David Dubas-Fisher

*gasp*

"It's Thatcherism on steroids - this is incredible, cutting and slashing public expenditure, doing all the things he's done….. That's leadership... He is amazing." Nigel Farage "[Milei] is the 'chainsaw-wielding, bushy-sideburned wild man of Hayekian free-market thinking'. He hailed Milei for giving Argentina 'the economic medicine it needs' through drastic spending cuts." Boris Johnson "Britain needs shock therapy. A Milei-style approach would mean radical surgery. First: stop the bleeding. Slash wasteful public spending. Shut down unproductive agencies and quangos... We need to aim for a primary [surplus." Jacob Rees-Mogg "Milei is the template." Kemi Badenoch "Javier Milei rightly tells the elite [at the] awful WEF the facts of life - socialism and state intervention tends to make people poorer." Richard Tice

As Argentina’s economy starts to rapidly unravel, let’s never forget the comments by our own politicians.

Ta.

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards Script: An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past and assembled from all over the world Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light [Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:] WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth [Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps] with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around [Guy has a thought]: “Mmm…" in this endless, silent void. [Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it] "… I want a pasty.” [ends]

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Barely a fortnight has passed since Kemi Badenoch’s reflexive and incredibly OTT hostility to the government’s proposals for digital ID.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Morning.

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni... Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has not updated his register since May, despite continuing to present his GB News show, record Cameo videos and being a verified X user

Qus are now being asked about the non-registration of his shareholding in GB parent co All Perspectives

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Three speaking engagements

11/12/2024: £520
29/08/2024: £13,000
23/07/2024: £11,784

The hard to read one there is Meta. A more legible breakdown here of all earnings since the election. Again, no payments received since April

Nine’s maybe doing him a disservice. He’s got 11 employers if you include his job as an MP

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

The amount your MP earns from second jobs Reform UK's Nigel Farage is top of the list

Glad to someone else has picked up on this, and doing a better job with it than me 😅

I first noticed it last month in my roundups of MP second job earnings
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Oh my god.

Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

In memoriam...

Think I'll read this once a week forever.

Patricia Routledge, I love you.

Liverpool are in south Manchester tonight to take on West Didsbury & Chorlton. (AFC Liverpool that is)

Thought I'd got lucky in the FIFA World Cup presale draw; but no. It's just fifa trying to flog me more expensive shite

More than 260,000 were in London

A shocking 42% of kids in the Hackney North and Stoke Newington constituency were impacted by the limit in the 24/25 financial year, more than in any other constituency in Great Britain

www.mylondon.news/news/south-l...

Areas of Merseyside most hit by two-child benefit cap As the Chancellor looks set to lift the controversial cap, you can see where it is currently having the most impact across Merseyside

Lots of reports this morning that the two-child limit is set to be lifted. Good news for the 1.7 million children across Great Britain who lived in households affected by it last year.

More than 40,000 were in Merseyside:

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Strong moment as Keir Starmer calls out the racism we’ve seen in recent weeks and months:

"Labour is proud of Britain's flags but if they are painted alongside graffiti telling a Chinese takeaway owner to 'go home', that's not pride - it's racism."

OK, this was great. "If you say or imply that people cannot be English or British because of their colour of their skin… that people who lived here for generations, are our neighbours... if you say they should note be deported, we will fight you with everything we have."

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

It's not volunteering if it's compulsory

NEW: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, 17 out of 27 EU nations have spent more on Russian oil and gas than they’ve sent to Ukraine in aid!

Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy.

This week’s column:

www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew."

"Commentator of the Year"

Joey and Phoebe meme. Phoebe instructing Joey to say "Fix the economy and public services" with him at the end instead saying "Digital national ID cards!"

Why I can't Back Labour Anymore I've given them fifteen months. They've used these to sidle up closer and closer to Reform. I am done.

I defended Labour for 15 months.

Workers’ rights and renters’ protections? Yes.

But cutting benefits, parroting Reform, and calling your own side “the Left” as though you’re not? No.

Which is why Ed Davey and Zack Polanski have an opening Starmer is handing to them.

Bloody hell. And I thought the ticket prices were bad

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting

Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Meme coin?

Bloody hell this is seriously seriously bad!