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  • How do we raise the money to defend our country and preserve our values in an ever more dangerous and uncertain world?

    By ditching our values and creating a society that is not worth defending.

    Starmer decries ‘worst of all worlds’ benefits system ahead of deep cuts

    → 7:28 AM, Mar 11
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  • Keir Starmer is so not the prime minister the UK needs during the breakdown of the post-war liberal order. A man completely lacking in vision, despite regular donations of spectacles.

    Starmer slashes aid to fund major increase in defence spending

    → 7:33 AM, Feb 26
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  • These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

    Starmer and Lammy absolutely craven on Trump today.

    → 7:32 PM, Feb 24
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  • Sir Neville Starmer and his foreign secretary are flying out to Washington to meet the Musk-Trump co-presidency at the MAGA Laager. Will they be back with a piece of paper bringing peace in our time?

    → 12:05 PM, Feb 23
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  • Boarding the Rainbow Train

    Boarding the Rainbow Train

    → 9:23 AM, Feb 21
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  • The right are doing with “net zero” what they did with “woke”. Woke is “freedom, fairness, community” - few are against that. Call it “woke” and you have something to attack. Net zero is “efficient transport, comfortable homes and workplaces, low cost energy”. Few were against that until “net zero”.

    → 12:04 PM, Feb 20
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  • Instead of producing migrant deportation porn to show how out of ideas it is, the Labour government could take a leaf out of Trump’s “stick it to the elites” book but actually do something useful with it - like nationalising the water industry, starting with Thames Water. The finance-rentier oligarchy and tbeir economist-apologists would vomit more shit than a Thames Water sewage farm about how contrary this is to the rules and norms of the “free market”. But rather than a destructive, Trumpian bearding of elites, renationalising water actually is a good idea and a net win for the country that is opposed with specious ideological justification by a group of greedy rentiers.

    → 8:19 AM, Feb 14
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  • Well, know we know: “ensuring AI is open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy, taking into account international frameworks for all … [and] … making AI sustainable for people and the planet” is “not in UK national interests”.

    www.theguardian.com/technolog…

    → 3:18 PM, Feb 11
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  • Timothy Snyder, getting the ongoing coup in the US about right.

    The new world they imagine is not just anti-American but anti-human. The people are just data, means to the end of accumulating wealth.

    → 10:59 PM, Feb 3
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  • Liberal democracy just died. It’s been on life support for some time now. And when the alarm sounded, when the patient flatlined, did we call for the crash-cart? No, we ambled down the corridor to get fresh coffee.

    → 1:21 AM, Jan 23
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  • Q: What will Labour centrist politicians do now that the collapse of neoliberalism into the degenerate matter of oligarchic authoritarianism is inevitable?

    A: Leverage their networks to secure lucrative consultancies to revolve into at the end of their one-term government.

    → 2:49 PM, Jan 20
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  • Preparations for Winter Lights

    A colourful art exhibit in a shopping mall. Above is a sign Positive Spin, below a console of 3 slot-machine-like curved windows with bright yellow buttons below.
    → 10:24 PM, Jan 18
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  • A gull keeps Bird Boy company

    A misty evening, the geometric London City Hall to the right, the Airline cable car above, a gull sits on the head of a bronze statue of a boy with a long beak that stands on a floating palette
    → 10:14 PM, Jan 18
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  • An English to English translation error in Windows 11

    Windows Update Last ticked: 1 minute ago - an English to English translation error in Windows 11
    → 5:42 PM, Jan 16
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  • Luk Brothers and Bad Coffee shopfronts in Hackney Wick
    → 9:55 AM, Jan 15
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  • Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina

    Two half-built residential towers loom over a night-time Poplar Marina

    → 10:24 PM, Jan 12
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  • The moon on Poplar Marina

    The moon in the east over high-rise buildings, and reflected in the water of Poplar Marina

    → 11:18 PM, Jan 11
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  • When a marginally less incompetent government begins the long, slow slog to address irregular maritime arrivals, we shouldn’t be surprised the right pivots to “grooming gangs”.

    → 9:08 AM, Jan 9
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  • In the past I’ve used terms like “deep state” or “uniparty” on short-form media as a lazy shorthand. Whatever small use these terms had, they have now been fully captured by the manipulative conspiracist discourse of the hard right. I won’t be using them anymore. They are doing more harm than good.

    → 10:09 AM, Jan 8
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  • Tunnel Operations

    The green, anthropomorphic drum of the operations building for the new Silvertown Tunnel is nearing completion.

    → 7:27 AM, Jan 6
  • I’m testing something - excuse the noise.

    → 12:29 AM, Jan 5
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  • I have come to believe that stationery is hard.

    Let’s start with the 2mm clutch pencil. The Staedtler Mars Technico 780C Clutch Pencil has its faults, but has fewer than its competitors. It is the best 2mm clutch pencil. It is easier to get the black one. Try to get the blue one, which is simpler.

    → 11:03 PM, Dec 29
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  • I can’t use LinkedIn. It makes me feel too ill.

    → 1:56 AM, Dec 23
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  • Owen Jones nails it here.

    Here is the basic truth: the Labour right ran out of ideas long ago. For the permanently crisis-stricken Britain that emerged after the 2008 financial crisis, they have no solutions

    The bigger problem is that this is true of the entire UK political class, not just the Labour right.

    → 8:51 AM, Dec 20
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  • Crikey, Apple, for £150 quid couldn’t you at least have offered backlighting?

    → 10:25 PM, Dec 9
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