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Public Policy guy in Europe for Electronic Arts, Board member at Ukie. Living in France. Video games, politics, tech, often getting distracted by sport.

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It was already the Daily Mail comments section reborn. Now they're trying to replicate the rest of the paper.

14.03.2026 08:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I genuinely think this would liven up Parliament Square no end.

13.03.2026 15:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When the Tories retake power, they will replace this heinous new design with proud patriotic images of the vanquishing of the French at Agincourt: One Battle After An Otter

13.03.2026 12:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 27 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Up there with "I'm clear that"

13.03.2026 11:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Once a day it should issue a horrifying scream and plunge a giant spear through its own eye socket.

13.03.2026 11:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Open letter to social media and video sharing platforms on strengthening age assurance

Interesting to see the ICO choose this moment to make a public callout for more age verification by social media.

ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

13.03.2026 11:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadly exactly as expected

Iโ€™ve got a load of teenage and younger family in Australia, this chimes with them and their parents experience

A veneer of protection that gives false assurance to parents, schools and politicians is dangerous of and in itself

13.03.2026 07:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 127 ๐Ÿ” 38 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A backflip? No no, they should do a BARREL ROLL.

Geddit? Because oil comes in ba-

12.03.2026 18:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's flat, so all we need to do is tilt it a bit and let the oil slide in the direction we want.

12.03.2026 17:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This guy can help he has awards, from army

12.03.2026 15:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I guess they're trying to achieve the highest possible TV ratings across the season. So a balanced competition and a good spread of star players who will feature in enough matches?

12.03.2026 15:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Auction design is beyond my ken, but I'm certainly curious why. I suppose you do have an actual job though.

12.03.2026 14:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Are people taking into account more recent form, or likely availability, or commercial benefits, or is it just the Root name overwhelming all?

12.03.2026 14:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's the mirror image of people complaining about 'sportsball'. We should all be allowed to take joy where we find it.

(Personally I find that chore games, or mobile games with daily tasks, get old after a couple of weeks tops for me. But I do see the appeal of a calm moment.)

12.03.2026 14:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Would love to read your thoughts in more detail.

12.03.2026 14:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only andouillete I've tried was disappointingly normal. Just a very rough-textured sausage. Perfectly fine. I almost would have preferred something horrifying just to have the story.

12.03.2026 14:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Somehow the sensible advice to use short, simple sentences where you can has turned into "imagine you're presenting Blue Peter."

12.03.2026 13:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You could almost literally just delete that first clause, and the "but", and leave a helpful, still easily understood sentence.

12.03.2026 13:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Let's go!

12.03.2026 13:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 16 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I've just had an amazing idea

12.03.2026 12:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 2833 ๐Ÿ” 736 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 59 ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
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ADD YOUR NAME: Give Mayors The Power To Build Give Mayors The Power To Build

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Sign the petition: www.britainremade.co.uk/mayors_power...

12.03.2026 12:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

She wants to eat like the common people,
She won't do, whatever seed oils do,
She wants to eat like the common people,
And cook with duck fat too-ee-oo-ee-ooooh

12.03.2026 10:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We are all confit now.

12.03.2026 10:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm still thinking about this.

-shudder-

12.03.2026 10:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was chatting to the dad of one of my kid's friends at the weekend. Nice friendly guy. He told me that he won't cook with seed oils because they're what we used to make candles with, and he tries to cook with duck fat as much as possible now.

What has the internet done to us, man?

12.03.2026 10:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I take more pride than I should from the British Dennis being so much more of an actual menace.

12.03.2026 09:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm choosing to believe you're also 5'3 and have Sideshow Bob proportions.

11.03.2026 18:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Annunciation set to Etta James' Tell Mama, yes.

11.03.2026 17:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I know we've already had plenty of modern re-workings of the Bible but I think the "Ray Liotta from Goodfellas" version could really bring it home.

11.03.2026 15:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My rough timeline:
If the Strait reopens in the coming week, we have weeks of energy market disruption ahead but things have settled by the Autumn.
If the Strait is closed for another 3/4 weeks we have months of disruption.
If the Strait is closed for longer things get very bad, very quickly.

11.03.2026 15:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 791 ๐Ÿ” 204 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 29