Hilarious to me that the spiritual leader of a billion Christians has has rightly come out against the malificence of the AI technoligarchy, while the King of The Atheists Dawkins is writing articles about how chatbots are sentient.

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.

My bet has always been that Kruger isn't a candidate for Reform at the next election.

There is extensive help available for all MPs when it comes to data security. Jenrick knows this. Of course, this would mean asking.

The white van that Reform UK are milking for all it’s worth? It was only bought 3 months ago, when Rob Kenyon set up his Makerfield Heating company. It’s like he invented himself just before the 2026 local elections.

The former Chief Executive of the National Cyber Security Centre, on @Nigel_Farage's claims of Russian hacking.

Hope he’s ok.

As this war stumbles to a close, it is clear that the president is lost: He didn’t know what he was doing when he began it, and now he doesn’t know how to get out of it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Remember if you ever consider doing a fraud, don’t buy amusingly naff stuff with the money, it sticks in the memory. Embezzle £10m and shove it in crypto? Cheat HMRC out of a few million through phoenixing? People will soon forget! Buy an overpriced wine coaster and a gaming headset? You’re stuffed.

This massacre of medics would be branded terrorism if in Israel by Hezbollah so what is it by Israel in Lebanon? The mass killing of emergency workers in Lebanon and, before that, Gaza is surely another war crime. news.sky.com/video/the-pa...

Schrodingers Iran peace agreement. Agreed sufficiently for oil prices to come down. Not agreed sufficiently for it to be obvious that Trump lost as a result of a totally ill-conceived operation.

If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....

The "journalist" accepted Farage's claim without a single check on its accuracy. It made the paper's front page. Would Starmer be given the same treatment? (rhetorical question)

Good Today this morning presented by 2 women Katya Adler and Emma Burnett who had the cojones to read out the disgusting words used by Farage man in Makerfield about Carol Voderman's nether parts. Doubt if BBC men would have used exact words Farage man used. BBC news site avoids Reform man’s words

The other person who should be under pressure is Glenn Owen, the “journalist” who reported this as an ‘exclusive’

I've said it before but we need to somehow restore the social cost of racism. It's always been there but it's spreading at least partly because people aren't made to feel ashamed of it any more.

Why, what changed? Disgusting.

Great to see. Sleaford's Bass Maltings brownfield getting some serious promotion after half a century derelict historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...

IRAN’S TASNIM SAYS TEHRAN DOES NOT TRUST THE U.S. DESPITE INDIRECT TALKS VIA PAKISTAN; SAYS NO FINAL DEAL REACHED AND IRAN WILL MAINTAIN LEVERAGE IF WASHINGTON FAILS TO HONOR COMMITMENTS

Rich families get nearly a third of the bursaries originally designed too help the less well off bit.ly/4tSLHOA university of London says only one in six go to poor families

Good thing Iran giving up uranium and opening the Strait is only 5% or I might be pessimistic about this situation.

Mike Trim’s original, iconic cover painting for Jeff Wayne’s 1978 rock opera take on HHW’s War Of The Worlds.

I’m not sure if we’ve become desensitised or what but there are high res models showing 35-36C on Tuesday. “It’s just summer” apparently in final spring month. The much touted 1976 summer never got hotter than 35.9C in early July. We are in May….

Great advice for any writer

Vile performative bullshit with a bogus rationale. A disgrace. "This week some of Britain’s most senior former military chiefs signed a joint letter to Starmer, first reported by The Times, warning that cutting foreign aid to fund defence would compromise national security."

"Do I agree with everything Satan does? No. But he's tough and gets things done." -MAGA Christians basically

Of course the most recent PM likely to have literally, personally, killed anyone is Ted Heath.

Fabulous clarification in today's Observer. Stonehenge!

No service at Strand Station ....

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

I find it hard to believe that anyone could argue this in good faith given what’s happened in the US with DOGE.

Restore is on 7% in that Makerfield constituency poll. I wrote this week why they're a threat that needs to be taken seriously. And why splitting the Reform vote isn't worth the normalisation of what is, in effect, a neo-Nazi party. samf.substack.com/p/is-andy-bu...

Why, Mr Kipling, these are exceedingly bad investments.

"The devil enters through the pockets." #PopeFrancis

Don't hackers normally take money out of your account?

Roses are red, I swear on my mum's life...

Here’s the text of the story I told for my Pause for Thought on @BBCRadio2 with Revd Kate Bottley and Jason Mohammad this morning - all about Jadon’s dramatic journey from cheating drug dealer to a brilliant youth worker!

We knew all this was coming thirty years ago, but the liars were hard at work already…

Joseph Rowntree was born OTD 24 May in 1836 in York. Best known as the driving force behind the Rowntree chocolate empire, he was also a pioneering social reformer. One of his legacies was the model village of New Earswick. He wanted to build a genuine, mixed-community without the stigma of

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]

Exc: Nigel Farage's Reform is pocketing a fortune from people or companies linked to offshore tax havens, new analysis reveals. Of the £18.6million donated to the party last year, some £15m came from those with offshore links. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

As we said yesterday, strange you would get a cover-up tattoo to hide that peace symbol… 'Swastika tattoo' is misunderstood Buddhist peace symbol says Reform councillors wife www.thestar.co.uk/news/swastik...

I quite like the separation of preferable and acceptable.

In 2019, the Conservatives came second in Makerfield with more than a third of the vote - only 4,700 votes behind Labour. They're now polling at 2% there And what should really worry them is that this vertiginous collapse is no longer even a news story.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

JFK Ends Mostly Successful Dallas Trip