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I only met Matt once and he was on his way to meet Liz Truss's team in No 10 to advise them....

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most | TechCrunch Because employees could do more, work began bleeding into lunch breaks and late evenings. The employees' to-do lists expanded to fill every hour that AI freed up, and then kept going.

Sigh, twas ever thus:

“You had thought that maybe, oh, because you could be more productive with AI, then you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less. You just work the same amount or even more.”

Tax by any other name. Or the stealth privatisation of university. Didn’t they sell off the student loan book? So someone is coining it in.

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

The lovely @matthew-wright.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk just now laying out precisely how screwed over 18-35s are.

I am actively advising my kids to NOT go to university (unless they become adamant they’re going to be a doctor/lawyer). Do it & move abroad.

It is simply not worth the servitude.

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

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And we must ensure such bullshit does not protect them from the housecleaning that's coming down the pike

Who will return a sense of shame to politics? A disdain for the old conflict-of-interest rules binds Peter Mandelson with Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. No wonder voters lose faith

i now feel compelled to look at Fraser's back catalogue to see what he was saying about Cameron and Johnson

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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

We can’t revolt in a meaningful way. In times gone by, things like the peasants revolt and poll tax riots scared those in charge because people stopped paying tax (as well as took to the street). It’s why Friedman’s wife said his idea of PAYE was a bad one (thanks to your pod for that fact I think!)

This is what JS Mill meant by the 'Tyranny of Conformity'. Capitalism creates an environment where you are continually pursuing the next thing rather than looking around to see what's going on. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Trump has now deleted the post, with the White House now claiming, "A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down."

Karoline Leavitt a few hours ago:

"Please stop the fake outrage and report on something today that actually matters to the American public.”

The UK student loan system — and its danger for Labour Growing anger among millions of graduates who face decades of debt is causing unease in Westminster

“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”

It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!

“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
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Overall social media use has declined, with the youngest and oldest Americans increasingly abstaining from social media altogether.

The only reason Westminster will take up to £40bn and 61 years to renovate is because they are using the same garbage contractors that were behind HS2.

Stop paying private thieves vast sums to not do things.

For those keeping score at home:

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

> @governor.ny.gov

I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.

Tuition fees aka privatisation came in under Labour?

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
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read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…

And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.

We see you.

New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.

A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.

You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.

Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money 37 years of privatisation has been a disaster

England's water companies don't pay fines.

Thames Water, with nearly 200 criminal convictions, fined £122.4m in Aug/Dec 2024 for sewage dumping, paying illegal dividends.

Secretly agreed - Paid only £24.5m (20%) in Sept 2025. Remaining 80% may be paid by 2030 or never.

Why are companies indulged?

Rudy Giuliani wearing a bright yellow suit with a yellow-and-blue striped tie, matching pocket square, and light brown shirt.

The crying emoji. It has a yellow head, light brown facial features, and blue tears running down its face.

outfit has the same colors as the crying emoji 😭

Trump will attempt to corrupt the midterm elections anyway possible, to avoid the inevitable articles of impeachment waiting for him, should the GOP lose. Which they would in a free and fair election.

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)