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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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I think this is a mistake and it sums up what's wrong with accountability in the British state. Why does he take 'full responsibility'? Surely the person who actually *manages the OBR's website* should take some responsibility:
Head of UK fiscal watchdog quits after Budget leak
Office for Budget Responsibility chair Richard Hughes resigns following critical report
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I think this is a mistake and it sums up what's wrong with accountability in the British state. Why does he take 'full responsibility'? Surely the person who actually *manages the OBR's website* should take some responsibility:
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Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
All this budget news, claims, counter claims is confusing, but two things of consequence.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
1. We're all talking about that, not any financial benefits (or losses) of the budget.
2. Yet more focus on the very weird few weeks and politics of it all. Starting to feel dangerously like a norm.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Think this is exactly right - political journalism that is completely abstracted from policy, which was not the norm before 2017, has become the default. Impossible to have a serious attempt to either shrink what the state does or widen the tax base (have to do at least one) on that basis.
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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???
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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.
This is so fucking grim.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is so fucking grim.
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If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
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We've had some great coverage on VGC recently, but with Google continuing to erode small publishers’ reach, it’s going to be a tough Q4 for independent sites.
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October 5, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We've had some great coverage on VGC recently, but with Google continuing to erode small publishers’ reach, it’s going to be a tough Q4 for independent sites.
Please consider supporting us on Patreon - it makes a huge difference.
www.patreon.com/c/VideoGames...
Please consider supporting us on Patreon - it makes a huge difference.
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Incredibly interesting thread! 🧵 I had GamePass for PC when it first came out. Cancelled once I started to recognised a lot of the behaviour mentioned here.
I used to work for a company called GameTap, we were probably the first "Netflix for games," started around 2006. It didn't go well. I used to think the idea was ahead of its time, and maybe it was, but I also think times have changed and this no longer makes sense. 🧵
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Incredibly interesting thread! 🧵 I had GamePass for PC when it first came out. Cancelled once I started to recognised a lot of the behaviour mentioned here.
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It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.
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These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
August 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.
Can you tell I'm having a "must read/share all the articles in these open tabs" moment today! 😅
August 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Can you tell I'm having a "must read/share all the articles in these open tabs" moment today! 😅
Another really good piece worth a read! - Rebuilding Britain: ten tips open.substack.com/pub/daviesri...
Rebuilding Britain: ten tips
If in doubt, just copy Lille.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Another really good piece worth a read! - Rebuilding Britain: ten tips open.substack.com/pub/daviesri...
Few weeks late on this one, but yeah, stunning bit of reporting from @londoncentric.media - Utterly infuriating! - The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
August 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Few weeks late on this one, but yeah, stunning bit of reporting from @londoncentric.media - Utterly infuriating! - The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
Jonn's excellent piece on the myth of "empty homes" is now free to read (which you should definiately do because it's excellent) - No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...
No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis
It may be a vote winner. That doesn’t make it right.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Jonn's excellent piece on the myth of "empty homes" is now free to read (which you should definiately do because it's excellent) - No, empty homes can’t solve the housing crisis open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...
Really excellent and informative thread! 🧵
Energy in Britain has gotten scarce—and thus expensive.
Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European average than any point in at least 40 years (barring the 22/23 shock).
What's behind this, and is it crimping growth? I took a look for @economist.com. (🧵)
Prices are high in absolute terms, and further above the European average than any point in at least 40 years (barring the 22/23 shock).
What's behind this, and is it crimping growth? I took a look for @economist.com. (🧵)
July 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Really excellent and informative thread! 🧵
We’re so screwed 🫠 - They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
www.nytimes.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We’re so screwed 🫠 - They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
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These vacous people, who by any measure have got exactly the government they were asking for in 2013, but who are so detached from both policy thought and the people they ventriloquise that they simply have not noticed and never will:
Blue Labour's Jonathan Rutherford Is Helping No 10 Find Purpose, Energy And A Story To Tell
Can Blue Labour help Keir Starmer’s government develop a clear direction and sense of purpose? Sienna Rodgers talks to Jonathan Rutherford, a polit...
www.politicshome.com
May 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
These vacous people, who by any measure have got exactly the government they were asking for in 2013, but who are so detached from both policy thought and the people they ventriloquise that they simply have not noticed and never will:
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A big part of the UK's problems can be summed up by the fact that because of the referendum and the pandemic, we haven't had 'now we are in governing mode' government of any type since 2013. Many of Labour's problems would go away if they became one for a bit.
May 2, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A big part of the UK's problems can be summed up by the fact that because of the referendum and the pandemic, we haven't had 'now we are in governing mode' government of any type since 2013. Many of Labour's problems would go away if they became one for a bit.
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(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")
February 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")
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So could we, as a country, not accept the 'let's get angry over some obviously undeliverable cuts and an inadequate increase in defence spending' stage of our politics has been running for a decade now and has gone on long enough?
Starmer vows to ‘spend more’ on UK defence but other areas face cuts
Departments asked to model savings of up to 11% as government battles chronic squeeze on public finances
www.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
So could we, as a country, not accept the 'let's get angry over some obviously undeliverable cuts and an inadequate increase in defence spending' stage of our politics has been running for a decade now and has gone on long enough?
BEST! SUPER BOWL! EVER! 🤣 (not an Eagles fan, just pleased to watch the Chiefs suffer)
February 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
BEST! SUPER BOWL! EVER! 🤣 (not an Eagles fan, just pleased to watch the Chiefs suffer)
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Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
Indian Railways will be fully electrified next year (it’s at ~99% currently)
UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
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UK is at 38% with tentatively another 12-13% new electrification committed
Indian Railways is building a 7000km high speed rail network by 2047
We can’t even get ours all the way from central London to central Birmingham
😫
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Dumbshit Treasury brain stuff this: India and Denmark etc just said 'we would like to electrify our rail network, we will set up an arm of government to steadily do it all'. Their teams finish one project then go straight to next. In the UK we do it piecemeal with no future work guarantee, costs ££.
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Again I beg politicians to know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to AI. They look like mugs.
Uhm, sorry, what? Starmer thinks AI is going to DOUBLE UK productivity in less than 5 years?
January 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Again I beg politicians to know what the hell they are talking about when it comes to AI. They look like mugs.