"The Strait of Hormuz is the global economy’s ACL: a small and vulnerable connective tendon that you don’t have to think about when it’s working perfectly and causes very loud anguish when normal function is ruptured." derekthompson.org/p/the-global-economic-crisis-of-the
Just like how everyone who swiped left on him on Tinder was a 'Jew hater'
Be good if next they could do away with peers who got the titles via cronyism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.
What are the challenges facing young men?
We will hear from journalist and author @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social and BBC Presenter James Blake for our inquiry on the manosphere and online content.
Watch on YouTube at 2.20pm, Wednesday 11 March: www.youtube.com/live/eXUzDRO...
Talking to Pete Hegseth must be like playing chess with a pigeon
With Reform UK calling for the return of grammar schools, I’ve shared an excerpt from my first book The Myth of Meritocracy examining the evidence on who actually benefits from selection.
Clue: it isn’t working-class pupils. www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/the-enduri...
In Buckinghamshire’s selective system, private school pupils are more than twice as likely to pass the 11-plus as state school pupils.
The idea that grammar schools help working-class children doesn’t survive contact with reality.
Essay here ↓
www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/the-enduri...
With Reform UK calling for the return of grammar schools, I’ve shared an excerpt from my first book The Myth of Meritocracy examining the evidence on who actually benefits from selection.
Clue: it isn’t working-class pupils. www.forthedeskdrawer.com/p/the-enduri...
Rabobank on the unfolding worst case scenario:
It's simple really, it's because he faced no real accountability for his actions.
in this former mining town, they know two things: Brexit means Brexit, and the Pahlavi dynasty (1925-1979) are the rightful rulers of Persia.
Crushingly predictable. Utterly unjustified by decades of research. A shibboleth in place of a policy.
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Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections?
Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence.
www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...
They need to tighten up the air defence
Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
"Resolved a rare issue causing the weather to snow during matches played in Saudi Arabia" community.sports-interactive.com/forums/topic...
We're clearly becoming more of a post-literate society, probably linked to devices. But we're also just becoming more American, where more than a quarter of adults already struggle to read short, basic sentences
It's a mistake to imagine some halcyon golden age in which everybody read, but still, this does feel like a truly dumb age
Much to my surprise, I have also become a tech sovereigntist. Tech fundamental to public and security systems should be under our control (sometimes in cooperation with similar countries- not US).
The current sovereign AI strategy is shockingly weak.
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...
Will he eat a missile if he’s wrong?
The Conservatives seem absolutely desperate to drag Britain into another Middle East war
They haven’t, I guess because the turnover is so high that it’d be quite hard to do
This entire debate is hilarious. Konstantin is completely out of his depth. Probably why he hasn’t shared any of it on his own X feed
Destiny vs Konstantin Kisin
Was Brexit a Mistake? YESSIRNO!!!
Spiked/RCP on BBC Politics Live …again
strikes me that one of the most obvious things this government should do is properly resource regulators. There’s a gigantic gap between law and its enforcement, yet politicians always focus on announcing new rules rather than applying the old ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
