a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period
"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.
This is one of the most jaw dropping moments of Trump’s presidency. Up there with brainstorming about injecting bleach and shining light up orifices to cure COVID.
TEA (Hogsback) right?
...anyone?
Probably a coincidence
Setting aside the ghoulish and invasive nature of this for a moment, I just mentally envisioned some philosophy student choosing to get an expert review by some famously combative dead guy like Marx
You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.
Trump has told four different journalists completely contradictory things about his aims.
It's going to be over in three days or four weeks... it's about regime change but he also wants to start talks again with the current regime...he's killed all the possible replacement leaders...
Total chaos.
My favourite thing about this map is how the Republic of Ireland is completely unaffected by seasonal change.
I know this helps no one, but I grew up in the Tory shires, live in London and work in a university. I’m married with children and a mortgage and am mildly left wing. I would have thought that, these days, either the Tories or Labour might be attempting to get my vote. They are not and it’s weird.
This is basically Danish Harold Wilson, right?*
*based purely on pipe and vibes
Such a great thread that frankly provides far more insight than people like me spamming polling numbers!
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.
interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet....
and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues....
this is the pivot that scares Labour the most
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
This is a scandal for ICE, but also an indication of just how much they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
They've had multiple applicants with outstanding warrants for their own arrest walking in looking to play cop. That's apparently how dumb some of these goons are.
The long 2010s are finally over
Unclear what this will mean for the nationalisation of kiosks
hey so this is insane and terrifying
And Wikipedia has not disappointed me: 'The party platform promised eternal life, world peace, a one-day workweek, two sunsets a day (in assorted colours), lower gravity, free beer, and low taxes. Other electoral pledges have included building a mountain on the Great Hungarian Plain.'
I have a few questions, and most of them are about 'Two-tailed Dog Party'.
oh. oh, no
London hellhole update
Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.
Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA.
Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passé 🤷♀️
a year is a long time in politics
It’s on Google, even though it is making search worse. It’s on WhatsApp, even though I absolutely do not want “homework help” or “relationship advice” from my messaging app. In the year of our lord 2026, it is everywhere.
And it *doesn’t work*.
Footage if anybody can make head or tail of this
bsky.app/profile/atru...
something just quite exhausting about Kriss getting MeTooed, disappearing, reappearing on weird cath/right-wing websites where the cancelled tend to congregate after a while, then managing to weasel his way back into the mainstream
Tell me you never read the academic literature on populism without telling me you never read the academic literature on populism (and still write a column on the topic with the self-confidence of someone who is well read in the academic literature on populism).
