Great news!

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

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It's 6.30am in December, in torrential rain. I've just passed at least four people sleeping in closed shop and bank doorways on Station Road, Clacton. Farage has mentioned his constituency in Parliament just three times in a year and a half - re. winter fuel allowance and local elections.

At least I’ve now cancelled sky sports and I haven’t watched Match of the Day this season, so I can now pretend the rest of the season doesn’t exist. And live a peaceful and football-free life #WWFC #Wolves

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

I never understand people who say they love music and happily and blindly talk about their Spotify accounts. The two don’t equate.

This is what it amounts to. Poor optics from the Waterstones boss.

Nothing is more symbolic of Europe's inherent weakness of resolve - EU and UK - than the failure of governments and institutions to leave X/Twitter en masse. It's easier to stay, so stay they do. Pathetic.

Somehow, Gianni Infantino manages to make Sepp Blatter look like Nelson Mandela #worldcupdraw

#GamesGone FIFA fails the football world. Abject.

The thing is, most of us knew the essence of the stories about Farage many years ago - but the media still had a complete love-in with him, and the BBC built him up relentlessly.

Farage doesn’t know which side his bread is buttered on, pointing out that the BBC put racists on the telly when he was a lad. If they didn’t put racists on the telly we’d have no idea who he was.

Zuck is out here spending enough to end world hunger on something no one wanted, again,

I think that must have been in one of the Gnostic Gospels.

This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X. Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’ It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.

Same team/squad as the weekend. Maybe consistency is a good thing? #WWFC

Um, if an LLMs's tendancy to lie and cheat isn't something that can be stopped, maybe this isn't a great product to incorporate at every level of our professional and personal lives?

quit spotify baby!

Is Farage still facing scrutiny over his partner’s £885k Frinton home. Is it aggressive tax avoidance? Has he misled voters? Where’s the transparency? What’s happening? Just asking questions. #FrintonGate

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

Someone should tell Morgan Rogers that stamping on Gomes’ foot was also dangerous and he got away with it and Villa scored.

So konsa pulls back Mosquera for 15 yards then falls over and Mosquera gets booked. Ok ref. #villavWolves

Modern football. £100k+ a week to fall over on contact. Repeatedly. Ad nauseum. You’d think referees would be wise to it. Then you remember they haven’t addressed it for years, decades even.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Wonderful to see this report out. Integral to the design and initial implementation of this project was the brilliant Dr Leah Hewerdine (who just so happens to have been my former PhD student 🤗)

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The media really will treat LLMs as human before they give trans people the same courtesy

🇷🇺 From 2019 - isn't that odd?!? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/10/brexit-party-meps-vote-against-measure-to-combat-russian-propaganda

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

And this is what these majors have signed up to: “The startup will combine traditional streaming features from services such as Spotify (SPOT.N), opens new tab with AI tools that allow users to remake songs in different styles, according to Bloomberg” Just why.

Dear God. These people really don’t care about music at all, do they.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

PLEASE this. And also to scientists writing press releases, too - calling something "AI" when it was actually your student spending 12 months fitting and validating a model is disingenuous

🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy. We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/victory-we...

Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph. One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics. What could go wrong? www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

A lot of you will head for the obvious ones. If you want to hear Mani at his best, I recommend "Daybreak", "Begging You", "Xtmnr", "Shoot Speed/Kill Light". One of the greats, who, like many great bassists, played bass like it was the lead melody line, dancing around the vocal, underpinning the song

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein 'The Movement'. Farage's partner Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

Is there any angle or footage that shows the Danish player was in the box or even close to the line. Seems a bizarre decision, especially as he saw it again on the monitor 🤷‍♂️ #SCOvDEN

Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Buckle up - because this now amounts to a direct and deliberate attack on our country and its cultural sovereignty. Which side our politicians take - Trump's or the BBC's - over the coming days and weeks will speak volumes about their patriotism.

Editors and copywriters should charge per exclamation mark removed from copy.