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Iceland at Davos
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Iceland at Davos
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Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
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There is a Professorship named after Ralph Miliband.
Please spare a thought for Oliver Kamm at what must be a difficult time for him.
Please spare a thought for Oliver Kamm at what must be a difficult time for him.
To celebrate my appointment as the Ralph Miliband Professor of Politics & Philosophy at LSE Law School & the School of Public Policy, I'll give an inaugural lecture entitled “Are Revolutions Justified?”. Registration required - look forward to seeing many of you! ❤️
lselaw.events/event/are-re...
lselaw.events/event/are-re...
Lea Ypi Inaugural Lecture | Are revolutions justified? - LSE Law School Events
Moralists think that if the ends of revolution are right, revolution cannot be wrong. Legalists think that since the means of revolution are wrong, revolution cannot be right. In this lecture Lea Ypi ...
lselaw.events
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 PM
There is a Professorship named after Ralph Miliband.
Please spare a thought for Oliver Kamm at what must be a difficult time for him.
Please spare a thought for Oliver Kamm at what must be a difficult time for him.
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That’s the ‘Free Speech For Me and My Mates Union,’ I believe.
🔴 Who Funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Toby Young’s outfit has gone to court to stop publication of a list of its donors
So we decided to take a dive into its funders
Watch video with me and @writesbright.bsky.social 😀
youtu.be/oP0OGYhYyaA?...
Who Really Funds the Free Speech Union?
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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January 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
That’s the ‘Free Speech For Me and My Mates Union,’ I believe.
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James Orr believes this makes him/Reform some kind of radical, but this is the same trite communitarianism that every leading politician has recited at some point or another since 2009. The question is about the means - and whether they include an ICE, camps, gunning down small boats or not
January 18, 2026 at 1:20 PM
James Orr believes this makes him/Reform some kind of radical, but this is the same trite communitarianism that every leading politician has recited at some point or another since 2009. The question is about the means - and whether they include an ICE, camps, gunning down small boats or not
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‘Was it not embarrassing that this libertarian crusader derived much of his income from appearances on public television and that his chief professional ambition was to write for the New Yorker?’
Thomas Meaney on the contradictions of William F. Buckley.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Meaney on the contradictions of William F. Buckley.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Meaney · I’d smash you in the face: MAGA’s Debt to Buckley
Anti-communist dandy, scourge of Ivy League administrators, magazine chieftain, amanuensis to Joe McCarthy, father-...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
‘Was it not embarrassing that this libertarian crusader derived much of his income from appearances on public television and that his chief professional ambition was to write for the New Yorker?’
Thomas Meaney on the contradictions of William F. Buckley.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Meaney on the contradictions of William F. Buckley.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
How it started.
Here we are.
Here we are.
January 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
How it started.
Here we are.
Here we are.
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"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
To get the weekend off to a sprightly start I’m listening to Gavin Bryers and ‘Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ on Radio 3.
January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
To get the weekend off to a sprightly start I’m listening to Gavin Bryers and ‘Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ on Radio 3.
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It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment".
No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
It is simply a lie to claim that the Conservative government (or any other UK government in recent history) oversaw 'an open borders experiment".
No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
No excuse for the PM or Reed repeating this lie or for media not describing it as such.
The ICE officers look as if they have won a Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraiser.
January 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The ICE officers look as if they have won a Make-A-Wish Foundation fundraiser.
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Tories in 2019: Corbyn wanting to disband NATO is irresponsible: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
January 11, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Tories in 2019: Corbyn wanting to disband NATO is irresponsible: www.channel4.com/news/factche...
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
Tories today: Trump threatens to break up NATO - no biggie.
These are not serious people.
With the government not disabusing them.
Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
January 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
With the government not disabusing them.
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Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Nothing unusual in this. As Ipsos have shown for years, voters around the world are systematically wrong about many social facts: www.ipsos.com/en/perils
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Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
January 9, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Frey: "This notion of inflammatory comments -- c'mon guys. I dropped an F bomb, they killed someone. Which one of those is more inflammatory? I'm going with the killing somebody."
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you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.
January 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
you know how if you try and make LLMs more racist, they also end up more sexist and pro-genocide? this is the human example of that. evil isn't a single thing, if you start down one path you keep ending up at the same destination.
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About that social mobility issue.
Exhibit A and then B.
Exhibit A and then B.
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 PM
About that social mobility issue.
Exhibit A and then B.
Exhibit A and then B.
I see one of the most self-pitying accounts from X, a Gerasite, has also moved over here.
January 7, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I see one of the most self-pitying accounts from X, a Gerasite, has also moved over here.
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On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
On this day in 1901, CLR James is born in Trinidad. James was an important anti-colonial activist, socialist historian, theorist, journalist and cricket aficionado.
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
anticolonialhistory.com/event/148/
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wow, everything I see here is unfolding almost exactly the way it would if the people I have spent my career disagreeing with about everything were right about everything (even though, obviously, they are still wrong about everything)
Incredibly funny that this is the closest Matty Yglesias will ever get to admitting he was wrong about American empire. “Looks like that leftist was right. Like a fucking IDIOT”
January 4, 2026 at 11:38 AM
wow, everything I see here is unfolding almost exactly the way it would if the people I have spent my career disagreeing with about everything were right about everything (even though, obviously, they are still wrong about everything)
The obvious follow up was to ask ‘so what part of international law was breached when Putin invaded Ukraine…you knew that pretty much straight away’
Govt minister Darren Jones is asked what element of international law gives the US the right to abduct the leader of another country.
Jones says he's not qualified to answer that question and he's not a spokesperson for the US administration.
Jones says he's not qualified to answer that question and he's not a spokesperson for the US administration.
January 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
The obvious follow up was to ask ‘so what part of international law was breached when Putin invaded Ukraine…you knew that pretty much straight away’
God I hate this BS.
Trump must really be panicking about those #epstein files to feel the need invade a whole country and start a war just to get people to change the damn subject.
January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM
God I hate this BS.
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Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Spray paint a plane and they'll detain you without trial and call you a terrorist.
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it
Kidnap a foreign head of state - and Keir Starmer will make it clear we've played no part in it but will wait for the scheduled press conference in a few hours before potentially condemning it