Edwin Hayward

Indeed. Tokyo, for instance, where you've been able to watch streaming video flawlessly in every underground train since the early 2000s.

Judging by recent events, they misspelled all the signs for Trump's new 'Bored Of Peace'.

Congratulations on winning Whataboutery of the Week.

That's one way of ranking MPs, I guess, and mildly less fraught than comparing their stool samples, though it shares certain commonalities.

Perfect summary of Reform's hypocrisy.

We need a lot more accountability like this.

Guardian headline: Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales

When you're trying to make huge changes to the justice system, "unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced" is not the verdict you want to hear.

Labour are about to make a(nother) dreadful mistake.

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Because then you understand what everyone is being exposed to, not just the people you agree with.

It's as if the whole of the rw media have decided their sole readership is Reform voters.

I do when it's meaningful and not just something announced with great fanfare for the nebulous future.

So far the real wins feel sparse, but I believe I acknowledged them at the time.

People who think I'm too harsh on Labour miss a key point. My concern is with the decisions of whoever is in charge at a given moment.

For 14 years it was the Tories screwing up. Now it's Labour getting things wrong.

I called out the Tories (over 100,000 tweets).

Why would Labour get a free pass?

What's the point of only looking at what the enlightened ones think?

They are. Haven't you seen their media lately?

(I never claimed it was justified.)

You can't kill something that's already dead, except in zombie films.

Over the years, the UK relationship with the USA has gone from special to especially needy.

It was never a relationship of equals. But at one time, both sides were at least clear on the mutual benefits.

Now, the Americans just look at us and laugh at, pity or despise us.

If you're a business, turning your back on AI is a pyrrhic victory if your competitors are embracing it.

It's like being the last holdout with a horse when everyone else has moved on to cars.

There are plenty of reasons to be cautious about AI, but very few to snub it entirely.

Sizewell C is predicted to cost £38 billion.

For the same amount of money, you could install solar panels, heat pumps and batteries in 3 million homes.

That would generate energy locally, rather than put massive strains on an already overloaded grid.

Makes you think.

If your energy needs are met from solar, wind, tidal, geothermal and nuclear sources, backed by copious battery storage, you're far less vulnerable to sudden crazy oil and gas price spikes.

Trump's war on Iran is the best possible ad for accelerating the greening of the economy.

Renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War was the only honest thing Trump ever did.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Trump Derangement Symptom never meant what those who coined the term thought it did.

Instead, it nailed the affliction of the most powerful person on the planet.

Before the era of cheap quasi-autonomous drones, he who controlled the skies controlled the battlefield.

But now that the means to take out an oil field or an industrial plant can fit in the back of a truck and be launched from anywhere, that assurance no longer holds.

Trump's war on Iran is teaching all countries in the region the madness of a hot war in 2026.

The vital infrastructure they depend on for living, such as desalination plants and power plants, is uniquely vulnerable to newfangled drone warfare.

Harsh way to learn that lesson.

Even if they don't act on the shift immediately, the USA's Middle Eastern partners lost a vast amount of trust in America.

That was inevitable after Trump provoked the war that is destroying their vital infrastructure and menacing their people.

Geopolitics reshaped in a flash.

While we watch Trump set the world on fire, let's not forget that closer to home Starmer is torching the centuries-old right to trial by jury for all but a handful of crimes.

The Tories decided not to treat it as critical national infrastructure.

When you see "right wingers", do you mentally read it as "right whingers", thinking: "yes, they do complain a lot"?

It's on a minor channel, TLC, now.

You know what would have taken the sting out of the inevitable criticism? Being able to point at the new strategic gas reserve infrastructure being built at pace.

But of course Labour aren't doing that so they don't have that fallback.

(Ignoring a problem created by others makes you complicit.)

The general public don't care that the Tories closed down the UK's main gas storage facility in 2017. They should but they don't.

Life's not fair, especially when it comes to politics. That should be super clear by now.

So when the brown stuff hits the fan, Labour will take the brunt of the blame.

I'm catching up on 'Mock the Week' a week late, and it's striking that their big focus was on Andrew being arrested.

That feels like a gnat on the backside of the elephant of Trump's Middle Eastern war already. A different time.

When you see "right wingers", do you think "yes, they do complain a lot"?