No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?

On Truss & Kwarteng in ‘22. Allister Heath, Telegraph: “the best budget I have ever heard a British chancellor deliver". Alex Brummer, Mail: “a genuine Tory package elbowing to one side the Treasury's fiscal conservatism". These men will now be paid actual money for their analysis of today’s budget.

Don't give up America!

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey just called for a national investigation into Russian interference in British politics. (PM doesn't commit but slams Nigel Farage's party for the Nathan Gill bribery scandal)

The House voted to release the Epstein Files. The Senate voted to release the Epstein File. Trump signed it, so where the fuck are the Epstein Files?

Lib Dem leader Edward Davey calls for a national investigation into Russian political interference in British politics: "Given Reform won't, he must. So will he know launch a national investigation into Russian infiltration into our politics?" Starmer: "Reform is riddled with pro-Putin propaganda"

This sum includes pensions, although presumably Matt is Very Angry that some pensioners have a family background in Africa or Asia too

Bad news for anyone thinking of responding to the consultation on the new electric vehicle duty. The consultation opens today, and closes last March.

Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔

Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..

Whatever else this government do (and there's plenty of issues with this budget) ministers will always be able to point to this as an incredible important contribution to the country's future. Almost half a million kids taken out of poverty.

Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy. OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

Kudos to all political or financial journalists who don’t make the ‘Office of Budget Irresponsibility joke.

Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025

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Suggs and the boys, great bunch of lads, always said so.

This is ‘wave-machine’ levels of stupidity.

At last!

Could have been done a year ago, but good news nonetheless!

Government by leak is now the norm.

I plan to listen to the budget singing ‘there’s a hole in my budget, dear Rachel, dear Rachel.’

Of course another consequence of removing juries from all but the most serious crimes is that those pesky juries won’t be able to find annoying protestors not guilty.

After asking Piers Morgan about the peace plan, we’ll be asking Joey Essex for a recap of the COP30 talks.

Unbelievable. Very few things piss me off more than anti-vax morons killing their children.

Got the new IM6 in my driveway at the moment. It's an intriguing car with unusual styling and software which could use some polishing, but throwing this gadget-laden Chinese sofa to 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds is good fun, won't lie. 😀

No I must... I don't need anything.... On the other hand, what's the harm in looking?

The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words: “Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.” That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition

Asked again and again whether he ever racially abused his fellow pupils, as 20 people at his old school have now said he did, Nigel Farage will only say that he never did so in a "hurtful way" or "with intent"

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day? Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.

I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

The BBC’s own “impartiality briefing” for freelancers included not doing anything to annoy the DM. So - not impartial! Also not great for freedom of speech.

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

That's, well, quite Orwellian.

Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Platforms like X don’t have a list of algorithms, some of which are ’toxic’ and some of which are ‘nice’. It’s all one system. The profiling and targeting are built in to that system. The overall model is what produces the effect, not some specific toxic algorithms that can be turned off.

All these distractions. WHAT IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES?????????

Not for any with universities in their constituencies…

This is £600m from the same university sector that is pretty close to collapse in a growing number of major institutions? Many of them universities that are among the biggest employers in the very ‘left behind’ towns and cities that Labour talks so much about…

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A federal judge has dismissed the criminal charges against former F.B.I. Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor Trump handpicked to pursue the cases was illegally appointed.

None of the talk about how harmful social media is for kids balances that with a discussion of how useful and beneficial it is for them. It helps with loneliness, is a source of friendship and of information, and helps them find solace when their ‘offline’ lives are harmful or miserable. 1/4

Second time I saw Dark Star, I saw it advertised as a Dark Comedy. That's when I realised I had completely misunderstood it first time round. I liked it both as a Comedy, and when I had missed the point.