Writer & #NUFC tragic. https://xitter.cf/t.co/hGfLP2wcqw. We run campaigns, research & comms around the world for causes we believe in. Now complaining from McLaren Vale SA
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To anybody who helped this to happen, thank YOU from myself and @thecommsman 🙏
... And if you haven't yet (and wld like a good read, while helping send an indigenous aussie to Uni) visit nimblicitybook.com! x
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Andrew Tate: "Reading books is for losers...Books are a total waste of time."
Kanye West: "I am not a fan of books...I am a proud non-reader of books."
Clavicular: "I don't really read books...you could just get the information through summaries and articles."
Alix Earle: “I’ve never read a book. Like, maybe Dr. Seuss."
Don't be like these people.
Pick up a book today.
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Trump’s diesel deal with Putin makes no sense (it’s also immoral since it will fund the ailing Kremlin war machine).
The US has no need of Russian diesel. It already refines more than enough for domestic demand — with 1.5m b/d for export.
Russia has no diesel to export. Ukrainian drones have taken out a third of Russian refining capacity, turning Russia into a net importer of diesel (from India).
The volumes involved are derisory. The initial Russian offer = 2.2m barrels. The US consumes 3.5m b/d.
The price of diesel at the US pump is between $6/6.50. That won’t change before the midterms. The deal does nothing to help Trump in these elections.
But it bolsters Putin and undermines Ukraine.
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Andrew Huberman's trick for falling back asleep at 3am: a pattern of eye movements under closed eyelids that shuts down the proprioceptive circuits in your cerebellum. "It costs nothing and it generally works."
@hubermanlab
youtube.com/watch?v=MGxcosNu…
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The real lessons of the last 40 years, by @Dannythefink thetimes.com/article/f16d520…
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Imagine Chlöe Swarbrick flying to New York as Finance Minister and trying to convince the bond markets that New Zealand is a sensible place to lend money.
Chlöe has made it clear that Finance is the job she wants in a Labour-Green Government.
Our cost of borrowing would be whacked up after about five minutes of Chlöe Swarbrick talking about her Venezuela-style plan to nationalise supermarkets. That's before she gets to her plans to spend an extra $236.7 billion over the next Parliamentary term, or her plans to punish wealth-creators with a wealth tax.
The Greens aren’t shy about what they want. They want a much bigger Government, much more spending, more debt, and more taxes. Chlöe herself says she wants Finance because that’s where the power exists to ‘transform this economy’.
A Swarbrick-led Finance portfolio sure sounds like a circus act, but it's plausible because the direction of travel is the same for Labour and the Greens. The only difference is the Greens want to travel further.
ACT is pushing in the opposite direction: cut the waste and grow the country. Have the courage to find savings so that No New Taxes is both possible and sustainable.
We are campaigning to re-elect the coalition, while also making it go further and faster on the issues that matter – starting with balancing the books.
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Det her bliver en stadigt voksende afsløring af forholdet mellem Trump-familien og Putins oligarker. Det er ulækkert. Følg Anne Applebaum. Hun er troværdig og driftssikker.
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I, personally, look forward to the 220-team World Cup presented by Blackrock, hosted exclusively in the United States every six months and powered by Polymarket.
EXCLUSIVE: Fifa's president Gianni Infantino is planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors under a scheme that could potentially earn him tens of millions of pounds.
Investor discussions held with figures close to the Trump administration, say sources.
thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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“Unfortunately he’d gone feral and we couldn’t re-introduce him into the home. He ended up living with my friend’s parents in Preston.” This is the commentary moment of the World Cup and it will not be beaten. Ever.
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The Starmer government was one of the most left-leaning we’ve had that was almost never identified as such.
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This is what the War on Science is all about. The effort to replace science by ideology in academia, business and government. That is why we wrote the book. Carole and Geoff are both contributors.. It is worth looking at.
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“We’ve reached the point where women are terrified to say what a woman is.”
Jordan Peterson nailed it on Piers Morgan Uncensored while discussing Macy Gray’s comments. She simply stated biological reality, got destroyed for it, and was forced into a groveling apology.
Peterson pointed out that the radical side has rejected reasonable conversation entirely, they see any pushback as domination, not dialogue. He compared purely subjective identity to the mindset of a two-year-old who can’t yet negotiate social reality.
It’s striking how quickly we went from “be kind” to punishing basic biological statements. Real conversation has been replaced by moral enforcement.
When one side refuses to negotiate identity or reality, society loses the ability to have honest discussions about fairness, especially in sports, spaces, and language.
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The mind is a powerful place and what you feed it can affect you in a powerful way
How @tobi got over his fear of public speaking:
“I was terrified of public speaking until I sat down for like a week and every day I spent ten minutes just writing that I like public speaking.”
“ If you tell yourself or write something down 100 times about yourself, that writes it into the prefrontal cortex at such a deep level that your brain will start reconciling you to that.”
“It’s not a placebo. You actively change your prefrontal cortex.”
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Further to Blair. Literally every honest sensible person in all the main parties privately agrees with all these propositions:
- welfare spending is too high and is throwing good people on the scrapheap
- defence spending is too low
- the triple lock is unsustainable
- without cheap energy we cannot exploit the AI revolution
- we should be investing in EVERY form of energy: renewables, nuclear and the North Sea
- migration needs to be controlled to boost social cohesion and because the boats look like a huge failure of the state
- any new relationship with the EU will be imposed on us until we are stronger and cannot involve the closeness some desire without freedom of movement
- we are deeply embedded with America in ways which the public does not understand and cannot be told and however joyous it makes us feel to hate Trump, disengagement at the deep state level is not only wholly unrealistic but also undesirable
- Whitehall needs a total overhaul so specific project expertise and political appointees can be brought in quickly
Blair basically says all that.
The one thing he doesn’t say and which the same group of people agree on is this and it’s something Blair left behind:
- judges and quangos have too much power, are unaccountable and without redressing the balance in favour of parliament it is very difficult to do anything big fast
- the bare minimum that needs to change in this regard is to reform judicial review and planning law so we can put building and economic growth ahead of newts and NIMBYs
None of that above really ought to be up for discussion. It is all common sense but not one of our politicians will publicly say all of it
Whatever you think of Blair, engage with what he’s saying not how he makes you feel. The bare minimum we should expect from any leader is that they have an analysis of the current situation and a plan to deal with it which is as coherent and realistic as his intervention. Pretty well every critique I’ve read so far has failed to meet this requirement.
Over to Andy and Keir and Kemi and Nigel and Zack and all the others
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Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
Facts
It's great that Jeff Bezos thinks this way, because too many people who don't make money think that giving money to the government will solve a lot of their problems. They think these government programs are the answer, and it's clearly not. You can look at the federal level or at the state level, and you will see that a lot of government programs are simply waste.
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Thanks to my friend and co-author @glukianoff for laying out what we actually wrote in The Coddling of the American Mind, and applying it in response to seven arguments made by those who objected to my selection as a commencement speaker:
eternallyradicalidea.com/p/w…
