Looks like GB is stalling in its attempts to align more closely with the EU.

Oh look! It’s that lubbly jubbly Give-them-our-NHS-data Palantir company again! www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

I thought they’d shut those Metaverse avatar thingies down.

One last post about Nick Symonds’ “handling of Brexit“ interview. For a politician there are 2 outcomes: 1) They survive the interview without a fatal (🙄) soundbite 2) How the public perceive it. Outcome 1 trumps outcome 2. Massively. But (here’s the rub) … 🧵1/2 👇

See also the responses to this post. bsky.app/profile/pete...

I have an American constitution joke but it seems to mean different things to different people.

Imagine the well thought out response that Farage would give to a sudden crisis if he were ever to be PM.

Vote Reform! Bring back black snot!

In the Court of the Criminal King - including 21st Century Schizoid Man. (The King Crimson album described the devastating effects of war and conflict, and the perceived futility of human efforts against unchecked authority and corrupt leadership.) Just saying.

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Yet another cost of poor public transport. One bus: up to 80 cars. One freight train: a mile of lorries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just saying…

" ..... like I do (you idiots)." 🤮 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Further, the sources claim that Palantir can see far more information than the government realises. Palantir can aggregate data from across different government datasets to generate top secret information, the Nerve has been told."

As the Hungarian elections draw near it is important that all Hungarians understand how their Putin-loving, Ukraine-backstabbing prime minister, Victor Orban, has squirrelled away his countrymen’s wealth to build himself a little dacha in the country. youtu.be/HiW9r1M32ug?...

I see that US Foreign Policy is trending and am struggling to work out how the word ‘policy’ got in there.

Happy Mothers Day!! youtu.be/0cD3c-h1dGU?...

I read that a Green energy transition would be cheaper than the oil price shock that is racing around the world at present (and has done before) (and will do again). It would also result in fewer dead children, and allow reallocation of defence spending, and suck the air out of fascist windbags.

When I look at Bluesky in the morning (UK time) the ‘Trending’ items are pretty well always Sports and Entertainment (as below), and then later in the day Politics elbows its way into pole position. Wha gwan?

Bloody hell America. Trump is mad! Do something. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A day in the life of Nigel Farage … First - Something is in the news. Then - Nigel Farage: “Angry Angry Flippant Angry Lie Angry Sarcastic Lie Angry“. Almost immediately - Media: Nigel Farage Nigel Farage Nigel Farage Nigel Farage Nigel Farage. The next day - Repeat.

Photoshop!

Makes you think (alongside a few other bits of evidence) that the state of Israel (note that I said the State Of Israel - not Jewish People!!!!!!) is a very very unpleasant entity that the UK government ought to distance itself from - and roundly condemn.

"Mr Trump. What did you decide to do when you realised that the Epstein Files were not dropping out of the news?" "I ran".

Hey! Let’s invite this man’s company into the data-driven nervous system of the UK. Seems like a cool dude. 😳😔🤮

“Well done my little Trumpkin - you are serving your Russian master oochin horrowshow“

The spring Science Café is coming. Thursday 26th March, 7.30pm at Otley Courthouse. A relaxed and enjoyable evening of science for all with three diverse topics. Full details at otleysciencefestival.co.uk/science-cafes/

Oh! Woke (verb): To replace a picture of Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver. I always thought it was an adjective, and had no idea about the Churchill / beaver connection - but if Nigel says so ...

This is a bloody great headline! More of this kind of thing please. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/kemi-baden...

Yup!!!

I know a few youth clubs and music venues that could make very very good use of £75k. Just saying. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Hello Ofcom! Are you there? Do you exist? If you don’t push back hard against this deliberate racist drivel (which you don’t), then GBNews will continue to deliver ever more extreme trash.

Well at least our children won’t get blown up. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%. Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We had a word for this kind of person when we were kids - someone who, for example, stormed off home with his bat and stumps when he was bowled out in cricket. Mardy! www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Appropriate!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Takes a self-obsessed, self-important, messianic war mongerer to support a self-obsessed, self-important, messianic war mongerer.

Dare to be first. Atrévete a ser el primero (I think!).

"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside". Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...

If you ask AI questions … you maybe need to ask yourself a few questions. Musk would like Grok to replace other knowledge sources so that he can monetise enquiry and manipulate truth. www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/comment/opin...

If an article has the “Why is everyone … “ formulation, or similar, in its headline I don’t read it - because it’s obviously rubbish. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Until quite recently it was relatively easy to rank the three superpowers in terms of morality, legality, trustworthiness, sanity, freedom and a bunch of other desirable things. Now - I ain't so sure.

Somewhere out there, there is a joke about The Daily Telegraph ( The Daily Telegraph!!!!) being bought by the Germans - but I have neither the wit, the energy, nor the skin-in-the-game to be bothered to come up with it. Here's my reaction in advance though ... 😂😂😂 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

I’ve just realised that the Washington Post’s Slogan - “Democracy Dies in Darkness“ - has morphed from being a warning into being a declaration of intent.

It must be galling for Republican voters that Republican Senators have voted to reduce the powers of Congress as a whole so that they can’t even have a say on the country going to war. Don’t know why anyone would bother voting for one of the self-neutered ninnies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is there any evidence that the Home Secretary joined Labour by mistake? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Feeling blue? Here’s GBNEWS latest accounts. (Figures in brackets are losses).

Bondi beached. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Get yourself a cuppa, sit down, and spend 5 minutes on this (yet another excellent Emma Monk) thread. You will learn how certain parts of the press and media, and some political talking heads, work. And hopefully you will then call them out for ever more.

Spain bounds up list of hot tourist destinations as threat of coachloads of baseball hat wearing Americans asking for "Pie-ella" recedes.