The latter matters far more

God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

Beginning to think that Reeves is really susceptible to the fact that the human mind isn't really capable of understanding big numbers and is assuming £600m which in the terms of our budget is peanuts, is worth collapsing universities over.

One of the things I'm always struck by whenever I investigate the topic of wellness or alternative medicine is how much the promise of empowerment and autonomy is used as a cover for absolving the practitioner of responsibility when it all goes wrong. And this is highlighted so explicitly here.

Empirical verification of the effectiveness of a political speech, confirmation of what we know happens when you amplify your opponent’s issues and a demonstration of the - still inexplicable? - wrong-headedness of Labour’s self-destructive political strategy.

Perhaps Rainbow B-52 is worse because it misleads dullards into thinking progress has occurred, when in reality the meat of the issue is unchanged under the thinnest veneer. Those dullards, now pacified by this tissue paper ruse, refuse to agitate for actual change - indeed they discourage others.

I have a new blog out @identitiesjournal.bsky.social #IdentitiesBlog Dictator DNA: individualising Nazism in the context of rising fascism and genocide www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collect...

When even the guy who did the brutal murder is weirded out by your defense of him and awkwardly tries to intervene with his preferred talking points, which are very much not "so what that scumbag deserved it."

You know who else could find correlations between facial characteristics and various qualities

Well we said Black and Asian home secretaries are used as a shield to implement racist policies a white man couldn’t get away with and there’s no starker example than this. The worst kind of identity politics.

I noticed this is getting engagement so folks must be talking about Olivia Nuzzi again

i should have been a model in my story biographical and chart the course of bullets theoretical and actual toward the brain of my beloved mistaken for a victual a camelot of dining for a creature that's vermiculal

A Labour politician has located the nexus of the hidden conspiracy to critique Labour: the Jewish leader of the UK's left-wing party, who is definitely unethical and not nice, for sneakily conspiring with online leftists to critique Labour's policies as racist and fascist bsky.app/profile/floy...

I will write more about this later, for now just to say our paper has been published today. 10 years after Paris Agreement we can conclusively say we have failed to limit warming to well below 2°C. What next? www.cell.com/one-earth/ab...

All true, but I can't recall much discussion about this until sometime last year.

I know these seem like basic questions I'm sure they've already asked but...why? To ensure what? In case *what* happens, exactly? To protect people from...what? Based on *what* research?* To what end? *I know the answer is 'because cruelty', thanks.

All true, but I can't recall much discussion about this until sometime last year.

NEW: Built by the French as a “regulated” red-light district, Bousbir in Casablanca became a prison for Moroccan women — and a tourist fantasy for Europeans, writes @katyphipps.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/essays/the-l...

Why the fuck is this framed as “teenager chose to prostitute herself and ruined the career of innocent congressman”

True story btw, Obama only learned the extent of the settlement enterprise in 2015 after Kerry showed him a map.

The problem is that 'there aren't simple solutions' often becomes conflated with 'there aren't clear, evidenced and actionable solutions'. complexity becomes an excuse for inaction

"I spend a lot of time talking to Nazis, real Nazis" Alex Karp.

What on earth is this nonsense from a Blue Labour MP? What, you want a policy targeting zero illness, no full time caring responsibilities, no skills mismatches or career breaks and you think we should heavily crack down on migration until we get there? Just not serious policy/politics.

I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.

“Our media and political elites, frankly, need to get over themselves. There is no intrinsic British sensibleness that will get us through this [resurgence of fascism], that renders us invulnerable to what is destroying other free countries.”

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

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You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

I know we're only supposed to be celebrating today but the UK is still trash - our swing towards allowing transphobia as a 'protected belief' is now allowing racism to become one too. As was the plan all along.

This goes past poor reporting into being wilfully misleading. Despite identifying exploitation, no mention of it as an issue, or the human trafficking often involved. Instead just uncritically repeating the misleading claim that "illegal working is a pull factor". 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We strongly condemn @CondéNast’s consolidation plans for Teen Vogue, a move that is clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most. More from our statement:

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.