Enough with the so-called “market place of ideas”. This is the sort of thing I want social media for!

Big speech by John Major tonight delivering the Clement Attlee memorial lecture at Kings College. Some extracts: thinks that our electoral system may now need changing, Brexit needs revisiting.

All the indie authors who use AI for their covers because “what am I supposed to do, I can’t afford an artist” would probably have a melt down if artists did paintings and had AI write books to go with the paintings. Anyway, shout out to indie authors who have really bad photoshop covers.

Also, whenever I see a book with an Ai generated cover I suspect the writing may be Ai as well. Why take the risk of alienating potential readers?

I just learned that Firestarter by The Progidy was released 30 years ago today, and now I might crumble to dust

God, it's all so dispiriting. We moved to a nearby colliery village - Wheatley Hill - in 1973. Category D, left to depopulate and die. That was 50 years ago, and it's just got steadily more hopeless. Wheatley Hill had numbered streets too. First to 18th I think then Corporation, Shop and Office St.

"ChatGTP...what is chutzpah?" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I have to give a big shout out to Aberystwyth University library for emailing us students with the message: Don't like/trust/approve of AI? Don't feel pressured into using it. You're not missing out if you don't. It's potentially wasting your time and eroding your confidence with false flattery.

This is how to protest.

RIP Len Deighton, author and illustrator of LEN DEIGHTON’S ACTION COOK BOOK and other works

I wonder if Bernie will get into a punch up … #FaceTheMusic #OneForTheTeenagers

Madam, what flink is this? #CallMyBluff

Even got the heavyweights on #CallMyBluff

Churchill’s jacket collar is PHENOMENAL #CallMyBluff

Son showed me a funny Family Guy clip on his tiktok. "why is the bottom half of the screen showing footage of a video game?" "Oh, that's just if people with low attention spans get bored of the top half they can watch the bottom half". Apparently this is a normal thing nowadays. Bloody hell.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

Proposal: when someone says “I got Chat GPT to do this” we should look at them the same way we would if they’d said “Look! Everybody! Look! I just shat my pants!” Think this would be effective as a social sanction and beneficial in the long term.

Just realised that it's the 40th anniversary of Ben Elton's classic Double Seat monologue on Saturday Live. "Double seat, double seat! Gotta get a double seat!" That echoed round the school playground for weeks. youtu.be/oJRQ9iIzakE?...

Getting back into #TalkingPicturesTV new batch of Who Do You Do? And though I do have dim memories of it at the time, boy is it ever a wild old ride now. We need some Hello Cheeky too, with any luck

And BOOM! #TheOtherBennetSister

Charlotte was entirely honest with her from the start. #TheOtherBennetSister

“Balls to you, mother” #TheOtherBennetSister

Oh God. Poor Mary #TheOtherBennetSister

Was that Andy Serkis? #TheOtherBennetSister

Don’t bring down the mood Mary. All a bit dolorous #TheOtherBennetSister

Oh, they’ve picked a beauty to play Mr C #TheOtherBennetSister

Well, there’s Charlotte’s position laid out clearly #TheOtherBennetSister

Uh oh. Here comes Collins #TheOtherBennetSister

Aw. She’s not just his bestest patient. But here comes shitty social convention. And her bloody mother #TheOtherBennetSister

Yep. Caroline Bingley is still a total cow #TheOtherBennetSister

Mary shares my opinion of any party whatsoever #TheOtherBennetSister

I’m hoping that the BBC is raising its game, what with Small Prophets, Lord of the Flies and now #TheOtherBennetSister

Ed Zitron's a fantastic journalist, capable of turning a close read of AI companies' balance-sheets into an incandescent, exquisitely informed, eye-wateringly profane rant: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl... 1/

This 2-disc DVD collection is a must-have for any Jake Thackray fan. 4 hours of material. Now only £15 from the Jake Thackray website.

So there IS A twist #TopOfTheThrops

Isn’t this one getting very weird? #TopOfTheThrops

AND JOAN SIMS! #TopOfTheThrops

Jeffrey in deep cover #TopOfTheThrops

ITS ONLY FREDDIE DAVIES #TopOfTheThrops

The plot thickens #TopOfTheThrops

So we’re being led to believe he’s a wrong un. Can’t be that easy, can it? #TopOfTheThrops

Don’t trust a man with suspicious footwear #TopOfTheThrops

That was positively trippy #TheGoodOldDays

DAHN AT YOUR OLD KIT BAG AND SMILE SMILE SMILLLLLLLE BUSH NA NA NA NA NAHHHHHHHHH #TheGoodOldDays

It think he’s digging in for the long haul here … #TheGoodOldDays

Brown tails. It’s a look, Doddy. I’ll give you that #TheGoodOldDays

It’s the lad himself #TheGoodOldDays

Hang on to your lead crystal. #TheGoodOldDays

Ah fuck, there’s two of them ... #TheGoodOldDays