Cameron Clark

*Technically* it carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, but you'd be hard pressed to justify a sentence that high

The government is actually trying to bring in statute law to cover this area (The Public Office (Accountability) Bill), but it's not in place yet

Clavicular, the Radical Submissive In 2026, hypermasculinity has one master: the algorithm. Here, John Paul Brammer examines Clavicular's algorithm worship.

Erudite writing from @jpbrammer.bsky.social, as ever

I'm not sure I agree with the central thesis, but then perhaps I'm looking for some profound meaning in Clavicular when there is none - precisely JP's point

Ditto, more generally, anyone refering to the Epstein Scandal as some sort of 'moral panic'

These are clear, serious and outragous crimes - only motivated reasoning would lead someone to worry about 'moral panic' and overreach in this instance

Also, on a semantic point: 'misconduct in public office' is not "hazily defined". The entire system of English law relies heavily on Common Law

Unless Freddie is coming out as some European Public Law stan (which I doubt) this is a sly attempt to muddy the waters around the law

I have to say, the whole Epstein (and adjacent figures) scandal is revealing a lot about certain public figures

You get the sense that quite a few people actually aspire to the kind of power and impunity that the Epstein circle had - and resent the notion of that door being shut

I believe they call this "poacher turned gamekeeper"

There's lots to critique here (there are no curtains on any of the windows, for example), but the 'primary school playground' vibe they've gone for at the back really stands out

'Charity Industrial Complex' is a very Twitter-brained turn of phrase

Semantically, positioning yourself as the opponent of charities is also an interesting choice. Are they pro-puppy kicking too?

Badenoch has, in recent months, benefited from a public perception that she's 'principled and outspoken' - largely because most people have only been exposed to small doses of her

I suspect that perception might shift the more people see

I hope they gave him WWE-style entrance music

Standards matter. Every time a Labour MP - a Minister no less! - is able to say things like this, our standards drop little by little where they matter. Starmer should think about the political culture he wants to model from the top.

Oh good; I’m glad I didn’t just read them incorrectly

The whole article is a total mess - MPs really need to stop going after all of the UK’s most viable economic sectors

This fixation on the ‘noble savagery’ of the working class which seems to afflict certain sects within the party is both deeply weird and profoundly out-of-touch

There’s nothing noble about economic hardship; we shouldn’t wish it on people

Someone really needs to sit down and explain to Labour Party members that most voters *want* to be comfortably middle class

The 'union busting' allegations are a whole different matter - and one we need to wait for final judgement on - but generally speaking we probably want the government to further incentivise UK game development; not curtail it

This is a weird point to fixate on given that, if you actually read the guidance, you get as much credit for hiring in the UK and working in the English language as you do for making the product about England

I don't think we'd want a scheme that only rewards products about England, either?

The overriding motivation of many AI evangelists, from CEOs down to engineers, is a desire to replace human interaction

These people don't *like* dealing with people; the messiness and complexities of interpersonal relationships make them uncomfortable

A pliant computer is far more desirable

If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

Grow up

I was going to remark that hardworking octopus dads don't get enough representation in media, but then I remembered

Shoutout to hardworking octopus dads

Quite something to contrast the City of London skyline in 2017 (left) with the forecasted skyline in 2032 (right), based on current planning permissions

PlayStation Shuts Down Demon's Souls, Shadow of the Colossus Remake Studio Bluepoint Games - IGN PlayStation has shut down Bluepoint Games, the studio behind the remakes of both Shadow of the Colossus and Demon's Souls.

The shambling corpse of Jim Ryan devours another victim www.ign.com/articles/pla...

Robert Jenrick’s political manoeuvres really do have all the subtlety of a hydrogen bomb

Two thoughts here:

1) Reasonable or not, a *lot* of voters do make decisions based on things as apparently trivial as not closing a door

2) This is a nice snapshot of why many people find Jones unpleasant - this is a deeply obnoxious and unnecessary response

I've always detested 'knowlage gap' headlines, but Reach's latest strategy has taken this to a point that is outright deceptive

I do think this is the sort of thing that should see you slapped down by the regulator

Concerns were raised with Cabinet Office before Antonia Romeo appointment Three individuals contacted Whitehall over past conduct after former consul emerged as cabinet secretary frontrunner

The focus has very much been on the bullying allegations, but McDonald does raise a number of specific, performance-related issues that have, as of yet, gone unanswered

It's reasonable to claim he has a personal vendeta against Romeo, but we can't say the Home Office is an exemplar department

This speaks to quite a interesting pathology: many voters don't mind the state doing awful things - as long as they don't have to see it

The entire Chagos Islands deal is being done to help the US keep its dammed military base. How much political capital is Keir Starmer willing to spend trying to save Donald Trump from himself? Especially when Trump cannot remember his stance on this from one day to the next?