In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Voodoo polling at work :)
Who is spending? The top 10%….
The Times has independently interviewed 35 former employees, whose accounts trace a pattern of physical punishment Mr. Redzepi inflicted on his staff. Between 2009 and 2017, they said, he punched employees in the face, jabbed them with kitchen implements and slammed them against walls. They described lasting trauma from layers of psychological abuse, including intimidation, body shaming and public ridicule. Mr. Redzepi, they said, threatened to use his influence to get them blacklisted from restaurants around the world, to have their families deported, or to get their wives fired from their jobs at other businesses.
All those fawning stories about Noma, its 'food innovation lab' and its 'social mission'.
The train has left the station: Agentic AI and the future of social science research www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Trump supporters still behind him on Iran but only 27% of Americans per @ipsosgroup.bsky.social
We have an “unregulated sexual economy” what does that mean - more regulations needed?
The shift by social media owners from a chronological approach to one driven by engagement (and thus outrage) from c2012 onwards will be seen by future historians as a key event - discuss….
Read this and weep. c1,500 homes out of 88000 annual target built in London in ‘25. “botched implementation and a failure to anticipate how policies would interact have created a perverse situation where it is no longer economical to build homes in London” H/t @jburnmurdoch
I have just discovered the The Holy Roman Empire is still kept alive by an association of aristocratic descendants based in Belgravia and my day is complete #historyneverdies holyromanempireassociation.org
Joe - sure Res Foundation and the report can give you that
At the #unsungbritain @resfoundation event in Westminster - the change in WHO inflation is affecting is dramatic -
After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software
Great essay by Martin Sandbu on how triumph of neoliberal globalism/Third Way neglected communitarian belonging - with inevitable consequences #populism giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... The pessimist who became a prophet
Well here’s Jeremy Clarkson on what happens after Reform win…
Apple TV Rachel - simple if an Apple user (ps good to see you this week)
Trump going “under water” on every element including immigration
Your regular reminder that headline leads in opinion polls may matter less than details inside them #Reform #Labour
And in internet etc …I was on this disused railway track from the mid 19th century railway boom at weekend - which bankrupted thousands - am writing this using tech developed in tech bubble which also saw massive crash… looks like history repeating itself. Progress is uneven and lumpy….
Great piece on the insane amount of cash being burnt on at AI at @openai vs @google - something has to give! www.adweek.com/brand-market...
Say what you will about Hitler, at least he knew which countries he was invading.
Full text of @MarkJCarney speech here. Great use of metaphor to describe old “rules based Western international order” being an illusion breaking down…. www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
So far the "Board of Peace" is Trump, Orban, Lukaschenko and Netanyahu.
Which if you wrote in a satire would be considered too outlandish and sent back.
Seems appropriate today - Goya - the “sleep of reason produces monsters”
“Before we have learned to deal with things in a given position, they have already changed several times. Thus, we always perceive events too late, and politics always needs to foresee the present.” Turgot 1844 H/t @adamtooze future scenarios are now the only way to think about politics!
Off to Davos? You lucky lucky person. Here’s a handy guide on how to interpret what people say to you…. H/t @henrymance.ft.com
Happy Birthday @Number10cat Larry - you have been a more permanent fixture than most of my politician clients during my career!
Wow #Hamnet forgot exactitude but what a great film
