Fun fact: I had a friend at uni who spray painted his card pin number on the wall next to the ATM because he kept forgetting it. www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/h...

Odd to think of it now, but I actually walked out of the original RoboCop because I was so angry about the gratuitous violence (at the point where the soon to be RoboCop gets his hand shot off, "give the guy a hand")

Saving private Scooter

Fairly simply a Reform or Conservative government would take us back to economic reality denial in which there would be a lot of shouting about sovereignty and then the government would have to do as the major companies and markets demand of us.

The problem with social media is that you’re only allowed to hold opinions in batches. If you believe X and Y, you must also believe Z, which is atmospherically similar to X and Y and believed by all the same people. If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.

This got me some flak, I stand by it. If AI could eradicate all jobs, you aren’t going to get a global ban, those that don't ban it will out compete. But I don't think it's going to. More likely that, in the future, there will be people who refuse to leverage AI and there will be people with jobs.

people are dunking on this but none of the arguments make sense NFTs/BetaMax: useless or unpopular. Drugs: physical goods. are you gonna ban GPUs? also how's that going? CFCs: decent replacements With something like AI, some countries are going to push the "defect" button.

You can't switch it off though. You can't uninvent AI anymore then you can uninvent the bomb. To achieve what you suggest you're essentially talking autarky.

Brexit. None of the instigators have taken any responsibility, none have recognised the inherent flaws, all continue to insist this would be perfection if only something they can't actually describe. The modern communists, who would drive their country into penury rather than face reality.

China trip @mortenmorland brilliant as ever

V good.

On America and Trump. Just perfect.... By @kornetzke.bsky.social

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. "Whether it is true, of course, is always debatable, but we do like a bit of swagger."

Share a photograph of mountains you've taken

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This should be posted under every post Farage sends and quoted at him in every interview he gives - forever.

For context - the rest of the video the White House only posted the first frame of (courtesy of @pepel_klaasa) 🤣

evergreen

If NATO were the fellowship of the ring: Gandalf strides onto the Bridge of Khazad-dûm. Raises the staff. Lowers it. Shakes the Balrog’s hand. Turns to the Fellowship and says: “You’re weak. Total disaster. I made a great deal. Best deal. You should run.”

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Imagine what restoring Freedom of Movement would do too. @europeanmovement.co.uk @savefom.bsky.social #VoicesofLostFOM #SaveFOM

How it started ... How it's going

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.

Strong and stable.

I've seen this movie. It didn't end well. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Great to see so much coverage for my question in the Lords today. Here's more on what I asked - and what the government didn't say in response: lordseyeview.substack.com/p/will-the-g...

Emergency podcasts sir!

Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.

A few voices from the Right. Once again, Iain Dale offers a smidgen of hope.

Current status annoying Mrs H by reading refugeehistory.org/blog/2017/11... Alongside the film being broadcast on BBC 1

Just as Clueless is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of anything by Charles Dickens.

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

Why is my experience of AI so sharply divergent from many of my friends and professional peers? I have a theory. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-ai-has...

I wrote a bit for McSweeney's about Isaac Chotiner interviewing Santa Claus. Just a little something for the holiday season. Enjoy!

I think it's worth noticing how completely major media institutions have just gone along with the project of sacrificing the national economy on the altar of "some people in marginal constituencies don't like hearing foreign accents when they go out"

If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students. You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports… HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!

Well yes, but if you burnt your own house down and can't re-build an identical one that doesn't mean you should forever live in a tent.

For how much longer must we sacrifice the UK's security and prosperity on the altar of sovereignty?

Post your favourite "Lord of the Rings"character wrong answers only

We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:

This is why it is good that financial literacy is going to be taught in schools. On average, if you are 20, you should save in an index fund and not worry about it for decades, and he should know this!

Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

I think this may be one of the greatest albums of all time

Counterpoint: Automating lowly-paid gig economy work is good.

It's part of the electionification of everything, which is why we as a country are failing to have a proper conversation about our actual problems. It's bad for the left *and* the right.

This is incredibly grim

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1