Thanks, Java Update, for deciding that whatever I happened to be doing, it wasn't as important as you grabbing the focus to show your dumb software update app. Of course you do, you're twelve.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

There’s no solidarity quite like that between client journalists, the government and their billionaire backers. It’s all one big club. This so-called “journalist” called for me — a British MP — to be deported because I’m Muslim. Yet somehow he’s the victim. Cry me a river.

Finally, a job opens up for Amol Rajan.

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

Viscount Balamory

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

In response to this, I'd ask him: "Is Donald Trump an expert?"

The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Now there’s a ceasefire, does the genocide get memory-holed?

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Apparently I was just on The Chase. And yes, I was the correct answer. Which explains why I write books under a pen name.

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what was special about the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat"? Short version: it had two days in the studio, while every other episode only had one. Long version: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/10/tc8-...

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

Someone please explain. What is the point of Ofcom? Utterly useless.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)

Some talk about giving Trump the Nobel Peace Prize to keep him invested in the peace process in Gaza. This is moronic. Trump's goal is the peace prize, because Obama got it. Trump's goal is not peace. If Trump is awarded the peace prize, he'll lose all interest in peace overnight.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun. joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...

Stephen Miller, real name Hiram Q Goebbels III

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

In other news, Kemi Badenoch's party has taken at least £7 million in donations from funders and directors of climate change denial lobby groups bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young. Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

These idiots have no idea how important universities are to the modern British economy and the towns and cities in which they are based. On average, a British university returns £14 for every £1 of public investment. So yes, let's slaughter these golden geese and scorch our economy.

I think Jonathan is being too polite: this policy is straightforwardly stupid. Other countries will make attractive offers that encourage hard-working, capable, and interesting people to choose them over us, and the UK will be worse off for it. And for what?

I made an alternative cover for JK Rowling's new book, The Toilet Constable. Coming soon to a bad bookshop near you... Print file can be downloaded from my website: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

Not a novel observation, but jeez, what an awful person JKR is. And also: what a terrible article, barely doing more than decorating JKR's posts and calling it journalism, without any response from the person attacked. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A 64-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at a London hotel housing asylum seekers. This is where we are now. Where are the politicians to call this out? Or do they not want to upset their right wing base? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Digital IDs are a terrible, dangerous idea for numerous reasons. But, even on their own terms, what's the gap they're supposed to fill? It seems many people don't realise that we already have eVisas. All migrants get this "digital record" of their status and permission anyway.

Cis 'allies' be like: Why are trans people weird about the UK's ID proposals? Us: They will force out us 'Allies': I'm sure that won't happen Us: They have literally involved transphobe groups in the design stage. It will happen from day 1. 'Allies': You're just hysterical. Won't happen.

Govt claims requiring all adults in Britain to have “digital ID” will “help control borders” and “illegal immigtation”. That could only be true if police are given powers to require ID, without suspicion of a crime. A 🧵explaining why:

And now we go over live to 10 Downing Street...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Ridiculous softball questions about ID cards from Cathy Newman on C4 News to Liam Byrne.

Maybe the shopkeepers could tell the police they've seen some kids supporting Palestine Action?

Enraging report on C4 News showing racist thickos live-streaming as they break into hotel rooms and intimidate people they perceive to be “illegal immigrants”, and blockade council offices.

Virgin Active call themselves an LGBTQ+ ally, but decided to ban trans people from using their changing rooms and bathrooms... so we created a new slogan for them 👀 We need to make make as much noise as possible and make Virgin Active feel the pressure. Will you join us? 👇 goodlaw.social/d922

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”