Inside the Reform civil war: Perhaps the Lowe/ Farage conflict and its drivers will weaken the party (if we’re lucky).
Politics
2025-03-11
2025-03-11: Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $200 Billion Donald Trump inadvertently …
2025-03-10: Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday. Here’s the …
2025-03-09
2025-03-06: Since I last looked at the news, it seems that the US has unilaterally decided to stop sharing …
2025-03-06
US stops sharing intelligence on Russia with Ukraine: A further development in the US' attempts to help Putin win his war of aggression.
2025-03-05: British pharma company GSK uses the US president as an excuse to 'pause' its DEI programs
2025-03-05: Elon Musk supports the idea that the US should leave both NATO and the United Nations. Of course …
2025-03-04: The US freezes military aid to Ukraine after Trump and Vance's horrendous meeting with Zelenskyy
2025-03-04
‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters gather outside showrooms to rally against Elon Musk’s role with DOGE: Musk lost $52 billion due to the plummeting price of Tesla stock last month.
2025-03-03: Yet more additions to my books-to-read list
2025-02-26
2025-02-26: The Executive Order that deports you for acts of protest
2025-02-24: More Musk censorship - his Grok AI was was programmed to explicitly ignore all evidence that he or Trump spread disinformation
2025-02-22: The first few weeks of the Trump administration - from the ridiculous to the horrific
2025-02-17
Trump’s birthright citizenship order shows how he is challenging the Constitution itself: He holds no more respect or love for ‘America’ than for anything else that isn’t himself.
2025-02-16: Starmer to join Macron-led European crisis summit on Trump’s Ukraine plan. Wouldn’t it be …
2025-02-16
Revealed: Google facilitated Russia and China’s censorship requests: Amongst those from other regimes, autocratic and otherwise.
2025-02-11
Elon Musk’s Big Government Grift: An article from 2020 on Musk’s mission ‘to get unimaginably rich by maximally gaming the government’s largesse…taking advantage of programs meant to help people who earn in a lifetime what he earns every minute.’
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies: Old news, but let’s remember Musk’s success is at least partly down to government largesse.
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump’s Meme Coin: He, of course, profited vociferously.
He’s anti-democracy and pro-Trump: the obscure ‘dark enlightenment’ blogger influencing the next US administration: Curtis Yarvin.
2025-02-09
Baltic nations disconnect from Russian power grid to avoid power being used ‘as a weapon’: ‘Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania disconnected from the network in a move to block Russia’s ability to geopolitically “blackmail” them via the electricity system.’
2025-02-08: TIL: It’s illegal to sell or consume alcohol in Colombia during the days surrounding an …