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Writer. Copy editor. Scot. Optimist. Trade unionist. LFC.

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You don’t have to. Just delete the GB News app. This is my Samsung TV right now.

14.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What she said. Didn't think I had the staying power for a long read about the royal family, but this is MENTAL

10.03.2026 08:32 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Dear Russia,

Iran's fire is making oil prices spike.

Spiking oil prices makes economic problems for us, so we're making it easier for you to sell more oil.

In sum, Iranian military success against us reduces economic pressure on you.

Just, you know, FYI.

Sincerely,
The geniuses leading America

07.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1366 πŸ” 398 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 6

MacBook Neo looks really good. It's a lot like the MacBook Air but with enough compromises (chips, ports) to get it down to $599.

$599 is a staggering price for a new Mac. There's never been a NEW model Mac laptop for that price. The cheapest new Mac model ever sold was the $499 Mac mini

04.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

1. A short thread on a Bluesky phenomenon that might be described as "They are a dead-eyed cultist who must be cast out lest the heresy take root!" OP has blocked me for mocking them - I'd usually obscure their name but since they themselves were quote-dunking to demand someone else be blocked ...

04.03.2026 13:57 πŸ‘ 692 πŸ” 153 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 81

It would be a better line if the Greens’ β€˜commitment’ to renewable energy didn’t involve campaigning against wind farms and electricity pylons.

03.03.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Farage opposes better workers rights, Braverman wants to dismantle workplace equality, Reform want a lower minimum wage, and your guy writes this? Farage has 9 jobs, never bothers with constituents, is rich enough to argue about whether he banks at Coutts, and he represents the working class? 🀑

02.03.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 106 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2

One disgusting aspect of all this is Trump fundamentally doesn’t care about it at all. He barely knows where any of these places are. He likes cash in brown envelopes and being on TV as Mr Big Important Guy. He’s just willing to pull any lever he thinks might keep that stuff flowing indefinitely.

28.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 2213 πŸ” 481 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 9

If you are interesting why these strikes happened right after we received news that the US-Iran talks went reasonably well though without breakthrough, Lord Ricketts has an excellent explainer.

28.02.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 100 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2
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A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy.

Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

27.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 916 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 105

The letter reads like Starmer is personally affronted that people who didn’t want a Reform MP chose the party least like Reform rather than the one that has spent two years morphing into them.

28.02.2026 08:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The new Green MP seems very likeable and I am all for more people from normal backgrounds becoming MPs.

But… her party has bad policy ideas premised on a destructive ideology.

27.02.2026 07:56 πŸ‘ 82 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 3

Grifters have worked out that "I'm just a fearless truth-teller willing to propose the necessary but politically incorrect solution," is a magic formula whereby if you're offensive enough the conversation focuses on whether you should have said it, and misses how your ideas are dumb as hell.

26.02.2026 14:32 πŸ‘ 213 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

26.02.2026 09:26 πŸ‘ 627 πŸ” 126 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8
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Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Start your Tuesday cheerful with this evidence of the life-changing work of @londoncentric.media. Incredible stuff.

24.02.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

Every day we get an example of Freddie DeBoer’s point that people are supportive of people suffering from mental illness right up to the point that it becomes awkward or unpleasant for them

23.02.2026 09:31 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 3

I’m so sorry, Moose. Much love to you and your family.

23.02.2026 09:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Morgan Freeman as Kindly Old Criminal in He Cant Have put The Poster Back Over the Hole It’s Impossible

Morgan Freeman as Kindly Old Criminal in He Cant Have put The Poster Back Over the Hole It’s Impossible

β€œI remember the first time I saw Andy…”

19.02.2026 12:18 πŸ‘ 1060 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 12

Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)

19.02.2026 10:00 πŸ‘ 342 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 1

Hard agree.

19.02.2026 00:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If AI did signage…

18.02.2026 23:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think there are some pretty legitimate questions for the Greens to answer in this short thread – entirely possible they didn't know the history here, but if so they should say that and distance themselves.

18.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 4

Ouch

18.02.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

[Football]

The best football outcome is for Villa to win it. Arsenal are, sorry, a throwback to the football I remember watching in the early 90s. They have some great players, but they're boring.

"Stick it in the mixer for the Big Lads" is not progress.

18.02.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Today in "Labour is right wing" news, the majority of the Trade Union Act 2016 has been repealed by the Employment Rights Act 2025.

Balloting for industrial action is simplified, picketing restrictions are removed, protections against dismissal are reinstated, political funds are unrestricted.

18.02.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Musk on Twitter 2/17/2026: You can just take a picture of your medical data or upload the file to get a second opinion from Grok

Musk on Twitter 2/17/2026: You can just take a picture of your medical data or upload the file to get a second opinion from Grok

Elon posted this yesterday. Just for fun I did it with my before/after cancer PET scans that I had already posted online. In the "before" scan Grok missed the massive tumor lighting up my liver, and in both scans it flagged a non-existent "area of concern" in my chest. Other than that, works great!

18.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 3075 πŸ” 616 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 69

β€˜Inventivise’ people to have more children then ensure hundreds of thousands of them end up in poverty. Great work, guys.

18.02.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You have no idea what I do or do not understand and the fact that you presume you do on the basis of a single tweet is enough for me not to want to engage with you any further. Goodbye.

16.02.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yet again?

16.02.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is as true in the UK as in the US. It’s easier to give a party who has let you down a bloody nose by voting for Reform or the Greens than it is to engage and try to change things (which is hard!). But the end result is a government that is many times worse.

16.02.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0