Suella Braverman made a solemn affirmation, while holding he Buddhist Dhammapada text. There was no controversy about this. www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

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Crypto is one. A large personal fortune can certainly be made which can be turned into large political donations and influence policy. Much easier for crypto billionaire X to make donations to UK politicians than large global financial institution Y. Y matters more economically, X gets a voice.

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An interesting political economy problem: the outsized political influence of relatively niche sectors where large personal fortunes can be made.

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Get that these guys think that messaging to the permanent underclass is unimportant. But saying you're building the equivalent of a planned natural disaster & scolding people to stock up because you won't stop building it. Man. They better hope they're right about the chaos or it'll be pitchfork szn

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New post: "Drowning in slop" Large parts of the state are being increasingly overwhelmed with complaints, appeals, objections.... written by AI. It's gumming up every process. Britain is particularly vulnerable. How bad has it got and what can we do about it? samf.substack.com/p/drowning-i...

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