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Liberal Currents is a publication you should get to know. Its mission is to revive liberalism as a fighting faith after a long, loooong, period of complacency. @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com is the publisher. He's undertaking a big fundraising push. I interview him here.
December 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Liberal Currents is a publication you should get to know. Its mission is to revive liberalism as a fighting faith after a long, loooong, period of complacency. @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com is the publisher. He's undertaking a big fundraising push. I interview him here.
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Via Press Gazette: Press abuse victims including the McCanns, Caroline Flack’s mother and Crimewatch’s Jacqui Hames have written to the PM asking for a meeting over standards reforms 13 years after the publication of the Leveson Report. (Hacked Off)
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Via Press Gazette: Press abuse victims including the McCanns, Caroline Flack’s mother and Crimewatch’s Jacqui Hames have written to the PM asking for a meeting over standards reforms 13 years after the publication of the Leveson Report. (Hacked Off)
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This is not the end of the transatlantic relationship. It‘s the end of the transatlantic relationship as we know it - and this distinction is crucial. My thoughts for WPR.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-nss-us...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-nss-us...
The Trans-Atlantic Partnership as We Knew It Is Over
The National Security Strategy makes it clear that the Trump administration no longer views Europe’s current leaders as partners.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is not the end of the transatlantic relationship. It‘s the end of the transatlantic relationship as we know it - and this distinction is crucial. My thoughts for WPR.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-nss-us...
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-nss-us...
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Leader of Reform-run council accused of ‘authoritarian’ attempt to silence opposition
Leader of Reform-run council accused of ‘authoritarian’ attempt to silence opposition
Worcestershire council leader Jo Monk sent city councillor Ed Kimberley a cease and desist letter over his criticism of her
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Leader of Reform-run council accused of ‘authoritarian’ attempt to silence opposition
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So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
December 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
So annoying that companies that promote GenAI and LLMs called it AI and didn’t differentiate it from the advanced machine learning algorithms and tools that enable so many great things that are also AI but actually solving a problem, and good.
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Britain cannot rely on the US any more.
Which means we need to be strategically independent. The only way this happens is to start from scratch.
Trade needs to be oriented to Europe.
We need to scoop up all the brilliant scientists being driven out of America.
Which means we need to be strategically independent. The only way this happens is to start from scratch.
Trade needs to be oriented to Europe.
We need to scoop up all the brilliant scientists being driven out of America.
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Britain cannot rely on the US any more.
Which means we need to be strategically independent. The only way this happens is to start from scratch.
Trade needs to be oriented to Europe.
We need to scoop up all the brilliant scientists being driven out of America.
Which means we need to be strategically independent. The only way this happens is to start from scratch.
Trade needs to be oriented to Europe.
We need to scoop up all the brilliant scientists being driven out of America.
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I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
December 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.
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This should be a wake up call to Keir Starmer. Trump is not a reliable ally.
Trump wants to weaken Europe and carve up Ukraine while cosying up to Putin. Britain and our allies in Europe must stand together against his threats and bullying.
Trump wants to weaken Europe and carve up Ukraine while cosying up to Putin. Britain and our allies in Europe must stand together against his threats and bullying.
December 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This should be a wake up call to Keir Starmer. Trump is not a reliable ally.
Trump wants to weaken Europe and carve up Ukraine while cosying up to Putin. Britain and our allies in Europe must stand together against his threats and bullying.
Trump wants to weaken Europe and carve up Ukraine while cosying up to Putin. Britain and our allies in Europe must stand together against his threats and bullying.
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I am extremely proud of the whole team for bringing this project to fruition in under a year. Our young people deserve stable homes in the Borough. #childrenincare #Windsor #RBWM
🏘 Lib Dem Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting reliance on costly external placements:
Creating a haven home for children
Lib Dem Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting reliance on costly external placements.
www.local.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I am extremely proud of the whole team for bringing this project to fruition in under a year. Our young people deserve stable homes in the Borough. #childrenincare #Windsor #RBWM
🏘 Lib Dem Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting reliance on costly external placements:
Creating a haven home for children
Lib Dem Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting reliance on costly external placements.
www.local.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🏘 Lib Dem Windsor & Maidenhead has invested £1.8m in its first home for young people, dramatically cutting reliance on costly external placements:
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🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
December 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union.
