So, rather than leave the spotlight on Labour in-fighting, Reform UK Ltd announces Braverman has joined them. Slow handclaps all round.

Suella Braverman defects to Reform. Gasps in astonishment. 🧐

Oh dear Christ! It’s not a “psycho-drama” it’s a tawdry “Party Political drama”. Starmer/Burnham

Quick amend for clarity: “US troops in Vietnam during a war they lost-style death cards…”

What’s UKIP’s position on the UK receiving plane loads of political refugees from third world states like the USA?

I was not expecting Starmer to block Burnham.

UPDATE: @startribune.com reports that state records show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old U.S. Citizen executed by ICE agents this morning in Minneapolis, was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

@janeduke.com Get you in the newspaper!

Israel bans white Western journalists from Gaza (I have volunteered to go there) so it can murder brown Arab journalists with impunity - mind you, I'd say they'd have no qualms about killing us too, if they had the chance. And the West's response? Silence and complicity.

I am tired of seeing colleagues murdered, mourned & quickly forgotten. Every single media report from #Gaza, Palestine & Israel, regardless of subject matter, should include a paragraph about them and saying that Israel does not allow foreign reporters to work there, severely limiting press freedom.

UK broadcasters, can you just stop broadcasting his speeches Just précis the actual facts he manages to say. Or do the Margaret Thatcher/IRA thing but have the voice actor inhale helium.

@darach.bsky.social a new Motherfoclóir podcast! 🫠😀

Jack Smith, who quietly worked to convict Trump, is ready for his close-up

I'm compiling a rather large guide to upcoming books about food and cooking for my newsletter. It'll be out soon!

Amazing photo. The alt text is packed with extra detail and context.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Alt text = Long ago Met far away On an endless plain Far away And Long ago Sang once, sang again: ‘Long away And far ago Are the places That we’ve been; Far ago And long away And nowhere In between’

I wrote this short story about an obsession. With food and rice. And perfection. I like it. You might like it as well, who knows. chrisbulow.uk/2026/01/a-fa...

Sound advice from @timhayward.bsky.social in this weekend's @financialtimes.com about cooking in an iron pan - "if anything sticks, ....wait, and it will usually detach itself." Same applies to our spun iron pans - no need for expensive alternatives. www.ft.com/content/edc5...

I love that the literal translation of escalator into Irish is “living stairs”

Can we please stop accepting it when broadcasters and other media call it “AI hallucinations”? It’s AI bugs. AI errors. Also when interacting with AI, the first thing to tell it is to Stop referring to itself in the first person. It is not a person.

Just read this on, well, guess where? "When we see the imagery of an elephant saving a tiger’s life—even in an AI-generated representation—it strikes a deep chord because it disrupts our assumptions." These people* are nuts. *A.I. evangelising fundamentalists.

After four years, our Horizon Europe project INCITE-DEM draws to a close. Come join us at our closing event in Brussels: Shaping the Future of Democracy! More info on how to register or join online in the 🧵below

Well who could possibly have imagined that A.I. could do such a thing! Or the Plod would employ someone so incredibly lazy? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP V BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION - a thread This thread will be updated over time. A far more detailed version at my Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/trump-v-bb... - copied to my personal blog davidallengreen.com/2026/01/trum... This thread is of major developments.

Just been turned down for a job because I have "a wealth of experience". Adding that to my list of euphemisms for "too old".

How the hell do you get off a starter pack???

Who is this A.I. winker* on Radio 4 Today? *sorry, I "hallucinated" I didn't make a mistake.

Removed my novel from Amazon. It’s about the power of strangers to defeat grief and fascism. It’s set in a country town in England during the ‘70s when the National Front were trying to be more palatable to the average voter. About 20 people wanted to buy it. Also, Amazon is monstrous. #Books

Short stories, factual writing. All free to read. All with zero A.I. timwrite.net

Oh… bsky.app/profile/malw...

Updating my Mac to Tahoe. Will report back if anybody gives a shit. Ta ra readers x

Not gently stirring risotto takes all the lovely meditative content meant out of cooking it in the first place. It’s like making risotto without a glass of wine handy. I don’t care about your no knead bread either, well, I do - bread dough should be stretched and folded. Otherwise, where’s the fun?

Good morning here is your emergency sloth

Having used WordPress for a long time, after using Drupal, I’m enjoying Joomla a lot. Erm, that’s it.

Alt text: A screenshot from an unnamed source. Text reads: Mr Musk said this week: "Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content".

I got one of the "Batch Lady" books to see how I could pre-prep some meals and freeze them. But it basically boils down to... "Have you considered mixing pasta with a sauce?" Everything looks so bland and horrible in it.

Farage says he will now vote against scrapping the two-child limit. In case it benefits “foreign-born people”. It’s not just the racism, it’s the out-of-control personal greed, combined with the staggering meanness. He’s a repulsively inadequate man. www.thetimes.com/article/0ab2...

It took several prompts but I think ChatGPT finally got it ;-/ I asked it several times for an outline map of The Republic of Ireland in 1923. There was no formal Republic until the Republic of Ireland Act, 1948. I then asked for a diagram of the human body, of course it defaulted to male. Voila!

The deft, callous pivot from "I will take no lectures" to "I will shed no tears".

First 'Dapple Scrumping' of the year. I talk about how I plan my reduction prints and also record the process, as I have long since abandoned any idea that I will remember how I did something a week later.

@lea-stelzhaupt.bsky.social - I've deleted my repost and had a word with myself about gullibility.

Absolutely this.

Not only a fun post but also an object lesson in great alt text writing.

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Q: Is the administration really willing to risk the NATO alliance by potentially moving ahead with a military operation? MARCO RUBIO: The president always retains the option -- every president -- to address it through military means

It's tin helmets time lads, as my dad used to say. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... Or maybe it'll all blow over in the morning, as my mum used to counter.

Alt text - a story from IGN - text reads. PlayStation is exploring the possibility of letting an Al take over your game, to help you if you're stuck. bit.ly/4aFW2aS

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

He’s actually insane isn’t he… and his gangsters.