Meghan Markle turning up at Paris Fashion week is more important to the BBC

This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.

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For those with long memories, I believe the AI hype cycle has reached the ‘Boo.com’ stage of hypergrift

As news comes out that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other flotilla members are being tortured in Israeli 'prisons'. I ask you. Do you stand with Greta Thunberg? Spread the message Free Greta Thunberg if you do.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

War criminals are proposing a war criminal as head of.... Gaza. It would be precious comedy if it were not so tragic www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Is there anything more antisemitic than the assertion that opposing genocide on the streets constitutes, by definition, an anti-Jewish hate march? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

It's really looking that way. Speaking of US-financed fascism... bsky.app/profile/rtie...

And guess what else? You know those digital IDs that Blair - & now suddenly Starmer - are so keen on? Guess where that data looks like it will end up? In a £5bn ‘sovereign AI cloud’ that UK govt has signed deal for with…yes, you guessed it! Larry Ellison’s Oracle!! 10/

There are so many questions to be asked about Blair’s connections to Israel, his funding from Ellison & others & the many potential conflicts of interest. But guess what? The Tony Blair Institute ignored multiple emails asking questions &requesting comment. 9/

What will the takeover of TikTok by Tony Blair’s funder - Larry Ellison - & his new business partner, Rupert Murdoch, mean? Well watch & learn. Here’s Bibi Netanyahu spelling it out. Social meds is a ‘weapon’ he says. And the most consequential one of all? TikTok.

Ellison’s son has been on huge US media buying spree but the really big deal is the TikTok. Trump signed exec order last week which will allow Ellison - with new business partner...drum roll...Rupert Murdoch, another staunch supporter of Israel - to buy TikTok 7/

But Larry Ellison is the big beast. He holidays with Netanyahu & even found him a new lawyer. It’s his massive donations to Blair that bankroll much of his institute’s huge global operation: between $476m and $538m. A vast sum for a UK ‘think tank’

And then there’s Len Blavatnik. Another funder of Tony Blair & another friend of Netanyahu. Blavatnik is a prominent investor in Israeli defence tech & bought Israel’s Channel 13 following a personal request from Netanyahu who complained it was too left leaning. 5/

In Israel, Ellison’s Oracle partners with Rafael Systems whose weapons are being used in the Gaza genocide & implicated in the deaths of British aid workers. But that’s just the start… 3/

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Critics say this 'major influence operation' could culminate in US tech firms taking control of UK's most valuable data, the NHS 'This govt has failed to understand the value of Britain’s data.. they listen to what TBI says - and what Oracle wants,’ says Baroness Beeban Kidron

Revealed: How Tony Blair is lobbying on behalf of tech billionaire Larry Ellison We expose former PM’s unprecedented influence over the UK govt & how this is shaped by the interests of his Institute’s largest donor & one of the world’s richest men www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... Thread

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury. My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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What 4 Labour policies have disappointed Liverpool the most? Did I guess right?

Miltonian economics not working out so well for Argentina and their hard right populist state smashing leader. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This 'anonymous memo' has Glassman and Walney's fingerprints all over it and is laden with swivel-eyed conspiracism and paranoiac blade-sharpening. If this is what passes for political insight in the Labour Party, they are beyond saving.

TikTok owned by Rupert Murdoch and Larry Ellison is going to be wall to wall Trump and Netanyahu apologia, and ethical people still on there should begin contemplating their exit

Through Tony Blair he aims to do this to us. Chilling.

"Finland has not ended homelessness, but it made massive progress with its Housing First strategy. After dramatically reducing the problem, it now aims to eliminate long-term homelessness by 2027" (There was a small increase in 2025 for the first time in over a decade.) Why can't the UK do this?

Maga fascists appear to be graceless losers.

Smells like corrupt collusion between police and senior politicians. Message to the country: Morgan McSweeney is above UK law.

"Kevin Hollinrake, the Tory chairman, said: 'Morgan McSweeney has been caught red-handed hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds which helped install Keir Starmer as Labour leader. This latest scandal at the very heart of government is incredibly serious'."

Bear in mind that one of the authors of that book was in the byline for the Times article about Corbyn’s Terrifying Facebook Hate*, the one that a) said it was a collaborative project with “whistleblowers”, and b) we now know “the whistleblowers” were literally Morgan McSweeney himself.

On the one hand, it is *incredibly* aggravating that this is being Noticed now, and Noticed via being passed to a Tory MP to make it look like a new story in particular. On the other, this letter is a Who’s Who of people who spent early 2024 bragging to journos about how smart they’d been.

THE SUNDAY TIMES: Morgan McSweeney under pressure as book revives donations scandal The Fraud raises questions about Labour Together and its failure to declare thousands in contributions Paywall: archive.today/nBXqD

" A Labour lawyer advised Morgan McSweeney, Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, that a failure to disclose £700,000 of donations should be marked as an “admin error”, a leaked document has revealed." [Times]

SNP call for inquiry into Morgan McSweeney donations row www.thenational.scot/news/2549059...

I think, in the end, the Tories will be doing us a favour, if they get rid of McSweeney.

How Morgan McSweeney lobbied to get Murdoch invited to banquet They sat next to each other Very interesting given the airing of the first episode of The Hack on ITV this week mol.im/a/15118175?i...

#McSweeney Watch the Labour Right deny Morgan faster than Judas did Jesus 😂

Will be see Morgan McSweeney arrested this week? Or is UK law optional for amoral Irishmen?

Whilst data centres consume vast amounts of electricity, they also consume oceans of water. Where are the plans for new reservoirs by Keir Starmer’s govt? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Technology that is useless.

Truth is the only really ground-breaking tech from the past 15 years was smartphones and there's nothing on the horizon that will make the same mark. But that won't stop tech bros from using up more and more energy to fuel AI and more and more and drinking water to cool their data centres.

If the data centres dont drain us of power and water first No one asked for AI.. its been dumped on us by billionaires and mega corps

The fightback against US data centres and AI needs to be underway.

It is unfathomable to me that, in a rapidly and *dangerously* overheating world, we are allowing a destructive technology to guzzle this much water. And governments are making *people* ration their water use so that these miserable companies can use more. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

American firms own nearly a third of Canada’s data centres: Experts warn that reliance on foreign-owned data centres poses risks for sovereignty. theijf.org/american-fir...

This corrupt Labour Government hates the people of the UK. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...