This is certainly my experience. Just before my time as a County Cllr, Greens stopped council homes being built on council-owned land (the only vaguely plausible way council housing could be built at the time). 1/2

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Wouldn't have got this response under McSweeney

Wrongs and rights: the real Keir Starmer It’s wrong to say Keir Starmer isn’t interested in policy. Contrary to so much supposedly informed political commentary, he’s a revolutionary at heart who wants to embed for at least a generation social democratic government, for the betterment of all. /1.

If you are using the phrase "full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism", especially if you are of the left, a loved one should take your phone off you and send you to Baden-Baden or somewhere for a month.

Something to consider in the post-McSweeney era...

McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.

1. Interesting to see Reform abandon its flirtation with nativism / birth rate boosterism in favour of the policy of the last Tory government 2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Ah yes, Stalinism - where famously everything is on your doorstep and life is happier and more convenient and you don't have to waste whole years of your life in a car, polluting the environment. Absolutely, that was what Stalinism was all about.

The fact that freedom of speech was better protected by the Chinese than it is now by American billionaires should say a lot about the state of the world.

Murder is what it is. If this went to court, no other outcome.

Live footage of me, listening to Gavin Newsom, a senior member of the party that screwed the last election and is still failing to provide any meaningful opposition, not to mention a citizen of the country who voted for this shambles, telling Europeans we are pathetic for not standing up to Trump.

When I stop laughing I'll provide some insightful analysis.

Coming soon... Our campaign on the shocking state of Northampton's roads and the millions wasted by @reformuk.bsky.social kicks off this week. Excellent to be out with @nelsonluke.uk filming today.

They've been flogging this line for years and now Labour is at 16% in the polls. How much further do Labour have to sink before they start thinking that maybe it's just a bit more complicated than that?

👏👏👏 @mike-reader.bsky.social

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.

Strange isn't it that the bigots all screen grabbed this moment at precisely the same time.

It’s truly amazing how Zelensky is able to see up close and personal what Putin is doing to his country and its people day after day with barbarity and cruelty, then stand next to Trump without losing it while he makes asinine statements expressing sympathy for the mass murderer.

I got the Sony A7 III a couple months ago. So far I’m liking it a lot… #photography

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

'Sir Keir Starmer threw his support behind the measures on Wednesday, saying the correct preparation has been done to ensure the Bill is “workable in all its aspects”.'

Congressmen handcuffed for asking questions, military parades on the president's birthday, troops on the streets, and now progressive politicians being assassinated in their own homes by somebody dressed as law enforcement. This is getting seriously dangerous www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a very important issue and many conflicted by it assume the status quo is acceptable. It is not. Definitely worth a read...

Large language models “are not emotionally intelligent or ‘smart’ in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word,” Tyler Austin Harper writes. Understanding this is essential to avoiding AI’s most corrosive effects:

Happy Musk vs Trump day for all those celebrating.

"worth reminding ourselves who is in favour of this deal & who is against it. In favour are all of our allies - the US, NATO, Five Eyes, India. Against it - Russia, China, Iran. Surprisingly, the Leader of the Opposition & Nigel Farage are in that column alongside Russia, China & Iran” Keir Starmer

The real winner of Eurovision.

The US deal is good work. Starmer acted to save British jobs. In exchange, he gave away almost nothing. After everything, Trump accomplished precisely fuck all. Both countries are still in a slightly worse place than they were when he came to power.

Proof this guy is full of SITH.

"It's a real benefit to the UK to be able to export our professional services globally. The lack of mutual recognition agreements between the UK and EU is really hampering our ability to take the great British expertise and skills we have into Europe." 👏 @mike-reader.bsky.social at Westminster Hall

🚨 BREAKING: The government has just committed to NOT issuing new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. This is a HUGE WIN for the climate 💚

Sky News CONTINUING to refer to the chancellor as ‘Rachel from Accounts’, would they have referred to a male chancellor by an insulting nickname? Of course not. It’s misogynistic and they’re repeating it.

To everybody who said our Nazi comparisons were hyperbolic:

This is what actual journalism looks like.

This is who Elon Musk really is. Don’t buy a Tesla. Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

Nigel Farage and Reform last month: Everyone needs to ignore the sex-based violence committed by one of our MPs. Nigel Farage and Reform now: How dare people ignore sex-based violence!

LLMs are basically advanced predictive text algorithms with an insane amount of data/context. They can't actually reason or understand what they output, hence why hallucinations are inevitable. The fact people think that we're heading towards AGI is delusional.

There is no evidence for the view that assisted dying leads to a decrease in palliative investment. Instead, there is extensive evidence that assisted dying leads to an improvement in palliative care.

"Vaccination has probably saved more lives & is better researched than most, if not all, aspects of healthcare. RFK Jr could set this back & be responsible for the death & disability of myriads of people, particularly children.” Outstanding BBC fact check on RFK 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The President of the United States will come into office with his own social media platform. That, combined with X, means Trump will have turnkey state-run media. I don’t think the media has fully grasped that yet.