James Gillespie
Technology, geopolitics, films / affil. @adamsmith.org @rusi.bsky.social / ex HM Treasury policy wonk / Swiftie
"Liberal cultist"/"MAGA intelligentsia"
"Smug provocateur drunk on his own arguments"
- I’m outraged that Coachella invited Kneecap to perform this year. Their music is fucken shite.
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- People were like "meh meh meh, only idiots buy Hawk Tuah coin - I'm smart and invest in the stock market" and now look
- Tell me you don't understand what an administrative stay is without telling me
- X raised equity earlier this month at a $32bn valuation, so clearly the market is a lot closer to what xAI has paid than the "$6 billion at most"
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- This Trump/Vance-Zelensky press conference is a new low for the Trump administration. It'll play well with MAGA, but the majority of Americans (including Republican voters) support Ukraine. People will watch and cringe at how their president and VP are behaving on the world stage.
- I don't really follow the NFL, so perhaps someone can enlighten me... if Philly win today do they actually get a superb owl? Will it get along with their eagle? I'll see myself out... 🏈🦉🦅
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Democrats, of course, have made no such suggestion about the current Supreme Court and have accepted its judgments with equanimity and grace 🫠🫠🫠
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- A take to get both sides raging: US aid spending should remain at the current level (0.9% of GDP), but USAID should be brought under the State Department (as the Trump admin is reportedly considering). Aid should be more carefully aligned to geopolitical objectives.
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- The influence of Curtis Yarvin is vastly overstated. Talking about him like he's some MAGA guru makes for a nice NYT "democracy is imperilled" piece, but I don't think you can find a single GOP policy that he's inspired.
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Was wondering what had happened to YK-ATA (which was rumoured to have crashed whilst carrying Assad, before he was revealed to be in Russia). Well, it seems that the plane ended up at Russia's Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Assad has since confirmed that he left the country via this base.
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- 1450 is the 97th percentile. That's comfortably in UCLA territory, especially as an in state applicant.
- Lmao, Dunt blocked me for this
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Badenoch's main weakness has always been her judgment. In particular, she picks the wrong fights. She often seems more interested in winning individual arguments, even ones that don't really matter, than winning an election.
- The post wasn't exactly in the Xmas spirit, but are we seriously saying that if you aren't put up in a hotel and don't get your sheets laundered daily then you're not being treated like a human being? The social contract is broken when illegal immigrants get better support than Americans in need.
- Truly unprecedented levels of cope
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- They should make a modern day Scrooge, but in this version he'll be a vegan, card-carrying member of the Green Party and at the end he'll repent by buying a Porsche and adopting the carnivore diet
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Since I’ve been away, Nationwide have rebranded their logo to Pac-Man eating a house
- Asma al-Assad is reportedly London bound, if a Russian court approves her request to leave the country
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Like, who is saying that, though?🤷♂️
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Based kids
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- All those leftists who were cheering the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO are going to have an interesting time processing the suspect being a Peter Thiel retweeting, Ivy League-educated tech bro, and the person who turned him in being a McDonalds worker
- In 2024, I spent 10,165 minutes, which is exactly 7 days, listening to Taylor Swift
- Gn frens
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by James Gillespie[Not loaded yet]
- Markets reacted badly to the increased borrowing in the Budget. She will likely be faced with a choice to either raise taxes in the middle of the Parliament (breaking her Budget promise) or to cut spending (angering Labour MPs).
