Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

The real question is why anyone would care what David Frost thinks.

After ten years of the Conservatives’ Brexit experiment, the British public have had enough. Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million ‘reward’ for the damage he’s caused, while the rest of us are paying for it dearly. It’s time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Thanks to @stevepeers.bsky.social for writing this for @irishexaminer.bsky.social on the CJEU reference to algorithms that could change social media… www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The scenes we saw in Belfast yesterday were horrific, and people are right to be concerned. The Government must take action against tech billionaires like Elon Musk, who control the divisive and harmful social media algorithms that are inciting violence and hatred.

This is what Popper's Paradox of Tolerance is really about, not hurty words. If we don't take measures to defend our democracy, we will lose it.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

Imagine being the government of the UK and not having banned Twitter. Twiddling your thumbs while a foreign fascist foments violence on the streets and preaches ethnic cleansing and an end to democracy.

Let's do a chaotic braindump thread of my takes on social media regulation:

I despair at the state of our party on this. No interest in listening to experts or thinking about actually liberal responses; just clutch those pearls a bit harder, show how ignorant you are of the technology you're talking about, and throw away some more votes from the under 40s. Wild.

"There are almost no truly public spaces on the internet. Everywhere we congregate is privately owned, even if it operates as a public space. But we seem somehow content to accept them as fiefdoms in their own right, beyond the reach of government."

The total line up is at least Laurence Fox, Tommy Robinson, Nick Tenconi, Paul Golding, and Luke Jahn. This was not community anger at policing. It was an organized, national far-right riot.

Please just ban everyone from social media.

The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.

Labelling this "exact" is very 16th Century LinkedIn.

As I’ve argued for a long time, we’ve been making life harder for kids for decades, from messing with the environment to letting cars and money dominate, to turning schools into qualification mills, from ASBOs to hatred of almost every aspect of youth culture. All of that needs to change. It won’t.

This truly is appalling. A massive racist would say they feel 'distressed' at black people being in the same space as them, and obviously what you do there is throw the massive racist out and ban them. This is pandering to bastards like they did to racists in the American South. Absolutely fuck this

"Net-zero is killing our economy" – Richard Tice, MP for Boston and Skegness

Well, people liked David Miliband, didn't they?

Other major differences between British Steel and a University: 1. government, not ‘the market’, sets the price of education, 2. gov determines who can buy the product (through visas and other access costs). 3. gov regulates how the product should be delivered (OFS). Stalin would be proud.

Please remember that the purpose of the OSA was not child safety, it was to create a captive market for the AV and content scanning sectors, and sales pitches were what shaped the law, as I wrote here. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that... They want their ROI and they want it now.

Important announcement: a staycation is where you have time off and stay at home. It is not a holiday away from home in the UK. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Historians of early modern medicine 🤝 pond owners

So many leeches 🫨

I regret to inform everyone that marketers have been using a word that basically means ubiquitous and pervasive computing. Which is fine, conceptually. But. The word they have made is 'phygitalization' 🤮.

GenAI has been a petrol can into the epistemic dumpster fire of US discourse. A nation that has systemically lost any grasp of what truth is.

Why don’t you ask your toaster oven what it thinks about Six-Day War?

Interesting UK GDPR question arising from GivEnergy’s administration. GivEnergy Software Ltd (incorporated 2023) is now charging pre‑existing customers (installs dating back to 2021) for cloud services, relying on historical data.

“Will you stand for sovereignty and democracy“ asks a man with no respect for either, giving a speech intended to undermine both to a crowd of authoritarians. I want to see European leaders returning the favour by openly & materially supporting US Democrats - see how these cocks respond.

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

I for one welcome the new Greater Eastleigh Unitary Authority.

Even Kemi realises that all her political instincts are a bit mad, and then when she tries to compensate by following the polls she just looks directionless and a bit desperate.

UK governments have to stop treating young people "as the balancing item in every fiscal and political calculation and start rebuilding a deal in which effort is rewarded, housing is attainable and opportunity is not rationed by age."👏 @chriscurtis94.bsky.social

All this ballache just to undo a fraction what the economy-wrecking Tories did. Stop faffing around, just REJOIN. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

All of us Brits laughing, while our politicians argue about badgers on bank notes

PUT GERONIMO THE ALPACA ON THE TENNER, YOU COWARDS

It's safe to assume everything on the surveillance glasses is streamed up and stored, and also handed to the state. Just as they have always done with audio from spy appliances.

Crowds in the Iranian town of Galleh Dar toppled a monument dedicated to the Islamic Republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as flames rose from the roundabout and onlookers cheered. The death of Khamenei has exposed a deep fault line in a country: reut.rs/4r4GYYK

One has to hope that the door will hit him on the way out.

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

We are back in the airport. 🙄

They found a plane, and got the engineers to sign it off. But now it doesn't work, so the engineers probably shouldn't have signed it off. Back to the stand 😩

My flight is delayed because basically BA forgot to take the aircraft out of the hangar 🤦‍♂️

Minneapolis is under siege from our authoritarian regime. Another person was murdered this morning. Everyone who isn't speaking out, every lawmaker and leader who isn't throwing their body into the gears to stop ICE... Which side are you on?

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

Every single person doing ICE watch in Minnesota is doing it knowing that they’re putting their bodies and lives on the line and every ICE agent and cop would shoot at their shadow if it startled them. That’s not professionalism, that’s being a coward.