A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

Given the absolute lack of economic intelligence, a smell in the air of stagflation, the stripping down of all information and a willingness to hide the real state of the economy by both government and business interests.. I think that what comes may be cataclysmic.

signal-noise-ratio can fall even as signal increases if noise increases at a faster rate and your ability to filter noise does not improve

Where Reform is headed is very much in line with the new right, that in order to save western democracy it must be destroyed. Patriotism as nihilism. Culture wars to become real ones. Very dangerous stuff.

I have defended the BBC again and again. No more.

This was an Israeli strike on a residential tower in south Rimal, Gaza City on 10 September, 2025. It is just one of the 1800+ verified incidents we have mapped across Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon & Israel, which we have updated today: www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-...

For the first time “Prymary” unit targeted two Russian Be-12 military amphibious aircraft in Crimea on September 21, 2025. Russia regularly uses Be-12s to patrol the Black Sea and to detect Ukrainian naval drones. During the same raid, the unit also struck a Russian Mi-8 helicopter.

What I learned from my graduate daughter’s job search is that kids now make hundreds of applications and employers automate the first few rounds of selection in response

... meaning that transporters not only lose the gas in the tank trucks but also have to repay the banks for the destroyed trucks. Economic loss is massive and may deter operators from continuing the business if attacks don't stop; iii) a well-known figure of Malian (shady) business...

Back to the Senegal/Bamako truck business. I spoke with a seasoned transport guy yesterday. He told me three important things: i) JNIM has executed drivers, not *just* soldiers escorting the convoy. This is causing immense distress and fear; ii) the trucks actually often belong to banks...

A firefighter managed to capture the strike of a Geran-3 loitering munition on an oil depot just meters away from him. One of the firefighters nearly drowned after jumping into the water in an attempt to hide from the strike.

Video of the aftermath of the recent Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian Mi-8 in Crimea published by Russian source with such description: "They've hit Crimea again. Minus the helicopters and a few other things, I can't write about them. There's no air defense, and the radar is useless."

These authors reflect on their war techno-thriller that imagined the future fight — and then watched much of it come true.

I'm seeing it in a French friend who is sliding into full Tea Party fiscal revolt and flat tax antidemocratic fantasies. I'm that that Twitter's influence engineering works so well.

Nice - we have a new failure message... Progress ! "Due to unexpected capacity constraints, Claude is unable to respond to your message. Please try again soon."

This is because X is radicalising its user base… and many of them don’t realise it.

As with any Reform "idea" it's always worth asking "Who paid you to come out with this one?" Reform is less a party, more a mouthpiece for its very well heeled backers.

@anthropic.com's Claude is overloaded this morning - "Taking longer than usual. Trying again shortly" ... For the last hour it been failing to produce any answer, ending the retries in an "Overloaded" message.

My grandfather's and mom's generation of Ukrainians, Jews and Italians in Montreal organised their own security arrangements for their businesses and even religious sites for decades because they didn't entirely trust the state until the 1990s

Did you know that all of ALERTCalifornia's camera feeds are archived? With a growing network of more than 1,200 cameras we now have over 40 billion frames in the archive. 🤯 These frames create a longterm dataset that reflects changes in California over time.

Argentina needs to - once and for all - float the Peso. Argentina is where it is today because it once again fell into the trap of pegging to the Dollar. That's why the Peso is once again overvalued. How many more crises will it take for Argentina to finally learn this lesson? What a waste...

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

The main explanation I have for this is that most Western elites live in milieus where liberal democracy and the rule of law are a given but they feel besieged by demands of the “woke”, minorities, etc. The rise of the far right is seen as a contrary faction that will put “those people“ in line.

The thing is "digital ID" as a category is absolutely freaking enormous. It could mean *all sorts* of things, which are all quite different to one another, but it cannot usefully include every single technology imaginary that is being bandied around in think tank papers and op eds

In the meantime, in Bamako, the junta makes Assimi appear in the sky with drones

In a sense this is payback for everyone deciding Brexit was something we never talk about

They'll try anyway, plunge the state and economy into chaos then try to get rid of dual citizenship and NI's special status on border issues which plunges relations with Ireland and the EU into chaos

In the UKs political system you can get an absolute majority with about 30% of the vote. When you have an absolute majority in UK, you have near-absolute power, as Johnson showed. For the EU the main point here is to not become dependent on an unstable partner.

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

High immigration and the UK-EU trade deal softened the damage of Brexit Farage would expose Britain to the full cost of his ideological follies

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

BBC News: Starmer on Palestine - 30 seconds. Charlie Kirk memorial - 15 minutes with every possible speaker.

Cynicism always benefits the opposition.

Did a Russian advisor write this ?

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

Bluesky, just here to say I appreciate you when things are otherwise no laughing matter

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Today is perhaps a good day to remind people that Jimmy Carter personally and publicly pled with Obama to recognize to the State of Palestine before his second term ended and Obama just ignored him lol

Surprise, it’s just a Very Special Trump Rally

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Not the point of this powerful pic, but I can’t get past the armored-up ICE guy in … Vans. Like, if you need all that combat armor, wouldn’t you need to protect your feet? It seems like SUCH a tell about the cos-play of the armor, and how it is meant purely as intimidation.

I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”

I wonder how many West Africans currently residing in the USA are upping sticks. Frequency of word of mouth mentions among contacts in Cameroon and Senegal suggests it is not just isolated cases. "We thought Trump would just revitalize the economy" ... It is dawning on some that Trump may be racist.

A Western camp based on nationalism and unreliability in foreign policy won't be an alliance but a smorgasbord of corrupt short-termism and backstabbing from which only large foreign powers would benefit. No strategist would ever propose it. But a regime that fears political competition might.

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