Jon Chadwick

The Family Business: How Trump’s America Fell Apart - Industrial Estate of Mind A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the United States looks less like a republic and more like a family business run for the benefit of the boss and his hangers-on. Economic chaos, political repre...

A year into Trump’s second term, the world’s richest democracy looks like a failing state — run for the boss, not the people.

#Trump #USEconomy #AmericanPolitics #Authoritarianism #CivicNationalism #IndustrialEstateOfMind

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Jonathan Zito and the Return of Britain’s Forgotten Crisis - Industrial Estate of Mind Britain’s mental health crisis didn’t start yesterday. Cuts and sanctions betrayed the vulnerable and created tragedies.

From the 1980s to today, we’ve repeated the same mistakes — cut services, punish the vulnerable, and then act shocked when tragedy strikes. The mental health crisis Britain pretends not to see.

#MentalHealthCrisis #NHS #Homelessness #WelfareReform #Politics

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The Vanishing Boats and the Real Horror Beneath - Industrial Estate of Mind Small boat crossings are falling fast — yet anger is rising. The panic was never really about boats. It was always about who gets to belong.

Small boat crossings have fallen by nearly two-thirds since 2022 — but instead of celebrating, politicians are turning their anger on those who came here legally.
The panic was never about boats. It was about who gets to belong.

#Politics #Immigration #ReformUK

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Are very little diversity

That's exactly why!!!

I think what they want is a gentile form of ethnic cleansing, but they might have to accept some kind of UAE style deal to keep the economy running. Gastarbieter.

Their plans are wholly unrealistic, but get lots of traction on social media

Nightmare on Downing Street: The Horrors of a Reform Victory - Industrial Estate of Mind As Reform UK surge in the polls, three chilling political horror stories imagine what happens if Nigel Farage’s party actually wins power — and the nightmare that could follow.

Halloween horror special: What if Nigel Farage’s Reform UK actually won?
Market meltdowns & strongman fantasies, two chilling tales of a Britain gone wrong.

#ReformUK #NigelFarage #UKPolitics #GeneralElection #Authoritarianism #Disinformation #Halloween

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Diversity in Advertising and the Outrage Industry - Industrial Estate of Mind Outrage over diversity in advertising says more about Britain’s culture wars than about marketing. Adverts reflect who buys things — and that audience has changed

People aren’t angry about adverts — they’re angry about change. Diversity in advertising isn’t ideology, it’s economics. The outrage says more about us than the ads.
#advertising #marketing #diversity #CultureWars #media #ukpolitics #socialmedia #representation
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Quiz | October - Industrial Estate of Mind

October Quiz. The usual format. Lots of wrong answers, some right ones

#quiz

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Mind Your Own Business: How the Conservatives Abandoned Britain’s Love of Privacy - Industrial Estate of Mind Katie Lam’s call to revoke Indefinite Leave to Remain exposes how the Conservatives and Reform have drifted from traditional British values of privacy and liberty toward an authoritarian obsession wit...

Katie Lam’s call to revoke settled status shows just how far the Conservatives have drifted from Britain’s tradition of privacy and liberty.

#UKPolitics #Conservatives #ReformUK #KatieLam #Authoritarianism #Freedom #Privacy #Democracy #BritishValues

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The banality of evil

How the American Right Turned Autism Into a Culture War - Industrial Estate of Mind The American right’s obsession with “curing” autism reveals how crank medicine, conspiracy theories, and authoritarian ideology overlap. Autism challenges their worldview — and they can’t handle it.

The American right can’t cope with autism — because neurodiversity breaks their worldview. When your politics depend on hierarchy and blame, every difference looks like a defect. #Autism #Neurodiversity #Politics #RFKJr #CrankMedicine #IndustrialEstateOfMind
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Where did the money come from to bail out Prince Andrew?
#princeandrew #epsteinfiles
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Reform: Bribes, Broadcasters and Bad Faith - Industrial Estate of Mind Former Reform UK leader Nathan Gill plead guilty for taking Russian bribes reveals long-standing ties between Nigel Farage’s parties and Moscow’s influence machine

Former Reform UK leader Nathan Gill’s guilty plea exposes a deeper web of Russian money and influence running through Farage’s parties, GB News, and Britain’s populist right.
#ReformUK #Farage #RussianInterference #UKPolitics #Disinformation #GBNews #Populism

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I think you miss the enormous impact that the Empire had on lives of millions of people in the UK whose families originated in countries that we imperialised.

