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One of the fascinating things is that if the Reform candidate was a plumber who had just been on a plastering course, we would not hear the end of it in the media.
February 13, 2026 at 9:27 AM
One of the fascinating things is that if the Reform candidate was a plumber who had just been on a plastering course, we would not hear the end of it in the media.
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#metoo should, in retrospect, be seen as a movement shut down because it threatened to drive a stake through the heart of so many elites across the world
it's hard to reconcile the international consequences of the Epstein files with how many reactionary centrists seem to want to downplay the files
February 6, 2026 at 9:51 PM
#metoo should, in retrospect, be seen as a movement shut down because it threatened to drive a stake through the heart of so many elites across the world
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I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.
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Data / quant note: What model or message testing predicted how public opinion would shift 32 points in one year in this Texas seat?
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
February 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Data / quant note: What model or message testing predicted how public opinion would shift 32 points in one year in this Texas seat?
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
None. No quant data could solely determine the correct message for this, no linear model could based on ad tests or issue polls.
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
www.youtube.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Feeling depressed. Share the funniest thing you've ever seen. Mine is the Tiny Train World incident.
January 23, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Feeling depressed. Share the funniest thing you've ever seen. Mine is the Tiny Train World incident.
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Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
January 23, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil
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this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
this isn't a 'post-liberal' world - the ideology displaced by fascism was conservatism
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
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immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:15 AM
immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
The Potemkin Feminism of "Sex-Based Rights"
"Sex-based rights" are a Potemkin feminism that commit us to a theory of objective sex where there is something special about your very biology that entitles you to special treatment not deserved by o...
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Probably the most important thing I wrote for them this year was my elaborate response to the godawful anti-trans UK Supreme Court ruling, where I took on the larger, poisonous enterprise of so-called "sex-based rights" the danger it poses to liberal democracy writ large:
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Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Right, like I’m sure there’s theoretically a way this could happen where everyone’s done their Very Important Jobs to the best of their abilities in the circumstances… but I would like to see a longread with diagrams explaining how
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> getting rid of jury trials [Labour]
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️
All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories
The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime
www.thetimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
> getting rid of jury trials [Labour]
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
> deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative]
> getting rid of ILR [Reform UK]
does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?
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There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
February 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
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Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Britain is the best country because nowhere else could a show exist with a presenter who had Jeff Epstein's best pal as his best man, a man who resigned over the BBC's Iraq War coverage, a genocide denier cited by a mass murderer, & the dad of a serving govt minister all yucking it up of a Sunday.
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Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
December 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thinking a lot about this moment from literally the first chapter of "1984."
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endless hand-wringing on labour (potentially) breaking a manifesto pledge by raising taxes
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is an improvement, but should have been done long ago: @the-independent.com Editorial www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
November 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
endless hand-wringing on labour (potentially) breaking a manifesto pledge by raising taxes
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it
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it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
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I’d underline: these are just members of the public blamelessly going about their working day. This could be you, if these horrible people decided to switch their focus to something else. This could be your wife, your brother, your daughter, if they decided it was in their interest to fuck with you.
Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering
Darlington trans medic used female changing room for years
Rose Henderson felt within her rights to use the Darlington hospital facility, a tribunal is told.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I’d underline: these are just members of the public blamelessly going about their working day. This could be you, if these horrible people decided to switch their focus to something else. This could be your wife, your brother, your daughter, if they decided it was in their interest to fuck with you.
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A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
November 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
A Labour Councillor. Labour First. Luke Akehurst. All the hits.
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I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
October 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I'm becoming convinced that most emergent problems in the US and other wealthy democracies stem from extreme decadence in the face unlimited plenty and security.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
The rich are bored, lawyers play word games all day, the average American has no idea how anything works. We're destroying ourselves.
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That the UK is facing some kind of foreign-imposed crisis is the simplest & least challenging way to account for the UK's decade & a half of economic woe. It has to stay nebulous & inarticulate because it has no basis in reality
I might be wishful-thinking right now, but I think it's basically a belief imbibed through cultural osmosis. I don't think I'm wishful-thinking, though, because here's the thing: I find that genuinely far more terrifying than the idea that some people are affirmatively massive racists.
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
That the UK is facing some kind of foreign-imposed crisis is the simplest & least challenging way to account for the UK's decade & a half of economic woe. It has to stay nebulous & inarticulate because it has no basis in reality
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The "any other minority" game is rancid and not worth playing in most cases but I have to say that I would not fancy the job of explaining to a voter in Birmingham why the prime minister came out with a statement in five minutes for Israeli football hooligans but couldn't do the same for this
Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this
A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The "any other minority" game is rancid and not worth playing in most cases but I have to say that I would not fancy the job of explaining to a voter in Birmingham why the prime minister came out with a statement in five minutes for Israeli football hooligans but couldn't do the same for this
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went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
went to check in on this freak out of curiosity and, far from being a random, she's followed by lots of MPs current and former, journalists, think tankers, etc - once again! I feel like I'm losing my entire mind!
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it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross
October 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
it has this PKD/David Cronenberg feel to it, the combination of the surreal and the utterly gross