Death by a single Anglophone internet

Trying to talk Eurocrats out of standardisation feels almost cruel, like criticising a cat for meowing.

Did your faith ever waver?

Le Democrats En Marche

Later in this article is the loss of another Conservative councillor to Reform. Tories are bleeding from both ends, illustrated.

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Good thread, this. (Tho IE hits on the answer in the replies: what Labour think the immigration system for is getting people to shut up and stop talking about immigration)

Why is Facebook/Meta AI so existential?

Well don't I feel stupid

The current Supreme Court has unilaterally rearchitected our entire system of Government, and done so to favor despotism bsky.app/profile/saga...

We have one of the highest minimum wages in the OECD! I am just begging for a government that actually engages with the economy and the public policy choices we *actually have*!

With facial hair like that it’s no wonder they’re able to push back.

Burnham’s positioning in the NS and Telegraph is essentially “I will continue to deny the constraints like Keir Starmer, while being even more explicitly hostile to London and the South, where a majority of parliamentary seats are”. Hard to see how that works well for Labour.

Can’t believe there’s yet another poor outcome that can be traced back to that election.

There is no Government of England that could give money. Special relationship is a one-sided affair.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

I just want to note here that Zohran Mamdani did *not* support Kamala Harris when she was the Democratic nominee, now Kamala *is* supporting him as the Democratic nominee, and this website managed to turn this into a story about *her* being a perfidious snake. I mean.

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

Has anyone analysed whether the joint recognition by a group of countries including Australia and Canada on the same day took timezones into account?

TIL

They should have Liam Byrne-d him bsky.app/profile/jonn...

The funniest part of the alleged dm is that he signs it the same way.

Gradual recognition is going to be catnip to political academics.

another great file on wikimedia commons

Another datapoint for the hypothesis that your average UK voter overestimates the size of the UK military as much as the number of migrants in the UK

Not sure that Serbia is viewed as a “western” nation in the way this article implies.

This has such a toxic opening line. And why would you ever assume people are building houses in the UK? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sort of realising the entire post-war global order is a Chesterton’s Fence, and now that nobody is alive that remembers earlier times the entire fence is coming apart.

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold

There are several linked problems here; one is that conservative voters are increasingly plugged into the national discourse, which is why conservative Democrats with deep roots in their states all got wiped out over the last few years. Nobody gave a shit anymore about local issues or coalitions.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Psychologically very fascinating the extent to which the two historically major parties just hate their actual electoral coalitions.

UK government needs to get off Twitter.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

Hahahahahahah what are you TALKING about? Can you imagine if any of their employees said crap like this? lord! LORD!

The best time for Starmer to have done anything is a year ago. The second best time is

A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'

So. Why reduce the work days by one, but then declare that one day somehow *different* than the two other non-work days? Sort of linguistically sabotaging your own achievement.

They’re building a Minecraft cinematic universe.

True, but surprised the go to example is not social security.

I posit that the reasons unknowable are: “Cadfan help I knocked the mummies head off and it’s somewhat disintegrated.” “Don’t worry Niall, I know a place to get more heads.”

Trump 2 is outpolling Trump 1?

He can do it, the Lib Dems can become the new NIMBY shire party.

My iPhone just tried to correct the very much common and real name “Tom” to “Tim”. In a reply to someone very much called Tom. Is this the start of the AI uprising? Also: meta.

Literally cannot imagine explaining any of this to myself 20 years ago.

UK suffering from the US conspiracist realignment, only the UK non-conspiracists are fractured.

i will be A knight's tale defender until the day i die, then i will haunt everyone who talks shit about the movie

Starmer pivoting?

Politicians deserve more sympathy than they get in some quarters, but also if they aren’t aware going into the job that voters want lower taxes and more services then they are in the wrong profession.