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This is just so, so, so bleak.
The development of big chunks of Burnham's much vaunted Ten Year Plan have been outsourced to the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world's three biggest management consultancies.
Most recently, BCG was revealed to be a contractor in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation - the wretched private organisation that was created to deliver aid to Gaza after the destruction of UNWRA. You may remember the scenes of starving Gazans flooding into gated pens to get food, with civilians repeatedly sniped by the IDF. BCG were paid $1m/ month for their consulting work.
BCG also received $4m for Project Aurora - a plan for a reconstruction plan for Gaza. The plan included costing giving Gazans $9000 to leave the territory.
How is the government even considering contracting BCG considering this?
But BCG also partners with the world's biggest private equity firms. It is a massive, massive AI booster. It closely advises MBS in Saudi Arabia on its economic plans.
It is, in other words, precisely the sort of late-capitalist horror show that should have no role in helping a nominally socialist Party develop a 10-year development plan.
There is already so much worrying briefing on this plan, about how half-baked and thin it threatens to be. Now we know big parts are being outsourced to BCG, the more pressing concern is that it'll be some Tony Blair Institute-style neo-liberal spiel about the potential of tech and the need to liberate the market.
Interesting that parts of the 10 year plan are being outsourced to Boston Consulting Group, where James Purnell used to work.
Story by @KatieTarrant_
thetimes.com/article/8a202a0…
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Britain is like this because our media culture is uniquely and remarkably diseased. There’s nothing wrong with us that could not be cured immediately by firing 80% of these horrible, awful people and replacing them with new hires straight out of education.
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Britain’s treatment of transgender people is internationally extraordinary - other countries do not behave like this, because their media/political class is not the same kind of tiny clique of horrible wankers who all went to the same university together.
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Simply had to make a banter edit 🤌
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This is so strong and clear.
You can't help but notice that if this was in the UK context - you wouldn't be able to get a single one of these sentences out without a journalist barracking the person saying it constantly.
The UK media is in quite a state.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
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Our case was interrupted over 100 times. The government was not interrupted once.
I didn't hold high hopes for the British 'justice' system, but I did expect to at least have our case heard.
No matter what, we will keep fighting for actual justice to prevail.
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White English earnestly confused to discover that anal rape is a crime. These people are allowed to vote. They can drive cars.
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The fascinating thing about Effective Altruism guys is that they have created an entire cult around the idea of maximising the effectiveness of good deeds and they are perhaps the worst people in the world at judging this.
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The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing.
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-…
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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what a piece of shit lol
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The excerpt is from Dario Amodei's 2010 GiveWell guest post as a Princeton physics grad student; he donated the $10k to VillageReach (child vaccines) and described the critical analysis as emotionally taxing.
blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/my-…
nytimes.com/2026/11/05/tec…
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So odd how we're not calling years of below-inflation pay rises "quiet paycutting"
'Quiet quitting' could be hitting the economy - here's why bbc.in/4ijTORZ
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The Labour Government are arming a genocide.
And arresting those who do their moral duty to protest it.
Even when they eventually reverse it - it should be a huge shame and stain on them forever.
"You didn't join the police force to do this, did you?"
On the eve of the Supreme Court hearing on the Palestine Action ban, a 94-year-old barrister tells @ShehabKhan why she got arrested, and the words that made her arresting officer cry.
Watch the full interview 👇
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Labour just delivered the least eco-friendly budget in decades by approving new oil and gas fields while slashing billions from incentive schemes to install solar panels, heat pumps, and insulation.
They're also promising huge welfare cuts for the poorest people in this country.
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The guys who did this in the UK got Lordships and are regularly invited on TV to talk about arresting their political enemies.
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interesting theory, theres actually a whole book about this if you want to read more on it, read "Dune" by Frank Herbert
One of the coolest theories I’ve come across is that Paul Atreides was never truly the Kwisatz Haderach the Bene Gesserit intended—he was a rogue variant who forced the path open too early, and the real one (or the one who could have walked the Golden Path without becoming a tyrant) was always meant to emerge much later. The idea is that his prescience locked the universe into a narrower, more violent timeline, which is why Leto II had to take the extreme measures he did to force humanity off that track.
It also ties into the theory that the sandworms themselves are a kind of living archive of ancestral memory—each worm carrying fragments of the consciousness of every Fremen and every previous God Emperor who was absorbed into the spice cycle. So when someone takes the Water of Life, they’re not just accessing their own genetic memory; they’re briefly plugging into a planetary-scale consciousness that has been evolving for millennia. Makes the whole ecosystem feel even more alien and deliberate.
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This is literally just the plot of Dune.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(nov…