Monday, October 06, 2025

Naked Capitalism: Your Indispensable Bullshit Detector

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has won the Czech Republic parliamentary elections, preliminary results show, but fallen short of the overall majority.

This win marks a political comeback for Babiš, who was prime minister from 2017 to 2021. He is set to put the country on a course away from supporting Ukraine and towards Hungary and Slovakia, who have taken a pro-Russian path.

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election


Croydon Park Up to 100 bullets fired, multiple injuries, in suburban Sydney shooting


What if the Universe Remembers Everything? New Theory Rewrites the Rules of Physics SciTech Daily


‘Oppression’: ATO investigator found to have lied in fraud case



Are the Tories facing oblivion?


This is the FT Long Read this morning.

I can save you the time reading it. The answer is, yes.

But there was one chart in the report worth sharing, and it was this:


Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails ScienceDaily 


Naked Capitalism: Your Indispensable Bullshit Detector

It is harder and harder to know what is what these days. We have never been so inundated with information, but so much of it is worthless — or worse, misleading.


I understand there's a housing crisis in Australia but huge high-rise apartments don't belong in my suburb and will destroy the 'village feel'


Budget blow for Reeves as UK’s growth forecast slashed The Independent


Exclusive: How private intelligence brought the U.S. treasury secretary into contact with Epstein’s corporate web All-Source Intelligence


Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per postResponsible Statecraft


More than 1.6m sign petition opposing Starmer’s plan for digital ID cards The Guardian


M. Gessen: This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. “When your country strips you of rights and protections, it tells you that it no longer recognizes you. Other times, you realize that you no longer recognize your country.”