Matt Gallagher

Comms and reporting @BylineTimes

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[Curtis Daly @CurtisDaly_]

He literally is. He bought the US election and he's gonna do the same here.

Voters should decide our election, not some foreign billionaire loser

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

@steverichards14 In the world created by Tony Blair radical has two meanings. For white politicians, radical means that you support the market at the expense of civil society. If you are a brown politician it means that you are a dangerous subversive who should be banned from the public square.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

1/ Tony Blair's new essay wants Britain to drill the North Sea, bet everything on AI, and tie itself to Trump's America.
Each one is a bet against the actual future - and the Blair never notices. It's a Victorian answer to a 21st-century crisis 🧵https://t.co/vy1Zp0ujJJ

[KPMG dad @jenuflexion]

Anyone pushing this notion that a fairly wealthy western european nation is 'ungovernable' is doing so because they got what they wanted and turns out everyone hates it.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🟥 Byline Times #86 – A Warning from a Republican: 'There's Still Time to Stop Your Trump'

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[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

Please do.

If it's "accepted multimillion bung from dodgy expat billionaire" we'll know who it is.

If it's "Did shady deal with neo-Fascist techbro" we'll know who it is.

If it's "Claimed he raised £1000 for a cancer charity but only raised £972" we'll know who that is too.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MARCO RUBIO: “The goal of the war in Iran is now to return it to how it was before Trump started the war.”

Unreal.

[NJ @NoJusticeMTG]

It is funny now everyone calling on sir Keith to resign all mention how grateful they are that he 'changed the party' which is indicative of how they don't get why they lost

[nass @nasscrave]

uk: do you think women have penises? are migrants human?

china: *builds 500km of high speed rail*

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

How informed are Reform UK's new hopefuls about their own party?

@scatatkins set up a fake channel, 'Patriot News UK,' and engaged in some mild subterfuge to find out.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 Reform UK’s Basildon Leader Accused of Bullying After Filming Council Staff and Residents With Meta-Style Smart Glasses

EXCLUSIVE: Cllr Sam Journet, who is leading Reform's bid to take two Essex councils, was arrested last year following multiple complaints about him filming in private areas

https://t.co/GV3bKKobZO

[The Finance Guy @OneFinanceGuy]

Jenrick and Reform couldn't have been a better fit! His donor pled guilty of wire fraud - lawsuit mentions $35m. So that's financial AND electoral crimes.
Ps: Farage's friend/donor/aide George Cottrell also pled guilty to wire fraud in US in 2016, funny that.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

James Orr is a Cambridge academic and head of policy at Reform UK – a party polling at levels that could bring it close to power.

Speaking to Charlie Kirk before his death, Orr set out a worldview that deserves far more scrutiny.

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https://t.co/gPekJ9clmL

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

Palantir vient de publier son manifeste. Lisez-le.

Pas pour ce qu'il dit sur la tech. Pour ce qu'il dit sur le politique. Sur l'idéologie de Karp et Thiel. Sur la guerre. Sur vous.

Quand une entreprise privée se donne pour mission de définir qui doit être surveillé, ciblé, prédit, neutralisé, et qu'elle publie simultanément un texte expliquant pourquoi contester cela serait de la faiblesse civilisationnelle, on n'est plus dans la stratégie d'entreprise. On est dans la privatisation du souverain. Le droit de décider de l'ennemi, qui fut toujours le geste politique fondateur des États, est en train d'être racheté par une entreprise cotée au Nasdaq.

Ce manifeste repose sur un seul tour de passe-passe, répété sous vingt formes différentes : rendre l'inévitable ce qui est en réalité un choix. Les armes à IA ? Elles seront construites de toute façon, alors autant que ce soit nous.

La surveillance algorithmique ? La réalité géopolitique l'exige.

Le réarmement de l'Occident, la hiérarchie des cultures, la disqualification du pluralisme comme naïveté dangereuse ? Simple lucidité face au monde tel qu'il est.

C'est le geste idéologique par excellence : ne pas interdire la question, mais la rendre indécente.

Ce que Palantir appelle réalisme est en fait une décision philosophique radicale : le conflit est la vérité permanente du monde, la délibération démocratique est une fragilité que l'adversaire exploitera, et une élite technologique privée est mieux placée qu'un peuple pour tirer les conséquences de cette vérité.
C'est du schmittisme en hoodie. C'est littéralement la structure de leur pensée.

Le danger n'est pas qu'ils soient fous. Le danger est qu'ils soient riches, cohérents, et déjà à l'intérieur des États. Palantir ne frappe pas à la porte des gouvernements pour vendre un outil. Elle arrive avec une cosmologie complète : voici comment fonctionne le monde, voici vos ennemis, voici pourquoi vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de débattre, et voici notre contrat.

Palantir est l'ennemie des peuples et de la démocratie. Ce qu'ils construisent, c'est un pouvoir technocratique que personne n'a élu et que personne ne pourra destituer.

[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

🔴 Economists Slam Reform UK’s ‘Fantasy’ Claims That ‘Boriswave’ Migrants Will Cost Households £20,000

“Reform have simply invented their own numbers..." say experts

https://t.co/gxfPdCs4Mj

[Matt Gallagher @mattquiston]

@British_Airways any word on this Milika? Just getting your chat bot so far

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

@TadhgHickey Wow. It just “landed” near me purely by chance. Not a targeted attack that nearly killed me. I mean this is shite even by BBC standards.

[Richard Seymour @leninology]

Reform fucked up. Common sense should have told them not to back this war. They instead were vociferous, unconditional and instantaneous in rallying behind Trump, and demanding others do so. They deserve the political price they're going to pay.

[Matt Gallagher @mattquiston]

@benhabib6 @_AdvanceUK