James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@mr_james_c
Grumpy Optimist | Marketer | Capitalist
Apple's new "Crush" ad (let's call it "2024") is a visual & metaphorical bookend to the 1984 ad. 1984: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human 2024: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
I’ve done a bit of digging on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation situation. I still don’t like the plan, and still think continued operations in Gaza are doing more harm than good. Still, that’s just my opinion. Let’s try and unpack the nonsense and get to something that looks…
I very reluctantly agree with this reluctant case for ID cards. The privacy ship has long sailed. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Three Epping residents. All of them thoughtful and articulate. Plainly not 'far right'. When folk such as this, in a usually sedate English market town, are getting angry, trouble is brewing.
On what other countries think of us. Not so good.
Commentary: London’s worsening disorder — from soaring petty crime to reckless delivery riders and rising drug use — reflects a decades-old pattern of authorities and citizens normalizing lawlessness. ebx.sh/OnECSv
One of the deep ironies of the UK tax system is that the people who always demand the wealthy pay more are substantially undertaxed by OECD standards. The UK has built a system of taxes where the top 10% pays 60% of all taxes, but the middle earners who substantially benefit…
Or just be more progressive with tax. Seems to work for Scandinavia...
Hamas is holding up the ceasefire over who controls food aid. They’re demanding GHF be removed and the @UN put back in charge. Why? Because control of aid means control of Gaza. With the UN in charge, Hamas steals, taxes, resells, and stays in power. And don’t forget: UNRWA…
Gaza cease-fire negotiations are stuck over who distributes humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip once a deal goes into effect on.wsj.com/45f1wGe
It appears Angela Rayner's success in politics is based on talking over the top of anyone who disagrees with her bland generalities and emotional appeals. No wonder she's successful in Labour.
OUCH‼️Throwback to when @afneil completely destroyed Angela Rayner over her tax lies 😂 @AngelaRayner @UKLabour @Keir_Starmer
Western Liberals desperately need to develop a theory of mind that encompasses the barbarity of Islamism. The current combination of naivety, ignorance & arrogance displayed by liberal media, academics & politicians kills far more people than it proports to save.
This statement just made a hostage ransom and ceasefire LESS likely and prolonged the war. Hamas is refusing to accept the mediation proposal. Diplomatic pressure on Israel encourages it to dig its heels in. We will all pay for this grandstanding. gov.uk/government/new…
Usually when I see someone saying something awful is capitalism they are describing something that 1) is genuinely awful 2) is a consequence of material scarcity and 3) has gotten much much less bad under capitalism
Papers today jammed with stories showing the beginning of the end of the age of entitlement. And the return of a focus on needs over wants.
The UN ignores Hamas whenever it can. To hear their account of the war, this hasn’t been two sides fighting: it’s all been Israel. EXCEPT when it comes to aid, and the UN needs the excuse of maintaining neutrality with the terror group Hamas to avoid working with Israel.
⬇️ Proof that the @UN has aid inside Gaza, but it’s still sitting out of reach of Palestinians in desperate need. From day one, we’ve extended our hand to the UN and other international bodies to help deliver their aid safely to the people of Gaza. But every day that they…
🎥 WATCH: 950 trucks worth of aid, currently waiting in Gaza❗️for international organizations to pick up and distribute to Gazan civilians. This is after Israel facilitated the aid entry into Gaza.
That video of seven Druze men marched into the street, forced to kneel, and executed to cries of “Allahu Akbar”. That’s a genocide. But nobody cares.
Ah yes, there it is, "fair share". Entirely subjective and always used by those who feel entitled to more of what is yours.
Funny how "fair share" is always demanded by the people taking it. I also understand the meaning of the term is entirely subjective. Actually the way our tax system works you do pay a larger percentage of your earnings in tax the more you earn. Seriously.
Can’t make this crap up…
An actual medical doctor is saying out loud, in front of a judge, that someone’s sex is decided by the people who deliver the baby and that she is not an expert. Oh. My. God. 🤡 🤡 🤡