James Ball
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James Ball
@jamesrball.com
Tech, policy, politics.
Political editor @ The New World
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris

Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️‍🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
I’m team “just bulldoze the damn thing” fwiw. www.thenewworld.co.uk/its-time-to-...
It’s time to bulldoze Westminster... literally
Parliament is falling apart and will cost billions to patch up. We should just flatten it and start again
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Out of interest (genuinely): how many of those lawyers were American?
November 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
He is wise. Florida juries, per recent form in defamation cases, often are not.
November 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
What serious lawyer would ever advise issuing an apology while there’s an imminent legal threat? How did the BBC not have lines and briefing ready?

Is it even capable of fighting a case when some near its top seem not to want it to win?
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
…what? The uk population then was about 50 million!
November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Would it not have been easier to spend months promising you’d actually delivered them, before pivoting to say you’d definitely get them over by 2028 or so?
November 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
If you think you saw a previous version of this post:
1. No you didn’t
2. It’s possible I named the wrong soap and couldn’t put up with it, despite it serving the joke just as well as the correct one
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Yes but they didn’t have to make it symmetrical..!
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is a very telling graphic, though I’m not sure what the hell is going on with its shape bsky.app/profile/empt...
Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I’ve said very clearly what I’m “alleging”, James. I don’t think this bizarre exchange is worth continuing for either of us.
November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The chancellor specifically made a pitch rolling speech *with accompanying off record briefing* to roll the pitch for this! It’s very obviously not a punt! I’m honestly baffled that you’re even trying this line: you don’t need *any* inside info to know it’s wrong, and you’ve got all that experience.
November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM