And where did this money go, why hasn't it been clawed back, and who has gone to prison?

Phil lost the game in the headline 2-0 and was fired the next week

At which point are journalists allowed to say "nope, that's not an answer. You're failing in your duties by repeating this very obvious deflection for two years in a row. You need to give an actual response now."? Or else publish just "the DfE said the same thing they did for 24 months".

Because they control the technology, because the law makes it a literal crime to wrestle that control away, they can shift all the friction from their side of the ledger to yours, whether you're a worker or a customer: pluralistic.net/2025/08/23/b... 70/

One of the largest gatherings of Muslims targeted by far right terrorists and we have close to radio silence... The media, politicians from across the board, pundits... all seem to be taking a minimalist approach... This is how institutional Islamophobia works.

ICE and/or police murdered someone this morning in Biddeford, Maine. From the statements I’ve seen from local activists, I *think* the victim was a young Black man. You may already know Black immigrants are the largest non-white immigrant demo in Maine. A protest is already under way.

Sunday, today, 11th July, Manchester South Hotel in Fallowfield is going to be targeted by far right harassers yet again. If you're going to be there standing in their way, bring water, sun screen and a friend from 1pm until the fascists go home.

Apart from ruining the study of the night sky and the increased risk of the Kessler sydrome . . . The average Starlink satellite lasts about *five years*. Think of the impact of constant rocket launches, and countless tonnes of precious and toxic materials being left to burn up in the atmosphere.

Police investigation at University of Greater Manchester is lengthy with multiple strands This raises questions about oversight at highest levels When issues become this fragmented, it points to lack of clear control at the top www.bbc.com/news/article...

Paris turns the Seine into a giant air conditioner. 100 km of pipes now channel river water through heat exchangers to cool 800 buildings. The way the system works is by transferring heat through closed loops, room by room, until it disperses back into the Seine. buff.ly/mosFlsz #ShareGoodNewsToo

Yes, but also argh! "The people who say they hate AI and don’t use it – they almost certainly are...I’m just saying it’s already here. So, we’ve got to find a way of engaging.” OK, go on, tell us what 'engaging' means. Are you telling us we *have* to use AI when know it to be bad or harmful? Why?

I’d ask: what have they done to deserve a fair hearing, rather than dismissal? Not much yet. They might do better, but people are correct to be hostile towards politicians who spent years actively insulting and defaming them, while laughing with journos about how awesome it is to fuck then over.

When we are told not to speak ill of the dead, it is the continuation of the whitewashing - turning the cruel into the eccentric or the avuncular - allowing their cruelty to go unspoken of for the purpose of “manners” that they didn’t demonstrate in their lives as they happily dehumanised

'The REF team will launch a short sector survey on 30 July 2026 to gather targeted feedback on a small number of policy areas for final development.' It will close on 4 September.

I strongly suspect these are very senior people. Hope this becomes a trend.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

This stuff is just utterly normal at universities now.

As ever, going to university is seen as purely a transaction for anyone heading into business. Arts provide so much and as always the incredible impact the arts have in the economy are massively overlooked. I learnt so much from my English Lit degree but apparently that's not worth much anymore.

Even viewed from an entirely mercenary perspective, (which is reductive) this doesn’t make financial sense. The creative sector in the UK is incredibly successful and one of the few successful industries for global exports, so why stop people training and joining it?

Looks like someone has got bored of playing with this toy

He means institutions like mine. Would Birmingham be on the list to close its research? Doubt it. People are not automatically better researchers because they work at the Birminghams of this world.

I keep hearing from people that these models reduce bias and just about every study I’ve seen shows the opposite 🤷

You can't chase the polls to find out what people think because you'll only find out after you've already lost. You need to understand the underlying breakdown of human interests and then provide novel solutions to them that aren't already on offer done better by someone else.

'Now the Guardian can reveal that OpenAI does not appear to have visited one of Stargate UK’s key sites – and that £20bn of the “potential” £30bn in investment touted by the UK government appears to have been totally hypothetical.' 1/2

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

There needs to be a vigorous anti corruption hunt from top to tail of the uk justice system and everyone knows it.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Two headlines about the same story reveal how the BBC relentlessly launders Farage's reputation, even as the corporate media steps up. In-your-face malfeasance by the national broadcaster.

He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream.

👀 Open AI telling you exactly what they're about there folks. (Context: line up for far-right conference CPAC UK)

It is ... very interesting that this keeps happening. Juries are by definition made up of a random sample from the electoral roll, and they continue to express support for climate protestors when put in a contemplative environment juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

Hey Bayeux Tapestry fans have I made the platform game for you? I’m sure someone else will have done this before but well now I have too… bayeuxgo.live

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

Reminder that the 2019 Labour manifesto included provision for setting up nationalised production of generic pharmaceuticals.

I hate throwing out food so I'm gonna save it in the fridge, forget about it, then throw it away later.

For the morning crowd. The Hope Projects is an amazing little organisation and its clients need all the help they can get. It’s been an expensive year for me too.

Starmer claimed the King's Birthday Honours went to "community change makers" but top awards went to high earning bankers - including a US banker who gets $42m/year and is best mates with Trump (probably why they got the gong) -in current @privateeyenews.bsky.social

uk media unable to understand why pm who did everything they wanted was so despised

Quite high/level but definitely worth thinking about by anyone interested in organisational or systemic change.

Wasn't his literal first big news story in government him and his cabinet accepting """"""donations""""""

I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.

i know it's about the river but this is another preview image of heat = people swimming instead of heat = danger

Seems to be a lot of selective memory in UK's right-wing newspapers about schools not closing during the 1976 heatwave. I just checked and, yes, many schools did close early as well as allow parents to "keep their children at home if they wish". This clipping from London Evening News, 29 June 1976

(1)From this (v.useful) round up of Westminster opinions on what Andy Burnham's appointment of James Purnell means - the Labour Right pretty open about pretending to be leftish to get elected, then ditching any policies- even after this "lying" plan crumbled under Starmer .

Somewhat unsurprisingly, solar is generating almost 38% of power being consumed in the UK right now.