A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best
Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best
Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!
Just to illustrate the scale of this a bit more. The shift in votes in the Gorton by-election wasn't so much left right - but from the traditional big two parties to the two insurgent parties.
This is so stupid and I laughed like a drain
Basically whenever you see a news story based on survey results of 18-24 year olds, especially if it's a subset of a large poll of all age groups, just assume it's nonsense
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Labour pointing out poll appears to have been commissioned by Opal Ltd, director Brian Eno, which has previously donated to the Green Party
First constituency poll in Gorton and Denton here: www.omnisis.co.uk/poll-result/...
By my poor maths excluding will not vote, and don't know, it is as GREEN 37%, REFORM 33% and LABOUR 30%
Shocking chart alert!
Patients waiting over 12 hours in A&E in England hit a new record high in January, exceeding 70,000 for the first time.
In the past, it was rare for this number to exceed 1,000.
This is only counting the waiting time after the decision has been made to admit the patient.
One lesson of the Epstein emails is the total intellectual vacuousness of the international business elite
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Unmasked: Man behind satirical ‘Crewkerne Gazette’ AI videos is convicted far right racist - exclusive
Support for Labour now *rises* with household income, while Reform UK's is stronger among poorer households
Household income less than £20k
Ref: 34%
Con: 18%
Lab: 15%
Grn: 14%
LD: 12%
Household income more than £70k
Lab: 23%
LD: 19%
Con: 19%
Grn: 17%
Ref: 16%
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
None of this excuses Trump, but:
1) There is an OLC opinion that authorizes this, which future AG then OLC head Bill Barr signed in 1989 to authorize the very similar Panama invasion.
2) There is an indictment. It was unsealed under Barr in 2020.
3) Indictment is real. Former top aide pled in June
With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
Chart showing YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it. About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram. A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%). Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%). And no more than about one-in-five say the same of Reddit or X (formerly Twitter). WhatsApp is one platform that stands out for its growth in recent years. Today, roughly a quarter of teens say they use WhatsApp, up from 17% in 2022. X and Facebook have declined in use over the past decade. Today, 16% of teens use X, down from 23% in 2022 and 33% in 2014-15. And Facebook, once the go-to platform for teens, is used today by about three-in-ten teens. This is far lower than the 71% in 2014-15, though on par with 2022. The shares of teens who use other sites or apps, like YouTube, TikTok and Instagram, have stayed relatively stable in recent years.
NEW DATA: Where the teens are
YouTube 92%
TikTok 68%
Instagram 63%
Snapchat 55%
Facebook 31% (down from 71%)
WhatsApp 24%
Reddit 17%
X 16% (down from 33%)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/
Don’t say this lightly but Birmingham Mail’s gaming of its position on Apple News/Google to farm clicks makes it one of the most effective spreaders of false information in the country.
Could list a dozen way more egregious examples of fake ragebait it’s pumped out recently.
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
Don't miss the brilliant @riakapoor.bsky.social's talk at the CSI this Thursday on “Refugee Internationalisms? The Ugandan Asian Case” 12-1pm, Thu 27 Nov, in Birkbeck Central Building room 402 - or email me for Teams link
It is 2005, the internet is a distributed network of servers designed so that no one outage can take down the entire network
It is 2025, the internet relies on three companies, problems with any one of which can cripple a significant proportion of the global economy
but… this is increasing income tax… just in another way.
Rather buried in the ST interview but I think this is the first time we've heard these things direct sourced to Cameron himself:- that he didn't think he'd actual have a to hold a referendum (when he announced policy thought Lib Dems would block), and then when he held it was sure he would win it.
This is excellent
A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
"Politics in the second Trump era can be mostly defined as people Posting adversarially in public"
- a quote that will one day make for a fantastic essay question
Striking finding from @timbale.bsky.social’s latest survey of Tory members: the average Tory member (60) is younger than the average Tory voter (62)
That’s actually in the data:
A... remarkable new @walesgovernance.bsky.social ITV Wales @yougov.co.uk poll of Welsh voting intentions for the next Senedd election (changes since May)
- Plaid 30% (-)
- Reform 29% (+4)
- Labour 14% (-4)
- Cons 11% (-2)
- Lib Dems 6% (-1)
- Green 6% (+1)
- Other 4% (+2)
#Senedd #devolution
Very interesting revelation in
@kitty-donaldson.bsky.social's evening newsletter:
Andrew Gwynne, one of the MPs rumoured to be thinking of standing down to make way for Andy Burnham, has applied to the Commons authorities to retire on medical grounds.
Fascinating chart
From the BES, Labour's biggest drop in support (percentage points):
-20 Unemployed
-20 Social renter
-18 Private renter
-17 Yorks + Humber
-17 Students
-17 Lesbian, gay, bisexual
-16 North West
-16 North East
-15 Age 46-55
-15 Jewish
-15 Scotland
-15 Age 36-45
-14 East Mids
Giant increases in capex from Big four tech
Staggering chart from the FT. Each of Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta (MAMA!) are set to spend over $100bn annually on capex by 2030, more than all four combined in 2020. All because of the LLM-triggered AI boom...
on.ft.com/3HwH8Y8
