40 years ago today, Philip Larkin died. He wrote my favourite poem - Days

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.

Seeing a load of flags put up all around the place by racists, weirdly, hasn’t made me feel more patriotic

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

This guy hosts a debate show

probably one of the biggest recruiting grounds for Reform UK is [local town/city] nostalgic photos facebook groups

Support this, both for 'why do we have a civil service internship scheme if NOT to broaden the talent pipeline for it' reasons and for 'this is going to produce some truly amazing takes' reasons.

Everyone in that chat room.

Feels like things are going super well between the richest man in the world (for now) and the president

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

Short answer: deliberate institutional inertia and practiced ignorance

I spent last night in the sweatiest room in the world after driving from Cardiff to London, and then drove back again. I wouldn’t change one stupid decision for another five years of life.

If your personal sense of identity is rooted in only being surrounded by people who look like you, I would suggest you stop being such an insecure child.

END THE NECROCRACY

“long term viability” is somebody else’s problem. “short term kicking ass and notching w’s” is the ethos

Politico: “A new communications permanent secretary, an old job being brought back by No. 10 to "modernize" comms across Whitehall. One person familiar said the senior civil servant will be in charge of running the comms operation across the entire government's strategic and press team.”

I dont know whether to think of this as an homage or a partial cover or a spiritual successor, but I love it. Long may the sleaze revival continue. open.spotify.com/track/52HHPw...

guys, i’m sorry the water ran out combatting those wildfires, that was me asking grok if my dick is normal 100,000 times until it gave me an answer i liked

Jesus Christ, man

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CEOs upset about Trump’s tariffs sound like mob bosses shouting “I thought we had a deal!” at the Joker.

Kurt Vonnegut would have enjoyed this timeline

Donald Trump's 55% tariff on ASUS' Republic of Gamers has many politicians questioning his sanity

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I think the 3rd point here is the most important. UK goods exports to the UK are just not large enough for tariffs to be a *major* economic shock (though of course they will do some damage). The wider impact to the global economy (demand, confidence, investment, interest rates) is much worse.

Oh, great, now I have to howl continuously for the rest of recorded time

Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.

Global trade war vs. the war on cars: you'll never guess who will win!

the michael scott school of political fundraising

if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all

This pointless stunt by Cory Booker is accomplishing nothing but drawing attention to the Trump administration’s wrongdoing and delaying the work of the Senate and energizing the Democratic base and, wait, hang on, let me come in again

Ok *this*:

happy 10th anniversary (!!) to the greatest blog that ever blogged

Fire season gets earlier every year

My bullshit-ometer went off immediately, and guess what... the article itself contradicts the headline. In fact, most migrants speak English as their first language. But 8.6% - equal to 794,332 people -"can not speak English well" And 1.4% - equal to 137,876 - can not speak it at all.

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

former Tory chief whip Simon Hart on the party’s current leader

christ

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Fuck me. Milo is an unflushable turd.

This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.