One common feature of Starmer's mistakes as leader is that he doesn't seem to realise a keypart of the job is knowing when to overrule HMT.
(This, winter fuel allowance, employers' NI etc...)
'Algorithmic politics' signals a strong connection to social media and one's own bubble, and suggests the algorithmic politician is driven by all of this in an algorithmic (i.e. unthinking) way.
Yep, it's spot on.
This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes.
It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
'The debate which is being driven almost entirely by the distortions and incentives of algorithmic politics...'
Oh I like that – 'algorithmic politics'. The Right and Badenoch in particular have become marinated in algorithmic politics.
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UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch admits she’ll make Farage PM if Reform come close. In an interview with The Spectator:
“This country cannot have another left-wing government.”
A fascist one is okay though.