Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

If Santa is bringing your child an AI-powered toy this Christmas, my story for @fastcompany.com about who's legally liable if it starts spewing sex talk or violent advice might be useful in the coming days... www.fastcompany.com/91463100/ai-...

What happens to Reform Uk and the Conservatives election campaigns when the population starts shrinking …?

Rob Reiner’s response to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Compare this to Trump’s vile post about the deaths of Rob and his wife, Michele.

Parliament is properly on Bluesky. Why isn’t government? Asking for a friend (of democracy).

Remember JD Vance and the Trump administration think the the UK and Europe are suppressing free speech. The hypocrisy is off the scale.

Given Trump’s ties to Larry Ellison, and the involvement of middle eastern sovereign wealth funds in the Paramout bid, and the Trump family’s utter disregard for obviously disqualifying conflicts of interest, this is…not surprising.

This chart is about tactical voting, but looking at it from the perspective of ‘would it be easier for labour to get voters back from Reform, or from literally anyone else’ is quite revealing

Astonishing.

Oh man … Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88 www.bbc.com/news/article...

He’s done it again. How joyous. Like an apple itself this episode fills your brain with juicy sweet knowledge and reflection. Μπράβο Αλέξη χ

so good from @hugorifkind.bsky.social in the @thetimes.com

Me being grumpy on Peston about the lack of pro-growth tax reform in the Budget: youtu.be/ZKx_qF3YpoU?...

Responding to the chancellor’s #Budget2025 speech, Kemi Badenoch claimed unemployment has increased “every single month” under Labour. As we’ve explained before, that’s not quite right.

So much of the response so far has just been a personal attack on the chancellor …

new allegation concerning Farage’s behaviour when he was 18 years old

He doesn’t normal get flustered …. But on this …

Gibb; “ I had no editorial role whatsoever at the Jewish Chronicle”. Lee Harpin, reporter at the paper; “RG made a habit of calling into the office on print days to check up on what stories were topping the news list, and offering a view’”

Britain has set a new wind generation record. "At 7:30pm on 11 November wind turbines...provided enough clean electricity to power more than 22 million homes" "Wind was delivering 43.6% of all power on the system which means three quarters of Britain’s homes were effectively running on wind alone"

Mamdani in the Oval Office

Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

excellent work by @jamesrball.com …

"The problem isn’t that we have a deliberately biased BBC, it’s that we have a BBC that has been consciously reduced in its scope and bullied into dumbing down and retreating." @stephenkb.bsky.social

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This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

“All he knows how to do is tax tax tax” says Kemi Badenoch of Kier Starmer. Last Tory government of which she was part of “This is the highest tax burden since 1948. The parliament that started in 2019 saw the biggest rise in the tax take of any parliament in modern history.”

Lewis Goodall pressing Chris Philp on the difference between what Sarah Pochin said and what Robert Jenrick said about 'white faces'.

This is a very good and somewhat revealing listen … someone doesn’t like being pressed for actual answers.

😳 Reform-led Nottinghamshire County Council is to spend £75,000 installing new flags. “…164 union jack flags will be displayed at a cost of about £457 per flag…” Reform UK sure have a strange notion of DOGE …

Opinion | "The Conservatives, seemingly without even really realising it, have put forward one of the most extreme anti-immigration policies issued by any political party in British history", writes Ian Dunt trib.al/Eph9xPO

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OK guys, post your best signs from today for entry into my Top 15 No Kings Sign Contest.

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums. Thank you. An Aston Villa fan.

“Kids”

Man child.

Private school VAT raid ‘did not drive pupils to state sector’ Local councils reject claims by the Scottish Council of Independent Schools that Labour’s policy has added to burden on taxpayers

President Donald Trump plans to greet released Israeli hostages before heading to Egypt for a summit of world leaders.

This is how it's done.

Great piece by Tom here.

Is Kemi really hoping that people believe all she has pointed out to be wrong with the country is the fault of a 15 month old government and not the result of the 14 years she and most of her front bench were in power?

This is truly brilliant.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

"In the hour and a half I was there, I didn't see another white face" Newsnight cover Robert Jenrick's leaked audio which some suggest are racist

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.

Tell me you haven’t read Performance Tracker* without telling me you haven’t read Performance Tracker *or literally any serious writing on local government finances