The enshittification of American hegemony: Countries as platforms.
Politics
2026-02-07: The Spanish Prime Minister outlines the urgent moral and pragmatic case for warmly welcoming immigrants to our shores
2026-02-05: Despicable sex crimes aside, Jeffrey Epstein aimed to orchestrate 'the downfall of the global order'
2026-02-04: The enshittification of the United States of America
2026-02-01
2026-01-30
How liberals lost the internet: ‘cutting-edge propagandists now focus less on policy messaging and more on massaging vibes.’
2026-01-29: When it came down to it, totally predictably, big tech chose to support the baddies
2026-01-24: 📚 Finished reading: Year of the Rat by Harry Shukman.
2026-01-10: No Briton is less patriotic than Tommy Robinson
2026-01-06: FTSE 100 CEOs have already earned more than you probably will all year
2026-01-05: The NYT and WaPo knew the US was going to abduct President Maduro in advance
2026-01-04: Yet more of the apparent hypocrisy: November 28 2025: Trump issues a full pardon to ex-Honduran …
2026-01-04: Weird date coincidence (I assume): January 3 1990: US captures Panamas’s ruler Noriega on …
2026-01-04: The US bombs Venezuela, kidnapping its president
2026-01-01: Reform's defence of your right to tweet 'controversial' opinions only extends to their ideological friends
2025-12-28
The Observer view: Britain cannot afford Reform: ‘They offer not just a toxic nostalgia, but an uneconomic one; they promise a return to a better yesterday, but serve up an unaffordable tomorrow.’
2025-12-27: The British anti-immigrant hostility threatens our health service
2025-12-21: Reform UK is mostly funded by very rich people with foreign interests- cui bono?
2025-12-13: Demographic and attitude shifts suggest that if the Brexit referendum was held today, the pro-Remain side might win by around 8 million.
2025-12-09
Brits keep getting arrested for tweets. Elon Musk is (part of) the reason.: ‘…by refusing to even attempt to regulate social media networks directly, the government has tacitly accepted that police will be left to police unmoderated social networks directly’
2025-12-09: An NBER paper estimates that Brexit caused a massive cost to the UK's economy, employment and productivity
2025-12-07: Gardner's 'Time for change' report calls for a positive vision of immigration in the UK, demanding policies that will benefit us all
2025-12-04: In the UK, people who receive certain types of benefits get a £10 Christmas bonus each year. Whilst …
2025-11-29: The public reaction to last week's UK budget.
2025-11-28
King of slop: How anti-migrant AI content made one Sri Lankan influencer rich: He now teaches a course on how to leverage that anti immigrant sentiment in Britain to make huge profits.