This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The final line of this story, the one in italics, is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s one hell of a cover…..

Two very different takes on wether Artemis II is safe to fly. Both worth reading in full. Not sure I'd be willing to fly on it. Here's the first: idlewords.com/2026/03/arte...

I hope all those people who said the US had done no planning for war in Iran will now apologise. www.ft.com/content/744e...

Snooker adopting Ref Cam is like your nan buying an Xbox. Utterly unnecessary.

As someone who never took out PPI or bought a car on finance, I feel cheated that I'm not getting compensation for being sensible in the first place.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

The BBC interrupts its wall-to-wall Trump coverage to tell us another of its presenters is a wrong 'un

The Quooker boiling water tap people are running an ad offering a virtual demonstration. Of a tap. You'd need the imagination of a plant pot to not understand how a tap works.

Buster Bloodvessel is 6”2. Which if you ask me is the height of Bad Manners

Every other journalist should walk out in this scenario. No excuses. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

My name is Barry Collins and I approved this message:

The US just banned consumers from buying foreign-made routers. Good luck trying to find one that's actually made in the US. My report for Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

The big vet companies, in cahoots with the pet insurers, have been ripping people off for years. These pathetic measures won't stop that, just make it marginally more transparent: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

Trump’s right, it’s not a war. It’s a get-rich-quick scheme for his pals.

Somewhere out there is a radio DJ who prank called the White House in character as the new Ayatollah and is getting increasingly nervous...

Looks like Microsoft has massively clamped down on the cheapo Microsoft 365 subscriptions you could get on Amazon and elsewhere. All pretty much standard price now.

Because you watched the Rupert Murdoch documentary you might like... Jimmy Savile. I hope Netflix have got good lawyers.

A very long time ago Sony brought out Taylor Swift at CES to show off their 3D TVs and told people to put on the glasses and watch the performance on the TV, and not look at the real Taylor Swift. I think about it weekly.

Kinda shocked they bothered telling anyone, as nobody would have noticed if they'd just pulled the plug

Dear BBC, See if you can resist the temptation to parrot every Trump brain fart. Love and kisses, All of us.

Polymarket and its ilk are a cancer www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

The cost of West Sussex County Council's Oracle rollout has ballooned from £2.6m to £41m. It's staggering how bad government of all levels is at major IT projects. www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/w...

Have spent the morning completely rebuilding my desk set up and now finally may have enough screens*. (*One can never have enough screens)

First bit of sun and people have gone nuts. Blokes in shorts and T-shirts, women in open-toed sandals. It's 7C out there. Calm the hell down. Breathe.

"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

If you don't currently wear glasses, here is a fun* game demonstrating what daily life is like to wear glasses *frustrating

As any journalist will know, you're repeatedly contacted by media directories - in this case Cision - who probably use AI to cobble together a wildly inaccurate profile of you, and then expect you to correct it, so they can earn more money from the fools who buy it. Apparently, I co-own PC Pro.

Who could possibly have seen this coming?

The BBC documentary on Dunblane tonight was an exceptional piece of work.

Trapped in a Kafka-esque situation with O2. My phone has broken and won't switch on so I've ordered a new one. DPD have just attempted to deliver it, but they need a pin. Which was sent to my mobile. So they've taken it away again. I'm on the O2 website trying to work out what to do. Their 'help'

My daughter's GCSE PE homework just asked her to name which sport Neal Foulds played. He's a minor snooker player who retired a year before she was born. Tough gig.

HOW? HOW DO YOU "UNDERSTAND" THIS? MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD?

The BBC's got some front with this story. Its weather app is the absolute worst for showing rain icons on a day when it's only expected to drizzle for ten mins. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A good problem to have? Anthropic admits heavy demand has led to several Claude outages in the past week, as users flee ChatGPT: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Britain first, eh?

Whoever designed this box with the white text on white grid should have been deported. To the moon.

Let's just say the file you receive when you attempt to export your ChatGPT data is not super-helpful... www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Extraordinary crowds as a mass funeral procession begins in Minab, Iran for the 165 school girls & teachers killed in the US/Israeli school strike on Saturday. Many outcomes of this war are uncertain. But a renewed generation of hatred towards the West is now baked in. (🎥 Alireza Akbari)

Think there is something to be written about how bad the news environment has got for people who want to keep up with politics but don't have the time/knowledge to go beyond the flagships.

Bad news for the magazine publishers. Smith's the only place you'll find a lot of titles.

Brewdog was an object lesson in how to nuke a brand. (PS. Its Dark Heart stout is still one of my favourite tipples.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kindle Prime Reading has always been largely dross, but contained the odd gem. It's a gem-free experience these days.

If you're joining the ChatGPT exodus after this weekend's events, you might want to read this: www.forbes.com/sites/barryc...

Gas prices soar after Iran invasion. Who's got huge, unused gas pipelines? Why isn't it our old friend, Vladimir. Is this another of Trump's deals? www.ft.com/content/dac7...

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

If Anthropic is really up for the fight, they should cut off the US government immediately, not work out the six months' notice that Hegseth implies they're taking: www.theverge.com/policy/88663...

So the Greens now have more directly appointed MPs than Reform, so by Chris Mason's political logic, that must make them 'real' opposition to Labour...so I expect to see them represented on every political show the Beeb has to offer henceforth.