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you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

Throwing a kettle over a pub.

All those pundits claiming Starmer has finally found his authentic Labour voice must feel pretty stupid this morning to wake up and hear him wanging on about asylum seekers and the ECHR

It begins with chipping off Art 3 (freedom from torture) and Art 8 (right to privacy and family life) for foreign criminals to assist deportation, then it will be extended to all asylum seekers, after that - who knows? It's the thin end of the wedge. Human rights should always belong to all humans.

"Bookshop.org’s ebook platform launches today with more than a million titles and lets buyers nominate a bookshop to receive a cut of sales. Amazon is refusing to allow the ebooks onto its Kindles." [Times]

When finance students apply for Jewish studies on the supposed basis that Jews are good at making money: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

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In related news, this week Russia left the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...

The “immigration debate” in this country is completely fucking mental. We’re repeatedly told that voters are concerned about migrants who “break the rules” or “don’t contribute” by people who then suggest the solution is to make life harder for those migrants who follow the rules and contribute.

"Should AI have human rights?" is a question often asked by people who aren't clear whether humans should have human rights.

It's time for an aggressive human chauvinism movement to put these people and their dismal creations in their place.

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

GOV.UK 2010: We build websites not apps because the web is a universal platform. GOV·UK 2025: If you're not running our Apple or Google digital ID app you can't work legally.

For the UK government's plan to enforce the right to work through digital ID, they should say: What's the acceptable proportion of people with the right to work who are denied it through system failure or non-compliance? What's the acceptable proportion of people who work anyway without the right?

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The Labour party's policy on workers' rights is that foreigners who have the right to work should also work for free, foreigners who don't have the right to work shouldn't have workers' rights at all, and disabled people who can't work should do it anyway or starve.

I don't need digital ID. I know who I am and if you don't that's your loss. (You're not missing much, admittedly.)

Primary schools should have libraries but so should communities generally. More than 180 UK public libraries were closed or handed to volunteers over the past decade

Summer 2025 in the UK, a time of unity and euphoria.

The second most tragic thing about this is the way that Rachel Reeves is obviously utterly unconvinced by what she's saying. The most tragic thing is what she's saying.

Four British grandparents.

Keir Starmer and Number 10 upended a previously low-profile digital ID policy last week, and made it the stuff of headlines – and mandatory. They have no idea of the size of the landmine they've stepped on by doing so. They've set up a new culture war. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

An extensive set of links about the many and legion problems with generative AI, now updated with more on labor issues, incorrect outputs, and a new section on ways in which the bubble may burst catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

My take (from Friday) on the digital ID proposals. I don't think it's relevant to say, "but other countries have ID cards, why can't we?" The critical questions here are implementation-based and it seems like they are up for grabs www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

The experience of British politics is one of continuous immiseration: You have to have a Tory government for as long as it takes enough people to work out how awful and clueless the Tories are, then you have to have a Labour government, then a Reform one, etc.

If you require migrants to meet higher standards than the average Brit, whether that is in terms their language requirements, voluntary service, which isn't remotely "voluntary" if it is compulsory, or anything else then you have a system which is by definition discriminatory. One which dehumanises.

Who doesn't like to hear slop read to them when they listen to the music? Is there no escape?

Things I had not expected to see today: Deutsche Bank making a numbers based argument that "AI" is a bubble and won't last https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deutsche-bank-grim-warning-ai-industry

Again.

Stop blaming migrants and tackle real problems, 100 charities tell UK Govt. Govt follows Reform agenda, failed to develop effective counter narrative. Migrants are vital part of economy, public services. Economic problems caused by inequality, austerity, privatisation, political corruption.

Someone suggested a "leave X day" earlier, and I think that's a really good idea. There's confidence in numbers.

The major political parties, broadcasters, and institutions should all leave X. It's an extremely dangerous disinformation machine, and staying there only legitimises it and the chaotic agenda of the richest man in the world. Who is a raving fucking lunatic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starmer's view on Reform's immigration policy is that the policy itself is racist but the people who support Reform have legitimate concerns. They're all going to be shocked to find out that they've inadvertently supported a party with racist policies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Everything was already dire but it seems like a very specific flavor of dire that our president not only believes magical alien technology AI slop But believes magical alien technology AI slop that features fake video of him personally announcing the existence of said magical alien technology

Want to kill the BritCard digital ID scheme dead in a day? Insist that Keir Starmer spends a day volunteering in a public library to deal with all the tech support requests.

Just spent an hour sorting out a technical computer problem for my 89 year old aunt. The idea of her having to deal with digital ID is more than a nightmare, it’s an impossibility.

Wait: so the President of the United States shared a video of a fake news report, rooted in a conspiracy theory, that features an AI-generated version of himself promoting a policy that…doesn’t exist?

"Yes Minister" on the general unpopularity and political risk of British ID cards in 1980: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYq... #BritCard #DigitalID

George Galloway being detained is an opportunity to post his all time taken on Ukraine

The petition against "BritCard" digital ID is still running at around half a million signatures per day. Currently over 2.2 million: petition.parliament.uk

It happened again.

Sent to me (nothing to do with the current trip). #Linguistics #Scots #dialect

Two million. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Watch another 15 minutes of ads to renew your right-to-work status for the week.

Good evening zelensky called assad a douchebag

BREAKING: The Scottish Government has confirmed it opposes Labour's plans to introduce compulsory Digital ID

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