Tommaso Sabbatini

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What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

Isn't it nice, to be ruled by the tiny, vengeful clique in control of a party that enjoyed the support of 1 in 5 eligible voters at the last election and has since become even more unpopular. Definitely feels like a healthy democracy.
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Attitudes towards immigration have soured dramatically in Germany, partly because of the strain high migration levels have placed on local services. That shift helped propel the far-right party Alternative for Germany to first place in some polls. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/08/germany-ends-fast-track-citizenship-mood-migration-shifts

Nothing to see here, just a liberal paper repeating as fact the rightwing idea that immigration is to blame for the strain on public services, without contemplating for a second that perhaps austerity might have something to do with it.

People like Elliot Stanley, the founding member of Raise The Colours would like you to believe that his 'movement' is not political. That's BS of course. It's about hating migrants.

Nous sommes en 2024 et la presse est choquée que la droite ne fasse pas barrage
Nous sommes en 2022 et la presse est choquée que la droite ne fasse pas barrage
Nous sommes en 2016 et la presse est choquée que la droite ne fasse pas barrage
Nous sommes en 1995 et la presse est choquée que la droite n

J'ai connu une époque où la bourgeoisie, ses partis, ses patrons et ses organes de presse pouvaient envisager laisser la gauche gouverner.
C'est ça le résultat des années Sarkozy, Hollande et Macron, ils ont tellement gagné qu'ils ne céderont plus un pouce de terrain.

Più che altro, teneva conto del risultato delle elezioni!

De Gaulle si è dimesso!

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Archives du 26 juillet 2024 : Emmanuel Macron écarte l'option d'un gouvernement mené par @luciecastets.bsky.social au nom de "la stabilité institutionnelle".

REVEALED: The big polluter and arms industry bosses overseeing government departments Two in three Whitehall department non-executive directors have corporate backgrounds - and only one is a trade unionist - analysis released ahead of Labour conference reveals.

One feature of the British state’s undemocracy is that Whitehall departments have boards of directors, made up of ministers, civil servants and non-executive directors. I went through the CVs of all of the latter, and found extraordinary corporate capture: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

Had no idea that Russian used the same metaphor for this phenomenon as Italian (nonnismo).

In some cases, it's not so much the private-sector job that is post-politics as the politics job that is pre-private sector.

These sad ghouls can't even come up with reactionary ideas of their own: they just keep recycling old rightwing dross and slapping a red rosette on it.

BBC News headline: Trump trusts Blair, others don't — could he govern Gaza?

Queen Victoria trusts Cecil Rhodes, others don't — could he govern Zambesia? 🧐🎩

Wait I thought he wasn’t racist anymore after that one speech?!

They. Don't. Care about winning the next election! Frontbenchers don't, at least. They know that if they lose they'll be rewarded with private sector jobs.

*I've been proved right. Wish I had been proved wrong!

When I heard ‘contribution to the community’ yesterday, I thought: that's just a distraction from the fact that when people talk of ‘high-value’ migrants, they mean richer and healthier. I've been proved wrong: Labour have just admitted they want people who don't claim benefits. Disgusting.

Yes! I remember that interview.

Also, poor Barbara Ehrenreich must be spinning in her grave.

’Those who were once subordinate and disenfranchised […] are now arbiters of political power’: such an incredible thing to say when underrepresentation of young, poor, and racialised voters in politics, already bad, has just got much worse, in no small part because of your own party.

She will talk about how she was a victim of shoplifting, when she worked behind the counter of her family's corner shop as a child, and why that has motivated her to crack down on theft.

Centrists: Why do some racialised people become fascists? What dark mystery of the human soul is at work here?
Leftists: It's because they're petty bourgeois.
Centrists: No, no, that's too vulgar an explanation.
Shabana Mahmood: I'm so right-wing because I'm petty bourgeois.

L' #ESR subit actuellement un gigantesque plan social dont personne ne parle hors des intéressés. Les seniors partent, les postes de titulaires sont gelés, blanchis et ne seront pourvus qu'au compte-goutte sur de longues années . Beaucoup seront supprimés.

Also, pundits seem to ignore the obvious fact that if your task is to destroy the left and be friendly to big business, you can reap your reward without the need to win an election.

‘Very odd placement’ 🤣
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A portion of p. 14 in today's Telegraph. Bottom left is Starmer's text. Bottom right, a headline reads ‘France's activist judges are out of control’. Left, an ad for Nigel Biggar's Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt.

Starmer's opinion piece in the Telegraph is printed next to a defence of Sarkozy, freshly convicted of criminal conspiracy, and an ad for a pamphlet against colonial ‘guilt’. That's the audience that Changed Labour thinks wise to cultivate.

Three days ago we heard he would be launching a "progressive fightback"

It's not Tory if you use it for ribollita.

As I said when I read the Asthana book: the eventual massive scandals about those people would just be *exactly the same behaviours* that were then being hailed as smart, savvy, ingenious politics, except this time denounced as the lying, corruption, cheating and bullying they so plainly were.