I would like all men (in this instance, yes all men) to do this, particularly those that I am unfortunate enough to work with

The weird silver lining here is that they’re so desperate to paint themselves as the victim that they have to use AI, because there’s nothing in reality that points to it otherwise.

Have they thought about banning over 65s from social media? It’s time

This is hilarious and also, the complete rebuttal to "don't rewrite history" For a thousand years we said the wrong emperor built the wall across Northern England. If you don't know the story, it's brilliant

Churchill's only been on the bank note for 8 years. The majority of people who even *might* have learned who Churchill is from the fiver are too young to be trusted with a fiver.

It's the 30th anniversary of the Dunblane massacre today. This article has a good account of how a tragic school shooting pushed the UK towards tighter gun control. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fantastic write-up from @thebristolcable.bsky.social on the rise and fall of "Bristol Patriots", covering the assorted nazis, child abusers and violent criminals that have made up their ranks, and how, between local activists, researchers and independent journalists this group has been opposed.

It's a case study for antifascists across the country for how to oppose these "patriots" groups - don't give them any good faith, don't give them any plausible deniability, don't give them any breathing space, don't give them an inch of ground, and don't give them any forgiveness.

The collapse of "Bristol Patriots" demonstrates how a sustained and tactically diverse campaign by militant antifascists, mainstream antiracists, unions and local campaign groups, OSINT researchers and independent journos can fragment the far right, even with the power of the police behind them. 2/

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

Less than six months to go till my new book comes out (On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Dan is right, any approach focusing on immigration status, nationality or ethnicity of victims and perpetrators is a barrier to addressing structural root causes of severe exploitation. Regardless of citizenship status, exploitation thrives wherever isolation & lack of safety net closes down options

NEW Land and Expand - how Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence What a close reading of public domain documents tells us about two concerning contract awards Detailed post by me, following-up on my FT column emptycity.substack.com/p/land-and-e...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

“We are forced to stay despite the danger, when we defend our land, and we do so peacefully. None of us carries weapons. All of us carry peace and goodness and love.” These were the words of Father Pierre al-Rahi one day before Israel killed him in Lebanon today on March 9.

The "cide" in genocide means "killing". As in killing a whole people (a genus) rather than homicide meaning killing a person (a homo). The right wing in the UK are deliberately dismantling an understanding of what genocide means by associating it with migration patterns and cultural evolution.

The word "rage" does not begin to cover it. The phrase "we told you so" does not begin to cover it. These people are murdering for fun and the best we got for our warnings was being snidely eyerolled at on Twitter and in real life. And the ones who rolled their eyes will mostly be fine. We won't.

Same for Palantir - they should not be offered contracts by govt departments or agencies in the UK which gives them leverage over critical state functions. It's an overtly evil organisation run by fascists.

Renewable energy keeps prices down, strengthens resilience to price shocks, helps avoid climate change and saves on fuel import costs... should more countries follow Spain? Via Euronews: Spain’s renewables revolution will keep energy bills low even as gas prices soar www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/s...

Now only watching the Oscars to see how Matt Berry pronounces Timothee Chalamet

This escalated fast, in a good way.

Last night’s launch event at @bookhaus.bsky.social was so much fun! Thanks so much to the shop for having us, @jamieclarketype.bsky.social for running the chat, and everyone who came out. Still sourcing some photos, but @cityeditionstudio.co.uk’s was the first one on Bluesky!

Spain's odio tracker! Spain is meeting our perilous moment with a string of progressive policies. If the rest of the EU, UK etc would follow, we'd be in a far better place

Blair's think tank is funded by Larry Ellison (Oracle). Ellison is mentioned nearly 400 times in the #Epstein files. Has the UK done any due diligence on who they letting mess with public services?

That what we're good for is absolutely nothing.

Sandy Sandilands in the desert? Who named him? JK Rowling?

It turns out that relying on the sun and wind and stuff is better for the UK than relying on petrodictatorships Who could have guessed

Indeed. GenAI can produce history-shaped objects, but it simply cannot and never could do *history*, no more than I could send a robot to the gym and hope to be selected for the All Blacks. As R.G. Collingwood put it, history "is a labour of active and therefore critical thinking"

The axis of evil “Autonomous Power Corporation, which does business as Powerus and "builds and scales autonomous drone systems for military and commercial use", is set to merge with Nasdaq-listed golf course group Aureus Greenway Holdings”

I still think about this a lot.

Over two thirds of the British public back proposals for solar panels to be installed on all new houses 87% believe govt policy should ensure new homes are designed to cut energy costs www.businessgreen.com/news/4526696...

Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof. That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy. The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

We are excited that Gafael Tir: A History of Land Rights and Protest in Wales, a tie-in event for the Bristol Radical History Festival has been confirmed for Fri 17 April at Cube Cinema. Further info & bookings here: hdfst.uk/e149682. #BRHF2026

And another massacre post-My Lai: in 1988 the US fired two missiles at the civilian flight Iran Air 655, while it was transmitting civilian identification codes, killing all 290 occupants, including 65 children.

Someone corrected me and pointed out that the Minab massacre follows the Amiriyah massacre in Iraq in 1991, when the US massacred over 400 civilians taking refuge in a shelter.

“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.

Remembering the pile-on I got from Labour shills when I said demand had gone up at the food bank I volunteer at. Had to block about 10 of them for being so aggro with *me* for even mentioning it was on Starmer's watch

Absolutely searing deconstruction of someone who is simply just total scum.

feels as sensible as breathing doesn’t it

The extremism is capitalism and colonialism ruling our nation to the point that fascism is being ushered in to help maintain control. There is nothing extremist about caring for our planet, opposing genocide and freedom to live in peace. The state is the extremist here, not the people.

I still don't know what ANY other politician's home looks like, but I could describe Corbyn's from memory because it was on the TV and in the newspapers so much

The Tories oversaw the degradation of UK gas storage capacity - 2010 to 2017. Thatcher privatised the gas and oil industry - 1982 to 1986. Thatcher closed the collieries - 1986 to 1991. This woman is an idiot - 1960 to 2026

Long, wearingly obvious. Includes finding out that two new datacentres was putting some chips into hired space in someone else's datacentre. It looks like billions of pounds going on magic beans

Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.

Labour thinking they can capture the Reform vote. Lol

I am 61, 2 years younger than the first comsat (Telstar 1). Before Telstar 1, the only way to get video across the Atlantic the day it was recorded involved shipping tapes (or film!) aboard a jet. QE2's coronation was filmed and reels of film made it to Australia within 48 hours aboard RAF bombers.