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Starmer doing some weird giant hands super villain thing in front of a schoolchild
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From the FT article: He denies engineering Gray’s downfall or being the “political brain” behind the famously unpolitical Starmer. “I certainly didn’t see myself as his brain,” he says. “I was an organiser trying to get him elected. He was my candidate.” When Gray left, the prime minister turned to McSweeney to replace her. He says the “boys’ club” tag is disrespectful to the many senior women who worked in the building, adding: “It wasn’t a place where people shouted at each other. It was a place where people respected each other. I miss the camaraderie we had there.” Other former staffers in Number 10 have different recollections and speak of a depressed workplace
From the FT: Corbyn unexpectedly won the Labour leadership in 2015 and stayed in charge until the party was trounced by Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in 2019. Labour by now was mired in allegations of entrenched antisemitism. In the wake of that defeat — Labour’s heaviest for almost 100 years — McSweeney looked for someone who could save the party. He met Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions, a few times, and thought: “I could kind of trust him, if he became prime minister.”
from the guardian article: Then came morning television and other national radio news shows – first from the more informal 5 Live Breakfast and then the London-based LBC spreading UK-wide and finding a muesli hour superstar in Nick Ferrari.
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Politico headline: Europe must choose between AI and Climate goals, data center lobby says
From the mcsweeneys article: 2. Laura drives a taxi. Instead of charging her customers a fee for every ride, she charges them a $20/month subscription. Laura has 40 million paying customers, totaling roughly $13 billion in annual revenue. Laura spends $25 billion/year on gas. In a fit of late-capitalist bloodlust, hordes of tech and finance bros riot in the streets, firebombing every rideshare, bus, and pedicab they can find, declaring the transportation business officially “over.” Also, Laura’s taxi cost her $1 trillion to attain, and she’ll have to replace it in four to eight years.
Curtis Yarvin steps aboard the KC-3 to argue that Britain should exploit America’s imperial exhaustion to become the new leader of the West, starting with dismantling the cathedral of unaccountable bureaucrats that has replaced genuine sovereignty. It’s a path that runs through Oxbridge, extraterritorial Chinese Oakland, and possibly some Ayahuasca for Elon Musk. Tom, Calum, and Curtis on: * Why the Deliveroo economy is more dehumanizing than Victorian servitude - with social distance replacing the personal bonds that once connected masters and servants, * How Elizabeth I’s delegation to the Cecils created Britain’s first “deep state” of Platonic guardians, leading directly to today’s unaccountable oligarchy of Sir Humphrey Applebys
Pod description from a recent "anglofuturism" Submit to the British Cræft Prize. £60,000. Deadline: 31 August 2026. [link] The episode explores: * The boxer shorts to national prize pipeline, via Saint Pantalone * Why Irish linen is grown in Flanders * The 16 Dreams of Britain and whether they can coexist * Calum’s objection: competing aesthetic universes cannot be synthesised by goodwill * Kenneth Frampton’s critical regionalism and Paul Ricœur’s defining question * Hiroki Azuma’s database animals and the collapse of the grand narrative * The Magdalen College library debate: homage or imposition? * Why the Anglofuturist typeface has borrowed from five traditions and still doesn’t have a full alphabet * The Peter Thiel two-by-two and why definite pessimism has no joy * Sprezzatura as the missing ingredient in British national renewal
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FroDunne, who was announced as an unpaid government adviser on youth justice this week, said many young men were “falling through the cracks of society”, attracted to extremism from both the left and right, predominantly due to a lack of community and belonging they feel in their lives. “They’re finding digital forms of belonging and there are people online who are exploiting that lack of community and providing community online. Which is why you have ‘incels’, which is why you have far-right nationalist groups and any other actors like that who create a space for belonging and identity that soothes the void young men feel in their lives,” he said. Belfast was the latest flashpoint, after a video of a brutal knife attack in the north of the city was shared online. Hours later, demonstrations against the attack and immigration descended into public disorder and racially motivated violence, with people forced to leave their homes and cars set alight. For Dunne, the attraction of young men to outbursts of violence is not a new phenomenon. He described the football hooliganism of the 1960s and postcode gang culture which he was surrounded by when he was younger. m the guardian article:
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From the FT: On stage, Dimon, who has had a rocky relationship with Musk in the past, praised him as the “Edison of our time” and let the SpaceX chief lay out the case for backing the rocket maker. Musk described the “self-growing city on the Moon” he hoped to build, while calling Mars, which has almost no atmosphere, a “fixer-upper of a planet” with “a lot of potential”.