The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.
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"Security, in this telling, means preserving a conception of the nation rooted in a blood-and-soil identity rather than shared civic ideals." www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
Sovereignty For Me, None For Thee
Donald Trump's 2025 National Security Strategy reveals a radical blood-and-soil conception of national strategy based on maintaining white patriarchal Christian domination at home and abroad.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Security, in this telling, means preserving a conception of the nation rooted in a blood-and-soil identity rather than shared civic ideals." www.liberalcurrents.com/sovereignty-...
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Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey says backbenchers should be allowed to support party’s 10-minute rule bill
Badenoch accuses Labour of making it harder for people to employ people with its taxes on business.
She says Labour is defending its proposals on the grounds that it will cut poverty. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Starmer urged to let Labour MPs back vote on joining EU customs union – UK politics live
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The penny is dropping. A customs union is the best way turbocharge our economy and tackle the cost of living.
Labour MPs who agree with us should vote to back our bill on a customs union tomorrow.
Labour MPs who agree with us should vote to back our bill on a customs union tomorrow.
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The penny is dropping. A customs union is the best way turbocharge our economy and tackle the cost of living.
Labour MPs who agree with us should vote to back our bill on a customs union tomorrow.
Labour MPs who agree with us should vote to back our bill on a customs union tomorrow.
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Former Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood: "The more we bow to Trump, the more we are taken for granted and the more he wields American power to divide us. Yet so normalised has our behaviour become, state visits to the Oval Office now resemble scenes from The Godfather." ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Former Conservative MP, Tobias Ellwood: "The more we bow to Trump, the more we are taken for granted and the more he wields American power to divide us. Yet so normalised has our behaviour become, state visits to the Oval Office now resemble scenes from The Godfather." ~AA
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Still hoping against hope we can somehow get to 200K by the end of the year.
Given that ever since we put out a statement saying we won't use Generative AI on our channel we've lost a bunch of subs, I guess we ain't hitting 200K by the end of the year lol.
December 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Still hoping against hope we can somehow get to 200K by the end of the year.
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Well then. Let’s see what’s gonna happen there.
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Merz and Macron to discuss fate of FCAS fighter jet, industry source says
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15, an...
www.reuters.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Well then. Let’s see what’s gonna happen there.
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
“German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron are planning to discuss the fate of the troubled Franco-German fighter jet project FCAS - or SCAF - in the week of December 15.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
Yeah, I mean, I'm critical of any video nowadays that is trying to elicit an emotional response, especially when it's asking for subs at the end. It's weird that all the people seem to end up with the dog they want. And shelters are overflowing, where are the rooms full of people wanting to adopt?
December 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video
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the actual milheads in the audience can correct me if i'm wrong, but it really does feel like the M7 project is a result of terminal GWOT brain. like ian says, if some guy opens up on you from 800m, the answer isn't the M7, the answer is combined arms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
Why the M7 and 6.8x51mm are Bad Ideas: Welcome to my TED Talk
YouTube video by Forgotten Weapons
www.youtube.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
the actual milheads in the audience can correct me if i'm wrong, but it really does feel like the M7 project is a result of terminal GWOT brain. like ian says, if some guy opens up on you from 800m, the answer isn't the M7, the answer is combined arms
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqlK...
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My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸
(sadly, without credit)
(sadly, without credit)
December 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
My @politicshome.bsky.social story from the summer about the AI-generated "I rise to speak" phenomenon in Parliament has made it into @nytimes.com 🇺🇸
(sadly, without credit)
(sadly, without credit)