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A reminder, people with class do not talk about class – politicalbetting.com
A reminder, people with class do not talk about class – politicalbetting.com
Senior Labour figures reportedly want Keir Starmer to put more emphasis on his working class roots – they may be on to something, as only 25% of Britons think Starmer had a working class upbringing, compared to 44% who think he had a middle class upbringingyougov.co.uk/topics/polit…
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The deputy chair of the Russian security council, Dmitry Medvedev, who served as prime minister and president of Russia in rotation with Putin, praised Musk’s “smart move . . . to plug USAID’s deep throat”. Balázs Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister’s political director, described the freeze as “refreshing”. Latin American strongmen who have long accused USAID of propping up their opponents also felt vindicated by the move.
The 2025 foreign aid budget included $268mn allocated by Congress to support “independent media and the free flow of information” around the world, according to Reporters Without Borders, citing data that has since been removed from the US government website.
Jeanne Cavelier, head of Reporters Without Borders’ eastern Europe & Central Asia Desk, warned that the freeze would be “catastrophic” for many independent outlets in the former Soviet space, including in Ukraine, where most outlets rely on US grants. Of Belarus’s remaining independent news outlets — all of which are now in exile — at least six reported a complete cessation of funding, Cavelier said.
In Russia, one of the biggest independent outlets, Meduza, was due to hold a management board meeting on Friday to discuss its future. Other media had already begun implementing staff and salary cuts, said Sauer.
Completely agree with the header: it matters not who his father was; what matters is what his father's son is doing.
Well that’s pretty much obvious to everyone…
https://x.com/gbnews/status/1887863894493802632
Furious residents of Britain's second biggest city tell @RobertJenrick they are sick of their areas being trashed while the clean up can take weeks.
Callin' on my wavelength
Tellin' me to tune in on my radio
I heard the voice of America
Callin' on my wavelength
Singin' "Come back, baby
Come back
Come back, baby
Come back"
The mastermind behind the right-wing X, formerly Twitter, account ‘Inevitable West’ has been exposed as an alleged Indian crypto scammer and political grifter following a major blunder.
Saurabh Chandrakar, linked to the controversial Mahadev betting app, mistakenly promoted the app on his main social media account, inadvertently leading to his identification. This error sparked online investigations, which uncovered his alleged involvement in a massive money-laundering operation connected to the app.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2526904/mastermind-behind-right-wing-twitter-account-inevitable-west-exposed-as-indian-crypto-scammer
https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1887867713692782947
All PMs have been middle class effectively as adults, though we have had working class Deputy PMs like Prescott and Rayner.
While Cameron was borderline upper class we haven't had a genuine upper class peer of the realm as PM since Douglas Home, who was Earl of Home for 2 years before giving up his title and leaving the Lords to enter the Commons again as PM, you can only be upper class by birth or arguably marriage. Once the last remaining hereditary peers leave parliament there will be almost no upper class members of the Houses of Parliament left, except a handful of life peer appointed hereditaries like Viscount Thurso (who also managed to win a Commons seat once the ban on peers becoming MPs was lifted)
"Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?"
Currently the 'poll' shows 80% yes.
Either Twix is fundamentally borken, or the USA is.
There's little point adding Musk to that, as it's obvious he's utterly borken.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1887867644814020902
We have millions of IQ 85 people, what are we gonna do about it?
BTW, what is it about the overlap between New Right Populists and scammers?
It’s a big swamp to drain.
Thanks to the amount of manufacturing there, they are a very large consumer of legacy chips, so starting at the low end and working up from there makes considerable economic sense.
Mexico's Kutsari to Boost Semiconductors, Fast-Track Patents
https://mexicobusiness.news/automotive/news/mexicos-kutsari-boost-semiconductors-fast-track-patents
Mexico has officially launched the "Kutsari" project, a national initiative to strengthen the country's semiconductor industry. Announced by President Claudia Sheinbaum on Feb. 6, 2025, the program aims to position Mexico as a key player in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
The initiative, led by the Ministry of Sciences, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation (SECIHTI) includes the establishment of the National Semiconductor Design Center and a network of design hubs in Puebla, Jalisco, and Sonora. The primary goal is to enhance domestic design capabilities through collaborations with public higher education institutions. The project also proposes legal reforms to streamline patent registration, enabling faster commercialization of semiconductor technologies...
Speaking to German people all week has really put our infrastructure troubles into perspective. One of the guys was telling me about some roadworks at the end of his road which blocked the way to the main road so he had to navigate a one way system that took and extra 10 mins per journey, the work was supposed to take 4 weeks but after 4 weeks they said they needed more time and got another 4 weeks. Eventually it got to month 6 of the road being closed at one end and the residents got fed up and approached the local council about why the roadworks were still ongoing but no one seemed to be working and it turns out that the council had refused the licence to do a major part of the work to the telecoms company but the national government were handing out fines for the telecoms company not delivering infrastructure upgrades on time. It was the first time I felt an ounce of sympathy for them rather than schadenfreude.
Did you miss the quote this morning about the Presidency being a TV show where he has to vanquish an "enemy" every single day?