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Screenshot from Yahoo Finance: A $190 Billion Conviction Trade It’s important to consider counterarguments when investing in any stock. In the case of Microsoft, one of the more compelling arguments centers around its capital expenditure (CapEx). Microsoft has committed to spending $190 billion in capital expenditure over the coming years to construct the data center infrastructure it believes will underpin the AI economy.
The valuation of Elon Musk’s rockets-to-chatbot group rests on an assumption that its AI division xAI — which made a loss of $6.4bn in 2025 — has a total addressable market of $26.5tn, SpaceX’s IPO prospectus shows. That dwarfs the roughly $2tn total addressable market outlined for the group’s Starlink internet service and space operations.
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Two tweets from Femi: 1. THANK GOD!!! Looks like Yvette Cooper might be finally joining the Shadow Cabinet. It's been like keeping Messi on the bench! 2. Clarification: My initial excitement was based purely on her extremely high competence, and what she's likely to do to the Tories at the dispatch box. Hence the Messi comment. I make no secret of the fact that pre-2015 UK politics holds multiples knowledge gaps for me.
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From the interview in the Observer: If Burnham becomes the MP for Makerfield next month he will challenge the prime minister and is the overwhelming favourite to win a Labour leadership contest. He could be in Downing Street by the summer, running a government based on what he calls “business-friendly socialism”.
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Screenshot from the 2025 tesco annual report: UK & ROI overview: Like-for-like sales for the UK & ROI segment increased by 3.1%. Volume growth was particularly strong in the UK and ROI, with growth in every quarter of the year, and continued market share gains across the year. While Booker delivered a strong performance in core retail and catering, overall like-for-like sales reduced by (1.8)% due to the continued decline in the tobacco market and weakness in some areas of the fast-food market serviced by Best Food Logistics. UK & ROI adjusted operating profit was £3,016m, up 10.3% at constant rates, driven by volume growth and the ongoing delivery of our Save to invest programme, which offset net operating cost inflation, including colleague pay awards. Insurance and Money Services adjusted operating profit, now included within the UK & ROI segment, increased by £86m to £155m, including £46m of non-recurring items, mainly reflecting the accounting for upfront commission income on the signing of a new five-year pet insurance contract. The year-on-year growth excluding these items was driven by strong underlying performance in the insurance business.
Ft headline: Arm guards with pepper spray to stop shoplifters, says UK government adviser Iceland boss Richard Walker is pushing for more protection for retail workers
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From Wikipedia On 20 January 2020, the Public Accounts Committee was informed by the Permanent Secretary for Defence that the first ship will be launched by 2023, but the in-service date will be in 2027.[60] Earlier statements had been for an in-service date would be in 2023.[61] In September 2022, John Howie, chief corporate affairs officer for Babcock International, stated that all five ships would be "delivered" to the Navy by 2028,[62] though other sources[who?] suggested that the actual "in service" date might be somewhat later.[63]
Guardian liveblog: The Culture Secretary said Keir Starmer did “the right thing” by giving a speech this morning. Lisa Nandy told Sky news: “What happens next is most important. Going forwards what you are going to see from this Labour government is a prime minister who will go out and wear his heart on his sleeve, who will show he is prepared to go out and fight any system that stands in the way of making people’s lives better.”
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Guardian headline: senior labour figures tell Starmer to stop making mistakes
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Guardian liveblog: Brent crude falls below $100 a barrel Hope that the Iran war might end soon have now pushed Brent crude below the $100 a barrel mark. The international benchmark is down over 15% since yesterday at $99.78 a barrel, its lowest level in a week. Last night, Brent closed at $118.35 a barrel, before Donald Trump’s claim that the conflict will end in ‘two or three weeks’ sparked today’s relief rally in markets.
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From the FT: Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, told the conference that the confrontation with the Iranian regime could ultimately lead to greater regional stability once a settlement was reached. He said the region had faced a “risk premium” from the threat of infrastructure such as data centres being “blown up”. Witkoff added the war was an example of Trump’s leadership. “We don’t get a lot of traffic through the Strait of Hormuz . . . We are doing this for everybody else,” he said. “It’s curious sometimes to the president when he shows this level of leadership and we don’t get co-operation from everybody because it’s really not our issue it is so far away