Borners @borners.bsky.social · 7hSeriously Burnham did barely more than Starmer/Reeves. Fundamentally the UK's state ideology requires that the UK be given unique special treatment without reciprocity. It cannot be an EU member state again until it gives up that Great Powerist. And Burnham is GREAT BRITISH nativist. 110
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 7hOf course from the point of view of the UK state nobody is English. Your identity in UK public documents in "the country" is your race + British (unless you are Irish which is one of those weird coincidences). Gee I wonder why people get ideas. 000
Reposted by BornersStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7hWhat's the most disappointed you've been by the different between your recall of a quotation and the actual reality of it? Just discovered that Macmillan did not say "only dying civilisations cling to their past" but instead "an obsession with such buildings will drain our national vitality." 9443
Reposted by BornersJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 11hThe first major privatisation the Heath Government did was of Thomas Cook, in 1972. 1374
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 13hOne of things watching these China economics is you see that Xi is just as cowardly about doing hard things as most of his democratic counterparts. Genocides are easy, property taxes are hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdLP...youtube.comChina's Economy is Broken | Logan WrightYouTube video by ChinaTalk 340
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 13hThis is entirely wrong way to do consensus building, its asking other actors to take the heat without gain. He'll just find they say no, and then blame them, say it proves PR is bad, and fail to do anything Consensus requires compromises that make others eat shit with you. 000
Reposted by BornersMatthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are three million American households with net worth above $5 million derived primarily from ownership of privately held companies, and they collectively account for much more wealth than the Forbes 400. www.slowboring.com/p/the-truth-... 64210
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good mention of 1885 as the real introduction of FPTP (evil American import). 010
Reposted by BornersSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's quite hard for Americans to understand that our instinct with anything other than genuinely tragic stories is to take the piss. 1262144
Reposted by BornersMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Polanski’s “tax the rich” is the same as Badenoch’s “cut benefits”, a one-size-fits-all funding source that appeals to their prejudice but would never generate anything like the money they claim, and prevents them ever having to engage with serious politics 1319836
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I mean its also like how lots of centre-left wanting the 1950's back. With the UK Labour party the most extreme version, since at least other parties want the 1960's back. Labour wants 1945, the only time it has one an election on terms its ideology said it was supposed to. 100
Reposted by BornersAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A few years ago, a person in France attacked a Jew while yelling "Allahu Abkar." This was widely reported in the press. It shortly thereafter turned out he was a white French person yelling that as a false flag attack. Interest in the attack subsequently died down. 0214
Reposted by BornersSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sorry kids no social care for you... 1112013
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/20261. Burnham will likely be gone before the next election, and Labour sufficiently scared of total annihilation they might actually do it. 2. Everybody is forgetting that Tony Blair did all this too. 3. Next election is code for never. As "other parties". 200
Reposted by BornersRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“I will tell you things no leader has been brave enough to say before…” “Thatcher was bad, 1945 govt was good, Tories are bad.” (*wild applause*) 616424
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Its rather telling that, "have a pint" is used as the standard. Even though pub's role in "British" society has continued to shrink and shrink. Its weird nexus of snobbery (workingmen have pints), gender (bloke culture), xenophobia (only pint drinkers are British). 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The degraded legitimacy of Parliament and the UK state in general means that you have to cling to what bits of democratic input you have. This is why Brexit's mandate was and still is so overwhelming everything else in the state. FPTP doom loop. 001
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ideology of state is "London doesn't do manufacturing" because to admit otherwise is admit UK "deindustrialisation" is because the North successfully deindustrialised the South through land-tax arbitrage. Also Southern industrial working class is low status due to lacking property and race. 000
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For clear reasons, without the "Special Relationship" the UK loses a key pillar of state's reason to exist. Its special versus other Europeans. That's what it means. The UK was founded in 1922 on terms in part informed by US Irish Lobby. And opponents (Corbyn) are committed to it in their hate. 110
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not that unusual if you know things about Erdogan or Modi's ways of doing things. Huffing and puffing, and then caving because they are used to easy enemies or can't eat costs. Additionally Trump is just too erratic, his coalition to diffuse to actually stabilise a radical foreign policy. 010
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Guardian is a reactionary Hard Right Newspaper adjusted for land policies. Aesthetics over people. 010
Reposted by BornersSam @samd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“free transit is likely the best investment a city can make dollar for dollar” and yet no major city on earth has adopted it curious! 1723214
Reposted by BornersJack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology". 3496297
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I mean Newham has built more housing than almost anyone else in the UK over last generation. And they went bankrupt. Lesson is don't build. 110
