"Thirty-four years on, the Sun is surely setting, just like its proprietor. Its readership is much diminished, its political power is all but used up, and it doesn’t even make money any more…
"Stop to think for a moment: what’s the last Sun front page that you can actually remember?"
Reform had a six month period last year when their polling average didn't drop below 30%. It hasn't hit 30% once this year.
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.
This might appear counterintuitive, but please read, share widely and if you can, help.
Ofcom will never act against GB News if nobody tells them when the rules are being broken.
So let’s tell them.
Ofwat failed to stop water companies pumping crap into our rivers and beaches.
And Ofcom have failed to stop GB News doing the same to our politics.
I'd urge everyone to read this.
We demonstrate that GB News is a blatant mouthpiece for Reform UK. It routinely, systematically and blatantly breaches Ofcom's rules.
And Ofcom has utterly failed to do anything about it.
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This is an amazing achievement.
They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨
London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.
As I am fond of saying, Britain leads the world in offshore wind power and for god's sake the govt need to do 2 things. One is to run ads saying Windmills Are Beautiful And Look At All This Power That They Make For Us, and the second is force the electricity companies to lower bills drastically
Wholesale electricity was nearly free overnight because of wind power. Why isn't that headline news on #r4today?
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Now we've Taken Back Control, the likes of the Sun and Mail are demanding we unquestioningly support a mad American president
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The Allister Heath headline generator is so convincing, it’s almost as unhinged as the real thing – 23 absurdly Heathian favourites (H/T @martinnicholls.bsky.social)
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Reform are in denial about why they lost by 12% in Gorton & Denton (60% white, 80% UK-born) after losing by 11% in Caerphilly (98% white, 98% UK-born) to Plaid Cyrmu
Both seats unusual in seeing more people vote than at last Welsh Senedd/last GE: more voters turned out to stop Reform than supoort
D’Hondt method. Reduces political fragmentation.
I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?
Oh totally. Nothing to do with what they will do, just what I think they should.
I'm increasingly convinced this is why he would be great as a Foreign Secretary (with beefed up powers), with someone Burnham-esque doing domestic stuff - a tripartite power structure with the treasury.
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Much as my teenager would argue that emptying the dishwasher infringes his human rights..
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You'd think Reform would be delighted that a white, working class plumber got elected and they beat the metropolitan elite university lecturer.
Yesterday, the magnificent Allister Heath headline generator demonstrated how thin the line between parody & reality can be.
Today, Dick Littlejohn uses his Daily Mail column to explain that he 'knows' how much better 'things' were 25 years ago, because he has been watching old episodes of The Bill.
It’s the subs desk I feel sorry for.
