This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns. The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

New Scientific rule - anytime you use a causal term in a paper, it must be put in quotes.

Maybe all those Rapture Mongers recently in the news were right. 😂

One thing that always identifies charlatans - they blame patients when their treatment fails.

One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.

Just because your argument has some merits is no excuse for a gross data and #dataviz lie about it. This chart is both untethered to reliable data and a #baddtaviz...

It says a lot about the lack of numeracy in the country, and the priorities of the media/commentariat, that there was so much written about the tiny number of pupils spilling over from private to state, and so little about the inevitable large fall in pupil numbers from lower numbers of births.

Appalled to hear that the so-called "Trump insurrection", for which the House of Representatives voted to impeach him in January 2021, was actually a hoax created by a BBC documentary made in 2024 and transmitted back in time by woke scientists and the deep state

Please can you promise to bail us out because potential lenders think we might not be able to pay them back because perhaps what we build won’t generate the revenues to pay them back but they are wrong, scouts’ honour.

Gabrielius Landsbergis, Former Foreign Minister of Lithuania, said it plainly: "Putin never escalates when we help Ukraine. He escalates when we don't help enough." This isn't philosophy. It's a pattern. Weakness invites aggression. Support raises the cost. 👇

There are some very important and very neglected lessons here about NHs management: www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-... But there are two big issues with it...

Yes, the diversion policy has been a complete waste of time and money. I don’t know why they still persist with it.

100% this across the whole of government

A major barrier to NHS productivity is that it thinks of cost cutting in silos not value adding across systems. This means that lower costs in one silo can cause huge waste in other silos making the whole system far less productive...

The experts consulted to opine on NHS productivity by the Health Foundation commission are part of the problem not part of the solution:

What if there was a consensus on the tax reforms the UK needs? What if it was backed by policy experts from think tanks across the political spectrum, from the Adam Smith Institute to the Resolution Foundation? The consensus is real. The question is: will anyone act on it?

🫣 “OpenAI is struggling to convince more than a measly five percent of its 800 million active ChatGPT users to pay for a subscription.” 🤡

Thanks for that Google AI - very helpful. (I was checking the spelling of dephlogisticated air)

The Experts consulted by the Health Foundation's productivity commission are fairly pessimistic about the potential for rapid productivity growth in the NHS: www.health.org.uk/features-and... ...

"It's Clinical" No it isn't. There are no published data for this. Full page ad in NY Times today

“The BBC didn’t get January 6 wrong. It should be brave enough to say so. Whoever wrote the internal report seen by The Telegraph is either malign or mistaken. The way it has been weaponised to attack the BBC shows the folly of trying to appease Team Trump, or to negotiate with them in good faith.”

Many people seem to think Zohran never condemned Hamas — so here he is doing it on National TV:

“The BBC is not an American broadcaster, and it doesn’t owe any obligation to shareholders determined to close deals and make profits. Its clash with Trump is a chance to show the advantages of being a public broadcaster by standing up for the truth. It should seize that opportunity.”

"the documents were so restricted that top Justice Department security officials reacted with surprise to the code names: They had never heard of them before. Some involved special access programs that required the president or a cabinet member to grant approval to view."

An excellent breakdown of the new "study" linking vaccines to autism @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social "We manually reviewed every single one of the 308 references...the list is essentially a sea of red flags." theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/anti-vacci...

This is so true. Lying to win and making manifesto promises based on the lies robs your government of power to be most effective if you do win. And it whittles down trust in politics. But supporters have to stop justifying the “they’ve got to lie to win”.

Worth reading alongside this from @paulmason.bsky.social substack.com/@htsf/note/p...

I tend to the view @jamesrball.com floats in the piece, ie that "affordable" quotas are a disaster: they're not actually affordable and that they're being used as a way to block development so that there are no new homes at all.

I agree. I think the fix here is a centrally-funded large scale programme of actual social house building, coupled with loosened planning restrictions and dropped “affordable” housing requirements, in exchange for quick starts on development.

The 3-year NHS Medium Term Planning guidance has many improvements and has been hailed as ambitious. But it isn't ambitious on emergency care. It waves a white flag on improvement and is recommends solutions long known to fail: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh... ...

Very glad my ancestors spoke out about this too.

A self-censoring media, another sign of a dictatorship CBS’s 60 Minutes aired an exclusive interview with Donald Trump on Sunday, but the news magazine cut out a contentious portion regarding the president’s pardon of a cryptocurrency billionaire, after Trump had a meltdown

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

NHS planning guidance is getting better but still has critical issues in important areas: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

Anyone that things that the ills of the NHS can be cured by cutting "managers" doesn't understand what the NHS actually is.

This becomes even more unfair when you look at the average modern-day valuation of a Band H house in each area…

Stupidest headline of the weekend: Wins on two separate counts: 1. Management cuts have not happened yet 2. While cutting NHSE might be justified, everywhere else in the NHS needs more managers not fewer...

‘In order to improve the efficiency of our railways, we are going to remove the engines from our trains so that we can pay for twice as many train drivers’ …..ends

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

This is absolutely hilarious from Young Master Wesley: the NHS middle managers in question haven’t been sacked yet, because there’s no redundancy budget www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

1. The commercial was done by Ontario, not Canada itself, which is run by someone in the opposing party to Carney. He had nothing to do with it. 2. Commercial was not "false." It was entirely accurate. 3. Reagan hated tariffs. Stop just letting him lie constantly.

The wisdom of Jackson Lamb: We have to answer the five F's: "what the fuck who the fuck when the fuck why the fuck" -but that's only 4 "fuck off; that's 5"

PSA: if you’re too unskilled to park your over-sized 4x4 in a normal parking space, don’t presume to occupy the wider disabled spots. Seen this twice in the past week and it’s deeply antisocial.

..Celebrities can't even keep their own sex tapes secret, and they typically only involve 2 people.. 😬

Kim Kardashian is wrong (shocker!) - moon landings certainly happened. As I showed before, Apollo had >400k staff who'd need be complicit. Chances of them keeping it secret? Virtually zero. Probability of a celebrity saying something daft, alas, approaches unity🤪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The Guardian highlights a huge NHS problem: www.theguardian.com/society/2025... But then misframes it as an old people problem when it is far bigger than that...

As @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social said: “Using the new technologies requires complementary investments. These are needed in physical infrastructure, and in organisational change. Of these, the latter seems to be the hardest.” www.productivity.ac.uk/wp-content/u...