The News Agents are trapped between epochs. They are voices from the analogue afterlife, still trying to curate a centre that no longer exists with the panic of a lighthouse realising the ships have GPS.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
“If the papers keep saying the BBC is lying to you, that it’s biased, people start believing it.”
Has the BBC’s Trump edit error been blown out of proportion because of deeper motivations, asks @maitlis.bsky.social.
Has the BBC’s Trump edit error been blown out of proportion because of deeper motivations, asks @maitlis.bsky.social.
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The News Agents are trapped between epochs. They are voices from the analogue afterlife, still trying to curate a centre that no longer exists with the panic of a lighthouse realising the ships have GPS.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The museum of yesterday’s authority: nicely lit, narratively embalmed, epistemically dead.
The BBC once served as a shared clock signal for British informational synchrony. Over time, feedback loops collapsed: delayed error-correction, insulation from user-level feedback, and over-optimised signaling toward elite peer-approval rather than the general cognitive field.
Everything on our news agenda is being driven by a corrupted disinformation machine, run by a billionaire who sponsors Tommy Robinson and who keeps trying to foment civil war in the UK.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
And incredibly our MPs & news providers stay there.
THAT is the problem. Not some bad editing choice on the BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
The BBC once served as a shared clock signal for British informational synchrony. Over time, feedback loops collapsed: delayed error-correction, insulation from user-level feedback, and over-optimised signaling toward elite peer-approval rather than the general cognitive field.
Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The 'discover' tab on Bsky is just Sunder and Otto endlessly posting communist propaganda. Very dull.
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The 'discover' tab on Bsky is just Sunder and Otto endlessly posting communist propaganda. Very dull.
How would a rational scientist steel man the opposition to industrial abortion/tissue farming?
Human fetal tissue research has saved millions of lives and continues to drive biomedical innovation. Restricting it would not alter abortion rates, it would force scientists to discard an irreplaceable research resource for treating devastating diseases.
Restrictions on fetal tissue research would threaten progress on breakthrough treatments for devastating diseases — and yet not prevent a single abortion
The U.S. government may restrict funding for research that uses human fetal tissue. The move would undermine medical science and prolong patients' suffering from devastating diseases.
www.livescience.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
How would a rational scientist steel man the opposition to industrial abortion/tissue farming?
Another strange post from Katwala: rejoicing the establishment maintaining it's grip.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
After a fourth successive heavy annual defeat for Restore Trust, we should (but won't) have Telegraph reporters descending on the scone-eaters at historic properties to ask why they weren't in touch
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
This is an assymetry between the liberal left and the culture warriors of the metropolitan right
November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Another strange post from Katwala: rejoicing the establishment maintaining it's grip.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
But on Bsky, this is preaching to a very pliant choir.
A strange post from leftist commentator Katwala, seemingly endorsing Musk's fact checking on X.
A strange post from the Ukip leader, pictured at the Aldershot memorial, but seeming to want people to believe/imagine it was the Cenotaph
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
A strange post from leftist commentator Katwala, seemingly endorsing Musk's fact checking on X.
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Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
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Oklahoma is beautiful, actually. All scenes were captured in the last 2 years. #photography
November 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Oklahoma is beautiful, actually. All scenes were captured in the last 2 years. #photography
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Institutions lost epistemic liquidity, so people anchor trust in the logo. “Lancet” is a proxy node for epistemic certainty, not the content itself.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Institutions lost epistemic liquidity, so people anchor trust in the logo. “Lancet” is a proxy node for epistemic certainty, not the content itself.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
Blind sharing a high-status citation broadcasts allegiance rather than understanding. It’s tribe-detection/signalling.
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This isn’t really about Cummings... it’s a small act of moral liquidity.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Dominic Cummings was always an absolute arsehole.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
The Conservative right loves to talk up imagined genius among their ranks when in truth there's nothing there but attitude, flex, and pose. Mogg, Johnson, Gove, Cummings. All tiresome little nobodies trotting out rehashed nonsense. Often nasty.
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This isn’t really about Cummings... it’s a small act of moral liquidity.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
Each insult a fresh note from the outrage mint, circulated for in-group affirmation.
Feels good to spend, but every round devalues the currency a little more.
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Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
On the way to the Festival of Remembrance, with Indi, 13. My thoughts in my column this week on how these traditions were invented to fill the identity gaps of the 1920s and how renewing them in the 2020s can be one way to bridge divides in polarised times
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
Notice that the entire content from the Left on bsky, is about their opponents elsewhere.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
This is in such incredibly bad taste.
Yes, Nigel Farage made an actual promo video of his poppy performance in Walton-on-the-Naze today.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Notice that the entire content from the Left on bsky, is about their opponents elsewhere.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
Otto is incapable of producing independent, creative, optimistic content, with telos. It's always adversarial, negative, tribal, doomerism.
When a social wave amplifies a label, demand rises; when the infrastructure (institutions, discourse) recalibrates, demand may recede.
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Transgenderism Is in Rapid Decline Among Young Americans
Transgenderism is in rapid decline among young Americans, indicating it was a social contagion.