@gardnerakayla
President Trump says he will sign an executive order "ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws."
What is there is no swamp?
Potentially, that could have been a win-win; Trump gets to be the President without having to do much of the work, Musk gets to quietly remake the US state in his horrible image whilst everyone is distracted by the latest excretions from the Orange Man in the White House.
The British state has a lot of problems. (And none of this would ever get me to vote Reform!)
His dad owned a factory. He's worth £millions. He's middle class and has always been.
I couldn't care less though. I wouldn't want to be judged on who my parents were/are, nor my grandparents. Workhouses and poverty.
Let him be judged on his actions.
Another top tip is not putting your rubbish out until bin day so it doesn't get scattered everywhere by foxes and crows.
Fly-tipping is becoming a big problem though, don't use unlicensed clearance companies. I doubt that's the problem in Birmingham, though it might be if they have Jenrick putting out ads that show no one would notice another 30t of flytipped waste.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/07/parents-angry-as-council-prioritises-london-hotel-view-over-school-playground-plan
At one point, DRAM made up 90% of Intel's revenue. But it was low-profit stuff compared to processors, and rivals were nipping at their heels, particularly Japanese rivals. DRAM became less of a priority in the company for investment, and they decided to exit the DRAM industry in about 1985 and concentrate on processors. They never looked back - at least for a couple of decades.
But it was a massive strategic mistake. DRAM (and memory generally...) chips are far easier to fabricate than processors. If you want to start up a new chip fabrication business, it's a good halfway step to making processors, allowing you to get experience and revenue in.
Intel should have remained in the market as a major player and innovated much more, the increased innovation acting as a barrier to smaller competitors.
(As the thread is on class I should I guess point out that this is for my birthday, and thus I'm down a peg to start!)
A solicitor suspended from practice for a year for tricking an 82-year-old farmer has published a column bemoaning the state of ethics in the legal profession.
In an opinion piece headed “Ethics 101” which appeared in the Law Gazette, former Wright Hassell solicitor Joel Woolf announced that he was “heartened that ethics is to come back to the top of the regulatory agenda”.
“I am dismayed that there is no explanation as to why in recent years ethics has apparently fallen such as to need re-elevation."
Mourning the drop in regulatory standards, he said, “Ethics in legal practice has to be taught and taught hard. It is not an easy subject”.
Woolf would know. He recently served a year’s suspension from practice after admitting multiple breaches of the SRA Principles, although he was too coy to mention his lived experience in his column.
While acting for a landlord in 2020, Woolf sent an 82-year-old tenant farmer three notices to quit agricultural land.
All three notices were designed to look the same, but in fact each notice referred to a different ground on which possession was sought. Woolf sent notices 1 and 2 by first class mail and then sent notices 2 and 3 by special delivery.
The tenant’s son mistakenly thought the notices sent by first class post were duplicates of the notices sent by special delivery, so only sent one set to his father’s solicitors.
https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-solicitor-preaches-ethics-after-serving-suspension-tricking-pensioner
At some point, Labour and their supporters will have to take some responsibility. I understand it will be hard for you.
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2016-0136
For example, any day now I expect Trump to issue one saying "Ukraine and Russia must stop fighting", followed by ones saying "The USA owns Gaza" and "Xi should shut the fuck up". Easy.
Edit: and would be good if they were open at proper breakfast hours. Lawyers!
Wouldn’t be too sniffy at his dad being a toolmaker. I’ve worked with many in the past and toolmakers who run their own business are always self made and come up from the shop floor.
Like David Tennant in his last Dr Who, I don’t want to go.
Labour will be judged on how well they can get the car out of the ditch and back on the road again. They might fail at that - and will be judged accordingly if they don't.
But let's not pretend who put Britain in the ditch and why. Mostly because they are now Labour's strongest critics and want to blame them for the problems they themselves inflicted in order to avoid responsibility and indulge their fantasies.
Little to do with the Tories at a national level.
But people don’t let the facts get in the way and it is an easy get out for the local govt who fucked up to blame the national govt.
BTW Tories are, in part to blame, in Brum. They held the council for a period of time, with the Lib Dems IIRC
Whereas, Kier From HR conjures an image of a slightly sweaty overweight middle aged man in a suit and tie (admittedly normally one he ahs bought himself) with a nasally boring voice.
Which do you think is the appropriate image?
However as Skyr is a brand of youghurt from Iceland that is why it works for me but as for your question .
Definitely the latter 😂😂😂😂
But yes, I was reading that Woking is a big problem. Can't merge Surrey till the deficit is sorted. But that's basically making the poor of the north (and all of us, really) pay for (in this case) a wealthy Tory council's moral hazard.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/07/watchdog-to-investigate-two-former-figures-at-bankrupt-woking-council
"However, writing off Woking’s debt would result in taxpayers from across the country being asked to shoulder the burden of a failed investment spree in the affluent home counties after years of austerity for many councils in poorer English regions."
Sir Kiers voice coach was once married to the legend that is Robin Askwith.
Suggestions are welcome.
(When Trumpistas talk about draining the swamp, it cracks me up because I recognize so many swamp creatures around him -- and know about the instruction he received from Roy Cohn.)