Unimprovable headline

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

no doubt this is correct:

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Trevor Phillips said on Sky News this morning that "everybody in the country who could read a newspaper" knew in advance of the Mandelson appointment that he was problematic

is this the same Phillips who interviewed Mandelson on October 08 2023 and didn't ask any questions about Epstein friendship?

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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It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

Burn it all down! Smash your phone and be free. But first, please like and share this important message

I mean, he spelled Strait correctly, so that's got to cast some doubt over authorship?

Someone should alert Nick Timothy that the President of America is praising on Allah – and on Easter Sunday too!

Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.

A photograph of US President Donald J Trump quoting his Easter Sunday message of 'Praise be to Allah' from https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116351998782539414

He has accepted the light of Islam

some of y'all don't deserve to be seen imma be honest

can someone who does military history tell me if the side that raises its recruiting age to admit old stoners is usually the side that's winning

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Happy 50th birthday to you and welcome to the world Blasterfield!

[first day in prison]
How late is the kitchen open for breakfast

6ft 6 American wrestler Dustin Rhodes, 46, dressed in black t-shirt and jeans embraces an ENORMOUS mastiff on the green Crufts carpet

Can't believe it has taken three days for Instagram to show me Dustin Rhodes at Crufts with his colossal dog. I repeat, Dustin Rhodes at Crufts!!! With his colossal dog!!!

Ooh, @thequietus.com has republished my anniversary piece on The Auteurs' After Murder Park, now 30 years on! What a great album...

Tehran is 2/3 the size of London in terms of population.

Only been signed up for two years but it's doubled every year so far, so here's hoping

The timing of this is all about Kash’s desperation to change the narrative from his trip to Italy.

I think some of this is a consequence of her being Too Online, in that she has always been too partisan to be properly effective IMV, but: today is wild. She has *friends* who she is calling “paedo defenders”!!

This is why I'll never understand POC Tory politicians - it's one thing to vote that way, I get it even though it's not how I think. But when you're suiting up for the party itself you have to *know' that a lot of the supporters will at best always think of you as 'one of the good ones'

“AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations”

perfect ht @mordent.bsky.social

🇮🇷 Iranian university students demonstrate across Tehran

Footage shared on social media on 24 February shows Iranian students demonstrating and chanting slogans at several universities across the capital, Tehran.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

If Epstein was still alive, Todd Blanche would’ve already had him transferred to a Club Fed after he agreed to give a statement that Trump did nothing wrong.

I rewatched You've Got Mail yesterday and the way Greg Kinnear's character is railing against technology ruining the world but the technology was email.

This is wonderful.