A few weeks ago, I
published results
from six waves of the massive Foundation for Individual Right...
www.skeptic.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When a social wave amplifies a label, demand rises; when the infrastructure (institutions, discourse) recalibrates, demand may recede.
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Only invest what you can bare to lose... not your physical body!
www.skeptic.com/article/tran...
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Fascinating example of Moral Retrofitting. The critics draw moral credit from the very structure of tolerance that thinkers like Dawkins helped normalise, then use that credit to denounce him.
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
It’s another round of virtue inflation: repaying intellectual debt with devalued empathy tokens. 1/
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Classic “complexity compression.” The real system, immune adaptation across variant waves, prior infection, behavioral shifts, gets collapsed into a binary variable: vaccinated/not & even the cohorts overlap.
Multiple probs with this study, big one of course is the missing 70%
Multiple probs with this study, big one of course is the missing 70%
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Classic “complexity compression.” The real system, immune adaptation across variant waves, prior infection, behavioral shifts, gets collapsed into a binary variable: vaccinated/not & even the cohorts overlap.
Multiple probs with this study, big one of course is the missing 70%
Multiple probs with this study, big one of course is the missing 70%
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engagement with sovereignty tensions.
The result is a polished sermon for the already converted: rhetorically clean, empirically hollow, and blind to its own quasi-religious absolutism.
The result is a polished sermon for the already converted: rhetorically clean, empirically hollow, and blind to its own quasi-religious absolutism.
November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
engagement with sovereignty tensions.
The result is a polished sermon for the already converted: rhetorically clean, empirically hollow, and blind to its own quasi-religious absolutism.
The result is a polished sermon for the already converted: rhetorically clean, empirically hollow, and blind to its own quasi-religious absolutism.
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Perhaps the 'prior residents' feel they're on the wrong end of your moral economy?
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Perhaps the 'prior residents' feel they're on the wrong end of your moral economy?
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
On the way to the Festival of Remembrance, with Indi, 13. My thoughts in my column this week on how these traditions were invented to fill the identity gaps of the 1920s and how renewing them in the 2020s can be one way to bridge divides in polarised times
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
www.britishfuture.org/in-divided-t...
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Sunder’s essay performs exactly what it tries to warn against: it “reinvents” tradition ideologically. By making Remembrance about representation, he dissolves the *reverence* it required.
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
His “inclusive spirit” is actually a displacement of spirit: a form of moral laundering that renders
Once, “Britain” meant a living narrative that bound class, region, and tribe into a story of shared responsibility.
Now, for the globalist left, that layer feels obsolete: superseded by transnational identity, digital belonging, and moral universalism.
So national symbols are not just old-fashioned-
Now, for the globalist left, that layer feels obsolete: superseded by transnational identity, digital belonging, and moral universalism.
So national symbols are not just old-fashioned-
When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.
Flags don’t mean what they used to just months ago. I’ve written about how I think the same is happening to the poppy.
One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…
One thing I noticed today on that topic: so many people are wearing poppies that look nothing like the various ones the Royal British Legion sells…
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Once, “Britain” meant a living narrative that bound class, region, and tribe into a story of shared responsibility.
Now, for the globalist left, that layer feels obsolete: superseded by transnational identity, digital belonging, and moral universalism.
So national symbols are not just old-fashioned-
Now, for the globalist left, that layer feels obsolete: superseded by transnational identity, digital belonging, and moral universalism.
So national symbols are not just old-fashioned-
The Nazis weren’t champions of personal health freedom, they pioneered the idea that the state can override bodily consent for the ‘greater good.’
That’s exactly why modern medical ethics insists on informed, voluntary choice.
Love the Godwin fork-bomb though!
That’s exactly why modern medical ethics insists on informed, voluntary choice.
Love the Godwin fork-bomb though!
November 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The Nazis weren’t champions of personal health freedom, they pioneered the idea that the state can override bodily consent for the ‘greater good.’
That’s exactly why modern medical ethics insists on informed, voluntary choice.
Love the Godwin fork-bomb though!
That’s exactly why modern medical ethics insists on informed, voluntary choice.
Love the Godwin fork-bomb though!
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Lovely new view of Mars sent back by Perseverance, a couple of sols ago... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Lovely new view of Mars sent back by Perseverance, a couple of sols ago... Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson
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This is narrative sovereignty defense: ability to define what counts as legitimate speech. ‘Troll’ becomes a checksum against disruptive truths.
In their script, questioning the catechism is heresy, so they firewall the heretic & rather than engage argument rationally.
In their script, questioning the catechism is heresy, so they firewall the heretic & rather than engage argument rationally.
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is narrative sovereignty defense: ability to define what counts as legitimate speech. ‘Troll’ becomes a checksum against disruptive truths.
In their script, questioning the catechism is heresy, so they firewall the heretic & rather than engage argument rationally.
In their script, questioning the catechism is heresy, so they firewall the heretic & rather than engage argument rationally.
Perhaps the 'prior residents' feel they're on the wrong end of your moral economy?
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Perhaps the 'prior residents' feel they're on the wrong end of your moral economy?
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.
When you cast one groups as debtors & the other as creditors you build resentment, status anxiety, identity fatigue.
Every time moral discourse becomes one-directional, the counter-current forms in taboo.