Reposted by BornersMurky Depths @murkydepths.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Potential site of a future DLR station planned for many years. On the Woolwich branch near Canning Town. Plans just submitted for 1,500 homes will assist in funding it if they progress. Prior plan in 2019 for 6,000 homes across acres of vacant land never went anywhere. 371
Reposted by BornersSimon Jeffrey @simonjeffrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026British soft power: Channel 5 hires Michael Palin for a 3-part series on the Philippines. Takes in a tour of the presidential palace that ends up hosted by the current President, Bong Bong Marcos who does it on condition of asking one question: ‘what inspired the Python fish slapping dance??’ 031
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is the proposed devolution deal for Leicestershire, which has long been one the classic gerrymanders of county vs county town. This is racial and social segregation for no other reason that the Labour's party's partisan interest. 110
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026JR East's 2026 Factbook is now being a bit more honest about comparisons, including India and China, its doing rather well either way. www.jreast.co.jp/company/ir/l... 010
Reposted by BornersPride Ott 🦦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @hikoukihikouki9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026it is funny that "working class men are struggling economically" is met with "perfectly recreate the economy of 1966" and not "encourage a multifamily housing construction boom" 315519
Reposted by BornersDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread: 6495225
Reposted by BornersAnton Howes @antonhowes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026NEW article by me, on a multi-national invention-promoting syndicate of the 1560s. Involving a great deal of high-political intrigue along the way! www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...ageofinvention.xyzAge of Invention: Salt Syndicate, Part IThe story of one of the most important inventions of the sixteenth century that nobody has ever heard of, and the multi-national syndicate that promoted it 072
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026People say this but. 1. Western support for Ukraine is orders of magnitude bigger than peak Afghan support. We are material parties to deaths of 100,000 of Russians and direct attacks on the Russian homeland. 2. These Russians action aren't especially effective. 040
Reposted by BornersCameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026talking about water use policy is impossible because "AI data centers use a lot of water to cool the computers" sounds way more believable than "they're draining the Great Salt Lake so the Governor of Utah can sell alfalfa to Saudi Arabia" and yet 8895167
Reposted by BornersTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Confusing cabinet appointments, ranked: 1) Nandy - Visibly disinterested, openly insubordinate, and a vital role. 2) Healey - When you thought the main issue with Rachel Reeves was her haircut. 3) Bryant - Consistent bungler, very little experience in either NI or Home, also not willing to learn. 1214415
Reposted by BornersJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them. 724745
Reposted by BornersJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026Charlie Brown's relationship with his hoes is the closest of any on earth. 3604
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The PM can't make the choice he has no legitimacy. If he wants closer relationship but avoid "betraying Brexit" he could just do a multi-choice referendum and force the Great British Public to eat the trade-offs between Rejain, SM membership or joining Russia in their war against the decadent EU 000
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.youtube.com/shorts/KmLX8... 010
Reposted by BornersGiles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In mid 2015 I wrote a piece for the FT Lex column describing how the only business sector that often reacted significantly to Budget-day announcements was house building. And look at today's action. IMHO this is good news and is related to forecasts of activity as much as margin... 173
Reposted by BornersNoble Francis @noblefrancis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Just note that for all the initial noise, public relations & share price rises, 'Your First Home' (i.e. Help to Buy revisited) won't have anywhere near the impact that the initial 'Help to Buy' did (1/n) #ukhousing #ukconstruction 234
Reposted by BornersChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/20261/ Ukraine has taken a reported 250 Russian prisoners and claims to have killed 2,000 more Russians in its ongoing Operation Vivaldi near Lyman. A Russian warblogger says that Ukraine has overturned Russian assumptions about its capabilities. ⬇️ 6493106
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The UK isn't an especially homeownership oriented society. Its Germany and co who are weird. UK is also one less than 10 societies in the world where social housing exceeds 10% of total stock. 262
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The revealed preference of Outer Britain is for higher property prices and low property taxation, not "reindustrialisation". 100
Borners @borners.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Another slow pinprick. Kumamoto trams are moving towards proof of payments in order to speed up service. Japan's a laggard, but the quality of the discussion there far exceeds the UK discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzo...youtube.com全扉からの乗降で混雑緩和へ 熊本市の路面電車が「信用乗車方式」導入へ 「ワンマン運行」拡大も 2031年度目指すYouTube video by RKK NEWS DIG 030
Reposted by Bornerscones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i have been informed that this is NOT ai slop and is in fact drawn by someone from east and south east asians for labour so that’s something at least. and you know what let them cook. kind of a fan of the rayner one 411219
Reposted by Bornerscones @coneshotline.bsky.social · 27/09/2026WHY IS THERE A CHIBI ANIME ANDY BURNHAM 31599117
Reposted by BornersDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are, of course, not to materially advance the EU relationship but most of this seems worryingly clueless. www.politico.eu/article/eu-u...politico.euEU rejoin push risks causing uncertainty, warns business secretaryJonathan Reynolds said the focus should be on improving Britain’s trading relationship with Brussels. 4172