Reactions to Dune reveal a new moral: a people should only choose a leader who was born one of the group

Just a few days away for work and the studio turns into a Lego den

Nietzsche would be proud.

It's the zoom out which really makes this.

What’s the difference between the distress caused by gentrification and that caused by immigration, apart from one being more associated with the Left and the other with the Right? It seems both are partly to do with the loss/change of how a place feels

It's fascinating seeing YouTubers, as they make videos ever longer, rediscover basic traditional television storytelling.

The shifty eyes problem usually comes from putting the autocue too close. The further it is away the less horizontal movement the eyes make.

Effective questions and I haven't seen that quick-cut edit style (at 1:15) used in a news interview before. Works brilliantly.

Blown away to hear from Tom Chivers and Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 (discussing the Cass Report) that it's not remarkable for medical treatments to lack good evidence. A 2020 study found only 9.9% of treatments supported by ”high quality evidence'. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32890636/

This bonkers and brilliant. More evidence that short form video remains the form of culture with most creativity and new ideas, leaving literature, music and other arts forms looking stagnant in comparison.

GB News, purveyors of freedom of speech, kick Michael Crick out of the studio after he calls GB News a right wing channel and criticises OfCom for doing nothing about GB News, ironically, during a segment on freedom of speech.

MC writes, 'Eventually, during a break, an angry…

“The market will regulate itself!”

The market:

The police shut down of the National Conservative conference in Brussels is a disturbing attack on civil liberties.

If you support the right of the state to shut down your opponents, you legitimise the state wanting to shut you down, too.

This is a classic property of all policy, that there is some anomaly or difficulty or complexity which is a drawback. In this case there are basically three options. 1. Don’t do it all 2. Ban all smoking for everyone 3. The Sunak policy with the two classes problem. You just have…

The Liz Truss saga is a strange one. Has she genuinely moved to the far right? Is she trying, cynically or cleverly or both, repositioning herself there for a political comeback? Or is there something else going on?

James Ball I think for me, it’s the premise: that you could have two different classes if “adults” with different rights. I think that’s a really disturbing concept in law. And I think the popularity of the thought of a “smoke-free generation” has masked the weirdness of the premise