Blair was decades ahead of the curve on the recent psycho-catholicism thing

lol. lmao.

The theme since 2008 has been “Our ruling classes, when pushed, making it very clear indeed what it is that they actually regard as non-negotiable, and what can be traded away for little or nothing”.

All the acting out, cancelling of late-night chat shows, heavy doctoring of social media algorithms to make sure certain things are seen and certain things are not, they've admitted it's to get their own back coz they didn't like it when leftwing entertainers made fun of them coz they're fckn nerds.

a thought that's been gnawing away at me is (and admittedly it's pretty low down in the horrible things that could occur) that if Reform win the next election, I have no doubt that they would crudely import a Trumpian 'all new buildings need to be classical' type planning rule

the phrase and concept 'greenhushing' is one I did not quite expect to encounter as part of the climate change process…

Peter Mandelson in February, 2017, when his “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein, who had been convicted of soliciting minors for prostitution nine years earlier, and with whom he continued to associate with long after the fact, was still alive:

hard to imagine a government less well suited to the current moment. David Cameron would be handling it better ffs

Given the context and the crowd, despite Musk’s weasel words, this was a call for violence against the British state, from a foreign national who controls a major propaganda engine, and has engineered it to monetise hate

as they fall over themselves to pretend that they're real salt-of-the-earth flag-shaggers, they're doing dawn raids on anti-genocide peaceniks

thought this was interesting, partly on the way people become credulous as soon as a chatbot is talking about something they *don't* know about, but also she describes well the sense I have that the techy/ceo mind is so often deeply anti-intellectual youtu.be/TMoz3gSXBcY?...

Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse. Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."

The leaked Gaza Riviera plan is more grotesque than you could ever have imagined.

It's really something, reading anything about the economy or politics these days, because it's just a seemingly endless set of red flags, followed by this…

It brings me no joy at all to see that it’s even dumber, more crass, more wildly reckless and more empty of thought than even I had believed it was

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

Bill Ackman looks like Leland Palmer from Twin Peaks

I’d add: again, it is not the public who have decided they want mass deportation, or that this should be an acceptable idea within the mainstream. It is our horrifying political/media class, who have roasted each other’s brains on social media. It is *elite radicalisation*, not popular politics.

Birks, T - Building the New Universities - 1972

No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

this is a good one – self-centred person plunged into self-pity by a taste of their own medicine, excellent drama

it's really not going to be long before there are institutions collapsing, this kind of thing is intrinsically unsustainable

I've for various reasons, probably self-loathing, had to read a lot about the Labour Right, what their allies in the press think of them and what they think of themselves and the only conclusion I can come to is: they're all cunts.

ok I am in silent hysterics here upon learning that there was once created such a thing as a 'streamlined tractor'

I always love it when people get up on their high horse about this, because I do know lots of people who were Tories for decades and are now Reform and let me tell you, getting to know them is a highly instructive and helpful experience with many useful lessons. Give me a minute here.

incredible example of the amorality of capitalism and bloody management consultants – the consulting group who scandalously helped set up the GHF starvation & slaughter organisation, were also pitching for work from the very aid agencies that are being replaced

"Is starvation being used as a weapon?" Caroline Willeman from MSF: "Yes, absolutely"

I watched Stella Creasy's dogshit videos about the Palestine Action proscription, and she seems to be hinting that the secret evidence is that they were planning to target politicians, which I presume would be, you know, throwing red paint on Starmer's Kentish Town front door

FT picture editors want you to lose your dinner

The idea that it’s criminal - World War II level, execution for crimes against humanity-type criminal - to murder huge numbers of civilians, even if they are wearing t-shirts saying “Hamas is nice and I want them to do crimes”, is both true, and is considered wildly extreme both in America and here.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

"Gazas death toll is simply staggering. Israel has pursued a deliberate policy of starvation, of manufacturing a famine.. in a clear & blatant violation of intl humanitarian law.. the impunity felt by the occupying power needs to be stopped" Slovenia at the UN this afternoon

466 arrests. No word from the guy responsible for policing in London, Sadiq Khan

one minor but still revolting thing about this situation are the fucking horrible propaganda adverts that you-know-who pay for that pop up all over the place… horrible, cheap, hollywood-style narration, lying and lying and lying

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Beit Hanoun was formerly home to more than 50,000 people. Reports by Israeli media visiting the IDF brigades operating there this summer describe vanishingly little fighting against no more than a couple dozen Hamas fighters—this destruction is the result of methodical demolitions by earthmovers.

lol if the already flimsy LLM chatbots are rigged up to advertisements, well, so much for 'intelligence'

interesting AI experience – saw a diagram that I thought was interesting, asked about it, got a detailed, very confident answer, but soon realised it was referring to something else entirely. Trying to clarify just made things more complex, to the point I had to go to wikipedia and find my own way

it sort of feels like the only thing that will stop the massacre by this point is if the generals get together and take Bibi out

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

In 2016, following the Leave vote, Angela Eagle resigned from Jeremy Corbyn's cabinet in tears, stating in her resignation letter that, "Too many of our supporters were taken in by right-wing arguments and I believe this happened, in part, because [of] your leadership"

I had a nasty experience the other day where my neighbour on the tube was scrolling through a busy whatsapp group whose members were all angry about James O'Brien, but also were claiming that the photos of starving children in Gaza were either a) fake or b) just pictures of terminally ill children

I can't lie, I find the White House Ballroom project to be very funny, very silly, and who cares if they go ahead

What the hell is this? Recognise the state or don't, but don't act like this is part of some potty-training reward chart www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another pathetic response to famine by the chief rabbi, with zero criticism of the Israeli government.

wait, are you telling me that the trans row nurse regularly makes racist remarks, oh my god how could those two things go together, I'm shocked, shocked, shocked www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this guy has owned the building for more than 20 years and has basically sat on it, letting it decay, trying to get money out of the government… I suppose it's better than torching the thing but for fuck's sake www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good morning, I've written a piece about the prime minister. I spoke to several dozen sources, including government insiders, former legal colleagues and campaigners to ask: what happened to Keir Starmer the heroic human rights lawyer? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

ooooohhhhhhh farewell big man