John McTernan

Kinda funny how the established 'someone in British politics always resigns when I go on holiday' trope now has, by my count, at least three obvious contenders for this coming Monday.

The Supreme Court found that the Trump administration can't misuse a trade provision intended for narrow emergencies to usurp broad power over tariffs from Congress and so they immediately pivoted to misusing another trade provision intended for emergencies to usurp broad power over tariffs.

Arthur Russell - Calling Out Of Context

The funkiest works of humble genius

This should matter, this quarter

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With Andrew's fall, the royal family's magic spell over t... This week's arrest of the former prince is a sign that the British monarchy's game of thrones is at an end

"Andrew’s downfall was inevitable: drugged by his royalty, he gorged, and then we caught him. This is only the beginning of his revelation and nothing that is coming will surprise me."

✍️ Tanya Gold
https://bit.ly/40nVHTI

Interregnum - Labour's Death Spiral Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · February 21 · 46m

💥📣NEW EPISODE 📣💥 - @leninology.bsky.social on the the ongoing crisis within the Labour Party. We talked about McSweeney, Mandelson, and the broader crisis of legitimacy facing the British state and its key institutions:

Just wars against fascist dictators

Small sample size, though not as tiny as FindOutNow. Basically, anybody still could win it.

NEW

How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence

How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir

By me, at FT

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I’m getting ‘e-business’ and ‘dot-com’ vibes from all this.

Trump's sweeping global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court ruling - follow live The Supreme Court rules with a 6-3 majority that Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed tariffs via a law reserved for national emergencies.

This felt like an important test for the Supreme Court.

Trump's tariffs were manifestly unconstitutional. That there was any doubt how the Court would rule was a mark of how badly it's been corroded. But the defences held,& that's a rare bit of constitutional good news
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Yup as everyone in the world who has ever canvassed knows

I have to say, I have enjoyed your re-enactment of Gerald Kaufman’s famous magic trick of moving from the hard right to the left of the Labour Party by staying exactly where you were.

Soft left in manifesto, AEU right in execution.

YouTube video by Michael Spicer The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy

My goodness, I missed this by @michaelspicer.bsky.social. It is as near to perfect as a thing can get. I actually did an honest-to-Betsie spit-take at the Poundland joke. And the meta coda is out of this world.

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Oh! And what on Earth do the various countries that struck lopsided ‘trade agreements’ after Liberation Day do now?

Blairites were radical. The AEU was the right. Different.

I have never been on the right of the Labour Party

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

With caveat constituency polling is hard there are only 250 odd expressing a preference, but if this is close to where we are next week then result would really come down to ground game on the day.

The several trillion dollar question I keep thinking about:
Is AI related productivity growth just, for want of a better term, ‘normal’ productivity growth?
Productivity growth happens most of the time. But now one aspect of it is getting excessive attention.

I know I am approximately the 4343th person to say this but why are these people so whiny about flatly factual descriptions of their politics? Going on about how ancestry is what matters then having an attack of the vapours about people saying 'sounds like racism'.

Mandelson car crash shows Starmer's Labour has no ideology, only in-fighting Mandelson was given the job because he's from the right faction of the Labour party. Keir Starmer's government doesn't believe in anything except fighting itself

See my @cityam.bsky.social piece: www.cityam.com/mandelson-ca... Mandelson car crash shows Starmer's Labour has no ideology, only in-fighting

@trashfuture.bsky.social

Over 6 million views and still growing, as the plot keeps thickening on this story…

*John Carpenter sighs, dusts off the synth*

Helen Garner’s diaries. In every way superb. Layers of imagery, intimacy, a thriller-like plot even, wisdom and wit and thoughtfulness.

Went to a fun book launch. Had some really interesting conversations with clever people. And then had a KFC on the way home.
Honestly, just an excellent evening.

The end of an era!

Having finally caught up with the need to do a story about Inheritance Tax the scriptwriters are making a total mess of it! Don’t seem to have made any attempt to understand the issues. Disappointing #thearchers