Still pretty high caste. And the assocation of all high caste Hindus as Brahmin is quite common in British Imperial thinking

Why UK Government Borrowing Costs Are Rising as Interest Rates Fall - Industrial Estate of Mind UK government borrowing costs are rising as Bank of England rates fall. US debt, and long-term inflation fears push up the price of government borrowing.

UK borrowing costs are rising even as interest rates fall. The reason lies less in Threadneedle Street and more in Washington DC. Here’s why markets are pushing up the price of government debt.
#Economics #UKPolitics #Debt #InterestRates #BondMarkets #Inflation

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I think somethings matter more to the Telegraph than backing the Tory party

Islamaphobia has it's origins in British Imperialism

I honestly don't know. One in the eye for the sandies

The British Empire had a strict hierarchy of race and religion, which still permeates British society. Which is why the Daily Telegraph would accept Sunak, a brahmin Hindu, but not Sadiq Khan.

Fake It Until You Break It: How the Internet Turned Politics into Performance - Industrial Estate of Mind The internet blurs truth and lies, fuels far-right radicalisation through fake content, algorithms, nostalgia, and anger. Everything is fake but the hate is real.

“Everything is fake but the hate is real.”
Fake content, algorithms and nostalgia turns politics into performance, and breaks people.

#FakeNews #FarRight #OnlineRadicalisation #UKPolitics #SocialMedia #Disinformation #ReformUK #Facebook #Democracy
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The Battle Over Indefinite Leave to Remain: Labour, Conservatives, and Reform Compared - Industrial Estate of Mind Labour, the Conservatives, and Reform all want to change Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR). Here’s how each party’s plan could affect immigration, ILR , and the UK’s post-Brexit settlement.

Labour, the Conservatives, and Reform all want to change Indefinite Leave to Remain — but their plans are radically different. Here’s what they really mean
#Immigration #ILR #UKPolitics #Labour #Conservatives #ReformUK

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Why am I not surprised?

Muhammad Ali Got Married in South Shields Dennis Acapone - Cassius Clay 1973/Dr. Alimantado And Soul Syndicate – I Am The Greatest Says Muhammad Ali  1974 Two massive mid 70s reggae cuts about the greatest sportsman of all time. OK — I know t...

In 1977, Muhammad Ali came to South Shields. He toured the town, sparred with locals — and even held a wedding ceremony in the mosque. A forgotten story of British history.
#MuhammadAli #BoxingHistory #SouthShields #BritishMuslims #CulturalHistory

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Trump, Farage and the Politics of Crypto  - Industrial Estate of Mind From Trump’s memecoins to Reform’s crypto deregulation, the right has abandoned “sound money” for speculative scams—and opened the door to dark money in politics.

The right once stood for “sound money.” Now it’s Trump coins, Melania coins, and crypto scams. Casino capitalism is the new Conservative ideology
#Crypto #Politics #RightWing #DarkMoney #Trump #Farage #ReformUK

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Quiz September - Industrial Estate of Mind

And here it is, September’s quiz. Share the pain/pleasure with your friends and family

#quiz
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AI and Bounded Rationality - Industrial Estate of Mind AI doesn’t always know when “good enough” beats “perfect.” Bounded rationality, vinyl collecting, and why humans still outperform AI at compromise.

AI is great at chasing the perfect answer—but terrible at knowing when “good enough” is better. Vinyl collecting taught me more about bounded rationality than ChatGPT ever could. 🎶🤖
#AI #BoundedRationality #Economics #BehaviouralEconomics #Vinyl #DouglasAdams
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Talking Up Violence: The Summer the Riots Didn’t Come - Industrial Estate of Mind The far right promised a “summer of riots.” What we got was smaller than a non-league football crowd, but the press still reported chaos.

Far right promised a “summer of riots.” Britain got protests smaller than a non-league football crowd — and one big Tommy Robinson march.

Why are politicians and the press so keen to talk up violence?

#UKPolitics #FarRight #CivilUnrest #NigelFarage #TommyRobinson

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The Death of Charlie Kirk. America’s Third Era of Political Violence - Industrial Estate of Mind America is in its third era of political violence. From lynchings to today’s far-right terror, is the US sliding into a new civil war?

America has entered its third great era of political violence. The lynchings after the Civil War, the assassinations of the 1960s — and now. Are we already seeing the first casualties of a new civil war?

#America #CivilWar #Democracy #PoliticalViolence #charliekirk
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