Hamdi Ahmed

I'd have a bit more time for this MattyY take if I wasn't 99% sure that had the result gone the other way he be all over Twitter smugly claiming there are important lessons for leftists to learn from Lula's failure (be more conservative, do not fight for anything ever).

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

Interesting how many geniuses on this site know exactly how prediction markets are consistently wrong and yet have no interest in making millions of dollars by exploiting said inefficiencies and structural flaws

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

The fact that they re-elected him changed the whole way we can look at the US. This is no longer a civilised or trustworthy country. We need to protect ourselves from them.

This is just dreadful stuff from Kuenssberg: "What has the government done to cut the national debt?" ONS: "Public sector net debt was provisionally estimated at 94.0% of GDP, 0.7 percentage points lower than a year earlier"

A company led by overt fascists with clear sympathies and commercial to a US regime that is an adversary should not have access to information about MoD processes, or be awarded any business that puts the MoD in the position of relying on them.

the UK is just cooked. seems like every boomer there has taken up NIMBY as their retirement hobby because god forbid people have access to affordable groceries

None of these was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Elon Musk was. Odd, that.

every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

It's always the people you most suspect...

Matthew Yglesias continues to say that talking about ICE and excessive force in immigration enforcement helps Republicans. He is obviously wrong about this and refuses to acknowledge the data. Way past time for everyone to update their priors on this.

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

More evidence that Gen X is the worst generation! (And the kids are ok)

Paradox: everyone understands opportunity cost in their own lives (if you want a new car you can't have the fancy holiday this year), but politicians don't want to explain such a basic idea to voters.

It had its issues before, but The Times under Gallagher has become a deeply bigoted publication It's bad for the public discourse, but also bad for the publication itself: talented reporters and journalists have their ethics and credibility undermined by this poison

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 first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

For most of the past 50 years or so the top 10 stocks in the S&P 500 made up 20-25% of the index Today they make up 40% of market cap How do you hedge stock market concentration risk if you're concerned with AI being one big trade? awealthofcommonsense.com/2026/10/hedg...

Watching the ITV undercover thing about Reform. Incredible piece of work. Worth the license fee for this alone. Oh, hang on.

I mean it’s not a vetting problem, is it? It’s that it’s a racist party, run by racists, with racist policies, for the benefit of racists. The fact that it turns out to be full of racists is not a glitch

A thing you notice if you get mobbed by terfs is: the anti trans stuff (transgender people are terrifying sex criminals scheming on ways to horrifically violate you) is just the same as the anti-migrant stuff (migrants are terrifying sex criminals scheming on ways to horrifically violate you).

Next time Jim Ratcliffe pontificates about how to run the country, people should remember he doesn't even know how to run a football club...

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

Hopefully Palantir will find it hard to compete for contracts with the Met on the grounds that the owners’ overt fascism and complicity with Trump make them a national security threat.

This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

I see the "migrants taking all the new jobs" nonsense is back, in the Mail, Telegraph and Times. Reminder that this is BS, and IPSO ruled repeatedly that this is not what the data says. I expect corrections from all of them (Times has already agreed to correct) www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/1183...

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

All the far-right 'patriots' are on Russia's side

@resolutionfoundation.org still providing free content to the white supremacist propaganda site, here recording 0 likes and 0 retweets in 7 hours.

Same paper, same journalist, a few weeks apart. I'd say it was cognitive dissonance, but that gives them too much credit. It's simply propaganda in the service of xenophobia and racism

Top three articles on the Times website are currently a barrage of hate against funding for disabled people, including an attack on Access to Work *which is money to help disabled people find/stay in paid work*

If I was a conservative, I'd be less concerned about liberal thought-control in universities and more concerned that educated people seem to have completely rejected my philosophy.

Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.

"London has the largest number of Neets, an estimated 117,100, or one in six of all Neets in England, said the report" - you'll never guess what the other thing that London has one in six of all the things in England is.

Again, the ONLY reason U.S. democracy might survive is the incompetence of the GOP - not the competence of the Democrats or the strength of the institutions.

I always ask my students about the Oklahoma City Bombing when I teach “Far Right Politics”. The vast majority of students were not taught about it in high school! 🤯

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)