I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

Morons. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘Look! I think I can see where Nigel Farage is hiding.’

Me attempting an Irish goodbye at a party but I’ve had one too many ales

Where did those 30 years go????

Richard Tice thinks suing companies that are modernising power infrastructure is a neat way to reduce energy costs. What an idiot.

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

The new Chair of Reform! Lee Anderson fought in The Battle of The Somme but got upset when ‘sniggled’ at. He felt food banks weren’t needed because nutritious meals could be cooked for 30p. A man who said nuisance tenants should live in tents & pick potatoes. Truly the intellectual face of Reform! 😬

“I believe if they cycled the roads for even just a week, they would understand cyclists much more”

Unbelievable. #grickledoodle #goldilocks #threebears #wifi #cartoon #fairytales #art #drawing #funny #humor

Breaking News: Liar keeps lying

Found this 94-year-old copy of The Architectural Review at last weekend’s garage safari in Kingsdown. It’s focused on the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London and contains some great photos and adverts. Will share some in this thread and more over the days ahead 🧵

This artwork is titled "Road Trip" by Canadian painter Rebecca Aldernet. Aldernet is based in Atlantic Canada and creates figurative art often featuring solitary figures, birds, and quiet landscapes.

If Cameron hadn't given us a Brexit referendum then Farage would be cadging fags in a Wetherspoons. #bbcaq

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Farage clearly didn’t make that amount of money from I’m A Celebrity, even pre-tax he wasn’t paid that by ITV. Farage paid for £1.4m house with I'm a Celebrity cash, says Reform www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heineken and Spitting Image says its time once again for the Eurovulsion Song contest in 1986

Enjoy this montage of televisual nuclear anxiety from the 1980s, soundtracked by The Dubliners' protest song 'Protect and Survive'. Special guest appearance by the Patron Saint of Nuclear War at the end, there. "'Ad it, inya?"

A Portuguese couple tried to get on the Big Green Bus earlier but only had cash, so I tapped to pay for them. They are now watching videos aloud on a phone. Truly no good deed goes unpunished.

Latest BBC Newswatch is on viewers' concerns that BBC News didn't just report, but encouraged this week's drama over the Labour leadership. From midnight Fri on link/Sat 745am BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@sirmichaeltake.bsky.social I hope you're throwing your hat into the ring. About time the role was taken on by someone with sophistication and gravitas to spare. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

The Obama Presidential Center in B&W

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

Burnham's ego is going to screw his party over.

The headlines write themselves: Weasel Wes Walks

It’s official, we’ve learned nothing from Covid.

Harvey Keitel is 87. Seen here as Qui-Gon Jinn with Willem Dafoe as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Martin Scorsese’s The Phantom Menace.

Life naturally comes with difficulties, the way oceans come with tides and gardens come with weeds. The mistake is to think that struggle is a sign you are doing life wrong.

Good times. #grickledoodle #dogs #event #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Is it because of Chris Mason, Chris Mason?

The way BBC News bods are behaving, you would swear that the whole operation is being directed by a bunch of pissed medical students during Rag Week.

Nothing says "not idolatry" like praying over a giant golden statue of the president

Coates has always been a pathetic partisan weasel desperate to give Mason a run for his money. He should be working for GB News.

Having trouble “blinking” during your daily meetings? Well, here’s exactly what you need… LMAO 😉😏🙂😆

This comparison of Trump—ailing, sunsetting, obsessing over monuments to himself—to the ancient emperor Ozymandias is so good. From @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social, on our pod. Check out this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

In less than a week...

“Something rather unusual is happening right now inside Russia.” My dispatch for BBC Radio’s From Our Own Correspondent.

Boris Johnson has a helluva lot to answer for. He made politics light entertainment and spawned Beth Rigby, Chris Mason, Peston, Sam Coates and others. They all see their role as adding to the drama not providing information for their viewers. Who's in. Who's out. It's friggin' tedious.

William Shenstone said this in the 1700s. Fits our times rather well.

It’s so odd that Chris Mason & his colleagues are not inducing a ‘crunch moment’ for Farage. Why is he not obliged to explain how he became an MP pushing cryptocurrency after being given £5 million by a cryptocurrency billionaire? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At first it was false balance, the BBC Politics department bending backwards to accommodate Brexit. But now its daily partisanship towards populism, its complete lack of commitment to democracy and transparency, make BBC Politics more a public disservice than a public service

Bloody hell.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

Thank goodness for Scotland and Wales....

I started this thread on twitter back in 2017. I add to it occasionally whenever the opportunity offers itself, but want to start it again so I can add to it on here. So… Amazing how grater technology has developed. My current grater (left) and an original 80s grater, the size of a brick!