Lizany
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less and less blairism, these days
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The "Overton Window" not shifting in that nobody more famousTomlinson, Lucy White, Ant Middleton & an ind councillor are arguing publicly to ban Badenoch from parliament (or remove all practicing Muslims from UK)
What we do have is GB News, Sun willing to platform the advocates of that argument
What we do have is GB News, Sun willing to platform the advocates of that argument
December 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The "Overton Window" not shifting in that nobody more famousTomlinson, Lucy White, Ant Middleton & an ind councillor are arguing publicly to ban Badenoch from parliament (or remove all practicing Muslims from UK)
What we do have is GB News, Sun willing to platform the advocates of that argument
What we do have is GB News, Sun willing to platform the advocates of that argument
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News just in from 1542.
December 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
News just in from 1542.
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Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave do have the exact same sub-thesis about organized religion (that it’s all run on the labour / exploitation of its female members, who are the most sincerely faithful)
Mentioned it before but I think it’s the most pro-Catholic, pro-Francisan era text I’ve ever seen and I include literally Conclave in that
December 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Wake Up Dead Man and Conclave do have the exact same sub-thesis about organized religion (that it’s all run on the labour / exploitation of its female members, who are the most sincerely faithful)
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"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
Well-known Bristol football fan died in tragic fall from lamppost
City fan Paul Lumber was a published author of books about the days of football casuals in the 1980s
www.bristolpost.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"He was reputed to be the first person in the country to receive a football banning order when they were introduced, and spent several spells in prison in his younger days for football-related violence."
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"Just need to get net immigration down and these people will suddenly become well-adjusted and happy with their lot" - the home secretary, apparently.
Some highlights from the X reaction to Sofie Jenkinson's concept of "Silly Sausage Britain":
December 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Just need to get net immigration down and these people will suddenly become well-adjusted and happy with their lot" - the home secretary, apparently.
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it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
Over 50% of the UK goes to uni. 50% of our economy doesn’t require this, and we are misallocating high value human capital, this is the problem that you for some reason, are pretending not to grasp.
December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
it remains absolutely funny to me that the one thing that unites MAGA and Blue Labour is "we are too high up on the value chain and we need to go back"
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There's something absolutely fascinating to me in that none of these people can actually point to a nation where such a policy programme has revitalized high-productivity manufacturing when the on-going story of modern economic production comes down to skills-biased technological change.
You’re arguing as if every degree creates productive capacity. It doesn’t. Most strategic industries rely on a mix of engineers, technicians, and skilled trades.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
Closing low-value universities doesn’t weaken innovation. It strengthens it by redirecting resources into sectors that actually produce.
I know people who work in those sectors in the US and Canada: the vast majority of them working on the frontier *require* college degrees. It is utter madness to think that the UK has somehow found a way to opt out of the fact that modern innovation is built on a strong HE sector.
December 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
There's something absolutely fascinating to me in that none of these people can actually point to a nation where such a policy programme has revitalized high-productivity manufacturing when the on-going story of modern economic production comes down to skills-biased technological change.
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Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.
I'm sorry, but these attacks are just not going to convince Green-curious voters, because Labour is so visibly out of step with those voters' core values
December 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Also, virtually nobody in the party (MPs or members) truly believes it apart from a few crackpot Blue Labour types.
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It’s amazing and funny that Blue Labourites have the same mindset as a Soviet central planner.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
December 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
It’s amazing and funny that Blue Labourites have the same mindset as a Soviet central planner.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
Sorry, but you can’t dictate what people are going to study and specialise in. That’s an individual’s choice to make. You can’t micromanage people’s lives.
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This story from yesterday didn't perhaps get the attention it should have. It's utterly shocking. It follows dogged reporting by the Observer (in its pre-sale era), which was repeatedly rejected by the academy federation concerned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
London academy staff instilled ‘climate of fear’ among pupils
Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This story from yesterday didn't perhaps get the attention it should have. It's utterly shocking. It follows dogged reporting by the Observer (in its pre-sale era), which was repeatedly rejected by the academy federation concerned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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You can have SEND-inclusive mainstream education, or you can have Tom Bennett as your behaviour tsar. You cannot have both.
