If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
When will it be #TACO time?
There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
The same technological pinpoint accuracy that was used to slaughter children in Gaza now being used to slaughter children in Iran.
If your economy is being kept afloat by an AI bubble, one thing you can do to keep it ticking is have a war to make AI look really useful for profitable things that you love doing - such as bombing countries.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
Just one day to go on the month, but let's reflect on three good things that have happened during February
Mountbatten-Windsor
Mandelson
Goodwin
This is why living in a country, however imperfect, where the rule of law matters, matters.
Extortion is looking like the logical endstage of the tech industry at this point.
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
She’s 72, or 71 and has, or probably has, cancer. Trump derangement REALITY. I’m defo Trump deranged 🙃
For easy reference. On the left, "agitators" and "domestic terrorists". Or the right, presidentially pardonned "freedom fighters".
The J6ers won. The violence is in the Capitol.
I spent the morning at the San Antonio immigration court. It’s out of control.
Crawling with ICE - arresting legal immigrants showing up for court appearances.
I asked one officer who they are prioritizing. His answer: everyone.
I need to share with you what I saw.
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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Vance is probably more dangerous than Trump because he knows *exactly* what he’s doing, and what the playbook is
EU doing it as well. What’s going on?
PM supports unlawful kidnapping of head of state 🤷♂️
Watching Only Connect Pub Quiz and didn’t think I could love VCM any more.
Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote:
'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.'
By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"
There are more gags in this than all the adverts made in the past thirty years put together
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
Most bonkers part of the story for me is that the Murdoch money was donated via News International (now News UK) - owner of The Times, The Sun, TalkTV etc.
In other words, a media company donating to a political pressure group.
And these same outlets have the gall to whinge about BBC “bias”
WTF even is the “deep state”? Sounds like BS to me.
Brexit damage worse over time. Has already knocked up to 8% off GDP, reduced productivity by up to 4% and investment by up to 18% (let that sink in for a moment) plus the loss of untold jobs. Surely fair to say forthcoming tax rises wouldn’t have been necessary without Brexit. Pain for no gain
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
He’s basically sucking Musk’s dick.
Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we?
After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism.
Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨
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