Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

Homemaking hack! Never dust and by every October, the decorating is done for you 🫶🎃

Every journalist in the country incapable of drawing any lines between Story 1: government making a compulsory national database of all your private information and Story 2: hackers holding people to ransom over pictures of their kids at nursery

Imagine your stalker, or your daughter's abusive ex, or basically anyone who can buy a list of passwords on the dark web, being able to use one app to get all this information, beautifully joined up for them. We live in a digital age and need to adapt. By using a password manager. For fuck's sake.

Wounded Knee like the massacre? Like the event that traumatises the protagonist from Bioshock Infinite?

Really sad day, he was absolutely lovely

You would assume that anything sensitive held on such a database will be restricted to those who need to access it, but the truth is that, somewhere up the line, an IT person in a basement with a degree in an unrelated field will have admin control over absolutely everything because they know Excel.

You don't want all your data in one place. You want to make sure that everyone involved in a given process can access *enough* data to do their jobs. Having your medical records and your tax records go through the same system is centralisation for the sake of centralisation.

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

Politics is now a choice between people offering real solutions to imaginary problems, or people offering imaginary solutions to real problems.

Is it "move to Dubai"?

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Reform will attack you regardless, "Keir Starmer's aides" need to stop being so daft

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

Pffft putting John Bolton on trial in an American court, when the fecker should be in the Hague.....

Me watching this: Oh be careful be careful be careful

shot, chaser.

Guys, why is PAC wearing clothes again, come on, what is this nonsense? #AEW #AEWDynamite #WrestleSky

Senior members were heard to comment, "Oh for fucksake, are they back on this shit again?!"

feeling this again today

Omg add this to the list

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

UK: pls can we have a crumb of affordable homes and non-cost-of-living-crisis Starmer: so you're saying you want *spins wheel* ID cards

"My phone battery's dead, so I don't exist anymore"

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

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Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

Last time the Tories came fourth in a national opinion poll was June 2019, when they came fourth behind the Brexit Party, the Lib Dems and Labour in three daily YouGov polls. They were on 18% and Theresa May resigned as a result.

Politico: In calling for Reform to 'radically cut away' at the civil service, Arron Banks, Farage ally, told the FT that Bolshevik revolutionaries who killed intellectuals 'had a point' "The self-declared 'bad boy of Brexit' [claimed] he was speaking in metaphor" It's Schrödinger's joke. Dangerous

formally launching my "Burnham is a symptom not a solution" take if your Labour party finds itself turning to Andy Burnham and going ohhhhhh should we maybe go for him instead then that means your Labour party is feeling poorly and must be tended to, don't ignore the Burnham warning signs

Toddler decided she wanted a little baby so I've been pretending to be the worst-behaved baby you've ever imagined, it's hilarious! Daughter is sighing and yelling at me to shut up, i'm such a good parent in comparison!

The fox needs access to the hen coop ASAP, to prevent disaster

1/ Lib Dem’s have pretty developed policy book 2/ @eddavey.libdems.org.uk is quite right. The large majority in 🇬🇧 don’t want to live in a Trump-style country with a Trump-style health market, Trump-style rabid racism, Trump-style stupidity (on display here) or Trump-style foreign or trade policy.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Just a scandalously stupid, irresponsible individual. If you’d asked him last week if paracetamol were safe, he’d obviously have said it was. But he’s so afraid to lose Trump’s favour that he can’t even contradict him on a topic where Trump is verifiably wrong.

It’s pathetic that he can’t even stand up to Trump on lies as basic to this. If Labour had half a brain they’d use this to paint him as a pushover

Ok someone needs to mess with the automatic doors when he tries to walk through, make him think he's lost his soul

Well that doesn't seem like a good thing

When you @politico.com lie and spread misinformation you propagate ignorance. Rate of Diagnoses related to Autism does not equal the rate of Autistic people being born. It would take you 15 minutes to learn this but you have decided to fail your readers for some ineffable reason.

The Press Conference:

Look i'm not sure i can believe Sean Bean as Alan Rickman, and the accents are bound to cause actual physical pain, but it should at least be better than the Russell Crowe one, right?

When your toddler says "my back hurts", limps around for a bit, then laughs...... Apparently it was an impression of me 🤔

2001 PC Game scene: “I will play it, I just won’t buy it.” 2025 PC Game scene: “I will buy it, I just won’t play it.”

From Rasmus Jarlov, chair of Denmark’s Defence Committee:

Mr President, please launch bizarre deranged attacks against good English cities.