Oh dear, never mind ...

He's not wrong.

Farage wants to break the ‘cosy consensus’ which has split into four warring parties who can agree only on the point that Farage is an abomination who must be stopped.

Do NOT fuck with Belgium when it comes to regulations.

Having failed to deliver on Friday as originally stated, I got an email from Evri this morning saying they've delivered my package (while I was out). Who knows what happened to it because it was nowhere to be found when I got home this afternoon. Is all I'm saying.

Meanwhile, universities are closing humanities programs

I ran an absolutely 100% human, zero AI-involvement at any stage passage of my writing through an "AI detector," curious if it could really tell human from AI work, and it said my own writing was "84% AI written" then asked I wanted to pay to have it "humanized." So there's that to keep in mind.

Reform have always been beatable. The level of media hype around them and their “project”, especially after Jenrick’s defection, was absurd.

This was, is and probably always will be the case ...

In this remarkable image of white supremicists on a subway train in Washington I see cowards afraid to show their faces and a strong woman who shouldn't have to put up with this shit. (Photo: Cheney Orr - Reuters)

Grateful to the Telegraph for providing the definitive answer to its own question, albeit in quite small letters.

And in today's episode of "The search for a use of AI that enhances rather than undermines social welfare" - we've failed again. The search continues ...

Palantir’s entire strategy is the cost of leaving, not the value of staying. Get deep enough into government data infrastructure and the switching cost becomes a national security question. That’s not a product moat, that’s a hostage situation with a good IR deck.

An investigation by OpenDemocracy found that Palantir has paid very little UK tax, despite receiving over £670m in UK public contracts. How? By booking profits overseas, and using tax loopholes for paying staff with stocks to reduce their corporation tax bill.

This story of the UK-US trade / pharmaceutical deal is not going away -as a classic example of why secrecy over such things is never ultimately a good idea, as well as being about the crucial new negotiation that is governments against companies. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Re that last thread (by @uglygame.bsky.social): your regular reminder that one of the key drivers behind all ‘online safety’ measures is the lobbying of companies wanting to sell shiny tech to government.

Summary of the Home Office Impact Assessment for Asylum Bill is hilarious (if it weren't so depressing). HO analysts say "basically no evidence to suggest *any* of these policies will work *even on their own terms*" (but will probably cost money). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a43e1...

This is awful racist garbage from MG. But he's also not doing his credentials as a supposed political scientist much good by apparently not knowing that the Lord Mayor is a ceremonial role and doesn't run anything. The post of elected (executive) Mayor of Bristol was abolished in 2024.

Humans should not be forced off pavements by delivery robots, but that's exactly what's happening. The people who pay the price are those with the least room to give it up.

New: UNHCR warns government that unqualified adjudicators will undermine the new asylum appeals body — by Jasmine Quiller-Doust

I call this phenomenon "CEO skim-read Forbes in the Business Class Lounge" and once you notice it you can't stop seeing it everywhere. Open plan offices, beanbags and pool tables, everything-must-be-blockchain, everything must be in the cloud, outsource everything, AI everything...

This rather feebly underplays it. Normalising overt racism in the process.

The state of the UK’s political journalists is embarrassing -They are not new -They are not ‘safe’ routes -They are the government abdicating it’s responsibility while pretending it’s doing something And as for the ‘left’, it’s lost all meaning

Nice zinger from @jdickerson.bsky.social

The toddler was playing with her little collection of free England football stickers (thanks M&S) as well as some other bits and pieces and I tried to get her to pick a team for tonight. Apparently we will be playing a 4-4-2 featuring two Jude Bellinghams, one Lucy Bronze, and the Gruffalo.

I think we just passed oops.

A funny way of spelling “The country is in the grip of an extreme rightwing offensive against the very concept of toleration”, but you do you, Guardian.

One annoying thing about the open windows on warm evenings is the constantly wafting smell of weed, which I find really unpleasant. Not the biggest problem in the world, I'll grant you. But an urban annoyance nonetheless.

And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

I mean, he's not wrong.

Quite annoying how debates around adaptation don't emphasise that unless you reach net zero, the planet just keeps getting hotter and you just keep having to adapt until we can't survive! Adaptation is a response to our failure, it is NOT the solution to climate change

What the actual fuck is wrong with some people?* *men

Solidarity with Anthropic. What kind of monster would automate the mass theft of intellectual property just to train an AI model?

By absolute coincidence I read this paper yesterday, for a thing we're writing. It's a paper that highlights an under-exploeed topic worthy of reflection and gives you plenty to think about ...

It would surely be better for British society if Robert Jenrick left the country.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

James Purnell? Bloody hell! #PoliticalExhumation #AbandonHope

There are some things in this country that continue to perform predictably, even in this heat ...

Just went outside. Blimey it's hot. #MoreNewsAsWeGetIt

This short thread starts with an apposite observation about the speciousness of a particular type of AI hypster, but then it goes somewhere genuinely moving ... and very much worth a few seconds of your time.

More on the alarming direction of travel in Australian #housing www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/...

Almost eighty years after human rights were declared to be universal, the Labour Party decided that the savvy policy move was to insist they weren’t, if the humans concerned were sufficiently unpopular with white people.

This point seems to me to be both entirely apropos and peculiarly absent from the discussion. I'm not sure there's anything in what AB has done that suggests he's an upgrade on KS, except presentationally.

How are picture editors still making this mistake?

A pathetically unserious person for tragically serious times.

And in news that shouldn't come as news to anyone who has thought about it for more than a second or two ... Over-reliance on chatbots can diminish critical-thinking skills, study finds www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is flat wrong from Unite. It’s just not true there’s been ‘almost no thought for jobs, skills and national security’. There’s been a huge amount of thought on all these issues and a decision has been made that jobs, skills, and security all benefit from a faster clean energy transition.

Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...