My Nan is in her 80s and Mario has existed for more than half her life. And yet the BBC seems to think that video games were invented last year.

You can criticise Goodwin all you like, but he now has one of the bestselling fiction books in the country.

HUGE clock changing win: we are now in the six months of the year where the clock in my car is correct.

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

That’s fine, it will go back up when Trump posts something like “calm down dear, it’s only a commercial”.

Imagine trust in polling being at an all time low and then doing “polls” where a quarter of respondents are AI agents hallucinating answers based on exit polling.

Whoever this publisher is, they've only bought 10 ISBN numbers. That's the same number I control. (The ISBN breaks down here as 978-1-9194014-0-9)

I wrote about the community I grew up in, and what happens when hate comes calling www.jewishnews.co.uk/golders-gree...

Blackwell's and Barnes and Noble list the publisher as Northstar, and link to their other publications which are ... eclectic.

Been down a bit of a rabbit hole on this one. Matt Goodwin is, as much as I don’t like him, a well-known political thinker, so it wouldn’t be unreasonable for a major publisher to be keen on publishing a book of his. But if it’s full of factual errors, fake quotes and dodgy conclusions from data, 1/

He conducted peace talks with his Sylvanian Families or something by mistake.

if you're a "leftist" and you love Tucker Carlson and you'd vote for him as president, you're not a leftist. You're a fascist.

Sitting down right-wingers and explaining slowly, like Ted explaining to Dougal about the cows, that the product names of the Easter eggs are chosen so that you can tell what type of chocolate is in it.

It turns out that Reform has been using an outside company to convert crypto into cash before it hits their coffers - exacerbating transparency concerns

I think this is one of those things where it depends where in England you live because I can drive an hour East or an hour West and still be in rural North Yorkshire and this means that when I travel down South I get really surprised at how close together everything is.

Who could have predicted this etc. etc.

Can’t explain it but I really don’t like the notion of adding a “ton” or “town” suffix for no reason. Atlee sounds a much better town name than Atleeton

I think Trump really believes this is what the CNN poll says rather than this just being him sounding off, because he's surrounded himself with Yes men who will tell him stuff like this because it's what he wants to hear. Like how everyone told Salazar that he was still in power after his removal

80% sure Trump is just saying this because the oil traders have got a bit spiky again and it's not actually true. On the flipside I also think "US gives up and stops bombing then a few weeks later Iran reopens the Strait" is the way this crisis will end. Still means months of financial hardship.

Seems bad.

Just to put into context how bad this is with numbers: only once since 2008 have there been three or more years in a row with 2% or more economic growth. In the fifteen years before 2008 economic growth only dipped below 2% once.

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

That the Chancellor doesn’t know how the repayments system for student loans works doesn’t fill me with confidence that there’s going to be any sensible reform of the system.

Andrew Wakefield comes to mind. Also for God’s sake there has never been a better time to check you’re up to date on your vaccines.

This is why I don't understand why people make fake Trump posts that do the rounds every so often like earlier today. Trump says stuff like this all the time, you don't need to fake things to make him look like an idiot.

Sorry everyone, hedgehogs are right-coded now. Please adjust your opinions of them accordingly.

Predicting it now this month we are going to see age gap discourse about Kat Abughazaleh and the guy who runs The Onion and that's how we will know this site has the juice.

9 out of 10 people will keep scrolling and not repost my plea to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. I know my Real Friends will like and share

This is very interesting to me because as far as I know Starmer does not intend to offer support to Trump.

"Tom Tugendhat, who is a very serious person (he was in the army, you know), accused the Bank of “weakness”; while Ed Davey said that Churchill “deserves better than being replaced by a badger” – tell me you don’t want to see that war movie. Very sorry to tell you I have written about banknotes.

The nations of the world responding to Trump's cry for help in the tone of Elon Musk replying to the craziest thing you've ever read circa March 2024

I can only assume these suggestions are from people who thought that Armageddon was the pinnacle of scientific accuracy.

The Peter Crouch adverts have stopped but instead I just got served a YouTube ad for a digital card game where the images on the cards are AI generated women wearing not much so Mr Crouch I was too harsh on you and your normal adverts please come back!

Truly a tale of two halves from my GP surgery’s asinine decision to replace their entire telephone system with AI.

it's not that I think this is the worst thing happening right now or the one that's genuinely causing me most psychic pain, but the profusion of gambling ads on streaming is really making me both very angry and very sad. the fuck are we doing

For those wondering how much buzz there is around Conservative Party events these days, please consider that I live in Harrogate, even used to live on the same street that this conference took place on, and I'm very politically active. And I wasn't aware it had happened until reading this post.

Seriously, how on earth do these people still get a hearing? They are wring about everything.

AI Jane Austen: “Everyone knows rich guys want to get married”

My suggestion for the new banknotes £5: Rod Hull and Emu £10: Geri Halliwell in the Union Jack dress £20: Fred Dibnah £50: That one time Boris got stuck on the zip line

They turned him into a WORM

For a British comparison that means they are spending twice as much as the entire NHS day-to-day on this.

Pinterest (a service I used once, ages ago) have started sending me the maddest emails like did this one just get lost in the cables for 13 years???

Can we convince the Americans this is what Run For Your Wife is about?

Do the people who are upset they are making a new banknote design think that we were going to stick with the same banknote design forever?

Biggest daily drop in Brent in 4 years. On a day the Iranians appear to be mining the Strait.

Iran mining the Strait of Hormuz does show they are not planning to negotiate because if they were then they would leave themselves the leverage to let shipping through or not on a ship by ship basis and if there's one thing sea mines don't do it's let shipping through on a ship by ship basis.