Classic pincer manoeuvre
10.03.2026 22:44
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Classic pincer manoeuvre
It’s the same principle that heredity shouldn’t be the basis of power. And Charles has a lot more of that than a hereditary peer. Great step in the right direction though and one the Tories fought against hard.
If it really is a ‘simple principle’ as Torsten describes it, then that symbolic totem of hereditary power, access and influence is even more inconsistent with it.
Presuming you’re pushing hard to end the monarchy too for consistency?
Might the US engage in a limited land invasion focussed on securing the islands and coastline bordering the Strait of Hormuz? @ldfreedman.bsky.social
Right. And I use mine for hoeing
Right. And I like to use mine for hoeing
Right now, if you just watch the oil price, you can avoid following the news altogether.
Life expectancy in the West stopped rising soon after Trump first won the presidency. Just saying …
Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.
And they should throw in electoral reform and stronger social media regulation at the same time.
Great thread.
Either PR or AV would be a major step forward, so there’s a pragmatic case for going for whichever had the better chance of winning popular support in a new referendum.
The one on the left es más como un burro
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Different hands …
Yeah.
One worry, beyond those in your piece is the East India company analogy. Land, expand, pay-off various reformarajahs to secure further territory, fund a paramilitary force of racists and then merge with the imperial power that wants to protect the monopoly value being extracted.
Do you take Anthropic’s comms at face value? They seem the most value based of the big AI but who knows how much of this is positioning.
Either way, his email is obviously true in respect of the actions of their competitors.
It’s all a bit more urgent and pragmatic for them these days …
A suspiciously round number too …
Perhaps. The key thing is that his position places principle over short-term pragmatism and I hope/optimistically expect that to serve him well at the next election.
And if I am being naive, then at least it will serve him well in the eyes of history.
Maybe but the mid-terms are around the corner and Trump’s power could ebb fast. Keeping him on side for 18 months might end up being the right balance.
Trump should back-off criticising Starmer.
Starmer may be a slightly ineffectual leader but he’s our slightly ineffectual leader.
And he has more moral backbone in his little finger than you might find in the entire mar a lago resort.
The poor chancellor. Just when it looked like she could start to report some good news …
Yep. Sadiq Khan is absolutely right to hone in on authenticity as being the key and the big thing that is missing. Voters can sniff out inauthenticity miles off.
Also, massive sandwich.
Is war, peace?
Trump seems to have timed this attack to avoid flooding the news space, ensuring the Clintons got maximum embarrassment from their deposition. Dark days.
Maybe it’s an LLM spewing them out for him?
Right. FPTP is producing governments that seem illegitimate to voters. That must be a big part of why it’s so hard to govern atm.
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