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
You can have SEND-inclusive mainstream education, or you can have Tom Bennett as your behaviour tsar. You cannot have both.
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So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
So this week shall I write about how killing unarmed civilians is murder or about how unwise it would be to limit the human right against torture.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
Western liberal democracies in 2025.
earliest notable interaction between christianity and the first democratic enlightenment govt in europe was violent dechristianisation btw
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Europe must “persuade younger Europeans that their heritage, culture and way of life — a fundamentally Christian civilization leavened and improved but not erased by the values of the Enlightenment — are worth defending,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes.
Opinion | Europe, Too, Is Worth Fighting For
Provided Europeans want to fight for it.
nyti.ms
December 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
earliest notable interaction between christianity and the first democratic enlightenment govt in europe was violent dechristianisation btw
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The clique-ishness of Westminster Elites has led to very rapid radicalisation and meant that lots of people in the Bubble have not realised how insane everyone has gone.
In a UK intellectual environment that struggles to engage with forms of elite radicalisation it is worth noting how far Right wing think tanks like Policy Exchange are now operating in the same ideological space as increasingly groyperised MAGA Republicans
December 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The clique-ishness of Westminster Elites has led to very rapid radicalisation and meant that lots of people in the Bubble have not realised how insane everyone has gone.
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This highlights the way in which “moderate pragmatic centrism” is a performance, a signaling exercise.
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
This exchange drives me nuts. Neither the interviewer nor Bazelon acknowledges that 1) abortion rights are really popular! and 2) what ICE is doing is hugely unpopular!
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This highlights the way in which “moderate pragmatic centrism” is a performance, a signaling exercise.
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
These people signal to their peers how smart they are by refusing to support good things and failing to oppose awful things.
“Look at me! Self-consciously not fighting! A good little moderate.”
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'UK has too many ADHD diagnoses' doesn't pass the smell test as explanation for UK's rising number of young people not in education, employment or training - ADHD diagnoses have gone up at similar rates across our peers, but the UK's rising NEETs are a UK issue.
December 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
'UK has too many ADHD diagnoses' doesn't pass the smell test as explanation for UK's rising number of young people not in education, employment or training - ADHD diagnoses have gone up at similar rates across our peers, but the UK's rising NEETs are a UK issue.
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There’s a type of LLM advert which essentially depicts
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
December 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
There’s a type of LLM advert which essentially depicts
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
1) a person using an LLM for a task it absolutely can perform
2) but a person who is qualified to double check its working wouldn’t need to.
Feels like this is the type of “AI misalignment” we should really worry about!
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Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
December 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
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My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
No reindustrialising? Our academic institutions are a part of the problem, overproducing elites and funnelling them into bullshit unproductive jobs. Half the universities need to close or become vocational colleges. You didn't even mention productivity.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Brexit is in the past. That ship has sailed.
Well, for one, the UK has a highly competitive higher education sector that is closely tied to innovation, and yet the past set of governments don't value academic institutions as value producers.
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
The other part is leaving the EU has basically damaged the British ability to trade goods...
December 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My brother in Christ, reindustrialization is based on international capital flows, not dumbass ideas to move down the value chain by turning colleges into vocational schools. You do realize that modern industry is almost always *high* skilled automation?
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
Read your Michael Pettis, you utter clown.
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portland putting castlereagh in the war office and canning in the foreign office what was he THINKING lmao
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
portland putting castlereagh in the war office and canning in the foreign office what was he THINKING lmao
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Anti-bullying campaigns worked and are good which is why I am genuinely rankled by people why say stuff like "bullying works" glibly
it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools
My experience as well. So far we're 2-for-2 on kids having a largely bullying/abuse-free middle school experience. Not without bumpy spots of course, but light years away from what I endured.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
My hot take: the anti-bullying stuff has really worked, which is why conservatives are pushing back at it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Anti-bullying campaigns worked and are good which is why I am genuinely rankled by people why say stuff like "bullying works" glibly
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The WI gives an honourable statement in response to an enforced decision. There's more in the article
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The WI gives an honourable statement in response to an enforced decision. There's more in the article
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Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.
He’s not really trying to hide it. It’s open, unapologetic racism; let’s be plain about it.
November 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.