I think its really important that Dan Hannann is mocked until he quits public life

The Boston Globe Test: This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time. Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint? If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.

This is an absolutely amazing story and surely we're only going to see many more examples in the future. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I'm sorry what did you call me

A small number of senior barristers are enabling large-scale tax fraud. They issue opinions saying tax schemes will work. They know they won't. The point of the opinion isn't to be right. It's to protect the shadowy individuals running the schemes from prosecution. 🧵

Rishan from my now cancelled Journeys project. She escaped religious persecution in Eritrea and travelled across the Sahara and through Libya aged only 15, eventually making it to Kent. She has now qualified as an NHS nurse to give something back to the country which gave her sanctuary.

Reforms key message is now you absolutely can get exactly the same politics as the last losing Tory government only under the auspices of the somewhat invisible MP for Clacton. Some real strong positioning here

Jenrick has never been in a marriage he enjoyed, clearly

Imagine being so bad even West Midlands won’t touch you?

"In a Gallup International survey of nearly 60,000 adults, economic pessimists outnumber optimists by about two to one in Britain and Japan. In #Germany the ratio is nearer twelve to one." www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Tory party turning on itself is it? What a surprise. This is my surprised face.

Me to any woman at any time.

I need the most “the problems with police culture in England and Wales” paragraph you can find:

Still in awe a major part of the south east of England doesn’t have running water

Beauty

(Looks to audience) I feel like there’s two realities now where in one there’s significant consequences for fomenting a coup & in the other there’s actual incentives

Mask fully off now: ICE are being told they are immune to the law. Stephen Millers Nazi dreams being played out

There are two people: One of them always likes butts The other always lies… The question is which is which

The worker got suspended for it ... of course

Yes that’s how reality works but just not this reality - in this reality ICE agents shot an innocent woman in the face on film & that’s what you are trying to reframe

It’s still incredible to me when Trump eulogises anyone it’s always with a slant that either: 1) confirms that person liked trump & thought they were great 2) that person was inferior to Trump in every way

Amongst Scott Adams last posts was the encapsulation of the system he defended: An ambivalent healthcare provider and a beg to a President who won’t even remember his name:

HOW IS THIS LEGAL And using X to do the promoting as well

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social , a quick turnaround and slightly longer version of the talk I gave at UVA last week, “Grok is an Epistemic Weapon.” Shout outs to @hbcompass.bsky.social, @eliothiggins.bsky.social, others.

I’m sorry but WHAT

Quick favour. This YouTube channel is using AI to impersonate me. I'd be really grateful if people could report it. Thank you!

Nice cold beer, banging tunes, child sex abuse image generation, orange squash. All part of the Kemi Badenoch moral continuum

You know what’s funny is when people who morally are benefitting from Trumps largesse say things like “it would be very hard for him to do that” Then Trump goes and does whatever he wants BECAUSE ITS LITERALLY HIS CHARACTER MOTHERF*CKERS ARE YOU NOT WATCHING THE NEWS?!

Worried because a federal agency might kidnap your children on way to school. This is insane AND true

Extremely unusual that the Bluesky team is working late on a Sunday night to verify Canadian political parties and elected officials who are rumored to be mulling over a coordinated X ban with Australia and the UK. When there's smoke, there's fire.

Periodic reminder that second gen migrants are often pretty darned anti migrant. It always surprises people but basically pulling the ladder up is somewhat instinctual for some people

This is the thing that second amendment goons feared would happen if they took away their guns. Masked men from the government breaching your front door & infringing your liberties. This can only end one way and increasingly frequently

There is literally no court in the land to uphold serious crimes now if you can get to the big orange boss & bribe him appropriately

If I ran a poll that asked who could run this country better and included options to choose as well as current political leaders 1) a stick of rhubarb 2) a cat I guarantee you the result would be a split between these two.

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

I have a grudging respect for any sentence that can contradict itself this quickly.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Falls in the number of pupils have been hitting schools in London for a number of years - but now the problem is reaching beyond the capital. It's a story of birthrates, housing, funding and disruption. By me, for @schoolsweek.bsky.social schoolsweek.co.uk/how-falling-...

Genuinely thought this news was a joke meme format until I saw this.

London getting safer was not by accident. The police and mayor actually did stuff btw. There were problems; properly theft was atrocious. People were being robbed on the streets on the regular.

Since it's starter pack season again, here's some reporters who report on social affairs, poverty, public services etc. Some of them post here more than others go.bsky.app/Hp9iayA

Last year, we reached the lowest per capita homicide rate in recorded history - not by chance, but as a result of our tough action on violent crime and our preventative approach. We’re on the right path. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Honestly at this glacial pace we well have evolved into beings of light so we can forget all this earthly nonsense by the time action is taken

(Al Pacino ScarFace voice)

(Chef, body low to ground, eyes darting from side to side) (He thinks he spies a chicken ahead in the biscuits & fried goods aisle) (He advances on it, rotisserie rod in hand) (Another much larger chicken suddenly pokes its head out of nearby pile of wotsits) “Clever girl” are chefs last words

In other news, with an annual profit of £800,000 and fewer than 100 employees Twitter UK is about as significant economically as a single large Tesco Extra.

What massively amuses me on Bluesky is, because I’m a sadistic sort, I have a service turned on that tells me when someone adds me to a list or blocks me. Well: Some of you kind folks have added me to starter packs etc Every time this happens I get hit with notifications of people blocking me