Incredibly corrupting role he has now attained: his business is built on being βin the knowβ so he can influence people - and he is trading that influence (which govt craves) for insider status (which he needs to be in the know).
"I had a list of seven or eight things that I suggested to the Chancellor and I've been pretty gobsmacked that five of them were in the budget."
Martin Lewis, Founder of Money Saving Expert, reacts to Chancellor John Healey's first budget.
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Martin Lewis has just clamped my car and demanded Β£250 "for UK black people". @metpoliceuk #Budget2026
Tory MP texts: deckchairs, Titanic, re-arranging. I slink out the building. The Red Lion is emptier than usual; the few whoβve made the daring escape sit with eyes glued to their phones. Rather ominously thereβs a problem with one of the handpumpsβ¦
When I'm bored and run out of xeet ideas I'll go to VB Knives page because you know without doubt that he's posted something worth ridiculing in the past 24 hours.
AI probably forces the hand of pro-migration politicians into significant restrictionism, at least in the short term. MSFT news yesterday is the latest example of this, you can't have hundreds of thousands arriving as the largest unemployment event in history is occurring.
Conversely, if you come out the other side with Amodei Abundance the anti-camp need to plan for that because a lot of the current winning arguments, Facts & Logic etc, will no longer hold. It becomes a civilizational question again.
"They're calling me a squirrel on the internet again, son."
"Sorry to hear that dad. Weekend plans?"
"Lets grow our stash of peanuts. A trip to various local supermarkets. We can bury them around the kitchen, the garden if we must, other people's driveways."
Joking about the IEA: crackpot
An annual family trip to Tesco to get hobnobs in case the sensibles turn off civilization for good: not crackpot




















