Bart Cornelis

What’s that popular definition of insanity again?

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

“If I’m speaking e.g. of eating, then I’ll mention in a note that the Romans, Greeks and Hebrews also used to eat.”

Advice on preparing your paper for peer review by Heinrich Heine.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

The "political genius" of Morgan McSweeney in one chart

Donald Trump marks the murder of Rob Reiner & his wife, Michele, by insulting him in the vilest fashion & claiming that he was killed for criticising Trump.

I’m not often lost for words but…

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.

We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible

Brilliant. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

This rancid trash understands the significance of Labour's anti-refugee policies.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Monotone image of man asleep at a desk surrounded by monsters.

This well-known aquatint by Goya came to mind as symbolising where we are right now. It’s called The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.

When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.

I am completely dumbfounded by Labour’s reluctance to take on these people and to apply legal restraints to foreign interference in our politics and while I’m at it do something about GBNews! Does anybody have any sensible explanation for this reluctance?

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Photo of a London bus stop, where a guerilla ad with a photo of Trump and a PJ reads: “The enemy doesn’t arrive by boat, he arrives by private jet.”

View from the bus today.

#TrumpNotWelcome #Lambeth #London

In London, hate will never win.

Keir Starmer is betting everything on an America that doesn’t exist any more | Rafael Behr Cosying up to Trump is an all-in gamble. Britain should be building better relations with more reliable allies closer to home, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Column: UK foreign policy is an all-in bet on an idea of America that doesn’t exist anymore. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is, as is Ian Dunt's wont, a terrific piece of writing.
Realistic, terrifying, hopeful and a call to arms. I commend it to conference.

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

What the survivors of the Holocaust I've spent a lot of time with have taught me is to ask yourself what your values are.

In the face of uncertainty, we should all be speaking up and standing together to help preserve our democracy.

Nice of you to say @codendahl.bsky.social, though - if I was being reductive (perish thought) - I would be a little less worried about the state of 🇩🇪 than I would of government-less 🇫🇷 and a 🇬🇧 in thrall to Farage and other extremists and clowns