Captain Haddock

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews

But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100

Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'

FIFA is a truly awful organisation

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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

Rachel Reeves caught in sexism row over chess champion title The chancellor has been accused of making a false claim after former champions insisted her ‘British girls’ under-14 title’ was not the British Championship

Kemi Badenoch dismisses Nigel Farage’s pathological racist bullying at school, saying he should “just apologise” IF he did it. But when it comes to the exact status of the chess championship that Rachel Reeves won as a schoolgirl, well THAT is a matter of integrity.

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This little boy was 9, Farage was 17. The epitome of a school bully.

Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. I’ve never forgotten his – it felt malicious

"That’s the way back to Africa"

"I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing"

- former Dulwich pupil Yinka Bankole

Biden never slept through meetings but Jake Tapper wrote a whole book about how he was too old.

The US lobbied several countries in the European Union to block EU plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a loan to Ukraine, arguing the assets are needed to help secure a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.- Bloomberg
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You mean Spanish colonists?

That’s a deeply flawed analogy.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Brexit can’t be made to work because it was always a flawed and fraudulent prospectus

The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyy’s plane & it’s barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. We’ve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesn’t even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.

Zia Yusuf - the unelected multimillionaire policy chief of Reform - makes his fourth Question Time appearance tonight.

The party has five MPs

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda.
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Rolling back newborn Hep B shots is a dangerous experiment on our children. This safe, proven vaccine prevents lifelong liver disease, including cancer. Why put millions of kids at risk when we already know how to keep them safe?

There is no solution that works for Britain it seems

Which is why Steve Baker etc want to blow the EU up entirely

Lammy talks up customs union amid efforts to rebuild UK-EU ties Leaving EU ‘badly damaged our economy’, says deputy prime minister

Lammy talks up customs union amid efforts to rebuild UK-EU ties on.ft.com/3KqmDxZ

This is Vance/Thiel-ism

But Bernard Manning, Jim!

this story isn’t going away

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Quite

But this economic decline is eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less. As such, it is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies. Many of these nations are currently doubling down on their present path. We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation

US national security strategy.
Something sure is unrecognisable here, but it’s not Europe.

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OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles.

Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

🚨🚨 God #America, this is grim and a very stark wake-up call to European political ledaders on the (non) future of the "transatlantic alliance":

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Trump national security strategy: Make Europe White Again.

"Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades ...certain NATO members will become majority non-European"

"the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure"

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