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Long term economic decisions? Like the cuts to National Insurance in your last budget?

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

High streets are an important part of modern Britain. It's where afternoon drinkers go to get interviewed by news reporters for their views about immigration.

Another point is that running a bigot ad like this marks you who’s willing to sell out any particular group for power. Muslims not polling well? Throw them under the bus. Antifa, daca/dreamers, abortion, etc… polling poorly? They go under the bus too. If you sacrifice one, you will sacrifice all

"Don't comply in advance" includes not believing them when they say they've already won.

A truer account has never been penned.

We would not get a Russian or Iranian software company to do a review like this. At this point Palantir is no different.

Via @judew.bsky.social, who points out that we’re soon entering the mad season of POPPY JUDGEMENT. Can someone invite me on telly so I can confound the censors with my pride poppy badge? They don’t like it up ‘em!

Not a book, but I was told I would love Napoleon Dynamite because he reminded my friend of me. Testament to our friendship that I loved them for making the association, even though I slightly died inside. P.S. I did enjoy the movie, even though I would never be as cool as Napoleon.

Fwiw this includes me (a British citizen but born abroad), my Norwegian midwife partner, and two of my three children. Nice to know that The Times thinks we are undesirable but has watched “helplessly” as we lived in London.

The approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?

‘Last night of the pogroms’

During a debate held to discuss giving the RNLI the Freedom of the City, Portsmouth city councillors heard about the abuse that crew members had received in the city, including being confronted in pubs, yacht clubs & shops + two said their children had been bullied at school Reform UK opposed it.

When Nigel does his Very Serious Man face, he increasingly seems like an actor playing "The Prime Minister" in a Children's BBC drama c.1992, where the main plot is that Tim and Bobby have found a time tunnel in the school stationery cupboard. The idea that he'll ever be PM is less believable.

Any please, please - privileged Americans, Australians, Europeans, British people, stop flaunting the visa system while brown people are being thrown in detention for doing less. Holy shit.

For sale: Agent harness, never worn.

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

We all work in trauma nowadays.

iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-... spot on by @iandunt.bsky.social

Becoming convinced that cis people don’t hear themselves speak, that loud music that plays in their heads the moment they open their mouths, or they would surely horrify themselves with the cruelties they describe as cheerily and dismissively as if they were dictating a shopping list.

Mars attax purposes

I left X *because* I had a large following. People told me I was the reason they were staying on there, and I didn’t want to be responsible for 100k+ people sticking around for abuse, CSAM, and Nazis. Simple as that

“ understand the device” I picture them all crouched around it on the floor, poking at it with sticks, until somebody screams “ChatGPT, what is this thing”!

ok, I am starting to warm up to Andy Burnham

i wrote about the AI-generated boomer revenge stories that your parents are probably already listening to on youtube 1900hotdog.com/2026/10/upse...

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Was this entire country kicked in the head by a mule?

Lots of encouraging signs in the Commons debate in relation to the UK's relationship with the EU. One point has been annoying me though. It is not 'this Brexit deal', or 'the Tories' Brexit deal', which is the problem. It is the decision to leave the single market. 1/2

On Trump's Diesel Deal. Writing this as catharsis because I live in a rental and thus punching walls is off the table.

There has always been a group of people who refused to acknowledge that other people have perfectly valid reasons for wanting to pursue their own goals rather than theirs. We call most of those people "toddlers" and devote sizable social effort to helping them outgrow this belief.

I want to grind this up and rub it into my gums.

In TV vox pops around the Referendum time, a lady in Essex remarked that she’d vote ‘Leave’ because she fancied ‘a change’. It would be so … English if the key to arguing for the Euro turned out to be “Fancy a bit of a change? How about switching to the Euro!”

Also relevant to PM, who would want to maintain good relations with large strategic partners like Pakistan and Nigeria, and who has made “growth in every postcode” one of his taglines. Harder to get that growth if the largest employer/innovator in many towns is cutting staff due to funding crisis.

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

It's particularly obnoxious that he should characterise getting Palantir out of UK state activity as 'mob rule'. It's precisely to ensure that we can operate as a sovereign democracy that we need to keep companies like that away from anything important.

Excellent observation, although maybe you meant "creditors"?

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

To govern is to choose, or some such. Not difficult to see why so many see the Tories as the nasty party.

This is a positive development, full stop. Anti-racism norms matter, elite cues on anti-racism norms matter, a broad political consensus on anti-racism norms matter so a strong signal from the leader of a party which has been blurring red lines lately is good news.