A remarkable speech from Naz Shah opening the King's Speech debate: "Someone like me who spent her formative years fighting a campaign to release her mother from prison, who did not have a formal education beyond 12... forced into a marriage at 15... attempting suicide... Yet, here I stand."

Wembley ftw

Anyone interested in standardising political ad libraries on AT? We could get all parties to post (under their legit handle) in this way and have a unified-but-decentralised transparency database that way.

OLG Hamm: Falschangaben eines KI-Chatbots sind dem Unternehmen als eigene irreführende geschäftliche Handlung nach § 5 UWG zuzurechnen www.beckmannundnorda.de/serendipity/...

Why, it’s Noggin the Nog, bless his heart, by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin.

Commission preparing law on licensing content for AI

The demand has caused the price of a kilometer of Chinese fiber-optic to go from $2.33 in 2025 to $5.83 in 2026.

I’m an entry level siren.

PHILIPPINE INTERIOR MINISTER: NOT HERE TO ARREST SENATOR DELA ROSA, HERE TO SECURE HIM

Curious to see what Streeting’s platform will be, and how it will distinguish itself from “roughly the same thing but more me”

In one of the most delicious ironies of recent years, the government has "taken back control of our borders" and banned 7 far right extremists from entering Britain on Saturday, and they are all losing their tiny minds....

If you missed the king's speech in parliament, simply imagine an elderly man dressed as a Christmas decoration being mildly bewildered as he finds himself reading out an insipid Guardian editorial to a Downton Abbey cosplay party.

It weird that we’ve all just accepted that stuff we own will push advertising at us all the time.

Sky News has described Wes Streeting as a “working class extrovert”. I mean…they’ve seen Wes Streeting, right?

Der US-Präsident macht Geschäfte mit seiner Familie und mit Bekannten. Damit kommt er Plänen der EU und europäischen Energiegesetzen in die Quere.

10/10 headline. No notes.

Perhaps the Labour Party could take 5 minutes out of its busy infighting schedule and let this be news for a bit

This is why people hate you

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Camilla has cloned herself.

How to hear ~10 ppl shout "STFU" in as many languages: or, Boomers Strike Again. Tried a nap pod at Munich airport during a long layover, after rising to fly at 5am. Nap pods have cubicle dividers; not private. Loud old couple w/US accents walk in, waking all who'd been sleeping. 1/3

What's this?

The answer is that: 1) They see the lollipop people as People Telling Them What They Can't Do, which many people resent bitterly, especially when they get behind the wheel of a car (and especially since the pandemic) 2)They see the lollipop people as people they can intimidate without repurcussions.

I was surprised how low the attendence was, despite discussions on EPF, Ukraine, Middle East/Aspides. Here is the full list, if you are interested:

Defence ministries still are quite distant to the EU. Despite a growing role of the EU in defence industry and financing, I looked at yesterday's meeting of EU defence ministers, and, well: -> only 11 countries send their defence ministers, the rest lower ranking representatives.

Rebuttals come after US media report alleges that the CIA has 'directly participated' in deadly anti-cartel operations.

S7 sprinkling misery in its wake - Ersatzverkehr.☹️

CJEU, media/tech/IP law New judgment: Italy did not breach EU law by requiring Meta to negotiate compensation for use of press stories - Meta's right to carry on a business has to be balanced with the publishers' intellectual property rights and media pluralism curia.europa.eu/site/jcms/d2...

Bin Day coincides with Hospital Day. If you live in the Sutton area I suggest you may want to spend the morning at least 25km away. The chains may not hold...

There is nothing, *nothing* as Polish as (always uneaten) fish in aspic

The Guardian's Rafael Behr today: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just sent out my free midweek update. Little changed directly between the US and Iran (Iran is still stringing Trump along) but overall the US position is weakening. The US bombing campaign was less effective than Trump and Hegseth boasted, making US escalation… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Why does the UK keep inventing these impenetrable and arcane processes for selecting a leader when "Bake Off" already exists.

Having thoroughly damaged America's relationships with Europe, Trump is now getting ready to do the same thing in Asia giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Reading on the loo is an old, old habit, it seems.

“People are tired of waiting for change” says the interviewer on @channel4news.bsky.social Ten years after Brexit, I’m tired of waiting for stability.

It can be simultaneously true that there are a number of structural factors that have made British politics and government deeply unstable but also that Westminster has never really kicked its addiction to the drama of the peak Brexit years.

I honestly don’t understand just what it is with people who tell me I am responsible for X being as toxic as it is, as if it were my refusing to subscribe to Stormfront that made the letters page more fascist than it would otherwise have been. And nobody was “corralled”. We left.

Yep. I didn’t leave X the day Musk bought it, though I considered doing so. But it quickly became apparent that there could be no “stay and fight to win.” It was more like “stay and fight, cook your own brain in slime, probably end up significantly less mentally well than you were, and still lose.”

See how far we've come 🫣

We’ve reached the point where most people worldwide recognise that the President of the United States is insane.

Ach ja, Thomas @wiegold.de sagte gerade im #heutejournal, die 🇺🇦 ist technisch weiter als Deutschland (bei bestimmten Raketentypen). Ich gönne es ihnen. Sie haben es mit Blut und Tränen sehr teuer erarbeitet. /Ch

Let me clarify today's events for the hard of thinking and the BBC Keir Starmer is still Prime Minister. Nigel Farage is still a bought and paid for shill for dodgy foreign powers who do not have your best interests at heart. LEARN. THE. FUCKING. DIFFERENCE. YOU. GULLIBLE. CUNTS!

Useless counterfactual but if the US had a parliamentary system, Trump would have been long since ejected from office.

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Some news in eigener Sache: Mein neues Buch über Grossbritannien ist ab heute in den Buchhandlungen. Zehn Jahre nach dem Brexit: Wie geht es den Briten heute und warum ist Larry the Cat der beständigste Bewohner der Downing Street? Aktueller geht es nicht. #StarmerChaos

Once again I'm back in Nairobi for the ongoing and apparently endless inquest into my sister's death here four and a half years ago. BBC coverage here and more to come - any enquires feel free to DM or email me on pdkmitchell at gmail dot com www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Tim Eicke KC, and former Judge at @coe.int shares that of the 46 member countries of the Council of Europe it is only in the U.K. that there are political parties - two - who have in their manifesto leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

A reminder of where we are. Ten years of unnecessary, self-inflicted, utter chaos. A lost decade for families, workers, pensioners, students and entrepreneurs in the UK. #BrexitOpportunities