I spoke to the #DailyMirror this week to highlight how we are drowning in an AI slopocalypse that is actively warping reality. Tech giants cannot be left to self-regulate while the online world degenerates into a digital Wild West. Read the full report ▶️ www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic... #AISlop

A 🧵 on the Defence Investment plan and Healey's resignation. TLDR - the Tories are partly to blame too... The problem with the DIP is that the Labour Government wasn't properly prepared before winning power, or willing to take difficult decisions after winning. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Good to see Healey taking a principled stand.

This 👇 If we have to take action to appease the small minority of bigots in this country every time to salve their resentment, where does that leave our LGBTQ+ community, and every ethnic or religious minority? Not to mention the majority of women? Industrial scale gaslighting going on.

What a time to be alive....

Every country stuck in a long war soon finds the way it fights is dictated not by choice, but by necessity. Ukraine is proving far better at 'Necessity Management' than Russia. The UK needs to avoid being too literal when learning lessons from Ukraine, but get better at Necessity Management.

There is something badly wrong with our Government if it arrests more peaceful pro-Palestine protestors than rioters and arsonists, and regulates children's use of social media more heavily than those using it to incite and organise racist violence.

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

The Belfast attacker flew from Paris to Dublin 10.02.2023 and travelled to Belfast where he claimed asylum, his LTR was granted 28.09.2023. This was when Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick were Home Secretary and Immigration Minister respectively.

This is what Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is really about, not hurty words. If we don't take measures to defend our democracy, we will lose it.

Protest arrests tally: Southampton - 11 "Unite the Kingdom" - 43 Belfast - ? Palestine Action - 5͟0͟0͟ Who, exactly, are the terrorists?

Seriously - how much is too much? If our Government doesn't draw the line here, then where?

Your reminder that this is supposed to be the good guy of British centrism, the one who’s our last chance of defeating the far right

Meanwhile, Sky’s morning politics podcast reports that the right-wing parties in the Makerfield by-election seem to be wearing AI glasses in their doorstep canvassing, as they’re looking at voters in their own homes.

I fully understand the desire to protect children from online harms, which are real. My issue is when the answer is to regulate and surveil *the victims*, rather than the perpetrators and platforms that enable them.

"nudity today, political speech tomorrow" In five words, @signal.org has given a more trenchant critique of government surveillance tech than 99% of UK legislators, pundits, and NGOs.

The Brexit given to us by Nigel Farage and the Tories has failed. But almost a decade on, ministers are still ignoring the reality of the impact it’s had on everything from our economy to immigration. 1/2

This 👇 Instead of regulating *victims*, we should regulate the perpetrators and their enablers.

And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.

Starmer giving a Tech speech today. Usual combination of technical illiteracy and rolling over for the big US Tech giants.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

So it turns out there is a really simple way to make yourself completely immune to two thirds of online scams?

The last Equipment Plan from the UK MOD was issued in November 2022, 3½ years ago (and counting). The previous Conservative Government didn't issue one in 2023 because high inflation made it too complicated, or in 2024 because they were too busy losing the election. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Now that is a Friday afternoon bombshell - the UK data protection regulator himself, who has been on leave from the job since February for “reasons”, is still drawing a £200k salary. From home in New Zealand. www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

At this point it's basically pathlogical. The site is once again being used to whip up race riots and people with responsibility for national security are on it merrily whistling away.

I'm going to have to spend the day watching the police and certain politicians doing the "legitimate concerns" dance, aren't I?

This is a very disturbing read, which could affect any of us or our loved ones. It effectively strips protections from anyone with severe cognitive impairment, and implies an inability to object or protest your treatment can be taken as consent. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

1/🧵 The Supreme Court has today overturned Cheshire West and removed important protections for severely disabled people. This case hits all the keywords: guidance, segregation, “never had the right”.

Restore GB party wants a national referendum on the death penalty This is opening up an old sore as another 'culture wars' topic

"Devolution" that does the opposite and centralises power somewhere else. Bigger is not better when it comes to local Government. It is was, Birmingham would be the best council in the country instead of the basket case that it actually is.

"wearables for work" How daft do you need to be to have your employees wearing devices that will exfiltrate sensitive conversations and confidential company data to a foreign-owned data centre beyond your control? uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-pl...

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

More than 60% of Australian kids are still using social media despite the ban. Because prohibition rarely works. We know this. mollyrosefoundation.org/more-than-60...

So Tony Blair's keen on AI. With his institute funded by Larry Ellison and Bill Gates, and his son's company partnered with Palantir, and his greasy fingers still digging deep into various Government orifices.... www.opendemocracy.net/en/dsit-civi...

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Has Spotify found a new way to screw over artists? I refuse to believe that any genuine fan would do this..... uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/spotify...

But remember - there's a ceasefire, a peace deal is 95% agreed, this was a defensive operation, and Iran's armed forces have already been destroyed anyway. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Calling Reform UK the Tories 2.0 isn't a bright idea. Because a) that sounds reassuring to many of their potential voters and b) they are a far-right party and threaten things the Tories would not do.

Bloody ants though. Getting everywhere, and farming aphids on our citrus plants.

I've been to Arizona. It's hot enough already.

🧵 Latest figures from the Government show what a total nonsense the Palestine Action prohibition has been. This is the chart of "arrests for terrorist-related activity" 👇 Because in 2025, 2,779 out of a total 3,034 arrests (92%) were of Palestine Action supporters.....

I'm going to suggest that any Government guidance that uses the word "reasonable" 227 times, and "reasonably" 63 times, without defining either, is in fact rubbish. Reasonableness is a concept that barely exists in public discourse any more, but can be used as a get-out-of-jail-free card by bigots.

I am a liberal and I am against this sort of thing

This poll also shows that Labour lost more voters to the Lib Dems than they did to Reform (not just the Greens). The Labour > Reform swing is relatively small. The vast majority of Labour's vote loss is to Centre/Left parties.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I have some sympathy with supermarkets. People *believe* they make 50% profit margins, when actually they make 2-4% profit in a highly competitive market. If you buy an iPhone, Apple makes about 30% profit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sanctions on Russia ought to be a one-way ratchet until the point where Russia pulls its troops out of Ukraine. When we talk about turning the screw on the Russian economy, we don't mean loosening it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear Prime Minister, you said to big tech: 'If you profit from harm & abuse, you lose the right to self-regulate' - yet you've done almost nothing to tackle scam ads? An Open Letter to the Prime Minister from MSE and Which? highlighting the Govt's repeated, ongoing, flaccid treatment of scam adverts

Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is stupid and short-sighted. We trade slightly cheaper summer holidays for prolonging Russia's ability to continue fighting in Ukraine, meaning we will have to support Ukraine for longer. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FFS. Labour continue to show us they are not a liberal party. Let's be honest - this won't affect middle-class two parent families in the suburbs. Is it not blindingly obvious that it's too late to wait until *after* children have committed crimes before the state intervenes to help parents?