operose
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Written on the 1970s-80s Liberal party, election forecasting.
Parent to Nessie the cat.
Jordan Thompson stan account
Written on the 1970s-80s Liberal party, election forecasting.
Parent to Nessie the cat.
Jordan Thompson stan account
Starmer does politics in the same way I play chess. I do not mean this as a compliment.
One of Starmer and his team's weaknesses is an ability to read many moves ahead. Everything is reactive. You only become at the mercy of events if you do not anticipate them. The UK needs to rethink its whole approach to relations with the US (and how the politics could benefit the government too).
The UK "was not involved in the action in Venezuela," says Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "I want to speak to President Trump."
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Starmer does politics in the same way I play chess. I do not mean this as a compliment.
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Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
January 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”
This, I think, is one of the scarier points - it's not just about what AL can/can't do (I won't say that's trivial!) but more about *our perceptions* of agency and responsibility, which are being challenged in a very new way
I don't recall off hand who made the point about AI being, more than anything else, a machine for displacing responsibility. That increasingly looks like its most reliable feature
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 9:03 PM
This, I think, is one of the scarier points - it's not just about what AL can/can't do (I won't say that's trivial!) but more about *our perceptions* of agency and responsibility, which are being challenged in a very new way
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Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?
What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?
I know the Telegraph has been off the deep end for a while but their headlines have been *something else* recently
August 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I know the Telegraph has been off the deep end for a while but their headlines have been *something else* recently
better luck next time yanks xx
August 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
better luck next time yanks xx
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Excellent piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on the need to address the "legitimate concerns" of many British people - about the growth of open racism and ethnonationalism in the British political class and media.
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored?
'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'
www.easterneye.biz
August 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Excellent piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on the need to address the "legitimate concerns" of many British people - about the growth of open racism and ethnonationalism in the British political class and media.
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
(Rachael Maskell has a hard-line anti-abortion stance that ought to disqualify her from membership of the labour party anyway, btw)
Good, but it really is hard to have sympathy isn’t it. It was fine when it was only happening to the pig people who don’t matter, but now it’s affecting real people.
July 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
(Rachael Maskell has a hard-line anti-abortion stance that ought to disqualify her from membership of the labour party anyway, btw)
TIL I have at least ten times as many friends as the average american
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
TIL I have at least ten times as many friends as the average american
why are all these media outlets calling him Mark Carney, rather that his real name, Not Mervyn King?
April 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
why are all these media outlets calling him Mark Carney, rather that his real name, Not Mervyn King?
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he’s right and he’s right to say it
April 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
he’s right and he’s right to say it
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July 2017: Corbyn urges May to support self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.
Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.
April 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
July 2017: Corbyn urges May to support self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.
Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...
Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
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happy ten year anniversary to this post
April 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
happy ten year anniversary to this post
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Trumpism in one country very much seeing off the Musk idea of exporting the movement here!
The Canadian Liberals have cut the Conservatives’ once vast poll lead to just two points.
February 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Trumpism in one country very much seeing off the Musk idea of exporting the movement here!
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Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature.
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
February 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature.
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
english.elpais.com/culture/2024...
THE ACCESS IS ALREADY UNLAWFUL
Passing a law saying that:
(a) adds no options for enforcement;
(b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and,
(c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption
Passing a law saying that:
(a) adds no options for enforcement;
(b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and,
(c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries sends a "Dear Colleagues" message about Democratic strategy for the session, including introing leg to " prevent unlawful access to the Department of Treasury Bureau of the Fiscal Service payment system" (cc Elon Musk)
February 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
THE ACCESS IS ALREADY UNLAWFUL
Passing a law saying that:
(a) adds no options for enforcement;
(b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and,
(c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption
Passing a law saying that:
(a) adds no options for enforcement;
(b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and,
(c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption
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The US President who claims to be so concerned about drug trafficking is the same US President who, on his first day in office, pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by thousands of drug dealers and others to conduct over $200 million worth of illicit sales using bitcoin.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The US President who claims to be so concerned about drug trafficking is the same US President who, on his first day in office, pardoned Ross Ulbricht.
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television
Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television
Exclusive: 2025 marks the final year of the BBC and ITV’s joint agreement in the United Kingdom, with subscription channel TNT Sports confirming that they were exploring the possibility of a bid
www.independent.co.uk
February 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television
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Update.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
January 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Update.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects.
However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.