Reform has gone full pro-Putin following its local election successes. Farage says no Ukraine flags on public buildings (“all foreign flags” but Ukraine was key) and this below from Reform’s Head of Policy James Orr. “I don’t care.” A taste of what will happen if they win power.

Great post. The Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Sweden) do it best. Not China, not Singapore. Uber capitalism defenders and uber socialism defenders are not honest about themselves and each other. And cold war communism was the worst (shit planning, no market/competition & repression)

So...I played with this, fixed MMP 50:50 (mixed member proportional). 2024 but also now with current polling (latest YouGov) & BBC PNS & Sky NEV. Same for MMP 60:40 with levelling. And large-region flexible PR. Winner for me though, for Britain 2026, is clearly STV (5-7 member constituencies)

So much plotting www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

You'd need a better frame of reference and some Europeans otherwise it won't be about real issue and options. EuroArmy is frequently used as lazy container for several different questions.

I’m pro-freedom, pro-law and order, pro-limited government, and pro-the Declaration and the Constitution. And so today I’m a Democrat.

Study philosophy. It’s good for your mind and (consequently) your employment prospects!

this should end his career

I'd argue that Emergency Medicine is the most important specialty 😀 so it's awesome to see higher than average number of specialists coming through (usually 195 CTT + 35 CESR annually). That's an exam-and-credentialling operation of serious scale for a small specialty!

And if you just like the pure Pearson r coefficients for each party versus all the demographics? There's another tab for that. Here are Reform and the Greens. Not many shocks here but helpful to know. 6/n

Interesting. All legal, of course but Reform/Greens will cry 'stitch-up' even harder

Well, the '90% western payload' is a backward-looking claim (and a big chunk of that is Starlink). The claim becomes completely unstable over the next 4y (even if you just look at what's booked already) as SpaceX is losing the first mover advantage due to competitors who also do state anchor model

Easy one for any politician in a non-US NATO country to use in any campaign. Perpetual machine of usefullness

'The likes of which the world has never seen before' 'Never seen anything like it'. 'Everybody knows it. You know it, I know it' 'There is no other country even close' 'Thank you for your attention to this matter'

Basically doubling output of oil through Fujairah to 3-3.3 million bpd. Unclear which quarter 2027 but this was already in construction, they're just accelerating it www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Aptly put. I would also quibble with the 'charismatic' bit, certainly from a Max Weber charisma pov. Trump is the epitome of Weberian charisma, the grotesque or dark version of it, but nonetheless. Mamdani is the good epitome of Weberian charisma

Besides of which Manchesterism isn't his conception, it's his inheritance. And I don't even think he internalised it & tried to practice his own version of it. He just tried to ape it for the kudos It's not like Mamdani taking municipal socialism inheritance and adapting it to what needs doing now

Betteridge's law of headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'. The argument is that if a publisher knew the answer was 'yes' they would have asserted it as a fact rather than a question Good though that it's Jen Williams writing this

More precisely, resignation happened because of/after the unwarranted and unfair dismissal of @andrisspruds.progresivie.lv, the defence minister for the drone incident apnews.com/article/latv...

Yermak, the erstwhile Zelenskyy guru, behind bars. We'll see if the accusations stand up in court kyivindependent.com/the-fall-of-...

2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (~4,000 soldiers plus necessary equipment) was due to rotate into Europe, mainly Poland/eastern flank, for ~ 9 months Part of the unit already in Poland (ordered to return) & equipment was already in transit www.defensenews.com/news/your-ar...

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And actually James Murray is the one best suited for Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Treasury capture DHSC

Marco Rubio: Ukrainian armed forces - the strongest in Europe!  Logical conclusion: let’s have Ukraine in NATO - it will make NATO much stronger!!! Or at least let’s build European Defence Union with 🇺🇦 at its center - it will make Europe much stronger! www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

Hilarious

Aaaand that's what you call hedging for 2028

BREAKING AP: When Kash Patel visited Hawaii last summer, the FBI took pains to note he was not on vacation. Left out of FBI's news releases was an exclusive excursion that Patel took days later when he participated in what government officials described as a "VIP snorkel" around the USS Arizona.

I have two theories about AI code: - It’ll mostly make professional developers more productive, not replace them - It’ll make it easy for all the rest of us to make apps that work exactly the way we want, and that is going to RULE My story on the personal software revolution (gift link):

One day UKDJ will do a fancy index of their articles and we can call it 'Defence Investment Plan archive' and that's all that we get in terms of DIP

The Tories have suspended their leader on Worcestershire County Council for doing a deal with the Greens to oust Reform. After the local elections Kemi Badenoch said Conservative councillors were free to do any deal they wanted without interference from the national party.

Things still to be proven Burnham wins Makerfield. Labour survives by-election without humiliation The GM mayoralty issue managed cleanly Starmer goes/ Burnham wins Burnham gets enough nominations Burnham wins the leadership Burnham stabilises government Voters reward Labour > punish the spectacle

Or on the other hand, Farage/Reform can nationalise it and make it about 'Labour stitch-ups' and Burnham loses and destroys his brand

Ditto. We would solve so many issues with both

🚨 Searching for the UK’s ‘plonker premium’ www.ft.com/content/5a81...

What even was Starmerism, if not Josh Simons’ Labour Together?

BREAKING - Josh Simons to stand down in Makerfield so Andy Burnham can run for parliament

So stop trying to make fetch happen with others and get fully behind Ukraine

Sorry isn't this a lot of projection? That's why he ends up being popular, there's enough there to build something on, not enough specifics to pin him down on so it's easy to see what one wants to see and construct a unifying theory that hasn't been demonstrated by Burnham. Many Burnhams out there

So much of British politics the last three years really does seem to amount to "how do the various factions accidentally end up splitting the vote?"

Not now, Spain, not now

If we're going wide and we need saviours from outside Parliament why not go really wide and get David Milliband back home. If somebody like Streeting feels his win won't be legitimate enough unless he wins in a contest where Burnham is in then let's blow this thing wide open

Streeting resigns:

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Denys Shtilierman, co-founder and chief designer at Ukraine's Fire Point, took @financialtimes.com on a tour of a factory making the long-range drones and missiles that have given Russia a massive headache. The firm has big ambitions. But is also mired in scandal. Story: www.ft.com/content/0657...

Voters - and markets - fear a lurch to the left under new Labour PM

Not seeing in these numbers the 'break glass' emergency that required all the plotting and scheming

PSA: Bond markets are very real and cannot be wished away

Oh dear, we might have another contestant, if required 😜

On the occasion of Driscoll's openly pinning for DELTA, 🇺🇦 battle management system...it is ironic that maga/tech bros are not more supportive of 🇺🇦. 🇺🇦 is a case study in 'move fast, disrupt bloated bureaucracy, empower builders, iterate in the field, software eats the world' worldview