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Sam Wilson
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This budget is like an onion. Each layer will make you cry
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This budget is like an onion. Each layer will make you cry
Not sure what to do now I have discovered I have five more years of adolescence. Any recommendations?
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Not sure what to do now I have discovered I have five more years of adolescence. Any recommendations?
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Looks like Lammy is going significantly further than the Leveson criminal courts review proposed on jury trials: abolished for anyone likely to face a sentence <5 years (Leveson suggested 3). You can make arguments for and against juries — but the claim it‘s *necessary* doesn’t stand up:
The Leveson review: Cutting jury trials is not the only option | Institute for Government
The Leveson review is welcome – but doesn’t address the most fundamental problem in the courts.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Looks like Lammy is going significantly further than the Leveson criminal courts review proposed on jury trials: abolished for anyone likely to face a sentence <5 years (Leveson suggested 3). You can make arguments for and against juries — but the claim it‘s *necessary* doesn’t stand up:
Latest Downing Street memo leaked
If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Latest Downing Street memo leaked
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38. Puyi, last Emperor of China and later ruler of Japanese puppet Manchukuo, starred as a left-wing Labour MP in a 1956 play “The Defeat of the Aggressors” about the Suez Crisis whilst he was prisoner in a Maoist re-education camp.
He enjoyed it so much he found other acting roles.
He enjoyed it so much he found other acting roles.
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
38. Puyi, last Emperor of China and later ruler of Japanese puppet Manchukuo, starred as a left-wing Labour MP in a 1956 play “The Defeat of the Aggressors” about the Suez Crisis whilst he was prisoner in a Maoist re-education camp.
He enjoyed it so much he found other acting roles.
He enjoyed it so much he found other acting roles.
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Sigh
No, again?
I think Duncan Weldon termed this "the stupidest chart" once.
I think Duncan Weldon termed this "the stupidest chart" once.
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Sigh
It’s J’s first Christmas and people keep asking us what toys they can buy him and get annoyed when we tell them he doesn’t need new toys - he’s happy with chewing a TV remote and playing with a piece of kitchen roll
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s J’s first Christmas and people keep asking us what toys they can buy him and get annoyed when we tell them he doesn’t need new toys - he’s happy with chewing a TV remote and playing with a piece of kitchen roll
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
November 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fun fact: November 28, 2001:
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
"ENRON, which had been a component of the S&P; 500, was removed at the end of trading Thursday and replaced by NVIDIA Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif.-based maker of computer-graphics chips."
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Hold the phone new news intro of the year just dropped www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/c...
Church of England priest drunkenly crashed bishop's car
Father Sion Hughes Carew was convicted last month of drink driving
www.standard.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Hold the phone new news intro of the year just dropped www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/c...
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To add to this - it's not like the public is being well served by broadcast news moving at the pace of 24 hour scrolling and the politically obsessed - it just means every election large numbers of people end up googling 'what is austerity?' 'What is brownfield?' etc. etc.
This is bizarre. Like the editor of the guardian or mail or any other paper complaining repeatedly about the front page lead they decided to run with.
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
Very good example of what's wrong with broadcast news - they've given up deciding for themselves what is or isn't news and what the priorities are
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
November 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
To add to this - it's not like the public is being well served by broadcast news moving at the pace of 24 hour scrolling and the politically obsessed - it just means every election large numbers of people end up googling 'what is austerity?' 'What is brownfield?' etc. etc.
I wonder how many things are on the list of actions a previous president would have been impeached for
We’ve got to be in high double figures by now
We’ve got to be in high double figures by now
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I wonder how many things are on the list of actions a previous president would have been impeached for
We’ve got to be in high double figures by now
We’ve got to be in high double figures by now
Considering I am an employed lay person within the Church, I already occupy a sinecure position (I am literally someone *without* responsibility the *cure* of souls)
So if anything, something completely different would be a really stressful job with the cure of souls. A vicar?
So if anything, something completely different would be a really stressful job with the cure of souls. A vicar?
What's your absolutely unworkable plan to drop out of your current life (or at least work life) and do something completely different?
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Considering I am an employed lay person within the Church, I already occupy a sinecure position (I am literally someone *without* responsibility the *cure* of souls)
So if anything, something completely different would be a really stressful job with the cure of souls. A vicar?
So if anything, something completely different would be a really stressful job with the cure of souls. A vicar?
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
“Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” came with Josh Lyman commenting, “our second year doesn’t seem to be going much better than our first” and a technocratic leader outsourcing decisions to a powerful chief of staff who tends to the centre
All I’m saying is Starmer needs to appoint some corkers to the FEC
All I’m saying is Starmer needs to appoint some corkers to the FEC
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
“Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” came with Josh Lyman commenting, “our second year doesn’t seem to be going much better than our first” and a technocratic leader outsourcing decisions to a powerful chief of staff who tends to the centre
All I’m saying is Starmer needs to appoint some corkers to the FEC
All I’m saying is Starmer needs to appoint some corkers to the FEC
Absolutely loving this photo of the new High Commissioner from New Zealand meeting HM The King.
Which is a bit of a spiderman meme situation because this is the King’s Representative from one of his realms to another of his realms.
Which is a bit of a spiderman meme situation because this is the King’s Representative from one of his realms to another of his realms.
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Absolutely loving this photo of the new High Commissioner from New Zealand meeting HM The King.
Which is a bit of a spiderman meme situation because this is the King’s Representative from one of his realms to another of his realms.
Which is a bit of a spiderman meme situation because this is the King’s Representative from one of his realms to another of his realms.
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At Labour’s conference, Keir Starmer promised his government would “fight with everything we have” against those pushing racism and the idea of two-tier Britishness.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
It’s just nuts. Even if you accept Labour’s policy diagnosis, we “lost control” of our borders, and concern about immigration was rising long before the alarming rise of racism. The big change on racism has been we traded an anti-racist government for one that is at best Trappist on it.
I find insane that shabana mahmood is going out there and saying "white british people cannot be asked to accept too many of us outsiders, it is not in their nature, and their pushback against all of us is to be placated". What???
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
At Labour’s conference, Keir Starmer promised his government would “fight with everything we have” against those pushing racism and the idea of two-tier Britishness.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
Now it is the clear and stated policy rationale of his government that the racists were correct and must be appeased.
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This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
November 21, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...
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Home Office media release on new settlement rules.
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
November 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Home Office media release on new settlement rules.
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
5 years to settlement for family members of British citizens; BNO Hong Kong visas + public sector workers
Keir Starmer's government proposes 15 year, 20 year + even 30 year settlement routes: deliberately off the charts of any precedent anywhere
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70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I mean come on: we'll ask but reserve right to exclude you on the basis of how you look. Oh, and if you try to use your birth sex specific facilities we'll kick you out of those as well.
Get fucked.
Get fucked.
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A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
Michigan man who shares same initials as JD Vance convicted of threatening to kill president, vice president
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance.
www.fox5ny.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
A Michigan man named JD Vance was sentenced for threatening to kill JD Vance. www.fox5ny.com/news/michiga...
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37. You can measure the speed of light using a kitchen microwave.
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
37. You can measure the speed of light using a kitchen microwave.