Alex Kelly

@Sargon_of_Akkad @_DHOTYA

This is another lie. The opposite is being found: overwhelming support, to the point where we are having trouble believing our own reports on the ground.

@lukerobertblack @McPhew @Conservatives Yep. A party of London now and that’s about it. Decimated everywhere else.

Tory gains in Battersea, Putney, Brent West, Hendon, Enfield North, K&B, C&F, Chipping Barnet, Two Cities and more. Labour has dominated London politics since the Thatcher era. For decades the @Conservatives have struggled to make inroads. Yet that era is coming to an end.

@LoftusSteve @HCH_Hill ‘Kemi has momentum’ is a funny take. She’s taken the party to a place where it effectively no longer exists outside London and some holdouts in the south east. Some bounce.

@HCH_Hill Tory voters and members do. Kemi has momentum, a reshuffle would be jamming a stick in her spokes.

Disagree. The public don't like reshuffles. They suggest you were wrong with your original choices and it wastes expertise built up by the incumbent.

@alexwickham Quality SW1 journalism all round this. Spinning Downing Street’s spin that actually the result was just a bit disappointing. Nothing to see here.

Looks like Labour will end up with just north of 1,400 losses. That is a damning verdict from voters. But by the experts’ metrics it falls somewhere around the ‘bad’ and ‘disappointing’ zone rather than ‘terrible.’ Makes it harder to get rid of Starmer immediately.

I debated Demis at length on his reasons for staying in UK. The London talent pool story isn't totally convincing--key early hires (Vlad Mnih, Koray K, Daan Wierstra, and several others) relocated from other countries to move to DeepMind. The real reason for Demis's staying in London is that, emotionally, he is a British patriot. See my new book, THE INFINITY MACHINE. amazon.com/Infinity-Machi…

How is that one? @jimmy9 🔥🔥🔥 🌹 #RedRoseTogether

- Put tens of billions in wind and solar costs onto energy bills - Prohibit fracking and drilling for North Sea oil & gas - Impose a carbon tax 50% higher than California’s and 6x higher than China’s - Borrow billions of pounds to pay for a “cost of living bailout”

SF who?

incredibly bullish on the future of tech + AI in London. just to name a few: • OpenAI just announced (last week) that London will become its largest research hub outside San Francisco • Anthropic kicked off a 100+ person hiring spree across London and Dublin in 2025 • xAI set up shop in London in early 2025, based in X's former Piccadilly office, led by former DeepMind researcher Toby Pohlen • Microsoft hired 24+ researchers from Google DeepMind for its London AI hub • Google DeepMind announced its first automated research lab in the UK (opening 2026), focused on discovering new materials using AI and robotics • Perplexity committed £80M to expand London offices • Groq is opening its first UK data centre in London • Cursor chose London as its European HQ

The Falklands War was one of the most remarkable military achievements of all times and an extraordinary embodiment of what used to be understood as the British character. Calm under pressure, stubborn courage, quiet professionalism, understatement in the face of danger, and an almost unbelievable tenacity. The entire campaign looked like something out of an earlier century. British troops landed under relentless air attack while ships around them were being hit and sunk. In places like Ajax Bay, a roofless, rusting shed became a field hospital, where surgeons performed amputations while bombs were falling around them. Soldiers marched seventy miles across freezing mud and sleet carrying full gear. They fought Argentine units dug into ridgelines and hilltops, the most difficult kind of assault imaginable, and in many cases closed the distance with bayonets like something from another age. And yet once the war was over, it seemed to just totally vanish from the national imagination. No great film was made about it and no lasting cultural memory was built around it. It is almost as if the new Britain became embarrassed by the kind of courage and resolve that the war had required. This transformation is perfectly embodied by Keir Starmer.

@TheNewsAgents @jonsopel @maitlis Funny that you’re still exemplifying the problem. Westminster journos who can’t get enough of Peter Mandelson’s gossip and spin. Stop cosying up to peado lovers just because he is in your club. Ignore him.

“I think what you’ve just read out there Emily is utterly jaw-dropping”, says @jonsopel @maitlis reads out a text a fellow journalist received from Peter Mandelson following his arrest and subsequent release on bail.

We are in London, and London is just insane. All I can say. SF better watch out ;)

@HCH_Hill @CoKeynesian Random MP: Does the Minister agree with me that Generic Bakery in Generic Town is the best bakery and will the Minister commit to doing more to help bakeries Minister: I agree with my honourable colleague who is a fantastic champion for bakeries and I love bakeries as well

@CoKeynesian Slowly but surely, more people are coming round to this wisdom.

"Just as a decade or so ago, the left convinced itself that Twitter was Britain, only for 14 years of Tory rule and Brexit to ensue, now Very Online rightists with more mobile data than sense are making the same mistake on X." Yup.

@PositivFuturist @_DHOTYA

Everywhere I look.. Groupchats: All talking about Restore X: Restore Instagram: Restore YouTube: Restore Texts with my dad: Restore

My sense is that many on the Right are now making the same sort of mistake as the Left did in the pre-Musk Twitter days: they are being radicalised by groupthink on here and mistaking their timeline for public opinion. Such a phenomenon can apply both ways.

@PositivFuturist @_DHOTYA

Ladies and gentlemen.. I present to you.. my barely online football watching boomer dad;

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RIP Reform.

This is so inept from Reeves. This week alone both Merz and Costa have come out and said they they want major regulatory reform at the European level. Instead of using that to both our *and their* advantage, she unilaterally disarms before negotiations even start.