I've said this many times before so forgive me. But horseshoe theory is to political science what astrology is to psychology: a system uniting unrelated & different things in a way that confirms personal biases
Everyone knew this classification of class was bullshit, but they kept using it because it was a useful stick to beat Corbyn with
I feel like I'm going mad whenever I read this shit. We've done what these fucking dickheads wanted! We've sold off public services, squeezed wages, cut spending, made every millionaire feel like a special boy. And still, anemic growth at best. It doesn't *work* lads!!
This guy was forced to resign in disgrace effectively because he was facilitating government access for a corrupt lobbyist for foreign business interests including a prolific sex trafficker.
They had a cosy leaving do for him, where they gave speeches about what a jolly good fellow he is.
The way the media was egging on people who were going around beating the shit out of Just Stop Oil protestors is a big contributor imo.
hard agree - she's said a number of things that are **factually untrue** to justify far-right policy & strengthen far-right narratives
she should resign
I get that AI will get more efficient over time, but given how many data centres we need for the current batch of predictive text machines, I don't see how grander ambitions like AGI can be built in line with planetary boundaries. It feels like Laplace's Demon, and against the laws of thermodynamics
So if I have more than 49 captive birds I don't have to register?
*Taps the sign*
Mahmood did say she refuses to learn anything from Gorton and Denton because she, like most of Labour, truly believes in implementing the same polices Reform would, regardless of whether it makes electoral sense to do so.
Nobody associated with Mandelson in any way should be allowed any role that even touches on public policy. Anyone associated with him should be considered as corruptly working for billionaires. Britain will continue to be a failing country until it roots out Mandelson's corruption of the state.
"Multiple people said McSweeney's emotional farewell reduced some in the room to tears." Why? Are there VIP tickets at certain concerts they can't get anymore?
The extract of the article reads: "A senior NHS official privately urged colleagues to add more patient data into a Palantir-built platform at the same time as he was being paid to advise the US technology company. Matthew Swindells has been joint chair of four major hospital trusts in north-west London since April 2022 and has also since then acted as an adviser to Palantir through the now-defunct lobbying firm Global Counsel, which was co-founded by Lord Peter Mandelson."
It's just cartoon villainy now
The only thing I can be even slightly idealistic about now is the potential for bottom-up community activism. In terms of the people in charge - and specifically the Labour right - I'm increasingly convinced that they're knowingly fluffing the pillows and keeping the engine running for Reform
they/them might be gian... @babado... • 16m I'm realizing that, at some point in seeing the Gaza genocide, a flame went out in my heart I haven't seen since. A steady drumbeat of atrocities and brazen sadism rewarded with, at best, tacit complicity, if not open bloodlust and frothing glee, eventually deadened something in me and left me cold.
I am aware I am a big old Debbie Downer these days, but it is pretty difficult to have witnessed the utter brazen murderous savagery of it while being relentlessly and openly lied to about what was happening, and retain a glimmer of idealism about what this system is and always has been.
The death of Labour is being announced internationally.
Always fascinating to see an outsider's perspective of our politics and society, and this is a good one.
assumes we're all racists by virtue of being white, northern and working class but can't discern any racism in the apartheid country he lobbies for
*Taps the sign*
And going back to yesterday's discourse, a lot of voters can still be won over by "deliverism", it's just that what they want delivered isn't growth in GDP, but keeping Britain white
McTernan
Ewww
And to think people think the soft left will end stuff like this. It'll just be more of the same but with a bit more ESG and "social value" clauses
Illuminating, this, on the terfy MP's husband's lobbying business
The culmination of neoliberal epistemology is betting markets replacing all forms of knowledge and critical discourse.
It's great for authoritarianism since it trains people to predict and hedge around world events rather than shape them or take responsibility in any way.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.
for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick
Yeah, such a tough game with loads of replayability, and the Resistance expansion pack was such a big step up too
Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social
Football Manager 2007
Rome: Total War
KOTOR
Operation Flashpoint
Deus Ex
Luke Akehurst branch meeting in Durham
The McSweeney-Mandelson faction bet it's entire political success & credibility on sucking up to & titilating deeply unpleasant interstellar wrong'uns like Hodges by monstering the left & going in both feet on racist immigration & genocidal foreign policy & it has failed dismaly
@LordIanAustin X.com Nobody seriously believes Rachel Reeves shares this man's views. She is and always has been a good friend to the Jewish community and supports a close and positive relationship with Israel. Unlike some others, she refused to have anything to do with Corbyn's leadership when Labour was poisoned by extremism and anti-Jewish racism. As last week's byelection showed, we face real problems with Islamist extremism and an obsession with Israel that fuels antisemitism, particularly on the left. Suggesting Rachel Reeves somehow supports that won't help solve it. Robert Jenrick • @RobertJenrick • 1d Arshad Khatana has the most abhorrent and shocking views. So whv has Rachel Reeves been "friends" with
This former Labour MP was presented to the public urging people to vote for the Tories to defeat extremism, as part of a shadily-funded PR campaign run by God knows who. He was then rewarded for it with a peerage (a non-job for life in the legislature) by Boris Johnson. Britain, ladies and gents.
