The West Wing is the founding myth of a solid 50% of the electorate, whether they know it or not. Just incredibly influential. The church of the smug, fast-talking, eye-rolling, this is so obvious crew of self congratulating midwittery.

For people like Zarah, entering Westminster was never about materially changing people's lives - for them, it is just the natural extension of the students' union

Yeah, yeah, it's stupid for the British Prime Minister to refer to Turkey as 'Türkiye'. Now are we ready for a real conversation?

The problem with these people is they’ve never done anything - they don’t know anything; they have no experience, no expertise and most dangerous of all, no realisation of the limits of their knowledge. This Supreme confidence born of ignorance is the problem.

All worth following. There’s no escaping the conundrum that an independent Scotland that’s part of a sterling currency union couldn’t have its own fiscal policy, whereas if it adopted a “Scottish £” this new currency would be immediately devalued amid a colossal banking crisis.

Just finished this essay in the New Yorker on aphantasia. Very exceptional and - I don’t feel this often about New Yorker essays - groundbreaking. Instead of the cliches of the “apple visualization test” there is a reevaluation of the spectrum of human experience in its totality.

When Betby asked me how I wanted to do the next video, this is what I came up with.

Tommy Robinson (Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧) is welcomed to Israel by a government minister. I’m banned. I’m a British Jew and a member of the Board of Deputies. Israel needs to ask itself: who are its allies, and what message does this send?

Paul Dirac's hand written Ph.D thesis, 1926. The title of the thesis was simply "Quantum Mechanics".

Imagine saying a few years ago that the combined vote share of Reform and the Greens would be higher than that of the Conservatives, Labour, and Liberal Democrats. 49% vs 44%!

"I have found out what economics is; it is the science of confusing stocks with flows.” -Michal Kalecki

Mark Hoath Keir Starmer Rachel Reeves "7-year low"? "Freefall"? I'd just delete this if I were you...

My impression is that the British 'right', such as it is , is now so desperate and isolated that it is ready to make Faustian pacts to get even a portion of its desires. Trump, if you like, is Mephistopheles. These deals always end badly, and Christopher Marlowe is never out of

The narcissism of Iranian monarchists is actually impressive. Turks, Russians, Japanese - nobody else views everything, and everybody, through the prism of their own country. Nobody in Ankara is comparing Mamdani to Turkish politics. Giant babies.

My bookmarks?? Oh, you mean my never-going-to-read pile.

Apparently the House of Lords Science & Technology Committee thinks the average UK pension saver would be upset to learn that their pension was invested in the S&P 500 (92.95% growth since 2021) instead of working for Britain in the FTSE 250 (23.27%).

He should place the entire country under interdict, as Innocent III did to England in 1208.

West Midlands police confirm Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were banned because of the threat they posed to the British public, specifically referencing Amsterdam. Keir Starmer and the entire UK political and media class lied to the British public to protect Israel and its genocide

I don't 'excuse' it, actually. I know some people find this sort of thing refreshing or edgy, but the use of foul language by senior politicians on breakfast television shouldn't be normalised or celebrated. Grow up, Robert Jenrick.

When David Foster Wallace said "there's a lot of narcissism in self-hatred" he was absolutely cooking