Would be good to have a sense that the introduction of #AI in the UK was being taken as seriously as Senator Mark Kelly outlines here. It currently feels to me as if humanity is being herded at the behest of oligarchs over a cliff into technological oblivion. open.substack.com/pub/senmarkk...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social do you remember this? Whenever I hear the name Benjamin Netanyahu I am reminded of it! 😁 youtube.com/watch?v=0yCV...

Ukrainian "sanctions" on Russian oil, as Starmer decides to choose jet fuel of Russian oil origin! x.com/i/status/205...

This was the 'benevolent' Jeff Bezos last month. His workers forced to work on as one their colleagues lay dead for over an hour. But I'm sure he'd brag about relieving that person from having to pay taxes.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

Cat 😺 won the Bird Lottery

This New Yorker cartoon is accurate but a gut punch.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

Exc: Backbenchers are readying an amendment that would force sitting MPs to disclose gifts received before the 2024 election Lloyd Hatton tells me "No one should have anything to be afraid of" observer.co.uk/news/politic...

My latest update for @mrjamesob.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/890581...

Love this!🌷

Google seems not to realise that I do not use Google search so that Google can tell me things. I use it to get to other, more reliable sources of information. You'd think we'd be starting to chafe at the control big tech companies have over what we see.

PM Starmer on Nigel Farage's £5m 'gift' from Christopher Harborne: "The £5million question is, why did the Reform leader keep this donation secret? "What did the billionaire lining his pockets ask for in return? Those questions need to be answered. That's why he's not here."

Got to be honest, loosening sanctions on Russia before we’ve even tried any basic demand-side measures is not filling me with pride or joy

people are acting like Labour asking supermarkets if they might voluntarily cap the price of a handful of products is some kind of Stalinist state intervention but Boris Johnson did something similar in 2022 without facing the same criticism here’s a reminder

Whatever Reform’s ‘vetting’ process involves, it clearly doesn’t extend to anything as complicated as a basic Google search.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social have you seen/read this? It seems Musk is preparing to game the world, not just the 2024 US election. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

This appears not just to be how Musk gamed the Trump election, but rather how Musk is setting up to game the world. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

This makes Watergate look like the height of good governance.

It isn’t just that @johnjcrace.bsky.social ’s satirical articles are so delightfully cutting It is also that they are beautifully written

With Reform facing its biggest byelection test yet in Makerfield, Nigel Farage has mysteriously vanished from the public eye. The sudden vanishing act comes as watchdog pressure mounts over his undisclosed multi-million-pound finances. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reform's "line to take" on Farage's Five Million - rolled out again today by Richard Tice on @channel4news.bsky.social - seems to be that Farage was not leader of a political party at the time. But he did own a political party, as the majority shareholder in Reform UK. So hardly a private citizen.

Belgian MP asking US Ambassador a question, while pointing out the international rules violated in the past year.

if it were up to jd vance, there would be a monument to the qanon shaman in the capitol rotunda

The wonderful Led by Donkeys did this today in London!! 👏✨️😂 substack.com/@writesbrigh...

Please share this widely so more people can appreciate how use of AI is already driving the racist agenda (and who knows what other agendas) in UK right now.

There are certain legacy habits that you wouldn’t adopt if you were starting from scratch now and near the top of the list is broadcasters doing a segment on the newspapers. Not just skewed towards the right (forever the case) but now skewed towards a shrinking demographic of nutters

To my mind the thugs doing this are the UKs answer to ICE. If Reform ever got into power expect to see gangs of these thugs ruling our streets! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When the real history of the last few years comes to be investigated, I think many will be surprised at how deliberate and strategic those Summer 2024 riots were - and how effective at taking out a very new govt's legs from under it. Planned and simply looking for a trigger event, would be my guess.

Reform are targeting individual journalists now it seems

Despite claiming to give his paymasters “nothing in return” for their money, the truth is that Farage has been assiduous in serving their interests. Last year, as Christopher Harborne was handing millions of pounds to Reform UK, Farage was taking to the airwaves to openly promote his company

Today sadly seems a good day to remember that the Home Office's social media policy deliberately encourages people to use X/Twitter, and the government keeps on stalling when I suggest they might want to change that: lordseyeview.substack.com/p/the-home-o...

Trump says Xi agrees Iran must open strait, China says war shouldn't have started reut.rs/4dfQhSd

Tomorrow never dies for James Bond. Auditions officially underway to find the new 007

Trump's second meeting with China's Xi in a year steers the U.S. away from Taiwan again

Russia attacked Ukraine with 294 drones overnight.People were reported injured. ▪️Odesa region: Two people were injured.Russians attacked residential&port infrastructure.A five-story apartment building,a one-story house,an educational institution,a warehouse, an administrative building were damaged

How two girls in Utah, USA, campaigning against a new data centre there, are targeted by a Canadian billionaire! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

Wonderful wildlife art via David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation: youtube.com/watch?v=aEsA...

The Makerfield byelection will be an odd one if Burnham is selected. Reform have been running on a "Vote for us, get Starmer out" platform. Burnham will effectively be doing the same.

Each to their own but … 😂Reform Councillor quits after LBC investigation reveals his double life as porn star Stephen Mousdell, features in an extensive catalogue of eye-watering gay porn videos under the alias of “LachlanTaylorUK”, with videos online of him engaging in sex acts seemingly in public

Today in "which lying liar is lying to me?"

I am disgusted and angry with Streeting and the others collaborating to play fast and loose with the electorate. Labour only won its huge majority in 2024 because a vast swathe of the voting public wanted the Tories out and wanted the non-histrionic approach of Starmer!

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

Gonna be getting a LOT of mileage out of this in coming weeks...

Wes Streeting just gave your address, your ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, if you are cis or trans, if you've ever had an abortion, an addiction, are disabled in anyway and a million other pieces of info about you, to a far right tech company the UK government has no control over.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I think the reason why the press is hot to promote Streeting as successor to Starmer is that he has shown himself, as Health Secretary, to be open to accepting donations from private health businesses. As ever it is commerce driving the agenda.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

It's not a coincidence so many of Farage's donors use tax havens. 2016- 2017 - Arron Banks donated £435,000 to Farage. Steve Bannon indicted for money laundering. His aide/donor - George Cottrell incarcerated for money laundering. Arron Banks Isle of Man - Gibraltar tax havens: