Lee Savage
@leesavage.bsky.social
Reader in Comparative Politics at King's College London.
Very likely to express poor takes, best ignored
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
Very likely to express poor takes, best ignored
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
The Royal Society...
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Royal Society...
Labour should start to govern like they're Tories and remove Gibb from the BBC board. He was appointed as a wrecker, he adds nothing to its governance. He is actively working to tear it apart
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Labour should start to govern like they're Tories and remove Gibb from the BBC board. He was appointed as a wrecker, he adds nothing to its governance. He is actively working to tear it apart
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
This year's Arsenal just dropped
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Liverpool contact PGMO over Van Dijk’s disallowed goal at Manchester City
Liverpool have complained to PGMO over the decision to disallow Virgil van Dijk’s header at Manchester City amid concern that the relevant criteria were not met
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This year's Arsenal just dropped
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Reposted by Lee Savage
It was just a few months ago that the UK arm of this company was on a PR push to convince everyone they're really just a regular business and we can trust them with our data.
Now here's the CEO just going straight in with "yeah, we're the evil bastards! You want in?"
Now here's the CEO just going straight in with "yeah, we're the evil bastards! You want in?"
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It was just a few months ago that the UK arm of this company was on a PR push to convince everyone they're really just a regular business and we can trust them with our data.
Now here's the CEO just going straight in with "yeah, we're the evil bastards! You want in?"
Now here's the CEO just going straight in with "yeah, we're the evil bastards! You want in?"
It's a huge concern for me that the crisis in mental health at universities is running headlong into the rush to adopt AI
This is what supposed "educationalists" are currently raking in money for suggesting we force-feed to millions of students at a stressful time in their young lives.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It's a huge concern for me that the crisis in mental health at universities is running headlong into the rush to adopt AI
I don't think I've seen a header bend in before
Behind the goal version
#nufc
#nufc
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I don't think I've seen a header bend in before
Big weekend for my son's Scout group. Lest we forget
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Big weekend for my son's Scout group. Lest we forget
Schrödinger's Mayor: simultaneously a threat to civilisation and yet entirely insignificant
we can chalk it up to youth and inexperience but the biggest mistake the mamdani campaign made was winning by 8.8% and not 1.5%, which is the margin needed for the media to say it’s a total mandate
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Schrödinger's Mayor: simultaneously a threat to civilisation and yet entirely insignificant
If Sadiq Khan had any social media game, he'd be offering asylum in London to the million New Yorkers who said they'd leave if Mamdani won
November 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
If Sadiq Khan had any social media game, he'd be offering asylum in London to the million New Yorkers who said they'd leave if Mamdani won
Does the Guardian style guide have a an offbeat definition of "shock"?
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Does the Guardian style guide have a an offbeat definition of "shock"?
Me, an expert political pundit: Yes, Mamdani won New York convincingly, but I think you'll find that most Americans don't want hopeful politics and popular policies that help working people, presented by a charismatic individual
November 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Me, an expert political pundit: Yes, Mamdani won New York convincingly, but I think you'll find that most Americans don't want hopeful politics and popular policies that help working people, presented by a charismatic individual
Absolute joke to not have Beatrice Chebet up for this award. She won two gold medals compared to the one each for the two nominated athletes. And she broke the 5000m world record, the first woman ever under 14 minutes. This is just World Athletics rewarding star power over achievements
Finalists announced for World Athletics Women's Athlete of the Year award. 🏆
November 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Absolute joke to not have Beatrice Chebet up for this award. She won two gold medals compared to the one each for the two nominated athletes. And she broke the 5000m world record, the first woman ever under 14 minutes. This is just World Athletics rewarding star power over achievements
The real concern isn't that he'll be terrible, it's that he'll govern well. There's nothing more devastating to the reactionary cause than a tangible demonstration that government can make things better
things that WaPo thinks will “destroy [America’s] economic system”:
• free buses
• freezing the rent for rent-stabilized apartments
• city-run grocery stores
Are we meant to believe the world’s largest economy is this fragile?
• free buses
• freezing the rent for rent-stabilized apartments
• city-run grocery stores
Are we meant to believe the world’s largest economy is this fragile?
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The real concern isn't that he'll be terrible, it's that he'll govern well. There's nothing more devastating to the reactionary cause than a tangible demonstration that government can make things better
This can't be right. I have it on good authority from the British police that catching burglars is impossible
It took less than a week for the police to track down two of the suspected burglars who they say broke into the Louvre. A third person, a suspected accomplice, was tracked down on Wednesday. In all three cases, DNA was an essential part of the search.
Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes
France’s trove of DNA profiles has helped solve high-profile crimes and was used to find some of the Louvre suspects, and it is growing. The police can also access other countries’ databases.
nyti.ms
November 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This can't be right. I have it on good authority from the British police that catching burglars is impossible
My son has Power Wash Simulator and it has a career mode
84% of indie video games are basically like, 'What if you were employed'
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
My son has Power Wash Simulator and it has a career mode
Take a look at Poland and Slovakia!
How on earth can Rachel Reeves balance the books? Well, maybe there is a bit of room for taxes to go up, given the vast majority of OECD countries have higher - and in some cases much much higher - taxes on average incomes www.oecd.org/content/dam/...
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Take a look at Poland and Slovakia!
Children should be able to restrict what content their parents see on YouTube
November 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Children should be able to restrict what content their parents see on YouTube
Think they must have hooked his brain a couple of times when they were giving him his fourth and fifth facelift
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Think they must have hooked his brain a couple of times when they were giving him his fourth and fifth facelift
Lol, already reaching for the deregulation promises? Normally, this is for a third term government that's ran out of all ideas
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage to promise business deregulation in economic policy speech
Reform UK leader to set out ‘pro-entrepreneurship’ agenda while rowing back on tax cuts pledge
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Lol, already reaching for the deregulation promises? Normally, this is for a third term government that's ran out of all ideas
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Never mind the windows, I can't take my eyes off the garage that accounts for three quarters of the front of the house
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Never mind the windows, I can't take my eyes off the garage that accounts for three quarters of the front of the house