I think this also translates to the UK: "And honestly, I think that many of us have also gotten stuck imagining that we’re also pundits and politicians and somehow responsible for figuring the whole crisis out and having opinions on each new outrage and who should do what."

No. For even if the government cannot recover all its damages and costs here, this case is still a signal to current and potential suppliers that it is willing to enforce it contractual rights. And that is very valuable. Many government suppliers do not believe the government will ever do this.

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

This is the hill I will die on. Information should come (at least also) IN TEXT FORM.

Exciting news! Being slightly overweight might convey immortality. Huge if true.

Nothing to do with digital ID, but on my phone I have an entire folder of apps that I had to install and log into because I needed to use them exactly once, to use transit while I was travelling, or to pay for parking in a place I don't usually go, etc. It's absolutely maddening.

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID. To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Brit cards: what can possibly go wrong? Starmer says the scheme tackles illegal working and makes it easier for the 'vast majority of people' to use vital govt services. But, aside from privacy stuff, vast amount of people - disabled people/families, older people - are already digitally excluded.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

UK: pls can we have a crumb of affordable homes and non-cost-of-living-crisis Starmer: so you're saying you want *spins wheel* ID cards

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Antitrans bigotry is homophobic bigotry is antifeminist bigotry...

Just for comparison, the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times, "homelessness" 627. "cost of living" 719 "housing crisis" 310 You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/

Every journalist in the country incapable of drawing any lines between Story 1: government making a compulsory national database of all your private information and Story 2: hackers holding people to ransom over pictures of their kids at nursery

First thought, was I know I'm tired but I didn't realise I'd slept for 3 years. This is an absolutely crazy way to use and report polling. It should not be getting this kind of priority at this stage in an electoral cycle.

As someone who's been suffering from hepatitis since I picked it up in Peru in May despite being vaccinated. PLEASE, PLEASE take up any and all hepatitis jabs you are offered or recommended whenever they are available. I've been very unwell and would definitely be in hospital without the vaccine.

The "no-one talks about immigration" line is so obviously nonsense. Not only is it one of the single most reported on issues in the media, it is also one of the most talked about in politics, with "immigration" alone referenced more than 1,700 times in the last 12 months in House of Commons. 1/

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Also, we don't have any borders to take control of because we live on a island. We have a coast. Lots and lots of coast. Which we are not about to cover with check points to check any form of ID from whoever happens to land on it.

The constant drive to reduce taxes has always baffled me. The ones that shout the loudest for lower taxes are the first to cry when things stop working.

The UK doesn't have any money, so the plan is to spend many billions of pounds issuing everyone with another form of photo ID. Don't report this as a civil liberties thing, just calculate how many GPs you could get for the same money.

I've just realised this must be why I've been so aggressively advertised a lot of digital project management jobs with the government recently.

One thing about the whole "Brit Card" bullshit that the authoritarians are pushing: We've touched on the likely reaction in Northern Ireland. But remember too that everyone in the Republic of Ireland can also freely move in the UK, and there's no provision for an ID card scheme in the CTA agreement

Living in this country at the moment feels like a really macro version of being in one of those meetings where everyone wants to find someone to blame for a problem instead of a solution to it. But without any power to refocus people's attention back to the practicalities at hand.

Like. As soon as that changes to “cops can stop you and demand to see ID and you can fined/arrested if you don’t have it on you” that’s a whole different thing we’re dealing with.

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

It's not at all clear to me how people who pay workers without the right visa to work in this country cash in hand because it's cheaper and they're easier to exploit are suddenly going to change their ways because of digital ID cards.

yeah I would love to see the polls after say a month of the greens and lib dems getting as much airtime as reform do

I gave the cat a piece of duck from my Chinese takeaway. She's now trying to kill it.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

if inclusivity doesn't make you smile you have no soul. people are just walking around saying 'there are too many Muslims' and getting quoted in national press like that is some kind of normal thing to say. what does that even mean???

This is fabulous

hell yeah everyone should know about the Carpathia, a bad-ass ship with a bad-ass crew

We need better politicians but the threat of violence must discourage so many people who could be really good for us.

Racism really doesn't come from poverty. The poorest places in England are more likely to have low levels of racism than high ones. Most of the racists I've met are on something close to average earnings, or just below.

Part of this though is the IDF neutralised Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran as existential threats to Israel, the first two a year ago. Everything that follows in Gaza is reminiscent of Assad militias destroying and expelling a community after conquering it, like in Ghouta or Daraya.

It's why the scenario of a fracturing of UK politics into several parties of the Left and Right that can't get close to over 200 seats is as if not more likely than a Reform majority

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

I went out out last night. I didn't realise how long it's been since I did this until I spent much of today feeling like I'd been on a weekend long bender. I had one cocktail. I expected to be much older than I actually am before I became old.

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

This. A long time ago I worked for a mortgage company. It left me with a dim view of conveyancing as a profession. I would 100% believe pretty much anyone who said that irregularities with their house sale/purchase were the conveyancers fault unless they they were on video admitting fraud.

Every single time I go to look at Twitter there's about 20 notifications and it's mostly Tommy Robinson. I don't follow him, I don't follow any of his admirers, and yet that's who it wants me to see. Astonishing that the UK government's position on this platform remains "it's fine"

I'm reading an article on motivation. It's really boring. This feels particularly unfair.