Jonathan Boone
@Jon_Boone
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Business intelligence, journalism, Afghanistan, Pakistan.
London, England
Joined January 2009
@DalrympleWill This only makes your recent metamorphosis into the posh man's Edward Said the harder to comprehend.
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The government's Renters' Rights Bill looks like it will be a catastrophe, inadvertently introducing rent controls and reducing the supply of housing even more. It is the clearest evidence that the whole British state that has brought it about is completely broken: • Written
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Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi expressed heartfelt gratitude to the respected scholars and students of Darul Uloom Deoband for their warm and affectionate welcome, calling it a symbol of enduring brotherhood.
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Reports from Kabul today point to a targeted strike said to have targeted a senior TTP figure an event that feels both shocking and symbolic. The timing could hardly be more deliberate: it comes as the Taliban’s foreign minister visits New Delhi, a trip seen as part of
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Hundreds of Afghans who have been relocated to Britain under a multibillion-pound scheme to protect them from the Taliban have returned to Afghanistan for holidays and other trips, an Afghan source has revealed. 1/ https://t.co/QktLcWaJ74
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Prize for anyone who can find an example of the Taliban taking retribution against former Afghan interpreters. Threatening “night letters” and phone calls don’t count.
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What will replace the lost tax receipts derived from labour income in finance and related professional services when AI begins to collapse labour demand? We are not talking about trivial figures here.
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“Today, South Korea and Israel are both developed countries. But at current fertility rates every 100 Israelis can expect 210 grandchildren and the Koreans just 15.”
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“I am inclined to guess that there is roughly a 1 in 3 chance that human wages will crash below subsistence level before 2045.”
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Increasingly powerful AI will trigger pyramid replacement: a systematic hollowing out of corporate structures that starts with entry-level hiring freezes and moves upward through waves of layoffs.
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PUBLICATION DAY for God is an Englishman! "Of making many books there is no end" but at least this one is done and out in the world. I don't know if it contains wisdom more precious than rubies... /1
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Ghibli Memes - Special thanks to @G0ADM for allowing me to use his content → text2img: Midjourney V6.1 → img2vid: @LumaLabsAI Using Ray2 → Edit: @capcutapp → Music: Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars #DreamMachine #Ray2
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Tomorrow's front page: How Vladdy Dare You Russian arrest warrant for Sun man Starkey https://t.co/qecfx6jjvF
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@AaronBastani Hold my beer while I introduce you to the downgrade to end all downgrades that is the Wakefield Corn Exchange…
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Yes, surprising and disappointing silence from Blair and Adonis thus far.
An incredibly powerful and authoritative open letter from Katharine Birbalsingh, the UK's most demonstrably successful Head Teacher, to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. The letter lays bare the dangers of Labour's muddled and deeply counter-productive education bill -
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Good, but not as great as the time in 2013 when the team behind the PIA inflight magazine confused London UK, and London, Ontario…
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Very good. Europe's (inc the UK's) experiment with renewables has been a disaster. People are rapidly realising that such expensive energy isn't tenable. The only question is whether the mainstream acts on this, or (as with immigration) leaves the goal open for the far right.
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