Genial Jim
@genialjim.bsky.social
Not that Jim O’Neill but I’m interested in Economics, though that’s not what the Andrew pays me for.
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The only good thing about Trump is that he’ll just openly say what the ruling class thinks.
Trump: If we build more housing, the price of homes will go down, and homeowners will lose their wealth.
December 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
The only good thing about Trump is that he’ll just openly say what the ruling class thinks.
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The key distinction here is that most normies reject the idea that immigrants are a communitarian or civilizational threat. Trump and Miller are losing the country (per @jamellebouie.net) because that's far outside the mainstream. We can seize this moment to advance our own communitarian argument:
Miller is so extreme he is losing part of the American right: Joe Rogan "calls it “horrific” to arrest “normal, regular people that have been here for 20 years” in “front of their kids.”"
This articulation of what belonging and community means in America captures something fundamental:
This articulation of what belonging and community means in America captures something fundamental:
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The key distinction here is that most normies reject the idea that immigrants are a communitarian or civilizational threat. Trump and Miller are losing the country (per @jamellebouie.net) because that's far outside the mainstream. We can seize this moment to advance our own communitarian argument:
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"I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again," & "I'm pissed off as hell about people capitulating to Trump"
She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings.
Thread 1/5🧵
She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings.
Thread 1/5🧵
December 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
"I defected from a totalitarian regime, and like hell am I going to be cowed again," & "I'm pissed off as hell about people capitulating to Trump"
She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings.
Thread 1/5🧵
She warns that people voting for such leaders are choosing "the same ball of wax" she fled, where figures dictate life, rights, & feelings.
Thread 1/5🧵
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Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social 👇Pull your finger out🤬
Honestly impressed at Starmer and Nandy's commitment to not doing their job. This guy is literally talking about his wife, his children, her, and her children, and they do nothing!
CT explains why he thinks Shabana Mahmood is neither English, nor British, to which Cole does not respond to at all.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
Cole: asks how many generations? Is it a race thing?
CT: Not race as Albanians don't count either. It is ancestry.
It is infinite generations, if you don't have the ancestry.
December 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social 👇Pull your finger out🤬
#MusicsoundsbetterwithHuw knocking it out of the park with the set this evening BZ👌
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#MusicsoundsbetterwithHuw knocking it out of the park with the set this evening BZ👌
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Badass.
Zelensky stood just 1.3 km from Russian positions and 500 meters from the gray zone during his visit to Kupiansk.
Zelensky stood just 1.3 km from Russian positions and 500 meters from the gray zone during his visit to Kupiansk.
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Badass.
Zelensky stood just 1.3 km from Russian positions and 500 meters from the gray zone during his visit to Kupiansk.
Zelensky stood just 1.3 km from Russian positions and 500 meters from the gray zone during his visit to Kupiansk.
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In the European Parliament, the interpreter and some of the audience could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
On December 10, Roman came to Brussels for a presentation of documentaries about Ukrainian children to tell his story to MEPs
On December 10, Roman came to Brussels for a presentation of documentaries about Ukrainian children to tell his story to MEPs
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In the European Parliament, the interpreter and some of the audience could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
On December 10, Roman came to Brussels for a presentation of documentaries about Ukrainian children to tell his story to MEPs
On December 10, Roman came to Brussels for a presentation of documentaries about Ukrainian children to tell his story to MEPs
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Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
December 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...
This in spades👇
An economist from Ghana told me that a bonus reason for promoting wind and solar power is that it’s much harder to use for corruption and repressive geopolitics.
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
Remind me again. Who is in favour of fossil fuels?
December 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This in spades👇
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New: Security experts working for British intelligence warned on Monday that large language models may never be fully protected from “prompt injection,” a growing type of cyber threat that manipulates AI systems into ignoring their original instructions.
UK intelligence warns AI 'prompt injection' attacks might never go away
A top technologist at the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre said “there’s a good chance” that prompt injection attacks against AI will never be eliminated, and he warned of the related risks of em...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New: Security experts working for British intelligence warned on Monday that large language models may never be fully protected from “prompt injection,” a growing type of cyber threat that manipulates AI systems into ignoring their original instructions.
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Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.
This is very long overdue.
This is very long overdue.
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❗️62% of 🇺🇸Americans want 🇺🇦Ukraine to win the war against 🇷🇺Russia, and 64% support the supply of weapons from the US — Reagan Institute poll.
Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.
Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
❗️62% of 🇺🇸Americans want 🇺🇦Ukraine to win the war against 🇷🇺Russia, and 64% support the supply of weapons from the US — Reagan Institute poll.
Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.
Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.
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This short video will give you a sense of the significance of Ukrainian History Global Initiative's project, and of the work of some colleagues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
What Deep and Global History Of Ukraine Really Means
YouTube video by Ukrainian History Global Initiative
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This short video will give you a sense of the significance of Ukrainian History Global Initiative's project, and of the work of some colleagues.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuWh...
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One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...
Crypto’s rocky year
[FREE TO READ] The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
as.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...
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17yo Farage bullying a 9yo. With this and the yelling in assembly about pupils called Patel thing, I see why he minds the coverage. It’s not the racism, which he can bluster. It’s the cringe. He was cringe and weird at school. His “friends” probably shrank away from him when he did this stuff.
"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
17yo Farage bullying a 9yo. With this and the yelling in assembly about pupils called Patel thing, I see why he minds the coverage. It’s not the racism, which he can bluster. It’s the cringe. He was cringe and weird at school. His “friends” probably shrank away from him when he did this stuff.
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This 👇
The thing is, Farage’s racism was establishment racism. The establishment (his Public School) protected him and supported him, just as over recent decades the establishment (in particular the BBC) has protected him.
December 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This 👇
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Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐
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This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage branded racist over campaign video remark about Glasgow pupils
The Reform UK leader said the proportion of children who do not have English as a first language in Glasgow was
www.bbc.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This article is like a case study in the media normalisation of the far right.
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The bulk of the article analyses stats to ask whether Fash Farage is technically correct, when the real issue is his repulsive racism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The normalisation of extremism in British politics and parts of the media is shocking - as is the complacent response of so many supposed anti-racists.