How yer diddling, Bri?

People were polled and gave their opinion on what they wanted, Ed. Have you all now completely abandoned even the pretext of listening to ThE WiLL Of ThE PeOpLe?

On being conservative Small-c conservatives should oppose both the Tory party and neoliberal capitalism.

For me, one problem with "social conservatism" is that it neglects the strengths of (small-c) conservatism - scepticism, empiricism & antipathy to changes such as Brexit - & is merely a code for hostility to out-groups. Here's one I wrote earlier: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-being-c...

In Richard II the Bishop of Carlisle makes an eloquent & correct speech warning of the effects of toppling Richard, to which Northumberland replies: "Well have you argued, sir, and, for your pains/Of capital treason we arrest you here." Shakey knew that truth doesn't much matter in politics.

There’s nothing worse than a bad narrator on an audiobook.

For those wondering who the MP is for that area and why this is so funny.

We can't have a functioning "marketplace of ideas" if those selling crap don't go out of business.

Three arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for China London’s Metropolitan Police said officers had searched addresses in London, Wales and East Kilbride

Three arrested in UK on suspicion of spying for China ft.trib.al/g0A23pi

Taps nose

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

Darren was expelled from the greens for reasons...

As I wrote yesterday, "the Labour right is behaving as if its incentives are not to win the next election but to get cushy jobs outside politics after it." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/bad-incent...

Jeremy Bowen reminding viewers how, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, George Bush stood on an aircraft carrier in front of a massive banner proclaiming 'mission accomplished' when there was years of fighting, war & disaster ahead.

This is why the 'leave the rich tax dodgers to it' argument doesn't really stack up. They'll pay their way out as thats pocket change to them, its every day folk, holiday makers, young families chasing opportunitys like teachers that will be those left bearing the onslaught of bombs.

Does anyone still think that Dubai is a top notch tourist destination?

Democracy in the UK 😄

Yvette Cooper (who backed the Iraq War) is asked what lessons we've learnt from Iraq

Cooper: ".. this threat from Iranian nuclear weapons"

Among other things Chilcot found the govt deliberately exaggerated the threat as a pretext for war

The govt are doing it all over again

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

I've spent my entire adult life waking up in the morning to see that we're bombing the living shit out of the Middle East, again.
What new absolute fucking madness is this?
#socialistsunday

We need to stop measuring the economy by how wealthy the top 1% are doing or by how much the stock market has increased.

Instead we need to start measuring a country’s success by its standard of living, its access to healthcare/education and its the levels of homelessness/poverty.

On the basis of my 45 years' experience, I can say that for me the sexual economy has always been pretty tightly regulated.

The University of Life should lose its accreditation.

BBC News: Student society bans Reform UK for ‘racism, transphobia and homophobia'

Reform UK head of policy, Zia Yusuf, threatened to pull £30m of funding from the university under a Reform government, adding: "After all, they wouldn't want a racist's money would they?"

It is genuinely astounding to me that I haven’t seen a single journalist push back on this quote from Zia Yusuf, to remind him that the money he’s referring to is not his, or Reform’s, but the taxpayers.

In my adult lifetime the right has gone from asserting "management's right to manage" to telling them how best to run their companies. The consistent theme is wanting to oppress workers.

“Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive.” — David Graeber

We need to be talking about Universal Basic Income.

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

Elon Musk • @elonmusk X.com Whoever said "money can't buy happiness" really knew what they were talking about e=2.718

This is because when you’re a young man you think what’s best in life is crushing your enemies, driving them before you and hearing the lamentation of their women*. But then you get old, and you realise it’s having a family that loves you, fulfilling work and hobbies, a little house and a cat.

We've had 6 incompetent PMs in a row. It's surely statistically improbable that this is pure bad luck and has nothing to do with our political culture/system or capitalism. But that's what we're being invited to believe.

Chris Hayes • @chrislhayes X.com I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. 19:40 • 04/02/2026 • 1.4M Views 369 27 2.9K 17K 1.9K 企 Relevant く View quotes › Chris Hayes 1 @chrislhayes •1d Keep pushing the share of national income away from labor towards capital, replace the kinds of workers they think are uppity and spoiled, ultimately turn Marin County into Youngstown, Ohio.

Or alternatively: the unified class project of a specific set of billionaires is to do to white collar workers, and indeed everyone else, what the end of the Cold War did to Russians. Particularly, but not limited to, the part about law being something little people worry about.