Tom Wilson

I know!!!

Go for it

I have heard your criticism that Arthur is American (and an aardvark???) so instead for the £50 I propose

To this day, I still have no idea which animal Arthur is meant to be.

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

Farage thinks his voters are morons.

Higher taxes are actually lower taxes you see.

There's a detached, anthropological tone to the coverage for the domestic far right in the NYT, CNN etc, whereas liberals get incredibly political and antagonistic commentary and scrutiny. Coverage of the same phenomena outside the US somehow manages to combine the two.

I know it's not the area of the American news ecosystem that captures the most attention, but the surviving parts of the liberal American media is really really weird.

This is grotesque and a road the Greens really really do not want to go down.

Separately the 2012 Tea Party Libertarian to 2016 MAGA Authoritarian to 2024 MAGA Isolationist to 2026 Armchair General pipeline is just one whiplash after another isn't it.

One of the biggest weaknesses of autocracies at war is that information to the leader is flawed as the layers of bureaucracy between the military and the leadership doesn't want to deliver bad news. Taking out several layers of leadership has probably made the IRGC more effective rather than less.

Those lucky Kiwis

Where did you listen to it?

The best travel shows are always about people, culture, and zeitgeist, even if they are notionally about cooking or tourism. It's why Anthony Bourdain was so good.

If I was commissioning editor at the BBC, I'd be telling the next celeb who requested a travel show that I'd offer to send them to the home front in Ukraine to visit civilians and show how people are managing to sustain life, culture, society under siege, and that they could take it or leave it.

Carney moved to follow the UK position. Europe is not at all united. The war spreading and growing more chaotic is a reason for more caution, not less. Our readiness to defend allies is a question of the last government's defence cuts and fiscal hole they left. The whole response is deranged.

A lot of enthusiastic Brexit supporters suddenly making very anguished noises about alienating our allies over not rushing to war with Iran.

Kemi called Labour MPs a 'sea of orcs and goons' at PMQs. The Tories are being led by a phone-addicted 10 year old.

Suzerain is fantastic, my first play through I saved the economy and got thanked for it by falling to a military coup. It also has the single best and most convoluted set up for a very stupid joke I've ever seen in a video game.

Iranian Ayatollah succession 🤝 Labour candidate selections

Hawks with no care at all about plans, objectives, time spans, or military capacity so they can scream betrayal. And those opposite shouting about a warmonger PM from a parallel universe that we simply do not have, as being honest doesn't give them a pedestal to scream betrayal from either.

I'd say it feels like being in an A level classroom again but that feels insulting to sixth form students.

The response to the US-Iran war has felt like British politics at its most juvenile. Absolutely zero interest in real analysis of capabilities, planning, or real world consequences, just goodies and baddies and making everything about UK political positioning.

Reform UK's Treasurer, who remained mates with Epstein after his conviction, says he would rather live in a desert and be bombed than live in Britain in one of the safest cities on earth. And rather than this being considered worthy of scrutiny, he gets to uncritically spout off in the Mail?

I'm sorry but these people have been driven completely tonto.

The weird thing is people clearly get it when considering things in isolation with no political lens (i.e graduates are getting screwed by high rents, high marginal taxes, bad living conditions and fewer entry level opportunities) but then don't understand the impact that has on economic politics.

You see when you fail to read every post in a chain or to try to engage with what is actually being argued, you end up looking a bit silly. Me suddenly being an unreformed Corbynite would be news to just about everyone I've ever met in politics.

Thanks to wage compression it's two full time workers earning 20% over minimum wage. That's pretty low!

Two people on 30k each isn't low income with cost of living what it is?