James Clayton
@jamesclayton.bsky.social
@jamesclayton in the Old Place. @[email protected]. Never interviewed a billionaire fascist.
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I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
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Saying that Scotland’s parliament is designed to stop a majority is like saying flat shoes are designed to stop you being tall. The shoes don’t subtract inches; they just don’t add them like heels do.
Is the Scottish Parliament designed to stop a majority?
As we approach the next Scottish parliamentary election, there’s a familiar narrative creeping into the conversation: that the system of proportional representation used in Holyrood is
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October 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Saying that Scotland’s parliament is designed to stop a majority is like saying flat shoes are designed to stop you being tall. The shoes don’t subtract inches; they just don’t add them like heels do.
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Devastating news for those like me who were sure Taylor could fix them.
CNN: Hopes for Swift Trump-Putin Meeting May Be Put on Hold
October 21, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Devastating news for those like me who were sure Taylor could fix them.
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The only argument for building data centres on UK soil should be data sovereignty, they should be powered with green electricity and the compute considered nationalised for supporting NHS & government & (nationalised) energy & emergency digital services.
HMRC has been hit with this! Which really should raise the question "Can someone in our government please explain why our national tax services are dependant on Amazon?"
Weee! AWS go boom. dataconomy.com/2025/10/20/a... -- Affected services include: Snapchat, Roblox, Epic Games, Clash of Clans, Rocket League, Canva, Duolingo, Jamf, Slack, Twilio, Zoom, Canvas, Amazon (inc. Alexa/Ring/Prime Video), Venmo, Robinhood, Chime, Coinbase, Crunchyroll ...
October 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
The only argument for building data centres on UK soil should be data sovereignty, they should be powered with green electricity and the compute considered nationalised for supporting NHS & government & (nationalised) energy & emergency digital services.
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The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
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October 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes
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Dunno if you have a kid who's allowed Spotify and thought that setting it so explicit content is blocked would, you know, block explicit content. But OH MY GOD, no.
I've tested it and it will offer literal porn audiobooks (with porn images), podcasts about self-harm and explicit sexual themes 1/4
I've tested it and it will offer literal porn audiobooks (with porn images), podcasts about self-harm and explicit sexual themes 1/4
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Dunno if you have a kid who's allowed Spotify and thought that setting it so explicit content is blocked would, you know, block explicit content. But OH MY GOD, no.
I've tested it and it will offer literal porn audiobooks (with porn images), podcasts about self-harm and explicit sexual themes 1/4
I've tested it and it will offer literal porn audiobooks (with porn images), podcasts about self-harm and explicit sexual themes 1/4
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Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
www.mirror.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
October 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview
The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show
bylinetimes.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester
‘On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search… which, on average, is located 17 places down.’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:12 AM
‘On average, the first result in an Amazon search is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search… which, on average, is located 17 places down.’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Farage is boasting of policies that Nick Griffin would never have dared speak in public, but it’s a ‘slur’ to refer to Reform as anything other than ‘centrist’? And yet we’re supposed to believe they’re the ones with the balls to tell it like is? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
Kent, where the politics of small boats and asylum has exploded
Podcast Episode · Politics Weekly UK · 26/09/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Farage is boasting of policies that Nick Griffin would never have dared speak in public, but it’s a ‘slur’ to refer to Reform as anything other than ‘centrist’? And yet we’re supposed to believe they’re the ones with the balls to tell it like is? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Update: A Green Party of England & Wales spokesperson tells me they've just broken 78,000 members
Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt
And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost
Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt
And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost
September 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Update: A Green Party of England & Wales spokesperson tells me they've just broken 78,000 members
Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt
And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost
Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt
And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost
Am I missing something or is there really really no way to hide the message list in portrait mode in the Mail app on iPadOS 26?
September 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Am I missing something or is there really really no way to hide the message list in portrait mode in the Mail app on iPadOS 26?
If iPadOS 26 demonstrates one thing, it’s that Apple were right about multitasking all along.
September 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
If iPadOS 26 demonstrates one thing, it’s that Apple were right about multitasking all along.
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Starmer, adjusting his blindfold: “I’m very glad of the plurality of opinions our British democracy holds, I myself am wearing union flag socks right now–”
I guess one humorous upside of the fascist rise to power in the UK is it will be deeply funny when all these Labour MPs end up in front of a firing squad thanks to all the “robust free speech and debate” they enabled.
Silver linings and all that.
Silver linings and all that.
September 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Starmer, adjusting his blindfold: “I’m very glad of the plurality of opinions our British democracy holds, I myself am wearing union flag socks right now–”
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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
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September 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Paid a visit to the London arms fair today...
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Paid a visit to the London arms fair today...
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
Found a component for cluster munitions, banned under international law, on full display.
Confirmed by staff, and removed swiftly by event organisers. But what else remains?
These vile weapons should never be peddled in the UK.
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This absolute banger
September 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This absolute banger
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This is so bad.
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is so bad.
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I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
September 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.
#PoliticsLive
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is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?
Oh nothing, just the actual Prime Minister telling people they’re entirely correct to drive asylum seekers out of their communities
September 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?