".... you should spend an hour in the pub with me"

I've seen this characterised as: "AI not living up to expectations". How about: "Self-serving, panicked upper management of obsolete legacy industries grasp at plastic straws to save their obscene incomes, and are identified by snake oil salesmen as suckers" ? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker are banned from entering the UK, but Tarrio, a convicted, violent gang leader, can breeze into Northern Ireand to make trouble and poisonous propaganda? How does that work then, Ms. Mahmood?

And so, Penelope Keith goes to her grave having never faced justice.

The service that Marc is doing for democracy in the USA is incalculable.

Two hilarious things happening with the Test right now; England's behaviour and the outraged commenting. Sacred cow being butchered.

Excellent stuff from Sarah, as ever.

The ɲ th threatening letter from a computer program called Scott, dire consequences for no TV licence, filed in the same bin as its predecessors.

The rapist speaks in rape language.

Emma doing great stuff here as ever, debunking one of those Telegraph relics with bizarre ideas about the past. I was living in London in 76 and water was the main problem. There were standpipes on the corners of streets, and lots of London Blitzesque spirit. Found myself queuing with Helen Mirren.

A man called Licht has a burning ambition to sell Dettol products in China, and will drown us all in crazed management speak to do so. “We can run thousands of pieces of content until we find the one that really hits.” Yup www.semafor.com/article/05/0...

Shut up, Brendon # cricket

"Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing (3rd June*) he would stand in the 2024 British general election". He told the Telegraph it was "to pay for his personal security." On 4th June, he got a milkshake thrown all over him. Great security.

Petrol around 155p a litre in the UK atm Petrol around 135p a litre in the UK in 2012 Brent crude around 8k atm Brent crude around 12k in 2012.

Pretty much "a sea of red" on my little trading screen this morning. Musk's SpaceEgo has now deflated by a third of its value from the highs of last week, but the boosters and boasters in the media aren't bothering to mention that. Bitcoin weak as a kitten too, Kwasi's Stack looking wobbly.

Standard Operating Procedure, especially with American Corporations like Palantir who sue at the drop of a hat. Service pricing is almost secondary, when weighed against the value of access to data and systems that Palantir gets, and their zillion dollar lawyers make sure they keep it. #Lawfare

All purpose 2026 headline* *on this occasion referring to test cricket

I just offered one of my daughters sliced raw mushroom in a salad. She looked at me like I was RFK Jnr.

In even further unconnected news www.france24.com/en/live-news...

This is fine. Facebook is your friend.

Trump's GoP and government is full of a never ending supply of crooks, liars and sycophants, as we all know. The Banality of Evil Law dictates that most of them would pass in a crowd. Allow me to present: The winner of the no bid Reflecting Pool Contract Central Casting, eat your heart out!

Kwasi Kwarteng's "crypto investment vehicle, StackBTC, major booster and investor one N. Farage, owns ~68 Bitcoin at an average of ~$71,000 per coin. If sold now, Mr. 5D financial chess ex- Chancellor and his chums would be looking at a $680,000 loss. *small violin emoticon*

#STRC currently trading 15% below "par", as BTC staggers thru the deadest dead cat bounce I've seen for a while... 🎶 Sail on, sail on, Saylor 🎵🎵 couldn't be happening to a nicer man. www.ft.com/content/7d55...

"It’s an incredible example of corruption and collusion." jacobin.com/2026/06/trum...

Britain's Harvey Weinstein with his betrothed, one (or two) Ampika Pickston. Ms. Pickston is the director of two limited companies, 'Opium Enterprises' and 'Hide and Peek', which may explain serial sexual predator Sullivan's "oh so cool" reflecting aviators.

You can go through the strait free, but it takes 2 days, or you can subscribe to Hormuz Plus.

"Nurse!"

A study of non eu-melanin www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As Trump holds cage fights at the White House, the BBC normalise this "show" as sport. Promoted by 'Misfits', involved sport lovers include the Epstein/Maxwell linked Wassermans, Andrew Tate and Fury himself, self described as an alcoholic/Christian ex altar boy. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing...

Jung.... Mr. Mixed Bag, in my patchy reading of his work, might resonate through this theory, with BlueSkyers of "a certain age". Mildly interesting read. spacedaily.com/m-carl-jung-...

Good Cricinfo headline (for more, neverending comment on the Stokes fiasco), considering the top shelf's contribution to recent machismo antics. #cricket

Who said both these things? Karen "The porn was nothing to do with me, I worked on the Sunday Sport" Brady

Platforms have used the "not me guv, I only work here" excuse for too long. "Analysis also found that 56 percent of the correct Gemini 3 answers couldn't be backed up by the sources Google linked. The AI is giving answers whose origins users can't trace." the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

The"Chair of Wigan Reform" would be one Lee Moffit, another 'man of the people' with more limited companies than scruples, as well as a thing about lobsters.

Banning and slaughtering our way, made Britain Great.

After the storm

"Do as much evil as possible" www.euronews.com/business/202...

If these people were any more incestuous, they'd have six fingers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

"One percent of the world’s rivers ...carry an estimated 80 percent of the plastic that flows from land into the sea." Good read urls.grow.me/no3iDgwuGw

Excellent 🙄 On top of Musk paying any Nazi who puts his hand out, a guy in Thailand owning Farage, and countless other examples of right wing reactionary money backing any nut with a personal grievance, the U.S. State Department is now directly giving them "grants". eualive.net/trumps-admin...

This one? “All those computers,” Trump continued (talking about Musk's expertise*). “Those vote counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide. So it was pretty good. It’s pretty good.” *ed.

Kwasi Kwarteng's "crypto investment vehicle, StackBTC, major booster and investor one N. Farage, owns ~68 Bitcoin at an average of ~$71,000 per coin. If sold now, Mr. 5D financial chess ex- Chancellor and his chums would be looking at a $680,000 loss. *small violin emoticon*

“It feels a bit hip, a bit trendy around here”, says Martin, a tanned, bald man in his 50s, who has travelled to Canary Wharf from Essex for a night out."

Excellent 🙄 On top of Musk paying any Nazi who puts his hand out, a guy in Thailand owning Farage, and countless other examples of right wing reactionary money backing any nut with a personal grievance, the U.S. State Department is now directly giving them "grants". eualive.net/trumps-admin...

About those jobs

Fairly standard, grubby story about shitty people doing shitty stuff, lying, poisoning, fucking shit up etc. etc. Made memorable by involving Göd's battery factory and some Koreans, polluting and scamming under the name of z.o.o.

"Anti diversity stance" is NYTspeak for racism and sexism. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

This man is certifiable