The truth about AI: Power, work and who really benefits youtu.be/bVV1CmbpL8A?...

Braverman deleted this tweet which made me wonder who that previous prisoner was. His name was Junead Ahmed. He was a conman mistakenly released in 2023. She was Home Secretary at the time. Oh. news.sky.com/story/migran...

The light over the Atlantic coast of Ireland is like nowhere else on Earth 🌎

At last week’s lobby on Sudan, I spoke to constituents about loved ones caught in the horrors of war — especially in besieged El Fasher, where 250,000 civilians are trapped and starving. The UK must back an immediate ceasefire, humanitarian access & end arms sales to the UAE that is fuelling war.

“Facts Matter. Verifiable, testable, provable facts.” – Stephen Fry This #GlobalMILWeek, let’s champion reliable info and critical thinking. See how Full Fact’s building a better information environment: fullfact.org #CelebrityTraitors

Tell the government to stop the crackdown on peaceful protest now: act.gp/3J2ntjz

Cost of Privatization, Thames Water wants to pollute UK rivers with illegal sewage dumping until 2040, pay no fines, law already permits some sewage dumping. Will still want profits, pay megabucks to execs, dividends and fleece customers. Public ownership is the only way out.

That ballroom extension seems slightly suboptimal …

Breaking: The East Wing

"Winter is coming, which means we're back to thinking about home heating." Not sure how my colleague Max Woollard managed to get this past the @nestauk.bsky.social editorial team, but he did and his blog on how to make clean heat more affordable is great...

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Films: We need to hack a keycard, obtained by seducing one of the guards. We then need to drop in from the skylight after jumping from a plane, and dodge all of the lasers and traps, carefully switching the jewels for fakes that weigh the same to avoid tripping the alarm. Real life:

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

Just saw a sign, “A comb over is not a crown” 😂

For no reason at all I thought this quote from Katie Lam MP would work in a different font. I thought I’d add a headline too. Apropos of nothing in particular. Really, no reason at all.

“People had a way of suddenly disappearing, no trial, no explanation”; “prisoners were half-starved, bullied, inhumanly treated”.

“The resonances with today are impossible to overlook. Would that we all had Carson’s insight and her moral clarity.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

British.

Fracking is a massive backwards step, & not something we want.

A life well lived.

"This asymmetry in resource is incredibly important. It directly shapes who gets heard, who gets paid to be heard and who can keep speaking after the algorithm turns against them."

Nazis ban comedians shock.. NYT, 4 Feb 1939

New extended definition of Remote Control @newyorker.com new issue

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Right to swim and wild camp in England should be enshrined in law, Labour MPs say

In my old London parish of Plumstead, a few flags have been graffitied here and there, and the good parishioners have turned them into Battenburg cakes by colouring in the squares yellow and pink. I call it the Battenburg resistance. Nice one. #standuptoracism #battenburgresistance

Turning flags into battenburg - could this be the solution? Battenburg is both patriotic, whilst also kind and reassuring! #MoreCake #BeKind

A classic

This is good. I hope there is finally justice for Steve Biko. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"We will never know what diseases might have been cured or what advances in technology might have been invented had the lights not gone out in the labs." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Ben Jennings on wildfires and summer holidays – cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Peter Jukes “This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions”. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Solar panels are basically wireless receivers for a nuclear fusion power plant.

Wow. Check this out. Politicians actually trying to solve problems can achieve a lot! www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

My Prospect piece yesterday set out how a illiberal radical government with a firm majority and competent advisers could easily abuse the UK constitution - and that the UK more vulnerable to this than US. But. This sort of warning is not new. It has been over a hundred years in the making. >

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

They should ALWAYS ask him what Russia AND America agreed in the Budapest Memorandum and then enquire why anyone would take either of them seriously now?

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Causing all Teslas to swerve violently to the right.

I used to think that Musk was *arguably* not the worst thing to emanate from Pretoria.