In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand.
Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules.
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Becoming a truism but remarkable how the many dimensions of Make America Great Again are making it poorer, making Americans die younger, and cutting it off from what the world has to offer.
@silvermansecurity.bsky.social has a whole thread on this. Very informative.
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I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above
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Real war and culture war. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analyzing the Brexit imprint of domestic responses to the Iran crisis, the hypocrisy & sectarianism of Reform's response to the by-election and the questions it poses for Labour: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/real...
Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.
some shit is about to go down
So McSweeney may have gone but Starmer has learned nothing from his departure.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Yet be well assur’d
You put sharp weapons in a madman’s hands.
That was 'I hate Manchester anyway' by Matt Goodwin and the White Supremes, from his Bitter Loser album.
Sent to me by one of my brothers
1/ Experts issued some pretty dire warnings about Trumpian tariffs and Brexit, and the result was not nearly as bad as it could have been.
Now they're issuing dire warnings about Iran.
A much smarter friend asked me how I was thinking about the difference.
My short answer: control.
bloody HELL
This shit should be illegal. No one needs this. Remember it was famously reported that Zuck kept a cover over his laptop camera.
🫵 another one
Fine, but Labour have no plans to substantially "break down trade barriers" with the EU. Perhaps because they judge that to be politically impossible but, if so, that needs to be said. Otherwise, we just continue the endless dishonesty which has characterized Brexit.
Important to remember that the people most enthusiastic about bombing Iran are almost always the people most hateful towards refugees.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
All the influencers fleeing Dubai: so it’s seems London isn’t quite the “dangerous war zone” you said it was
Mahmood channelling Greg Bovino's fascist aesthetic.
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I feel attacked 👀
I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit.
If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?
Oh Christ not in my name.
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
Allardyce al akbar
This is the best response to the polls and the byelection defeat IMO.
Exc: As many as 80 Labour MPs are braced to oppose the home secretary's immigration policies
Dozens of backbenchers and ministers are understood to be hostile to Shabana Mahmood's reforms. After the Gorton by-election they're pushing for a "recalibration"
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Immigrant reports from a hostile environment. All she wanted was to make a better life for herself.
wait he thinks it's the same guy???
