Labour government is doing really good things with pensions that many people probably aren't even aware of. Also, @torstenbell.bsky.social, Pensions Minister, is really good at communicating this stuff. (Just don't do anything to our ISAs, Torsten! 🙏) #UKpolitics

Why isn't it obvious to the Oval Office journalists to direct their questions to MBS rather than Trump. #MBS would give an answer without rambling. #USpolitics

Well, at least Tump didn't call the Palestinian journalist "fake news". #USpolitics

You can't keep blaming Saudi Arabia, the country, for what Osama Bin Laden did. #USpolitics

No! Really? What about the goldrush nature of #AI gave that away? 😄

Bank deposit protection raised from £85,000 to £120,000. About time, finally catching up to inflation.

It is not a palliative care bill. It's a bill to provide the choice of when to die. The unelected Lords need to stop trying to block it by talking it out and wasting time. This bill has over 80% public support, and has had support for more than a decade. #bbcWATO

Creative advertising sector is going to be crushed.

Net migration to the UK in 2024 is 20% lower than previously thought. Got me wondering... when someone successfully claims asylum, does that count toward inward migration stats, or stay separate as asylum stats. #bbcWATO #UKpolitics

Just because a wet wipe is used for "intimate hygiene" it doesn't mean it needs to be flushed. That's not solving a "customer problem", that's encouraging the wrong behavior. #r4today

People forget that we didn't allow parents to come as refugees during WWII, only the children. #r4today

"the right to a life free from poverty" Funny how this is never used to defend ECHR. Just saying.

Denmark is a progressive country, arguably more so than the UK. Stella Creasy seems to have forgotten this. #UKpolitics @newsagents.bsky.social

This is what is likely to happen in UK too. Unions aligning with the right. #USpolitics #UKpolitics

It must be tiring for Farage that he has to endure all this, because all he wants is to get into government and do the one and only thing he actually wants to do, exit the ECHR. That's it, that is literally all he cares about.

Has anyone loaded all the emails into an LLM yet? And then generated a graph.

Environmental policies can be mitigated easily enough. The bigger blocker to more housing being built is NIMBYism. Local parishes in very NIMBY Tory constituencies do everything they can to encourage resistance to new homes. 12 month (longer in practice) process to approval a site??? #UKpolitics

😄 No, no, no, you silly callers. Trump's team haven't been investigating this for "some time". He has a team that monitors world media for opportunities to sue. If the Telegraph hadn't print this story, Trump's team would have been none the wiser. #bbcAQ

This shouldn't be controversial. People do usually want to return when wars end, when risks are no longer. 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠𝑦𝑙𝑢𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑒𝑑.

My prediction is Keir Starmer will still be PM at next general election. #bbcAQ

I watched the Megyn Kelly interview. She wasn't defending nor trying to justify Epstein's behavior. She was relaying what someone had told her, someone who was close to Epstein. But it's being reported (with careful use of ellipsis and quotes) as though Kelly is saying it. (I'm no fan of Kelly.)

One of the Sage of Omaha's last updates to Berkshire portfolio before he retires. Berkshire Hathaway trim's $AAPL holding for $GOOGL. Google stock has even outpaced Nvidia this year. Buffet's faith in it should give Google's stock a further boost. #Finsky

This is a lot to have achieved in just over a year. Most people don't realize (or want to accept) that this is actually a lot of work already undertaken. Part of the problem is our lack of patience with political and parliamentary processes. We expect next day delivery for complex challenges.

AI for good. Pinpoint tool, part of Google's Journalist Studio. journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint

Really interesting and in depth interview with @linamkhan.bsky.social by Jon Stewart. @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social #USpolitics

White Right : Meeting the Enemy

"I've never met a nice South African" That's a call back to original Spitting Image season 2 song from 1985! 😄

The 8am speech never implied breaking manifesto pledge. All the Chancellor said was there were tough decisions to be made. Misunderstanding the 8am speech is a journalism problem. #bbcWATO

Treasury never said income tax might rise. Journalists speculated it might, and now journalists are pretending they were briefed on it by "sources". #bbcWATO

Liz Cheney's call to arms for Democrats. She is right on every point. When the Obamas said, "When they go low we go high", I said to my friends that was a big mistake, and it was.

Michael Burry has closed his hedge fund. Jim Chanos and Nate Anderson have also closed theirs. The #AI bubble isn't a "pop", but it is slowly deflating.

ChatGPT gave you had medical or legal advice? That's a you problem says #OpenAI. The tech bros want people to believe their matrix math is capable of "thought", but when it goes wrong, that's the user's fault. They want the profits, and none of the liability.

America denying China access to #AI processors has been great for China own semiconductor innovators. China's #Baidu unveils two new AI processors. And, #Huawei already has its CloudMatrix 384 which industry observers consider more powerful than #Nvidia GB200 processors.

While #Meta is pushing scam ads out to users (and even charging scam advertisers more for the privilege), #Google is introducing scam detection into messages with its latest AI features in Pixel devices.

how to really do something about digital sovereignty and make sure the tech lobby cannot water it down? Decentralisation! eudecentralisation.org/europe-can-r...

Oh for goodness' sake. Stop pretending you are creating new jobs in AI. You aren't. #bbcWATO

People who are generally happy and content with life vote for "left" leaning parties and people who are generally unhappy vote for "right" leaning parties. This is why right leaning parties (Tory, Republican, Reform) perpetuate the myth that "everything is broken" or that "nothing works".

Steve Bannon: "Sexual abuse is God's work!" Said this before, MAGA will overlook it for Trump, but everyone... to be burned at the stake.

Was my first thought also. Someone is trying to stir the pot. It could be internal (Labour left) or it could be external (an opposition party). #bbcWATO #wato

We're not still quoting the Laffer Curve are we? Modern economies have show it doesn't hold up. #bbcWATO

UK's far right complain about two-tier justice. Israel's far right are implementing two-tier justice. 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝐽𝑒𝑤𝑖𝑠ℎ 𝐼𝑠𝑟𝑎𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑃𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑠. #Israel

Some are calling on government to defend the BBC's honor. I disagree, #BBC should defend itself and make whatever apologies necessary. Government has better things to be getting on with than get involved in this right wing culture war. #bbcWATO #bbcPM

Won't someone think of the gamblers. Oh wait, the Chancellor is thinking of them, and the harm the gambling sector does to society.

UK average earnings rose by 4.6% (4.8% with bonuses). Public sector earnings rose by 6.6%. Private sector earnings rose by 4.2%. The British populist right will use this to argue public sector is better paid that private sector, but this is difference in increases only. #UKBudget

Don't be fooled. Trump administration *wants* SCOTUS to rule against the tariff policy. Because it would give Trump administration even more justification to invoke "national security" policies. #Econsky

Johnson and Gibb is where things started going wrong.

Pretty much the entire stadium is booing. #USpolitics

The Democrats had better get it together by the mid-terms. The world is watching. #USpolitics

Fetterman, trojan horse.

BBC should be made properly independent.