Great analysis by Chris Clark - the more free your media - the lower the trust in government….
Well - 10 years on from #brexit some 52% now want to rejoin and 33% stay out. (Personal prediction - the 52% will need to be nearer 70% before it happens )
Oh gawd….Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
"The Devil was so tired that he had retired: not into a desert, but into the hearts of men. His presence was no longer necessary, for men had learned to do everything themselves, and better than he could." From Leonardo Sciascia The knight, Death and the Devil
Voodoo polling at work :)
Great piece in @data.ft.com by @tejparikh.ft.com on how unwillingness to compromise by an angry divided electorate leads to instability and stasis
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.