Hi. Please fuck off. And then when you've fucked off, fuck off a little bit more.

On an Octopus Energy call. They claim the UK has spent £1.2bn on wasted energy this year, either by paying wind providers to stop generating, or by paying for fossil fuels because we couldn't use the excess energy. Madness.

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

The real challenge in Football Manager 26 would be getting people to actually watch the Met Police. This was their actual attendance at the weekend. #FM26

Wears it like a badge of honour

And the highlights on the BBC are only 30 mins. FFS.

Astonishing polling in this @adamdrummond.bsky.social piece! news.uk.cityam.com/story/238012...

My message to Rachel Reeves ahead of the Budget: Don’t just blame the Brexit damage, fix it.

This is dismal from the Google Play Store. Search for ChatGPT and top of the shop is another AI app with a similar logo that I bet tons of people click on accidentally.

Also, employers increasingly don't want anyone much over 50: if you lose a job in your 50s, you might well be absolutely stuffed, and the small lifeline of the state pension doesn't kick in until your late 60s. This is a big crisis coming down the track. Put as much money as you can into a pension!

Didn't realise Sky had lost rights to The Ashes. Part of the reason I signed up for a year of Now TV was for the cricket.

Looking forward to this @tommcraemusic.bsky.social

Never thought I'd live long enough to see Ofcom's press office emailing me a list of porn sites. (They're starting to fine smut peddlers who aren't implementing the age gating.)

Nvidia's still raking in the dough. Your pension's safe for another week.

This is completely disgusting. Today, the CDC updated their vaccine safety page. It now says: “The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”.

This Grand Designs House of the Year is rubbish. Nobody has got pregnant or decided to build a house out of gerbil fur.

My mother saved for years to go to Corfu she didn't get charitable status for it.

Brave of the Brighton Argus reporters to provide live coverage in those life-threatening conditions

Steve Clarke was still a player the last time Scotland qualified for a World Cup

Scotland: The Rave

Surely the Jocks can't screw this up now...

We are doing our best not to dismember any more journalists with bone saws www.ft.com/content/dc11...

We may have to accept that Scot McTominay is a bit special

Can someone turn Cloudflare off and on again, pls?

Boxing can barely be treated as a sport anymore www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

PS And I do think AI companies should pay for copyrighted materials they train on! PPS there are lots of very valid criticisms and concerns about AI tools and AI tech bros. But when I see people say AI tools are useless I just think they don't know how to use them.

All this government had to do to set itself apart from the carnage that went before was be broadly normal and competent. It's staggering how they got it so wrong.

@garius.bsky.social Thought I'd see if I could teach myself Europa Universalis V via Notebook LM using one of your videos as part of the source material. Some of the slides it generated were amusing re starting in Sweden:

On this… I’ve noticed there’s a certain petrol garage chain where you’re asked every card transaction if you want to donate 25p to charity, and the person behind the till always presses no on your behalf.

A genuine wrestle in my mind whether The Diplomat is better than The West Wing. And there is no higher compliment than that.

He’s running out of dead cats www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The new Steam Machine is not only a very promising gaming PC, it could pose a threat to the console makers too. My story for Forbes here: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Sounds like the investigators didn't have anything (ahem) concrete to go on...

I am so tired of bullshit tech support.

The last line of this letter 👏

Nigel Farage said their flagship council in Kent would be a "shop window" for how they would run the country. Just months after taking over they're now set to slash multiple council committees as they struggle to fill posts after sacking nine of their own councillors bylinetimes.com/2025/11/12/r...

Today Show doing Yesterday in Parliament on the BBC scandal (of course). It covers what Nigel Farage thinks of the BBC even though he couldn't be bothered to appear in Parliament yesterday.

It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback

Let him. Our libel laws are much tougher than he's used to.

Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.

Alan Carr should legit be a spy. Not only did he win Traitors but just by taking his specs off and not smiling he transforms himself into a man with questionable views on Alan Carr

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

For the mother love of God, stop trying to reboot Bullseye.

fireworks going off again. Fortunately Daphne isn't bothered by them but so many animals - pets and wildlife - really suffer when shitwits let them off. They really should only be available to organised, licensed events on specific dates.

I simply do not believe they would have resigned if it was a misleading claim about someone on the left. How is this different to the HIGNFY claims about digital ID a few weeks ago? The BBC literally laughed it off.

Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit. That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.

Is Football Manager 26 as bad the Steam reviews suggest? Here's my verdict on Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

I think I've found the reason Windows 12 isn't here yet