Labour - trading on second hand ideas that are long passe.

I know everybody wants to feel optimistic about Carney, Macron, Merz et al talking about a new post-RBIO system, but remember that they’re only panicking now because the structural barbarism is banging on their own doors. They don’t want to remedy it; just sustain its redirection.

Carney describing the cynical upholding of the "useful fiction" of rules based order, admitting it was asymmetric and getting plaudits for criticizing it now it doesn't benefit him... it's not brave it's fucking rank. how many lives is he callously dismissing as "having been worth it" before now

One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.

The noncemag is at it again.

Great chatting Toby! Builds on my essay on the topic for @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...

It's funny that one of the things people learn as very small children is "you get better at doing the thing by doing the thing." Everyone learns this as a small kid, it is very obviously completely true. And using genAI manages to instantly make people forget it, and start arguing about it.

Creating a podcast where rightwing pundits repeatedly humiliate Newsom was a real stroke of political genius. Now I see why people are so jazzed about him.

Telegraph really showed their arse here.

Do Labour ministers not understand the sinister connotations of the term "open borders experiment?" It's an echo of white supremacist ideology which posits that governments are deliberately orchestrating migration to change the ethnic makeup of the country.

You’d think Labour might want to sit back and pretend to be reasonable while Jenrick and Badenoch knock lumps out of each other, but they decided to try and outflank them in the other direction by regurgitating a far right trope

They'll pretend he made some assurances and that will be it.

This picture of laughable screens-are-killing-our-kids conman, Jonathan Haidt, in which he equates the Left's rejection of IQ pseudoscience with Rightwing fascism, gets funnier once you notice that all of the things in the LEFT column read like character labels in a Kelly cartoon.

Just found this from December 2024, explaining somewhat the on-the-front-foot pushback I got from this guy a few months ago on my accusation that the ASI (amongst others) are close to the current government

Would love to know which "intellectual tradition" Labour loyalists think this comes from. Yes you, who call the Greens shallow and populist. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

bet you didnt have BlackRock presiding over Trump's destruction of Fed independence on your bingo cards

Barely anyone is going to see this, but if you’ve ever asked why X isn’t banned in the UK yet despite creating CSAM, it’s because the US government has enforced a worldwide policy of blackmail protecting the American tech oligarchy. It’s why TikTok can be banned but X cannot.

Crucially though 'no one tells them what to write'.

Good old horseshoe theory... Anyone who blames what is happening today on "polarisation" is squarely standing on the wrong side The issue is not between the left and the right, it's with an incredibly emboldened (far-)right and complicit "centre" as we argue here link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who I'm mad at, is the Dem voters that *still* expect Black men to sign up for fascism for themselves, but democracy for everyone else. Y'all are still running "tough on crime" Dem candidates. I don't know one Black man that regrets sitting out his 2024 vote for criminal justice reasons. Not one.

Again, you can be as mad as you want. I didn't sit out the election, but I do speak to Black men who intentionally sat out the election. Most of y'all don't. What y'all are still not hearing: * Black men experience ~2 Renees *a day* * There were *fewer* Black men killed by cops in 2025 than 2024

Now on Substack: Political scientist Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social identifies five distinct forms of genocide denial in German war discourse – showing how Germany explains Israel’s genocide in Gaza away, one concession at a time. open.substack.com/pub/hannohau...

Totally predictable - and they wouldn’t be covering Good’s ‘side’ if not for the very obvious video evidence.

Do presenters at Times Radio reflect at all over their sister station coming out in favour of the porn site X, or is that one of those things that can’t be mentioned ?

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

banning X is a national security issue for every country, plain and simple its explicit goal is to amplify and empower the largest Nazi-adjacent party in every country in which it operates it is also the largest deepfake porn generator in the world this is not a difficult call to make

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

The only logical conclusion from this now is that the Government here, and governments around Europe, are absolutely terrified of being dragged into another battle with the richest man in the world who is hellbent on their removal; or with his ally in the White House over regulation.

My word. The Taoiseach, in China, says "platforms can be misused and abused or they can be used for positive reasons as well..." and says that should be considered carefully "before jumping to conclusions" on whether it's appropriate for the Government to be on X.

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

This is going to sound odd, but I don’t think rationalists are rationalists now. Most of the people who’d self-select as such seem to follow mostly procedural confidence without situational rationality. If that makes sense. Optimizing for internal coherence, not external causality.

Again I really think this a police matter not regulatory. If you are creating and publishing CSAM you need to be in jail. Stopping after a few weeks when enough people shout at you is not a defence. Losing my mind.

Fascinating watching people who celebrated the rise to power of an ex-human rights lawyer, as a sign that sensible, law-based politics had returned, now making excuses for their man’s refusal to uphold international law

"you can't murder me, that's illegal!"

I think we got the answer to the “why is Starmer hated?” question today. Someone who can’t stand up for his own principles even as he proclaims his lifelong commitment to them is just contemptible

So if the Democrats suck and are completely useless then who's going to implement your brilliant and detailed plan to save democracy? Democrats.2 the good Democrats who want to win? The secret third political party?

Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms. Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...

I would characterise this political philosophy as neoconservatism on crack

Oh?

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

zero notes whatsoever

It's not surprising that a man who resigned over his abusive "jokes" about Diane Abbott also thought a British political prisoner a "joke" and colonial reparations a "distraction". The problem is that this casual racist disregard for human rights was, and remains, at the heart of Starmer's project.

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

if your commitment to democracy is predicated on a specific and static demographic makeup of the population in question then it is not much of a commitment at all

Because again - you can only believe that criticism of Labour is unwarranted or unfair if you fundamentally do not believe that marginalised people have valid concerns that are worth listening to.

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...