OK walk me through how a civil war is supposed to occur.
"As many as 33% of British adults polled by YouGov last year believed a civil war would occur in the next decade."
"As many as 33% of British adults polled by YouGov last year believed a civil war would occur in the next decade."
January 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM
OK walk me through how a civil war is supposed to occur.
"As many as 33% of British adults polled by YouGov last year believed a civil war would occur in the next decade."
"As many as 33% of British adults polled by YouGov last year believed a civil war would occur in the next decade."
important to understand what happened to Labour - and the history behind it...
"The Factional Politics of the Labour Party" from Culture, Power, Politics - also issued on the Compass podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
"The Factional Politics of the Labour Party" from Culture, Power, Politics - also issued on the Compass podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Factional Politics of the Labour Party
Podcast Episode · Culture, Power and Politics » Podcast · 16/11/2025 · 1h 35m
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December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
important to understand what happened to Labour - and the history behind it...
"The Factional Politics of the Labour Party" from Culture, Power, Politics - also issued on the Compass podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
"The Factional Politics of the Labour Party" from Culture, Power, Politics - also issued on the Compass podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
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Starmer: "You do not need to have a PhD in economics to know that erecting unnecessary trade barriers with your biggest trading partner will hurt growth and raise the cost of living."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Also Starmer:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Also Starmer:
December 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Starmer: "You do not need to have a PhD in economics to know that erecting unnecessary trade barriers with your biggest trading partner will hurt growth and raise the cost of living."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Also Starmer:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Also Starmer:
1. Eyeballing this, I make it about a 50% drop in trade export volume from UK to the EU since the referendum. John Authers (Bloomberg)
December 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
1. Eyeballing this, I make it about a 50% drop in trade export volume from UK to the EU since the referendum. John Authers (Bloomberg)
“We know what these flags are....This has been a deliberately toxified symbol. Everyone knows what it means, including the people who put the flags up”
YouGov poll found that "the majority of ethnic minority adults now see the Saint George flag as a racist symbol"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
YouGov poll found that "the majority of ethnic minority adults now see the Saint George flag as a racist symbol"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
‘A mini Battle of Cable Street’: the English neighbourhoods still grappling with the meaning of the flags
The controversy over flags has faded from the national agenda – but street by street, late at night and with ingenious new equipment, their raising and removal is the subject of a roiling dispute over...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“We know what these flags are....This has been a deliberately toxified symbol. Everyone knows what it means, including the people who put the flags up”
YouGov poll found that "the majority of ethnic minority adults now see the Saint George flag as a racist symbol"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
YouGov poll found that "the majority of ethnic minority adults now see the Saint George flag as a racist symbol"
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
Why did Reeves pitch roll tax increases if she knew they weren't necessary?
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Why did Reeves pitch roll tax increases if she knew they weren't necessary?
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All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
All the Right Wing apologists are cheering the fall in UK immigration announced today while missing what could be a huge problem - 99% of emigrants are under the age of 35. That’s a big brain drain.
Hoisted by their own petard: Labour trapped by tax promises and the stagflation inevitable from hard brexit.
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hoisted by their own petard: Labour trapped by tax promises and the stagflation inevitable from hard brexit.
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Only solution is electoral reform - ending the primacy of the median provincial authoritarian voter and allowing improved tax revs from single market.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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v. good video
anyway, no reason but FYI we made a film about MicroStrategy/Strategy that went out in May
If you missed it:
www.ft.com/video/4d1a16...
If you missed it:
www.ft.com/video/4d1a16...
Michael Saylor's $40bn bitcoin bet | FT Film
Crypto evangelist Michael Saylor has transformed Strategy from a loss-making software company into the world's largest corporate holder of bitcoin. The FT unpacks what some investors have dubbed Saylo...
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
v. good video
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Timely reading from @jillongovt.bsky.social at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for anyone who’s so far put their hopes in Labour’s bolder words and reset delivering major economic relief from the hard Brexit the Tories negotiated. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
Rachel Reeves cannot start to blame Brexit now for her economic fix | Institute for Government
Why is the government talking about Brexit and the economy again?
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Timely reading from @jillongovt.bsky.social at the @instituteforgovernment.org.uk for anyone who’s so far put their hopes in Labour’s bolder words and reset delivering major economic relief from the hard Brexit the Tories negotiated. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rach...
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It's not a one-off. There are at least *seven* Barrowman companies with identically named tax haven "shadow companies"
The question is: why?
The question is: why?
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
It's not a one-off. There are at least *seven* Barrowman companies with identically named tax haven "shadow companies"
The question is: why?
The question is: why?
reading about lab leak theory today www.propublica.org/article/sena... also see podcast transcript or listen to this www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab
The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica giv...
www.propublica.org
September 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
reading about lab leak theory today www.propublica.org/article/sena... also see podcast transcript or listen to this www.bigbiology.org/episodes/202...
The "progressive/left/pro-Europe/sane voters have Nowhere else to go" gambit.
What could possibly go wrong
What could possibly go wrong
I hate to admit it but I suspect McSweeney is right that the 2029 election will be a ‘republican front’ vs Farage. Farage veering further right makes that easier to do. Whether McSweeney’s own advice over the past year has made this situation more likely is another question…
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The "progressive/left/pro-Europe/sane voters have Nowhere else to go" gambit.
What could possibly go wrong
What could possibly go wrong
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Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”
September 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”
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Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
September 22, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”.
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong
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Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.
September 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Running against Mussolini by agreeing with him on everything except the org-chart of his proposed train reform taskforce.
Unconstitutional as prevents free speech
Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One:
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
*TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME
*TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES
*TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO
September 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Unconstitutional as prevents free speech