I wont be buying tickets to any movie that features an AI actor. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Bet the big lads know more about “opsec” protocols though.

Remembering 🇬🇧British film director, producer and screenwriter #MichaelPowell (30 September 1905 – 19 February 1990) born #OnThisDay in Bekesbourne, Kent

Post a banger that’s not in English youtu.be/e5tJgUTOo08?...

No politician should be banning a press outlet . Not in a democracy.

Rewatched the ever so excellent You Can Count on Me with my daughter this evening and relieved to find she found it just as touching as I did first time around. youtu.be/55MVAFsS7iM?...

I did it. I added some Keystone Cops music to this:

From the man selling the UK weapons grade AI. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Hopefully this getting through www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hodor!

What really surprises me is that Trump hasn’t gone after book shelves. After all, without book shelves where do you keep the banned books?

Should I be putting my orders in now?

Fiduciary duties under an authoritarian regime look as if they are about to be tested. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

My first thought was, “What’s Mads Mikkelsen been up to?” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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Good luck with morale when the recruits find out they’re in the office, spending on high rents and travel, while their bosses are working from home.

Are they going to blame the Dems when they realise the rapture isn’t on?

Dear America, London is fine, you can walk the streets at night, and mayor Sadiq Khan, is a reasonable man and better than previous incumbents. London is like other capitals it has its issues but we’re working on them. No one is trying to impose Sharia law. We could do with filling in some potholes.

If I can put this in governance terms, Disney execs discovered that fiduciary duties, directors’ duties, are a bit more complicated than they thought.

So Reform / Farage want to deport hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of UK residents, turning the country into an effective police state, breaking treaties, and impoverishing the economy and health service? Just focus on all that. The moral gutter of politics.

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

The thing about companies is that they operate in society and the environment, not outside them. The idea that they somehow have no stake in what’s is mad. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Dogs should be allowed in hospitals to see their humans one last time. Dogs do understand death, but they have to see it to realise their human has died or is dying, otherwise they could be even more distressed not understanding why they aren't here anymore.

Rich man says our poverty is worth his narrow ideological pride.

If the transition works, it’ll be in the face of the very powerful forces who have tried everyday to shut it down. They’ll get a better planet knowing they did nothing to help.

This has been in my mind all day.

Worth a read to understand the increasing politicisation of corporate governance.

We all really need to take a break because I’m pretty sure we are approaching madness overload.

This statement stands for any liberal democracy, not just the US.

This can’t be a one-off. This stance has been be fully integrated into Starmer’s governing of the country, and the message needs to be hammered home.

I hope, somewhat believe this, but people still need leadership. Leaders driven by the right values make a difference.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

.but it should not be beyond capacity of civil society to organise against what is happening now - through demonstrations, public campaigns, etc. Not just on Bluesky. [Rock Against Racism emerged at the time of economic crisis and an unpopular Labour govt, after all.] [3/3]

Civility is not just tone of voice, it’s content too.

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

It's deeply dispiriting to have to fight this shit all over again. But we're starting from a stronger position than previous generations. And they won in the end.

I’m not entirely sure this is what was intended when they talked about the “American dream.” The country deep into nightmare territory.

Post a team you would send instead of Bongino and Patel.

That’s the start of the next Stephen King novel.

The perplexing thing about “it just could not happen in Britain” and “fight for early release” is what Mandelson thought he knew about Epstein at the time that warranted such a statement.

New deputy leader candidates, same fucking misogyny. Like, it's a CREEPY sentence for a piece of political analysis to even contain, but to choose it as the TITLE is next-level incel shit.

Put off reading this thinking, “It cant be that bad,” but it reads like a giddy school boy in awe after meeting people he’s seen on the telly. No analysis, gushing reportage, no sense of self awareness. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We appear to be losing our minds. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Note to self: no more afternoon naps with phone in hand just prior to national alert. Heart won’t take it.

One for mountaineering aficionados.

Lordy.