After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words: Rail Replacement Bus

Can I just say, literally no one in any position of power or influence have a vision for Britain apart from "WE'RE GOING TO DEPORT EVERYONE AND SOMEHOW THAT'LL FIX EVERYTHING" and that's fucking unacceptable

The persistence of this multiply convicted felon in our public sphere, via social media (open season), does suggest that entitlement to free speech should have limitations? Especially if the clear goal of the speaker is solely to sow division, damage social cohesion, and profit from it?

In how to use Ai coding agents today I discovered they don't timestamp requests. This will explain why the agent took my build back 10 days! When after it went into a daydream fail loop, I said, stop this and revert to the working build we had before I asked you to do anything today...good to know 😂

And both seem to misunderstand that Labour getting a giant majority at the last GE (yes quirks in FPTP etc) wasn’t the voters screaming for more human hating, moral bankruptcy after…14 years of Farage inspired Tory…?

Every time I have to say to the coding agent something like, "There is still a duplicate command in the UI. You have not removed it. Please inspect the UI after making changes to ensure you have done what you think you have." I think about how this tech is being jammed into every area of life...

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

This horrible day was the day I thought, naively, that the country will see what rides with Brexit and reject it.

I wonder how much X is influencing Labour’s fail loop? Given how attached people can be to followings comprised of bots and sock puppets…maybe a lot. I have 10’s of 1,000’s of computer chips interacting with me, even tho they hate me, I can’t just walk away. I’m listening to their genuine concerns…

Maybe people wouldn’t feel the country is out of control, those that do (will diminish), if our government stopped chasing the far right immigrant bashing vote/narrative…ffs.

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

When our water bill trebled this year my gut reaction was “I want a digital ID card”. Whenever I notice the grocery bill inflation I automatically scream inside for “A DIGITAL ID CARD!”. When I see the fash raging in London I know it, “I could do with a digital ID card!” etc etc ffs.

Feels like quite an apt summary for the future of Britain

The patriotic case for diversity would be honesty. Honesty about govt failure to invest in public services. Honesty about Brexit. Honesty about labour shortages. Honesty about the contribution of immigration. Just tell the fucking truth and shame the racists for the harm they do.

It often amazes me how we now have so many billionaires in the West whose main drive seems to be to accumulate more wealth regardless of the societal cost. What is going on in the psychology? There are notable exceptions of course. But the majority of this minority...and we allow it too!

Whenever this one does the rounds again my first thought is “I wonder what swan tastes like?”.

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This was me and GPT-5 yesterday after a simple change to an iOS app I’m building (with coding agents) caused a fail loop that lasted hours. Eventually in despair I switched agents to Claude-sonnet 4 who was more than happy to open the pod-bay doors…

Fascinating. I learned things I’ve already stopped understanding. The output reversed? 😂. Keeps hope alive for humanity. The idiots are currently centre stage but the really clever people are always still at work improving things.

This America first MAGA nonsense reminds me of new ferry map post Brexit - Ireland decided to completely miss the UK from ferry lines and go direct to the EU. Which made sense. USA is doing Brexit after dumping it in nuclear waste in which a giant mad spider from another dimension bites it first.

reduce the flock yeah

You can see why the human skid mark is having another go. One of the largely ignored injustices of Brexit was masses of people who moved here legally suddenly finding they had to reapply to stay in their homes. And did anyone in our political leadership give two shits about the injustice of it? 🤷‍♂️

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

.@SadiqKhan responds to Farage’s deportation plan “Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”

The fact it’s even a discussion shows how shameful our politics has become. About to go into work in a minute in an environment where about 80% of the workforce was born overseas. This inability to shut Farage down by our political class is enraging and embarrassing.

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Well put. We need more of this from Labour

I suspect if a hypothetical Reform gov had even a fraction of the majority this Labour one has you wouldn’t see hesitancy and just basic inability to use the power like Starmer. Thus, it doesn’t matter at all what this gov does, especially as new laws can just be made and old repelled.

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Very impressive that Ukraine, in spite of major allies denying her long range strike capability for so long, has turned Russia’s big strength into its Achilles heel.

How to quantify how much gutlessness is costing this Starmer gov in vote share? Must be a wedge by now? “We shall give in to them on the speeches…”…

I’ve built an app for iOS with coding agents that I thought I was going to call Nudge. But that’s taken. Nudgetronic then. I’m not sure what nudge Ed is referencing. I just admire his ability to face R4Today still. Long lost the stomach for that sadly failing (us all) endeavour.

My only problem with Gail’s is that I was working as a postie in an area with a Gail’s a few years ago. They were always terribly snooty when I went in to deliver. “Omg. A poor person has entered. It’ll take forever to get the stench out.” So not keen on Gail’s. However, our area has just got one 😂🙌

Reminds me of one I had fun writing a few years back...

To be fair, a serial bankrupt who finally got rich off a crypto scam is the guy who should be listened to on how to run a business. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BLATHER.

"I was one of the first Labour MPs to leave Twitter back last summer...That was a basic defensive move to protect against a website which has become a highly-partial cesspit of misinformation and algorithmically-charged hate." bylinetimes.com/2025/09/15/m...

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Those who see this Labour government as continuity Tory will be extra sure once we have to have a change in PM again. Because the current one isn’t up to the task. Baffles me how they don’t confront Musk. Go and have a fight and win it. But nah, just gutless. Which isn’t leading…

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Elon Musk promotes and amplifies the far right in the US and around the world. X is still seen by many in the media, politics and other fields as having the reach, the momentum they need. How can it be right for governments and responsible media organisations to continue to make that true? #wato

Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

“It would also let a future Democratic administration target those it dislikes the same way.” - always puzzled how a statement like this can go with an article on a statement like this, as if there’s any serious chance the current US admin will willingly give up power?

I had to prove I was over 18 to access my message on this platform but my 15 year Old’s social feed is full of stuff like this. Well done gov. You’ve sorted things real good. 🙌🏆

Reminds me of old Boris Johnson's government here. As they went about enshittifying everything they always promised a lovely day tomorrow, and blue birds over the White Cliffs of Dover. Same school of political horseshittery.

Damn depressing Starmer's government keeps having big fights and losing political capital over so many dumb things. Mandelson being the latest (as in, avoidable). Rather than, F U We're scrapping tuition fees or renationalising water or something they'd actually have a lot of support with. But no.

Tired of being governed by the gutless, the cruel, the weak, the shortsighted and the dishonest. And depressed to find little change in the big things with change of gov. It started so long ago and it’s still going on. Where are the politicians who will put the country first and stand their ground?

Pet parrots which typically live alone (whilst those in the wild live in large flocks) were given the technology to call each other. They would use it for up to three hours a day, and developed favourite friends 💔 on.ft.com/3K05vhS

I wonder if Trump will take Mandelson’s sacking as a slight? Given the context.