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A.V. Deggar

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The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column. Some analysis on @bylinetimes.bsky.social linktr.ee/avdeggar

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3h

No, she's there, a tagless vertical line.

The Truss Line

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3h

Btw to all those saying that Mary Elizabeth Truss doesn't feature on this timeline—here she is.

A vertical line there for such a short amount of time that marking it with a name would fuck up the rest of the graphic.

Mary Elizabeth Truss in the orange ovoid.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 5h

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Unis will have their funding cut because of protests

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 12h

It's almost as bad as Truss's straight line down FFS

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 13h

The only one that breaks into the Detestables Club is Thatcher—the most destructive, twisted psychopath in the chart and the OG wrecker that napalmed and Agent Oranged the current political landscape into existence. This is not good company to be in.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 14h

The biggest takeaway from this graph is that six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we've had*

Does this look like the politics of a functional democracy?

Six of the seven most unpopular prime ministers since records began are *the last six prime ministers we have had*

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear, the Labour Party under the learnèd Sir Keir & the Cork Richelieu are triangulating towards Reform's far right positions & not in the direction of their progressive base, because Reform & the Labour Right *broadly share the same values*.

Any Leftward turn would be anathema to them.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h

Too right

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h

As far as I've seen, there is absolutely zero evidence to believe in mass Labour to Reform defection. ZERO.

The Reform vote is coming from the total annihilation of the Tories, & their general election win will be bolstered by Labour voters opting for the couch vs. the polling station in disgust.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 16h

John is a very well remunerated Professional Opiner, a stalwart of the British Scrivener Class.

McSweeney is the Éminence Ginge behind the Forensic Throne, the architect of the Starmer landslide.

Wonderful exposition here of the maleficent cluelessness of both parts of our ruling pol-hackistoracy.

Labour, despite all the evidence, pandering to potential Reform defectors

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Cowardly, simpering toadies, eager for eye contact and a pat on the bonce from the Mad Orange Monarch. An international embarrassment.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Loads of Europeans eye-rolling and throwing their hands up in exhausation about Trump throwing his toys out of the pram over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Gee, I wonder where he got the idea he should be kowtowed to by everyone, always?

European leaders kowtowing to Trump

Head of NATO calls Trump "Daddy"

Starmer picks up Trump's trash

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Well, maybe not wife. Perhaps our noble reporter and Dick Tice would prefer to continue "living in sin", whilst simultaneously whining about the loss of Western, Christian values in today's society. That'd fit.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

Decollectivising ants would be the crowning achievement of Von Hayek and Von Mises

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 2d

This bilious malefactor's weekly dose of thinly veiled race hate, spewed from an air-conditioned condo in the UAE.

A reminder that she is likely to be moving into 11 Downing Street as the wife of the future Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Oakeshott again with the thinly veiled race hate

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah I was going for the whole ants things, but realise that's far too heroic

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

It's been about 2 months since the scrivener class started catching up with @edzitron.com & calling out AI as digital snake oil.

The racket might've been rumbled, but the only big money left out there for political retirees is banking or big tech, & that's the bottom line

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · Aug 20

So, the hacks have realised in sync that AI is just plug‑in magic beans.

What could this mean for wildly unpopular political leaders who've staked their heretofore failing growth plans on the promise of planting a wildly expensive magic bean forest?

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

And this is exactly why politicians will voluntarily steer the ship of state into the AI iceberg. Big tech is where the money's at when the politics dries up.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

Former UK prime minister told post-ministerial jobs watchdog roles would not involve lobbying or UK policy influence Rishi Sunak has been appointed as a senior adviser by the US technology companies Microsoft and Anthropic. The former British prime minister’s pair of new jobs emerged on Thursday in letters published by Westminster’s office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba). They add to his roles as a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs International, the investment bank, and speechmaker to investment firms including Bain Capital and Makena Capital in the US, which have netted him over £150,000 a talk. Continue reading...

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

Your Party *massive sigh*

At least the Greens can run a live stream.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

I'd have gone with myrmidons, but absolutely agree.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

I mean the fact they didn't have a programmatic agenda and list of demands shows me it was sabotaged from within.

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

😂

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

💯😂

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

Let's hope no kids are involved in this

A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 3d

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It's all America now