One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms). But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

4,414 Allied soldiers gave their lives on those beaches and in the first day of the operation. Thousands more would be killed in the coming weeks. Instead of saluting them this pettiest of men, with the smallest of minds and the most fragile of egos just wants to snipe like some two bit troll on X

What, no rioting? No divisive speeches from Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe or Tommy Robinson? No one blaming an entire race for the crime? Must be a case of that Two-Tier politics…

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

Labour defending Twitter is a good example of why they are so ineffective in government: utterly unwilling to take decisions which have any controversy attached.

At this point it's basically pathlogical. The site is once again being used to whip up race riots and people with responsibility for national security are on it merrily whistling away.

It is objectively insane that Cabinet ministers do not understand simple engagement data points or how algorithms work. Or that if the government moved to, say, BlueSky, the entire UK media would too.

Lammy says he doesn't think the Govt should come off X because that's where a lot of people get their information. FFS.

But is it deeply contentious? Really?

The US's chances of winning the World Cup do increase greatly if they don't let other teams' players in

Nick Kristof: Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.

The European Commission is taking Ireland to court over its failure to protect environmentally crucial boglands from commercial turf-cutters.

Totally agree, but why the heck are government, politicians and public services still using/posting on Twitter/X? It’s a toxic sewer and its residual utility doesn’t justify staying there (or at the VERY least duplicating posts elsewhere) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage didn't comment on this, not once. He didn't even comment on it when one of his Councillors was fired by Reform for celebrating this attack. Not a single word because the offender was the WHITE type of offender.

“Though the current sense of national decline in the United Kingdom has many parents, few carry more blame for our reduced and chaotic state than Nigel Farage…he promised miracles with a policy that instead delivered misery and retreat.” “Has he been punished by the electorate? Not a bit of it.”

There are not many people I can think of in my worst dreams that would be as colossally awful for their country as Donald Trump has been, if you made the huge mistake of giving them power. But this guy is actually one of them.

Wholly correct. What I'd add is: don't despair, most people, when you say 'his brother had made the 999 call' go 'oh, right, I understand now'.

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

It's not unlike watching current coverage of net zero or the EU prior to 2016 or Boris Johnson's ascent to power or Liz Truss taking control of the Treasury or Donald Trump etc etc. The BBC should be a bulwark against obvious propaganda & demonstrable lies, not an 'impartial' chronicler of it...

Indeed. In the 1960s many more people held racist attitudes but both the government and opposition were consistent in condemning open racism. We now have am emboldened and tolerated minority by both government and opposition.

Just noting that when Sarah Everard was kidnapped and murdered by a police officer and a vigil held for her on Clapham Common, Farage urged people not to attack men or the police.

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

Very good from Starmer.

Today I have mostly been using a tragedy to distract attention from my dodgy financial dealings.

...And we now have a fucking Labour government who can't bring themselves to say "you know what, racism is really bad, actually." FFS. I am SO angry and despondent.

The racism we're seeing across the right today is vile and dangerous but it's also a sign of desperation. Three parties all fighting over the votes of aging authoritarians.

BBC doing this too. "Police pelted with missiles at Henry Nowak protest" smears an innocent victim again Try "Police pelted with missiles after Southampton murder" Inappropriate to call it a "Henry Nowak protest" when his family explicitly call for it NOT to happen. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not sure why the news right now isn't full of the people obviously identifiable from riot footage getting door knocked and dragged out in their keks.

Listen to the people who loved their boy and not the people who want to use it to stir hate.

Racist politicians whip up racist outrage. Widespread disorder ensues. The courts treat widespread disorder with the severity that they have always treated widespread disorder. Racist politicians cry “two-tier justice”, whipping up racist outrage. Rinse. Repeat. It’s so fucking tedious.

This is crazy & incompetent of Meta. Great reporting & story from @404media.co on the dangers of poorly implemented AI support www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

NEW: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account.

In February, Trump purchased over $1 million in Dell stock. Just weeks ago, Trump told everyone to “go out and buy a Dell.” Its stock price is up over 60% since then. Now, Dell has been awarded a $9.7 BILLION Pentagon contract. See the problem here?

Deranged 17 stone, 80 year old man, who lives on burgers and coke said to be in ‘excellent health’… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Revisiting 1966 World Cup. Gordon Banks had a German wife and the final was enjoyed by unsegregated fans, many of whom were trying to kill each other just over 20 years earlier, passed without comment. 2026 and I bet the right wing press and flag shaggers wouldn't be so relaxed.

Must just be some mad coincidence that all the Putin apologists find themselves in a party run by a bloke that really admires Putin

Language matters. #UrbanTruth #StreetsForPeople

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

If you see strangers wearing a mask while traveling and it makes you this irrationally angry, maybe worry about your *own* mental health for a sec

Seeing this one everywhere. HT @dennisgoris.bsky.social

So Trump blew up Obama's deal with Iran, launched a new war, depleted our arsenal, cost us tens of billions, exposed the US as weaker to the world, and ended up just going back to a version of Obama's deal but worse? Do I have that right?

Titanic Completes Mostly Successful Maiden Voyage

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New figures show net migration has fallen considerably. Some will celebrate. Some will continue to use it for scaremongering regardless of the facts. But can I also make the point that a country becoming unattractive for migrants is a signal of that country going down in the development charts.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s Makerfield by-election candidate, Rob Kenyon, had a SECOND deleted social media account, and the archived posts are damning. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/05/21/r...