Are we seriously going to add Britain to this list?

How on earth did these two get through a job interview with @harrow_council

Wow. The Times hasn’t held back “a parliamentary Labour Party that is the most unserious and most intellectually arid ever to attain power." Spot on.

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone. It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off. Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now. We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

Can we just fucking try some supply side ideas for the love of god you utter cunts?

“Colonel Carns, I’d like you to form a Government”

Point here about the impact on business. Govt needs to intervene here - needs to repeal Equal Value provision and make its effect retroactive.

Miserable. Communal / political violence like this should be utterly condemned, however sympathetic you are to the cause, not least because once you summon this particular demon he doesn't go away.

When a person recently granted leave to remain attempts to behead someone in the street, public concern is entirely legitimate. Silencing that concern doesn't make it disappear. It simply stores up anger that will ultimately be directed at innocent refugees/minority communities.

Just one other thing. What the hell is the "Independent Cricket Regulator". And what have they got to do with any of this. Surely this is an issue for the England team management, and no-one else.

Ordinary people: I like animals, trees, & clean rivers. I might vote for the Greens. Greens leadership: Release the Jew killer terrorists! Have the state write lists of all Jews! The police were too mean to the Golders Green Jew-stabber! Houthi terrorists are great! Evil.

It's interesting how much of a premium foreign students seem to be willingly to pay to study medicine at Cambridge, given the NHS doesn't recognise one exists at all. The NHS believes all doctors are equally fungible goods, as long as they got a passing grade. 1/

Every word of this Sam Harris essay on Israel is obviously true and it’s crazy that we live in an intellectual environment where this is called contrarianism.

800% worse than they forecast... and it has cost jobs, ruined families and *raised no net tax revenue*. Halt the policy immediately.

Kalibr subsonic cruise missiles are 60% aluminum; 40% of the structural weight of drones is alum; 20% of Ballistic missiles such as Iskanders is aluminum. These missiles can not be constructed without aluminum and aluminum coming from the Shannon Estuary.

I have just seen Keir answer questions about the Henry Nowak murder. He seemed overcome by emotion and possibly terrified of where this may all lead if current concerns are not "managed". All the progressive shibboleths- hate crime, EDI, anti-racism- may now face scrutiny.

Every day, ships leave this russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tonnes of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral.

And again, and again, and again, the market proves to be more flexible and adaptable than the engineers, extrapolating, with their calculators expect. When prices change, behaviour changes. Believe in substitution, in elasticity, in human ingenuity, that is, in the market, and you will get a closer approximation than all doom-mongers. For this of course, a market must exist (e.g., does not apply to the fertility collapse).

The Economist makes the Effective Altruism case for scrapping the asylum system: instead of redirecting foreign aid into £4,000-per-month asylum accommodation bills in the UK, as we presently do, why not just help people where they are at one-hundredth of the cost?

I read the Tony Blair essay last night. I thought it was a really clear articulation of the challenges faced not just by Britain, but the world. I found myself agreeing, strongly, with about 90% of it. I am stunned by the response today. Now living in the US, I'm significantly less connected to the UK vibe, but I'm pretty astonished at the blinkers so many supposed political leaders force on themselves. The main rebuttal seems to be that these global changes aren't as fun to talk about as traditional town hall politics. As Blair sets out, only utter irrelevance will come from this. In the US, there are similar challenges, and too often politicians look to simplify the global situation. The difference is the private sector in the US is so vast, the scale and speed is so strong in these emerging markets, that it doesn't hold progress back. The UK will never compete with the US or China on the AI revolution, but it is best placed to be a strong third. For the size of our economy, that should be seen as our number one pursuit. To say, "Why are you talking about AI when you should be focussing on the NHS and the cost of living" shows a level of naivety that is crushing. If those voices lead the conversation in the UK, its future is bleak. It is the flat earth equivalent. Whether you like it or not, that is the reality. We can embrace it and reap the benefits for society, or ignore it and forever be a poor follower.