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Maxing out credit cards and neglecting roofs
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The people who gave Oswald Mosley's grandson a top job, after an "interview" in which they quoted his 1939 speech, at length, from memory. Not the grandson. The interviewer.

nypost.com/2025/11/18/u...
Yet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
Palantir lands biggest ever UK defense deal
The £240 million contract with the Ministry of Defence has renewed a debate about Britain’s dependence on American technology.
www.politico.eu
January 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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This thread is right, I just want to add though, that a thing people need to understand about US culture, in order to understand this present crisis, is the deep levels of ultraviolence baked into it. It comes in so very many forms, not just guns and shootings, or glorification of martial prowess.
And I just think you have to understand that about these people, they're barely capable of formulating the question "why should I do this?" - the fact that other people don't want them to but they can and therefore they're demonstrating their power over them by so doing, that's it, that's enough.
January 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?
Here is the Trump Doctrine, as articulated by Stephen Miller in his truly frightening interview with Jake Tapper this afternoon. It is very much like the doctrine of the dictators we fought and defeated in World War II and of Putin today. It is un-American at its very core.
January 6, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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i agree with all of this, my concern is many centrist types don't view criticism from their left as legitimate

they get normal pushback on here, fall down crying, & go back to twitter to be yelled at by nazis (who are allowed to have opinions)
here's the last posting about posting thing I'll say: I want people to my right politically on here for the same reason that I want either the GOP to improve or some other sane Conservative Party to arise: these people will have power. I want them to not be insane. X is making them insane.
January 5, 2026 at 11:09 PM
"It doesn't get cold because the temperature goes down", basically
Keir Starmer has this morning urged Cabinet to keep its nerve amid grim opinion polling (today’s YouGov put Labour in third place behind Reform & Tories)

“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Did Ovenden's "Stakeholder State" include racist billionaire tech bro paedophiles? They seem to hold a lot of sway with the current government
January 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM
That's all it boils down to with these fascists, isn't it? Fatalistic nonsense about human nature and dog-eat-dog to justify all their hate. This is why evolutionary psychology is such a gateway
January 6, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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Just checking with how Starmer's crusade to ban apps that produce deep fakes is going
January 6, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Geez, it's almost like local authorities need more investment and capacity
January 6, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I know about three people who went on Twitter as much as I used to. Millennial normies are on Instagram
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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Amazing wrongness here.
1. If you're arresting 00s of peaceful pro-Gazan protestors, you don't believe in free speech.
2. Even if you do believe in it, it doesn't extend to child porn.
3. You can't debate with fascists.
4. You can put a counter-narrative (if you have one) onto civilized platforms.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.

"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."

"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I can't be arsed tapping the sign, but yeah, remember who supported these people along the way (and in some cases still do)
January 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM
I appreciate ten years is a long time, but still, I'm old enough to remember when it was idiocy to talk about enthusing non-voters, particularly if a certain someone talked about it
January 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM
Just putting this out there again given previous and recent developments, e.g. Glasman's links to Bannon, Mandelson's links to Epstein, Embery's promotion of David Betz, Luke Akehurst retweeting Fraser Nelson, links with Sam Bowman et al, & general chumminess with the Spectator-UnHerd-Quillette crew
Given this, and everything we know about Blue Labour, and people like Steven Pinker going to race science conferences, is it really that much of a stretch to think that certain policies and rhetoric of this government are driven by eugenicist beliefs?
The same Sam Bowman and Ben Southwood mentioned in HOPE not hate's race science investigation I assume
January 5, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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Hey look @londonstani.bsky.social and @exum.bsky.social, you can now study radicalisation at Kings College London from the source
You'll never guess who's promoted this David Betz character before:
- Blue Labour front man and Douglas Murray fan Paul Embery
- UnHerd and Mary Harrington
January 5, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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This is just wrestling promo stuff on a worldwide geopolitical scale.
January 4, 2026 at 11:56 PM
"I have fat ass"
January 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Bringing back memories of the last CLP meeting I went to, where some Labour to Win knob head was talking about the priority to watch the Reform threat from the right, even though their own numbers on screen showed more voters being lost to the Greens
January 4, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Incredible thing to say when he's not only just completely torn up the whole concept of international law but also fucked over his biggest cheerleader in the country he just invaded.
Keir Starmer: "I constantly remind myself that 24/7 our defence, our security & our intelligent relationship with the US matters probably more than any other relationship we've got in the world and it would not be in our national interest to weaken that in any way"
January 4, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It really should be a scandal if this guy has any sort of influence in the government's inner circle, which it seems to me he does
January 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM
You'll never guess who's promoted this David Betz character before:
- Blue Labour front man and Douglas Murray fan Paul Embery
- UnHerd and Mary Harrington
January 4, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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Some people are just impervious to any lessons history or common sense can offer us.
January 4, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Luke also helping prove this point I made ten months ago
January 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM