But worst of all it wishes to eliminate all human judgement and our capacity to make morally meaningful decisions. As if technical mastery over a machine can replace the very substance of what it means to be a morally and politically responsible human being. Such a bleak view

I fundamentally do not understand this view of politics or human life. There is no morality in it other than mindless procedure, no ultimate ends or purpose in life other than increasing some arbitrary technical economic metrics, no conception of the human virtues or higher ends

Hutton is pure distilled essence of the liberal-legalist-rationalist mindset that has basically destroyed our political & social common life. All problems in his head are technical ones that can be fixed by passing laws or making managerial adjustments. Such an impoverished view

If the only thing stopping elites hanging out with paedophile sex traffickers & passing on secret info to enrich predatory financiers is supposed to be rigid adherence to a 'Code of Conduct' or suchlike, then a moral rot has set in which isn't going to be sorted out by more paper

I don't think that the 17th attempt to legislate basic morality among our political class by producing more standards regulations and guidelines is going to be any more successful than the first 16. Just putting it out there

@UnityNewsNet The lawyer who ignored the file full of evidence against Cyril Smith is named in this book. Spoiler alert, it’s Keir Starmer.

Right, so someone the hacks accuse of being a Russian spy needed help to get a visa to enter the country he was spying for. Please stop this. You're making the whole country look stupid.

Epstein's closest friend and partner was Israel's former Prime Minister. When he was charged with crimes in 2007, he went to Israel (where he'd have found refuge). @DropSiteNews has documented endless high-level work for Israel. But in the UK, Epstein is a spy for ... RUSSIA.

Jeffrey Epstein: Brokered a negotiation between Jamie Dimon & Netanyahu. Ehud Barak, former Israeli PM, met him once a month. Dershowitz says the guy was security services. Life partner with daughter of Robert Maxwell. Owns a Golani Brigade jersey. Media: Russia?

Some economists are cottoning on to what we @URealists have been banging on about for decades - mainstream economic models are simply descriptions of the dynamics "still largely framed and interpreted within the core ‘axiomatic’ assumptions of individualism, instrumentalism and

Boring old me about 'money-market power' again. The City of London is the global hub of the official FX market. The spearhead of the Western sanctions against Iran was the exclusion of the rial from this market, forcing it into unofficial shadow-markets, which eroded its value.

Oil is not enough to explain Donald Trump's attack on Venezuela. His actions are guided by larger geopolitical ambitions, demonstrating the US will no longer be bound — even superficially — by international law or norms: https://t.co/ONH8reyeCz

Can't be overstated how pathetic it is to have your ultimate colonial fantasy just be a strip mall

Some view all supporters of Reform and MAGA as irredeemable racists and fascists. Some will be. But I believe most are ordinary, humble people who want a basic moral order centred on shared values of honesty and decency. Leaders of the new right don’t share those values with you

This is not to suggest the left are morally pure. They are equally capable of dishonesty, vindictiveness, and cruelty. But the leaders of the new right are showing themselves to be utterly soulless, disinterested in honesty, reality, and honourable conduct.

To those who became repulsed by the liberal left on both sides of the Atlantic, and have in recent years been attracted to the populist right: I understand. I also I implore you to look now at who you’re aligned with. Really look. They are without a shred of morality or decency.

They shot her in the face as masked men shouted contradictory orders at her. She died amongst the stuffed toys of her children. Now they burn her name and memory in the pyre of their lies by framing her as a trained domestic terrorist. This is what they will do to any of us.

Guileless honesty from Walsh. In my work I call this 'special liberty', a standard operationalised ultra-realist concept. Its roots are in monotheism and it's reproduced by the psychology of narcissistic individualism and the culture of ethnic supremacy.

“International law is gay”…@culturalcrim was onto something about infantilisation and politics. A grown man who seemingly wants to be taken seriously on the topic of geopolitics & international law, pontificates in a way that makes him sound like American high schooler from 90s

This is about China, and the new multipolar world order. Venezuela selling oil in ¥, rather than $ by default is a massive threat, particularly as more of the world uses CIPS, more nations seek to join BRICS, and tariffs failing to bring China to heel because it’s not 1980s Japan