John Curtis on BBC just saying Conservative vote was “gobbled up by Reform”, but doorknocking last weekend in Gorton and Denton I met Conservative voters who said they didn’t want to vote Reform and promised us Greens their vote.

Labour’s ugliest-ever political strategy has utterly failed | @iandunt.bsky.social inews.co.uk/category/opi...

There were more progressives than Reform racists. That's why Goodwin lost. Maybe Labour should try being a progressive party

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Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

It is a sign of the times that when the US government releases its side of the story on the people killed off the coast of Cuba, I am much more likely to believe Cuba's version.

Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

It's not just the BBC, the major US outlets are also incorrigibly dedicated to normalising Trump by downplaying his blatant lies (aka "exaggerations"), anti-democratic rhetoric and cognitive unravelling. It's a giant systemic failure to tell the truth about him and there's no desire to fix it

The Representation of the People Bill is a rare chance to renew our democracy - yet it ignores the voting system driving chaos and disillusionment. We need MPs standing up for fair votes in this upcoming debate. Urge your MP to attend: actionnetwork.org/letters/repr...

I reckon a good PhD thesis could be written on the clothing choices of Mastermind contestants

Any attempt to delay Royal Assent would be a democratic outrage. The Manx public & their elected politicians have been clear: people who are dying should have the right to control the manner and timing of their death.

Common English mistakes: Using they're instead of their. Using an apostrophe to indicate a plural. Allowing Piers Morgan on TV.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first five words of this are enough to induce an anxiety attack in anyone who knows even a little bit about cobol and the systems that still run on it.

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Think of how bad things must be for a Supreme Court Justice to feel he has to explain why it's a good idea to have laws enacted by legislators instead of decreed by wannabe dictators

Everyone of these posts is superb, but this one is a masterpiece in the uses of detail and subtle emphasis.

The Grand Old Duke of York He had 12 Million Quid He gave it to someone he never met For something he never did

BREAKING! Following news of Andrew’s arrest… European Union to abolish tariffs on Guillotine exports to the United Kingdom.

So it turns out Matt Goodwin's Reform campaign manager was a holocaust-denying Nazi who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman.” When do we start seeing all the coverage of the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK? www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-su...

Will this be the first Paralympics in history where an invading army is being allowed to compete against the people they disabled, while the conflict is still going on? Fucking disgusting 🤮

Starting a "Turn Buckingham Palace Into A Cat Sanctuary" campaign.

Republic now!

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

We've all wished we could have family arrested surely? Charley heard shouting finish him!

There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...

Execs struggle to find the AI productivity boom | @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/a...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. *one voice altered to disguise identity

Richard Tice was the obvious choice to be in charge of energy, as he is so familiar with the requirements of those people with links to fossil fuels and climate change who gave us £2.3million.

A study reported by The Register showed that 98% of CIOs had pressure from the board "to demonstrate measurable, increasing ROI" from AI, with 71% believing that their AI budget would face cuts or freeze if targets aren't met by mid-2026 www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/n...

Quite a contrast between this and the Labour frontbench which is almost all state educated. Something, something, everything is class

Are you fucking kidding me?

This is just brilliant.

-… then if you check table 6 it will tell you how many points you get for your age. Add those points to the ones from your Relatives-aboard cards and Family-elsewhere cards… -Um, Eric, the water's getting pretty high. -Then stop interrupting! Next, you'll need your dice and the saving throw chart.

Police officers to be legally allowed to deliver a cuff around the ear to anyone they see behaving like a scally. Cuff-worthy offences to include Loitering in a Respectable Area, Cheeking Your Elders, Looking Miserable While In Possession of a Pretty Face, and Being Up To Something.

Running your writing through AI to add a final "polish"? You're not polishing it, you're dumbing it down, and removing what makes it unique (and what makes it yours) www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...

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Judge quotes Orwell’s 1984 as she orders Trump to restore slavery exhibits in Philadelphia

RIP to one of the truly great actors www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

AI is still shit (ongoing...) www.theregister.com/2026/02/13/a...

The entire UK diplomatic budget is about £1.4 billion a year. That’s pretty much precisely 0.1% of government spending. BBC World Service is about £0.25 billion (it should be higher), or 0.02%. These are rounding errors on rounding errors. Double each and public expenditure wouldn’t twitch. Mad.

I don't understand this. The IHT threshold is £325k, and that's before you take into account rules about property and spouses. £80k is pretty small beer compared to that, but the article doesn't reference that at all Care to comment @theguardian.com ? www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

Bought this Valentine’s Day card before remembering that the global population surpassed 7bn in 2010 and is now well over 8bn and I have sullied our marriage with faulty data

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

🚨Reform leader Nigel Farage has posted on X “1 million people living in this country don’t speak any English at all. 4 million people living in this country barely speak passable English” It’s racked up 2 million views AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNTRUE youtu.be/o56Tw8vSEfE?...

Outstanding thread

So I read the "Something big is happening" AI puff piece, and I want to highlight why it is bullshit. The idea that AI is coming for journalism is a fundamental misunderstanding of what journalism (and so much other writing) is. The writing is fun, but it's not the core. /1