It would make quite a lot of sense, now it's going to be debated, for Labour to push this thru. Give some indication of genuine appetite for Reform, and with the shift of MPs, probably can't lose out. I don't believe Labour can (or should) fear Greens or LDs. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Dropping a table of 26m rows takes a while in SQLITE. *twiddles thumbs*

Purchased (yet another) new waterproof. #FACT

Another former Home Secrtary trotting out the "immigration is out of control" line. I wonder how on Earth this could be challenged by the media / anyone with a brain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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LinkedIn probably wasn’t the best channel to post this, but I stand by it

The paperback of my latest book is out on Thursday, so I'm sharing the meme again. #booksky harpercollins.co.uk/products/bro...

Nobody outside of the 'Westminster bubble' gives a shiny shit about the Burnham story. News outlets disconnected from the public interest.

What I hear when I'm in the dentist's chair. (Read the rest here: www.tom-cox.com/recommended-...)

Just about back, but been up and down like a bride's nightie for the last 15 minutes. An opportunity to test these free Fairy 30 minute tablets....

Power cut #CA11. Nicely the power returns for 10 seconds, just enough for devices to get mostly booted, then dies again. Rince and repeat every minute. Let's check data integrity when it returns. Off or on is a much better option. *dashes around turning off sockets*

I also spent c £50 recent getting a Pi4 with a USB speaker to play sleep sounds to me. Yesterday figured out the Bluetooth connection to Echo actually works for playing MP3s from the Pi, so wasted some money there. Let's see how stable it is.It does say 'Not supported' but that's life.

I quite often speak to Alexa in a silly voice. I'm sure she just responded with "get a life, you prick". Rude.

The Doom Scrolling the past few weeks has been especially grim. So take a brief moment to forget the despair and appreciate the queen.

To be fair to ICE, who among us hasn't put 10 to 12 rounds into an unarmed ICU nurse, trying to help someone who'd just been pepper sprayed?

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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It would be funny/ironic if Burnham was selected and didn't win. Would he be able to go back to Mayor?

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

You just knew #bbclaurak would lead heavily with the Burnham story. Something of very little interest outside of Westminster, and there are many many bigger stories in the world today.

We can always write to the FA and our local MP…

Anything that gets the felon's ego bruised will work... atm going to the US seems a lot like going to SA during apartheid. The US used to be a powder keg based on racial lines; it now seems to be a pwder keg based on political lines. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Time to ban the US team from the winter Olympics because of our country's flagrant human rights abuses?

I've siad before, but Trump has no 'yesterday' - whatever is in his mind right now, is what he believes and acts upon. A partner whose word you can never trust, is no good as a partner.

The BBC focussing their news on a TV programme of theirs which glorifies lying, is very much a 'today' thing.

You can't blame Frank for those goals. That was down to the players. #COYS

The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.

Farage has been touring Davos all week pledging to “fight the globalists” - all funded by a $10 billion trust run on behalf of an Iranian billionaire. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trump only understands "the biggliest of everything" ... he's like a Persil ad that's constantly improving cleaning power by 50%. Except he just won't flush down the sink.

ssh does WHAT by default?! I don’t want to give anything away but I’ve never heard of this behaviour, extremely cool TIL in here from none other than the creator of 1 million checkboxes 🫶

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I thought Sinners wasn't that good. Visually impressive, but muddled story, and didn't say anything new.

Forest wheels have just come off. #BRANFO

Can nobody get this twat a shirt, ffs.

Coming soon… #FuckICE #Resist #FuckTrump

Hey Farage, Truss, Yaxley Lemming! you claim to be patriots but look what your idol is saying.... 457 uk soldiers killed in Afghanistan during a NATO op...

Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social now is not the time to fuck about playing internal party games. P.S. It's never a good time.

Trump doesn't read. None of them read.

Surprised she didn't get Patel to do it. She has the experience.

What a headline, an amazing summary

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“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz

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"Oh my God, I got a Stiffy!" #corrie Yes, I'm months behind.

Not mentioning the elephant in the room, by mentioning the elephant in the room. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cj...

The domain qqlxjpns.com is registered via gname.com who don't seem to do much checking of anything. Should they be able if they are so lax?