Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys: ‘Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, “Are you tracking Palantir’s descent into fascism?"’
Politics
2026-04-27
2026-04-26: 📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall.
2026-04-25
‘Angry Leftie women’: the real politics behind the ‘femosphere’ moral panic: ‘The question isn’t why young women are “angry.” It’s why their autonomy is being positioned as a political problem, one that is increasingly tied to immigration, birth rates, and national identity, and used to justify a broader rollback of rights’
2026-04-08
AI-generated Lego videos and Trump’s poo-bombing: welcome to the Iran-US slopaganda wars: ‘When it’s hard or impossible to identify trustworthy sources, you can choose to believe whatever you find comforting, invigorating or infuriating’.
2026-04-08: The incomprehensible events of contemporary times
2026-04-07: Legislation punishing citizens of specific nationalities for actions they didn't take is absolutely unacceptable
2026-04-05
The Guardian view on Britain’s religious right: using and abusing faith in the pursuit of power: The twisted and disrespectful abuse of faith by Reform et al in order to sow cultural division for political gain - nothing more, nothing less.
Welcome to the MrBeastification of British politics: the latest trick up Nigel Farage’s sleeve: Flashy stunts that don’t solve any of the country’s underlying problems.
2026-04-04: Policy reactions so far to the oil crisis
2026-04-03: The British Home Secretary's lust for the panopticon
2026-03-22: Timothy Snyder on why the No Kings protests are important
2026-03-22
Britain is sliding towards billionaire politics: Is Labour too timid to stop it?: ‘The conditions that allow extreme wealth to dominate politics, such as rising campaign costs, sophisticated digital campaigning, and weak transparency rules, are present here too’.
2026-03-21
GB News has become Reform TV and no one stopped it: Yet another example of Britain’s regulators proving entirely inadequate.
2026-03-21: A short visual history of US interference with Iran
2026-03-08
New Employment Rights Act ‘a huge boost for women in the workplace’: A rare bright spot in the smorgasbord of disappointment from the UK’s Labour government.
2026-02-27: The Greens win the Gorton and Denton by-election by a whopping 12 percentage points
2026-02-22: From NPR: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is urging broadcasters to air more …
2026-02-22: Our American friends continue with their gratifying propensity to name their legislative bills with …
2026-02-19: Researchers find that using X's algorithm shifts people's political views to the right
2026-02-17: $15 million of USAID's former budget seized to provide protection for 1 Trump official
2026-02-17
The left is missing out on AI: ‘…ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right.’
2026-02-16
Where are all the ‘Don’t tread on me’ Americans?: ‘If you oppose tyranny, the people of Minneapolis are your brothers and sisters in arms, regardless of what you think about immigration.’
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