"You kind of start thinking while you're working on your boss's third house, if you're ever going to be able to buy a house". - Jake 'jakkuh' Tivy on why he left Linus Tech Tips. Linus Sebastian meanwhile... If LTT staff aren't discussing wages with each other or unionisation, they need to be.

I could understand if this was a coffee morning to raise money for charity. Several MPs have done that. This though is absolutely appalling. Your constituents already pay your salary, which includes meeting them as part of the job. Not for an additional £5 fee. I suspect Reform are taking notes.

Could Channel 5 help raise the standards of broadcasting in this country? Probably. Just cancel @jeremyvine.bsky.social , and put literally anything else in his timeslot. I vote for some Droopy cartoons. The collective IQ of this country will rise by 3 points when Vine is off the air for good.

I should also add that since the 2024 election, this trend of over representation of Farage and his party has continued. Reform having managed 14% of the national vote, have been represented on 33% of all domestic Question Time episodes since then. 19 out of the 57 editions concerning UK politics.

1. Question Time have a history of lying to cover their own backsides. David Dimbleby infamously said "Question Time doesn't follow by-elections." They had in fact done four by-election editions since 2012. Stoke-on-Trent (2017), Corby (2012), Eastleigh (2013), and er, Clacton (2014).

To borrow a line from @olbermann.bsky.social, this is a lie. Another lie. Another fucking Farage lie. There have been multiple elected officials who have appeared in tapings held in their own constituencies. One who called this out, is Labour MP for Dover Mike Tapp, who was on the Dover edition.

This is why he self-published it. No publisher wants to be associated with AI. Paying someone who uses ChatGPT and allowing them to be recognised as an author, is like allowing someone to paint a landscape using a paint-by-numbers picture and call themselves an artist. Blacklist Matt Goodwin.

BREAKING: Chuck Norris hasn't died. He just decided it was time to tell God, "Get out of my chair, bitch!"

I really don't get the praise that's being heaped on Louis Theroux's Inside The Manosphere. I watched it, and came away thinking it was such a disappointment. It's well made. But is just a freakshow pointing at some of the worst influencers, rather than a substantive look at the issue.

The legacy of Thatcher's free market can do no wrong ideology. Don't get mad at the millionaire who wants to run the tax system dodging £600,000 in tax. Be mad at all those people on benefits. Especially if they manage to get an extra £20 a fortnight. www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/tice...

I would point out @politicsjoe.bsky.social that this behaviour isn't exclusive to the Buzzfeed style employers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn9i... Jamie Oliver did the same thing when he shut his Italian chain. Kept his wealth. Staff sacked via 30min pre-recorded message. Taxpayer picked up the bill.

The Alzheimer's Society has announced that it will no longer sponsor the podcast 'How To Be 60 with Kaye Adams'. Adams was sacked from BBC Radio after allegations of workplace bullying were upheld against her. www.thenational.scot/news/2591813...

Nothing says "PROTEC ARE WUMEN AN GURLZ!" more than aggressively pursuing a woman through a town. Happy International Women's Day, I guess. I sincerely hope Hannah Spencer is okay. Will the Greens be issuing any formal statement about this, @zackpolanski.bsky.social? Or look to press charges?

I suspect the Gisele Pelicot interview will be shortlisted for next year's awards. Victoria Derbyshire is a credit to her profession. The BBC should be using her as the benchmark for standards in journalism.

"Is there anyone in history on the right, you openly admire?" What in the Hell kind of question is that? Were they expecting a reply along the lines of "Well I think that Oswald Mosley was a snappy dresser"? The right historically tends to openly despise gay people or Jews. Zack Polanski is both.

CHRIS MASON! WEE TOMMY TEN-NAMES! GBEEBIES! NIGEL FARAGE! LAURENCE FOX! NICK FERRARI! YOUR BOY TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING! www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

“Do I regret going to university? No? I’d just like to enjoy the same free ride your lot did, Nick, you stupid cunt”

Polling stations open shortly for the Gorton and Denton by-election. Just a friendly reminder for Reform voters. If you wait and go along tomorrow to vote instead, they'll be much quieter.

🔴Revealed: Reform UK Matt Goodwin’s Academic Ties to Rebranded Nazi Eugenics Front Reform’s Gorton and Denton candidate, who has said that genetics will expose the “inherent differences between groups” has links to multiple organisations tied to discredited racist pseudoscience

New Jersey lawmakers have written a bill to rein in ICE. And the acronym is absolutely fantastic. The legislation (2026 NJ A4446) is called the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act. Or the FUCK ICE act for short. legiscan.com/NJ/bill/A444...

The Royal Train is to formally be given a brand new locomotive.

They certainly knew something. Charles advised Andrew to settle with a woman he claimed to have never met before, rather than go through with defending himself in court. His late mother funded the settlement for her favourite son, and it included a gag clause until after the Jubilee was over.

I am finding the deference still given to the Queen over the news of Andrew Windsor's arrest quite revolting. @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk this morning said he was glad she wasn't alive to see this. Do we all ignore that she helped her favourite son pay the settlement to Virgnia Giuffre?

BREAKING: The Andrew formerly known as Prince, has been arrested and is in custody over allegations of misconduct in public office. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c7... Happy 66th birthday, your nonceness. I'll bet he's suddenly remembered how to sweat again.

