Murray Watt is a perfect model of the modern Labor politician. President of Young Labor. Chief of staff for a Premier. Boss of the Qld Left. Now he’s the Environment Minister, responsible for a critical decision. He chose to destroy the environment. crikey.com.au/2025/05/29/mur…

Alarming number of leftists seemingly overawed by high quality video production, or worse, their preferred candidate simply repeating things that have previously been tweeted about. Channelling everything into ‘the comms’ and individual leaders is bad, actually.

Antony Holloway and Oliver Cox Docklands tile mural in Poplar (c. 1958)

Called this Jenrick/O’Brien character arc at the start of the year, so predictable. (‘This city has gone to the dogs’ stuff is an international conservative phenomena - there was a Melbourne mayoral candidate who campaigned on ‘safe zones’ in the (incredibly safe) city).

Have always loved this mural.

Said I’d write this three years ago, but better late than never. Come to read about Alistair Campbell asking Paul Keating to teach Blair how to hate, or Morgan McSweeney starting to talk like a senior Australian Labor figure, stay for the Kylie reference. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/starme…

Simon Clarke, 'THE VALUE OF VALUE' (1979). files.warwick.ac.uk/simonclarke/fi… via Nate Holdren

One more bump of this for the evening / very early morning crew.

vg analysis of the Australian Labor Party's influence on Starmer/McSweeney by cask ale communist in Tribune. historically informed and sheds light on some of the weirder stupid things Keith has done.

Once again: the only interesting thing about AI is our contemporary receptivity to slop, not the supposed capacities of the robot

Brilliant piece from cask ale communist on the links between the Australian Labor Party and Starmerism tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/starme…

🚨 With Jonny Ashworth tweeting about ‘Australian-style’ immigration restrictions, why not have read my recent piece on the almost entirely negative influence Australian Labor have had on their sister party in Britain. tribunemag.co.uk/2025/06/starme…

Odd request, but: at my job I've been helping a volunteer research some 'pitmen naturalists' - 19thc Northumberland miners who became experts in the fossils they were yanking out of the ground at work. Links to all the blogs so far can be found here: nhsn.org.uk/the-pitmen-nat…

.Aaron Benanav (abenanav.b--.s----) on why Artificial Intelligence isn’t going to change the world. It just makes work worse.

This app will be absolutely insufferable immediately before / during / after Notting Hill Carnival this year.

LLMs = uses as much data as possible and a stupid amount energy to reproduce and synthesise existing information Brain = uses a limited and degenerate set of data to create completely new things in a way that we don’t really understand

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