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This is a solid point. If news is profitable, the untapped market is to the LEFT of present media.
…unless it isn’t about making money anymore, and just about controlling narratives.

Austerity barely merits a mention these days, even by the Labour Party. It is responsible for the desperate state the country is in today, from roads to the NHS, to local government and pretty much any public service you can think of. The Tories broke Britain.

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

It's a reminder that Brexit had nothing to do with our interests. It was an elite project backed by extreme rightwing billionaires and their concierges, many of whom had no vote or standing in this country. Yet it was packaged as patriotism by the very people collaborating with foreign interests.

Mandelson says he had no intention of leaving the country to avoid the investigation into malfeasance in public office. And I for one absolutely take him at his word as a man of unblemished honesty and probity.

This one hits hard.

Jesus F Christ

Trump truth social tweet taking about sending a hospital boat to Greenland

What could be more ironic than a U.S. president feigning concern that a nation’s healthcare system has gaps?

Maybe they watched Kind Hearts & Coronets at some point

A must read.

The government's immigration proposals are immoral, expensive (falls in immigration already damaging our economy) and will not achieve the stated aims.

A company has developed an AI chatbot that you can ask to generate any file, any format, with any data pulled from the web or your computer. After just a few minutes (although some requests can take a day or longer), it will then generate a fake download link that goes to a 404 page, and when you ask it for the actual link it gives you another broken download, and strings you along with excuses until you finally ask if it can do what you asked and it says no. The company is worth $500 billion

Why are folks not asking more questions about this FBI complaint in the Epstein Files?

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

Stop press: US judge states the fucking obvious and everyone ignores them

Channeling Judge Young here.

See: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?"

From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today:
zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism.

Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

But on the other hand there's this

While Amazon pays about 22p in corporation tax. Labour seems determined to kill off what's left of our high streets...

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

Chilling. In wartime France too many French people ratted out their Jewish neighbours. Humanity sucks sometimes

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It was the contest for the leadership, not the election.

Did he not know there wasn't the money to do it? Or did he know and just pretend to support it anyway?

I saw the TV special where candidates for the leadership were asked to raise a hand if they'd nationalise water. Starmer raised his hand. He then backtracked shortly after he was elected. Yes, it would be nightmarishly expensive, but perhaps he should have mentioned that earlier.

Crucial - and generally totally overlooked part of this story - is *what* the journalists that Labour Together smeared were reporting on

How Labour Together used £730k in illegal political donations to boot strap Keir Starmer’s political rise

That’s why they were targeted

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

Amazing analysis of pub closures in the UK, by @laurenleek.eu, and the corporate interests behind them. Some important political and policy implications open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Revealed: Corporate donations to British politics have tripled Influential Labour committee chairs call on government to clean up politics as our new analysis finds record £42 million in company donations ahead of last election

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections

But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies

It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms

New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...