... and given in his mind they are all someone else's fault.

A fairly unimaginative and ideology-free man who is also very ambitious works his way to the top of his immediate social milieu but later ends up via his career in a different milieu with other metrics and possibilities for success.

Is this more about 'known ways of being' rather than a genuine committent?

I'm pretty sure that particular skeet was a pisstake (given who it was from).

The long and baleful shadow of public schools.

Probably not a good idea to play into notions of a Deep State.

Yeah it seems easily explainable when you consider the lack of any real safety net and that people make decisions under uncertainty, but have to live with 100 % of the actual result, not the average outcome.

Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006.

"I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

look at palantir (and other AI) dipshits talk about the work they do - ie identifying, monitoring, & facilitating the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world - and tell me you defend a corporate structure's right to exist, or a "kill chain's" right to exist.

and MY work scandalizes you?

it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position

We asked some good chaps, and they assured us that he was a good chap, if a bit on the racy side.

Bit of a step change in skills and compensation from leading a charismatic church. Both involve sales, I suppose.

It was always a bad idea to appoint Mandelson regardless of any vetting outcome. The connections with Epstein and Russian oligarchs had long been in the public domain.

A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza.

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What I am learning from the proliferation of AI images across Facebook is that a lot of people clearly didn't do enough Spot the Difference pictures as kids. It hasn't just added colour John!!!

He really has not changed since 1967, its terrifying

.. and there i was looking at the first two tweets in the thread and admiring how professional it all seemed.

We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.

Albeit one that seems to have escaped most journalists with a few honourable exceptions when it seemed like he was destined to remain inside the tent pissing out.

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can.

"I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

Or someone told Robbins that the PM had okayed it or words to that effect ("It's been okayed from the very top, yes. Do what you need to")

Yeah, but you should know that that is not a procedure you can follow in this particular case.

.. and an assumption that Magyar represents a major shift away from Orban.

It seems to be teetering on the brink of being dead, yes.

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

The first part of this consists of one (1) alleged crook apparently boasting about his abilities to scam the Home Office, and then there's an awful lot of dark & generalised “some people fear that X” and no (0) examples of people successfully staying here on a false basis 2/

Migrants are making false domestic abuse allegations to stay in the UK, BBC investigation finds In the third part of an undercover investigation, the BBC reveals how rules aimed at protecting abuse victims are being exploited.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

Also that's very cart/horse.

The people who will be hurt by this are domestic abuse survivors and LGBT+ migrants. The narrative through these investigations is going to lead to increased hostility.

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.