Friday 12 June 7pm The Social Hub Glasgow - Entry free- Do get along if you can - 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2617242...

Exactly right. What makes it worse is that Hunt was blowing up the public finances to set a political trap for the Opposition. We can criticise Labour for walking into that trap, rather than having the courage to call it out, but it was a shameful way for a Chancellor to act & has done lasting harm

Today is the anniversary of D-Day and at the American cemetery in Normandy, French caretakers will have collected sand from Omaha Beach and rubbed it into the gravestones to highlight the names of the departed. They do this for all 9,388 soldiers who lay there. #DDay80

This reminds me of someone on tumblr saying that using AI for school/university is like using a fork lift at the gym. Sure it lifts weights up and down, but that isn't really the point.

I’m reminded of Sandie Peggie, whose persistent well-documented racism is glossed over by most on the anti-trans side, who‘d otherwise have to make the case that someone with a storied history of being abusive and bigoted intermittently became sensible and enlightened.

Great alt text game here!

Journalists have spent far less effort hounding the MP who had an affair with a nuclear sub commander and whose husband has been arrested for spying for China than they have on hounding Nicola Sturgeon after a £2 million investigation cleared her of any wrongdoing.

If Prem Rugby had any commercial nous they‘d be marketing home and away games v Spain. Who wants to travel to Twickenham? 5 1/2 hours via rail replacement. Weekend in Bilbao or Barcelona? Yes please! Ben Calveley, Lions warm up v Spain, please 🙏.

Enough of the nonsense. The list of items Murrell bought is interesting - I'm not sure if someone gave me a set of Lalique salt and pepper shakers, I would realise how much they cost - but trying to pin this on his wife although not unexpected, is politically motivated and probably sexist.

Is this the answer to incompetence now? Just declare things to be 'ungovernable'? Is BP ungovernable? Chair’s ousting over ‘bullying’ fuels fresh cycle of chaos - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

Uh, did the Pope just declare the Butlerian Jihad?

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone. (Was so tempted to put a pic of my 10 year old, but I am afraid she might see it and beat me up)

Great to see this rebuilt

This is it. Living a happy life is the best revenge because it focuses on what is in your control, how you live your life. E Roosevelt "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent", or as I tell my daughter "if you wouldn't ask them for advice, why would you listen to their criticism?".

Honestly, I think this is an unvarnished public good here. Man elected on platform of simplism finds that things are complicated and actually ... that's good. Next week he discovers social care.

My favourite TTRPG classes: 1. Cheerful wizard 2. Emotionally stunted assassin 3. Past his prime gunslinger 4. Jack-of-all-trades picaresque rogue 5. World weary spy

Leaving aside the nonsensical sentence, the real giveaway that this is AI is the run on list divided by comma that just doesn't go anywhere. Humans, even poor writers, don't write like this!

Fascinating. Pretty sure a UKG source described price caps as "undeliverable" during the Holyrood election campaign when it was in the SNP manifesto. UK Treasury pushes supermarkets to cap food prices - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

You can't be a liberal and a communitarian simultaneously! Can words be allowed to mean something?

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

An unanticipated danger of ambient AI: converting a the statement “female mail man” into a “Patient is a 26 year old biological male identifying as a female” #MedSky

Yes, though I would caveat that this was a trend in the US, the private equity guys moved in and started systematically sucking the blood out of renters. So need to keep an eye on things. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

To quote Kevin Bridges "You know how arseholes think other people are arseholes?"

2nd sentence asks: "Why do we tax ourselves at ever greater levels to sustain this fiscal Leviathan?" If I were writing a "progressive case for welfare reform" (& I agree such a case exists) I would not start by making a claim which is not only false but debunked by *my article's own chart*..

This is because they have not read the Illiad, have only ever watched the movie Troy and think that Patroclus is Achilles' cousin!

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

I will never understand how Keir reconciles his self-conception as a good man doing a good job as prime minister with “my premiership had to be brought to the brink of death for me to say this”.

Judging by the conversations I’ve just had in Makerfield my bus theory is correct (also true from chatting to people in Wigan a few weeks ago)

I know it isn't amenable to facts, but if there's any chance someone will listen point out that cycle lanes don't cause congestion, cars do. They've been incredibly careful in Glasgow not to reduce junction capacity, which is the main factor in road capacity. Lanes between junctions barely matter.

A friend sent me this and this is totally a job I could do, because having read everything except A History of Florence, if he were alive today, in any given situation, Machiavelli would be ranting excitedly about his 40k minis.

Uh huh..........tenner says that suit is never filed.

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The seating arrangements for the seventh session of the Scottish Parliament have been agreed. Parly officials stress the layout carries no status implications, particularly for the two parties tied on seats.

People, we deserve better than this shite. Even if you are not supportive of Zack Polanski and his party, this has revealed two things. The poor quality of journalism in this country, that is in urgent need of reform and how the establishment want the status quo to remain unchanged

This piece is getting a lot of criticism from the pro-Israel crowd and I just wonder how low you have to sink to read something so harrowing from such a respected paper and have the reaction 'it's not true'.

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

Starmer’s defenders are doing their utmost this morning to remind us that the overriding loyalty of British government is not to the electorate or parliament but to the bond markets.

The Starmer stans are putting together quite the 'stabbed in the back' narrative at the moment. That always ends well.

This is like that moment in The Death of Stalin when Beria starts shouting that he has files on all of them and Malenkov doesn't realise he means him too.

As my mate's granddad used to say of football games between rivals of his team - lets hope for a nil all draw with lots of injuries.

Sione has had 4 games and a load of injuries. I think you need to give him a bit more time than one six nations campaign.

Yes women can have a penis. A great many countries (UK, IE, DE) have laws which allow one to change legal sex without any genital surgery requirement, ie they let you legally become a woman while keeping your penis! "Can a woman have a penis?" "Yes, we voted for that. Next"

Think this is broadly right and why those in Labour who advocate chasing Reform votes don't even understand what their answer to Reform should be, beyond shouting at minorities.

Breaking my 'no alt text no share' rule here because David Attenborough's relationship to the Open University is really important. In the image below, it shows a smiling Attenborough, binoculars in hand, looking out of a vehicle. It is captioned David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth.

So......................who is going to get sacked this time?

I think 'digital by default' has had wider negative consequences than the obvious issues of digital exclusion. Losing the footprint and tangible touch points of the state makes it more abstract, less available, less good. It's a mistake to focus on GOV.UK as an app and not on the High Street as well

Already heard of one "person meant to vote Green, actually voted for Independent Green Voice" cockup, so massive, massive congrats to the Electoral Commission for letting a second election where a fake party led by a holocaust denier gets to confuse voters and distort results, outrageous

Hello this is my precious baby, I can get pretty close to guaranteeing you this will have more information than any broadcaster source because I bet you they still, on the 7th devo election, won't break down the list results by constituency, which is *essential* information!

Polls will close in TWENTY MINUTES! If you haven't voted and your polling place is nearby, get thee to a voting both, go! Even if it hits 10pm as long as you have joined the queue to vote you will be allowed to do so. Go! You don't need ID to vote, as long as you are registered you're good!