This phone-in of @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk has me thinking back to John Prescott confronting Michael Heseltine in 1994. "Is £2 an hour acceptable to you?"

"Do you really pay minimum wage to people with skills and experience as a boss?" YES @mrjamesob.bsky.social. That's the reality of many people who are on the minimum wage. You're trained in every area when it comes to the business, and not paid more. I'm talking from experience of this. It sucks.

The debate on not paying young workers the same as everyone else @mrjamesob.bsky.social is presenting is infuriating. If you do the same work, you should be paid the same. I'm tired of; 1. Older people who got everything telling the younger generations they should have nothing and work hard for it.

This is not true. There are a good few progressive Dems who do not trade stocks. AOC and Bernie Sanders being the best examples. Both have called out congressional insider trading. They also don't take corporate PAC money. Nor does Elizabeth Warren. Kelly meanwhile got $500k from AIPAC.

I think we should also take a small moment to applaud @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for the way she conducted that interview. The sensitivity, composure, dignity that she showed Gisele Pelicot, while asking some really difficult questions was just incredible. Not many in her profession could do that.

Unfortunately once the far-right puts out lies, it's hard to get the truth out there. It doesn't help that interviewers keep inviting liars on to repeat said lies, and fail to challenge them or just end the interview on the grounds that they have a duty to not mislead and misinform their audience.

The constituency I live in has a 30% rate of child poverty. The seventh highest in Scotland, with only Glasgow constituencies being higher. I was one of the kids who grew up below the poverty line. Missing meals. Socially excluded from basic activities. This is utter contempt from Reform.

This was Farage on BBC Radio regarding Jim Ratcliffe. That is 'Great Replacement' rhetoric, plain as day. How did Nick Robinson or the production team fail to catch it, and stop the interview? Any chance you could ask that question tomorrow @mrjamesob.bsky.social? @henryriley1.bsky.social?

Censored this, as I don't want a ban for posting an image of a penis. But you have to laugh at Farage saying "I can't be bought". He's not only bought by gold and crypto traders, private health firms, etc. But he was bought for just £70 last month to offer his sincere condolences to Ian Watkins.

Why on Earth is David Davis treated with any credibility on this topic? He was the Brexit Secretary who turned up with no notes to negotiations, thought he could negotiate separately with Berlin instead of Brussels, and was annoyed that the EU protected their own interests when it came to Brexit.

We know that Jeffrey Epstein was active in the infamous 4Chan /pol/ board. Which in a lot of cases tried to downplay and even normalise paedophillia. Given that, I'm beginning to question whether Richard Dawkins was attempting to do the same with his years of downplaying sexual abuse of children.

Peter Mandelson has attempted to stop newspapers continuing to scrutinise him over his relationship with the paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The National believes that because it's in the public interest, have published the memo they received in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

The Facebook page belonging to a branch of Reform has been uploading posts aimed at bullying a transgender woman, while falsely claiming that she was selected as the Green candidate for the Gorton by-election. Any chance of asking Reform to explain this behaviour, @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social?

It was quite a bad night for Reform. They barely scraped one by-election win out of five. Which was with just 22.3% of votes cast, in a seat where three independents wound up splitting 49% of the vote between them. They came third in three seats. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come in May.

Another possible candidate for the Labour defection to Reform, is Jonathan Ashworth. He singled out people from Bangladesh as causing the issues with the asylum system, and how "they get put up in hotels, and stay there for the rest of their lives". Ashworth is still a policy advisor to Labour.

So who does everyone have in mind for the defection from Labour that Nigel Farage is promising? My shortlist is; - John Mann - Kate Hoey (even though she left a few years back) - Natalie Elphicke - Maurice Glasman - Any of the 8 MPs who publicly identify as being involved in the group Blue Labour.

I'm not sure why Reform picked of all places, Kirkcaldy to announce that Malcolm Offord will be their Scottish leader. Perhaps Nigel Farage felt the locals would make him feel at home?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Nadhim Zahawi embraces face eating leopards, after slathering himself in beef dripping and barbecue sauce.

Why aren't journalists questioning the MPs opposing a ban on Twitter about the revenue they've made from the platform? July 2024 to September 2025, income declared; Rupert Lowe - £39,759 Nigel Farage - £9,663 Richard Tice - £5,770 Lee Anderson - £3,871 It's surely a conflict of interest.

Someone please remind Liz Kendall and @ofcom.bsky.social that Elon Musk personally intervened to reinstate the account of Dom Lucre, after they were banned by Twitter's safety team for sharing graphic images of CSA. Any assurances he gives in relation to Grok's AI image generator are worthless.

While celebrating New Year, take a moment to spare a thought for Leonardo DiCaprio. He'll be devastated now that the 21st Century is more than 25 years old.

I would wish you a Happy 2026. But this is the year that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was set in. So watch this space for Trump to claim that it was actually a documentary, and he's engaging in pre-emptive military strikes on all primates. He'll need something to distract from the Epstein files.

Spitting Image have done their own version of the King's Speech. Admittedly it's the only one I've been interested in watching. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Cc...

When you get another Lynx bath set for Christmas...

Santa Claus has been spotted in Clacton. Here he is making his delivery to Nigel Farage's house.

Russell Brand has been hit with a further two charges. The CPS has authorized an additional rape charge and a sexual assault charge involving two more women. This brings his running total to three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, one count of indecent assault, against six women.