Ollie

Thanks, any actual news today?

And in that book, Lownie quotes Epstein: “Andrew had the dirtiest mind I’ve ever known”.

who?

Act like Reform, get Reform. Labour must connect the dots, tell the Farage story and pin him to his record.

To save my long suffering friends, I have started a Substack. First post below, likely saying things you already know about Nigel Farage and Labour.

More to come!

olivermoyles.substack.com/p/act-like-r...

Nick or Nigel?

I used to think we could forgive America for giving us Donald Trump once he was gone, but now I am not so sure. I reach new levels of astoundment every single day that human beings with brains selected this person to lead their country.

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Europe at stake and we’re talking about suits

Whether it is nationalised or not, we are fronting a hefty bill. Under TW, bills go up as they invest and alleviate debt. Under nationalisation, bills go up as they purchase assets and then invest and alleviate debt. Only diff is that the new regulator caps bills at a meagre 36%.

UK airport staff get bonuses for spotting easyJet oversize bags, email shows Swissport staff at seven airports in UK and Channel Islands eligible for £1.20-a-bag payment through incentive scheme

Incentivising this kind of thing is parasitic, but what's even worse is that for a £100 oversize bag fee, they still only give staff £1 a pop for spotting them. Race to the bottom stuff.

Brilliant workaround here for the global oil price spike. He’s using his best plays when it matters most.

Nothing these idiots say is consistent.

Decrease size and presence of federal gov = overruling states and sending the nat guard. Reduced overseas presence/soft power = regime change in Iran and bombing Yemen.

This whole interview is staggering

I have never in my life heard a man come across as badly as this man

Agree they've overplayed it, but the Runcorn result means Reform can pick up Labour votes (especially votes lent to Labour to oust the Tories in 24).

Labour dug themselves a hole by smashing the Tories record in the Home Office. This + Reform surge means they have to recalibrate on immigration

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045

Bang on.

A lot of what Musk has done via DOGE has been discussed by the online-right for years. Musk is just what happens when wealth and power allow those ideas to leap from the online to the real world. The consequence is unimaginable harm and suffering; the rich killing the poor.

Never in my life have I seen someone so starved of charisma. Famished.

This is already the case for GSCE and A Levels - the UK was great, Ireland never happened, Bengalis starved themselves, etc.

Very on-brand for free speech advocates to try to curtail free speech in Universities though.

Green deputy launches leadership bid with UK ‘eco-populism’ vision Exclusive: Surprise challenger Zack Polanski says party can learn from success of Nigel Farage and Reform UK

About time. Greens have been asleep for too long and while influential, you can't blame it all on the media's Farage fetish. Blair's net zero blunder should have been their biggest moment of the year.

The art of the deal

I love how every time anyone mentions AI as a solution, the detail ends with ‘harnessing’ it.

It was inevitable the American Right would start eating each other. But Jordan Peterson going on Joe Rogan to complain about the delegitimising effects of right-wing media outlets platforming 'psychopaths' and weirdos is too much irony for a Thursday.

www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-media...

Idiot

Genuinely curious @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social, do you get this ulcer on TV for click-bait or do you think he’ll offer an insight beyond praising glorious leader?

There’s something joyously comic about Kemi Badenoch, a politician being radicalised on social media before our eyes, saying that Adolescence is not “the biggest thing that is happening in the world today” in terms of radicalisation on social media.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. theatln.tc/IuULQFiY

And we wonder why the overwhelming majority of women don't report sexual abuse.

The most disgraceful thing this US admin has done so far, but I suspect that won't last.

Farmers began evacuating due to flooding risks after he did this

What the hell is this

"But it appears senior staff are keen to see the back of the chainsaw-wielding oligarch"

Ah, so that's their line