Luke Parks
@lukeparks.bsky.social
History buff & inactivist. All opinions mine and not those of my employer.
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Too many of them always wanted to be politicians and never really thought about anything else.
The problem with politics goes deeper than this. But it's nevertheless interesting that when you see politicians' bookshelves on zoom calls, there's an over-preponderance of biographies and quite little on politics.
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Too many of them always wanted to be politicians and never really thought about anything else.
Also, aren't political uniforms illegal?
Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Also, aren't political uniforms illegal?
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
Aside from her somewhat novel interpretation of the Roman empire, if we're going back to early Christianity, is she arguing that, as in the Book of Acts, property should be held in common? That sounds bold for a Tory leader.
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Aside from her somewhat novel interpretation of the Roman empire, if we're going back to early Christianity, is she arguing that, as in the Book of Acts, property should be held in common? That sounds bold for a Tory leader.
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Remarkable how the gambling industry and its allied MPs always yell that if you tax gambling you’re out of touch with the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap who loves a flutter.
Actual ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap: Tax it! Tax it more! Keep on taxing it, you bastards!
Actual ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap: Tax it! Tax it more! Keep on taxing it, you bastards!
Fascinating that the cash ISA limit is the most unpopular item in the budget. I would have thought it would be unpopular but not more so than e.g. freezing tax thresholds.
November 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Remarkable how the gambling industry and its allied MPs always yell that if you tax gambling you’re out of touch with the ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap who loves a flutter.
Actual ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap: Tax it! Tax it more! Keep on taxing it, you bastards!
Actual ordinary, salt-of-the-earth working class chap: Tax it! Tax it more! Keep on taxing it, you bastards!
How do you do Thatcherism without state assets to sell off and an oil boom to make up the lost revenue?
At long last, space is opening up in British politics for Thatcherism
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
How do you do Thatcherism without state assets to sell off and an oil boom to make up the lost revenue?
A rare exception to Betteridge's law.
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A rare exception to Betteridge's law.
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and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
“The Motability scheme was set up to protect the most vulnerable. Not to subsidise the lease on a Mercedes Benz,” Reeves says.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
Misleading and nasty in equal measure.
November 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
and again - literally just the hobby horse of some random anonymous Twitter accounts, enraging how quickly they managed to turn their horrid posting into actual government policy and rhetoric
The problem is Farage has ceased to be just a good story and has become a potential future PM. Therefore we now have to be told what we already knew by the idiots who have made bank promoting him up to now.
This is going to ring true to this guy’s idiot fan base because it’s largely true. Timing may not make any difference to the allegations but it’s true we are now getting a very late, very isolated bout of Noticing Things that could and should have been noticed many years earlier.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The problem is Farage has ceased to be just a good story and has become a potential future PM. Therefore we now have to be told what we already knew by the idiots who have made bank promoting him up to now.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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You felt like you were crazy in the 2000s having to explain that these people had already racked up a long list of horrendous war crimes and were very obviously choking to do more and worse, and yet here we still are.
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
You felt like you were crazy in the 2000s having to explain that these people had already racked up a long list of horrendous war crimes and were very obviously choking to do more and worse, and yet here we still are.
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I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I do think it's worth addressing that the intellectual lodestar of this government is a gibbering idiot.
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I found 2024 incredibly frustrating. Because I (and lots of other people) kept explaining that the fiscal position of all parties was literally impossible but broadcast (in particular) was never willing to go that far.
The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I found 2024 incredibly frustrating. Because I (and lots of other people) kept explaining that the fiscal position of all parties was literally impossible but broadcast (in particular) was never willing to go that far.
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Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Very proud of former Reform MP, James McMurdock. Who better to stand up for women and girls than a man sent to prison for repeatedly kicking his girlfriend?
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the entirety of human history has actually been manipulation by cats to get them to every corner of earth.
"Domestic cats finally crossed the Alps with the Roman conquest of Gaul"
Huh. I never really thought about the connections between animal populations and military campaigns before
Huh. I never really thought about the connections between animal populations and military campaigns before
November 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
the entirety of human history has actually been manipulation by cats to get them to every corner of earth.
Saturated market.
I can’t believe uncritically regurgitating the rants of cranks isn’t a viable business model
If i'd known the telegraph were in that much financial trouble, i'd have loudly offered them 5 billion quid and then 2 days later quietly slipped them a note saying 'clarification: with regards to our earlier statement, the 5 billion quid does not exist & if it did it would not be used to buy you.'
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Saturated market.
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The right wing press in Britain is too big to fail because it’s one of the last remaining industries that still periodically creates jobs (20 year old rent a heads complaining about woke)
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The right wing press in Britain is too big to fail because it’s one of the last remaining industries that still periodically creates jobs (20 year old rent a heads complaining about woke)
I know Tom Watson is an expert in these matters, but how does the sheer mass of his brass neck here not cause the universe to collapse in on itself?
Yes, if you ignore your MPs they might e.g. hork up an absolutely ludicrous “whistleblowing” scandal by very obviously lying with a complicit BBC, then sue the party and accept an extremely dubious six figure payout, somehow while avoiding a police investigation and prison for fraud.
November 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I know Tom Watson is an expert in these matters, but how does the sheer mass of his brass neck here not cause the universe to collapse in on itself?
Have to confess, while I 100% agree with this now, when I got up at 6am I wasn't so sure.
If there was any doubt, test match cricket is the greatest game that humans have invented, and possibly the high point of evolution.
November 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Have to confess, while I 100% agree with this now, when I got up at 6am I wasn't so sure.
Also, if someone recommended Microsoft Word to you, what would that do to your opinion of them?
Why yes, @microsoft.com, I will HAPPILY provide you feedback on how exactly I feel about Word right now.
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Also, if someone recommended Microsoft Word to you, what would that do to your opinion of them?
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I never thought a comparison could be overly harsh on Stevenage. But here we are.
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I never thought a comparison could be overly harsh on Stevenage. But here we are.
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Incredible headline.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Incredible headline.
I wonder how clever it is and whether it's just programmed to ascribe all superlative attributes to Elon Musk or make him the superior in any comparison. Would be interesting to see what it says if you ask if he's the stupidest person in the world.
Musk has apparently manipulated Grok so much that it says he's a better athlete than LeBron James and a funnier comedian than Jerry Seinfeld.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
Imagine being so insecure you need to program an LLM to boost you like that.
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I wonder how clever it is and whether it's just programmed to ascribe all superlative attributes to Elon Musk or make him the superior in any comparison. Would be interesting to see what it says if you ask if he's the stupidest person in the world.
Wow, the 'why won't they debate me' grifters are really pulling out all the stops.
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Wow, the 'why won't they debate me' grifters are really pulling out all the stops.