When people talk about the power of Algorithims, I wonder why Facebook pushes an advert to me for a Bridal shop (I've been married for 55 years) in Solihull (haven't been there for 50 years). Never mentioned weddings (or Solihull) in my social media. Someone pays for this!

I’ve interviewed Reform UK voters – and they’re much more progressive than you might think. Sacha Hilhorst With the Greens now a viable alternative, a Labour leader will not win power again without the progressive vote. But they will need to earn it. Owen Jones. The Guardian was intelligent once.

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I have been discussing this map snippet on X today. Is there much of interest you ask ? Oh yes. Gingle, linn, sike, loup....and that's just for starters. Linn - that's OE for, variously, a waterfall, a pool into which said falls and a steep ravine. Chiefly Scottish. 🧵

@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social ?????

The last thing the UK needs now is a change of PM. If you don’t like Kier Starmer that’s fine, vote him out in 3 year time.

I dislike the American sneers "if it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German", but frankly between Trump and those trying to destabilize Starmer, I am suggesting my grandkids start learning Chinese, because "The West" is shooting itself in the foot, repeatedly

I remember a time when "crypto-fascist" used to mean a fascist hiding their bigotry. Now it means a fascist, open about their bigotry, and funded by crypto.

@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social Peter lecturing?

Faced with Trump/Iran/Ukraine Starmer has done well. Our economy was improving until Trump/Hormuz. He's made significant mistakes (WFA/Mandelson/Mahmood) but his record after 14 dead Tory years is good. No idea who his opponents think could do better, especially after a destabilizing vote

Barack Obama stopped Iran from aquiring a nuclear weapon without forcing the entire world to pay more for gas.

I am taking him to see @leedsunited.com with me in NJ in July. I keep telling her that's way better than any World Cup for me personally.

So the third Trump Cabinet member "steps down" in disgrace, and scarcely gets mentioned. All 3 going are women....all disgraceful but no worse than the men who stay

WTF?

this is fucking nuts:

@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social ....another one to explain to Peter

@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social Sure Peter can help you

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

I see @theguardian.com decided they needed yet another writer producing winsome pieces wittering about nothing to back up Chiles and Dowling. Please welcome Bim Adewunmi....

Big improvement from the Joey Barton days

So Trump says, I'll keep bombing you for 3 weeks then go home. No deal necessary. Billions spent, lives lost on both sides. And still people support him. Are they all demented? Fossil fuel firms and munitions manufacturers win, everyone else loses. Am I missing something?

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Maybe the media could make a programme the progress Labour has made in delivering it's manifesto. Free breakfast clubs, extra free childcare hours, Employment and Tenents Rights act, millions into health, education and the environment, wealth taxes which can't be avoided, and so much more.

I grew into active politics when "Loony Lefties" was a standard perjorative. Slightly weird that in my declining years most of the Loonies are on the Right (Trump, his Cabinet, Farage, Lowe, Badenoch....)

I know it's easy to criticize Starmer from all the wings of British/Russian/Trumpian politics, but his position of differentiating between Trump's unthinking war of aggression/deflection and the essential defence of our country seems....sensible

NEWS! Man who said he wouldn't get involved in foreign wars starts foreign war over nuclear capability he claimed was totally obliterated a few months ago newsthump.com/2026/02/28/m...

RT if the USA should take Tommy Robinson. He is a violent criminal scumbag we don't want him and the USA seems to be collecting people like that.

Getting out the vote on the phones for our Angeliki - the excellent Labour candidate in Gorton and Denton. Unity not division. Labour not Reform. Let’s do this!

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I accidentally caught a few minutes of Nick Robinson interviewing Farage. The push backs were too light and too polite. Farage saying "EVERYONE I know in London is in a family that has been the victim of crime" is such an obvious lie (unless they are all married to wife beaters, not impossible obvs)

this is the stuff that needs to be leading the major network news shows/papers/media/etc.

Still possibly the funniest film I've seen.

(again)

@sarahhutchinson.bsky.social !!!!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

It's amazing that Epstein seems to be having more impact on British personalities than American ones

I know the world is full of bizarre things at the moment but (Andrew Sparrow in the Guardian reporting )"Badenoch says Starmer seemed to enjoy being in China. That is not surprising for a man who was virtually a communist most of his life” is right up there

Labour should be going for Mandelson big time now. Yeah, it was a mistake to send him to Washington but say so and explicitly call him a liar. Call for a police investigation, demand he gets out if the Lords. Make an example of him. Show people how angry you. And after the by-election sack Morgan.

I sometimes worry about how much of myself is picked up from social media. I've just completed the New York Times Deluxe Waffle puzzle, and "it's" response was "Canny effort". Is there a Geordie in the @nytimes offices

Would you like Ukraine to become a member of NATO? Retweet = Yes Silence = No

Hats off to anyone who can remember what Konstantin Kisin said or wrote about anything. The man himself doesn't bother.

Sorry to soil my timeline but this did make me laugh…you? Took me a moment… Greg Bovino was asked how he felt about his demotion today. "Well, obviously, I'm not happy", he replied. Someone in the crowd shouted back, "So which one are you?"

Trump can't change course until Miller changes course