Martin Warne
@martinwarne.net
Spurs fan, digital consultant. Labour & Co-op Party member. Fabian. Labour Movement for Europe. SERA. Republic. UTAW (CWU). Occasional MAMIL 🚴♂️
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BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
The new Private Eye is out now.
AI-powered Nimbyism. FFS, is there anything that cursed technology can't make worse? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
AI-powered nimbyism could grind UK planning system to a halt, experts warn
Tools that help people scan applications and find grounds for objection have potential to hit government’s housebuilding plans
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
AI-powered Nimbyism. FFS, is there anything that cursed technology can't make worse? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Between the Democrats caving yesterday and the BBC’s capitulation, I fear liberal democracy is done. At least in countries with United in their name.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Between the Democrats caving yesterday and the BBC’s capitulation, I fear liberal democracy is done. At least in countries with United in their name.
No great sympathy for Davis, who never should have been appointed in the first place, but having to resign over this is utterly ridiculous.
So the BBC director general has had to resign because Panorama suggested that Trump tried to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election? Because obviously that never happened …
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
No great sympathy for Davis, who never should have been appointed in the first place, but having to resign over this is utterly ridiculous.
November 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Hands up, I wrote this partly as a wind-up. But, you know, London does need a moderate, positive centre-Right party in its democratic mix. And at the moment the city's Tories are down in the sewer with Musk, Farage and Jenrick: www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-lo.... #london #conservatives
Dave Hill: London's Tories need to learn from Zohran Mamdani
The British Left is exulting in his New York mayoral win, but it has big lessons for the British capital's Conservatives
www.onlondon.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Hands up, I wrote this partly as a wind-up. But, you know, London does need a moderate, positive centre-Right party in its democratic mix. And at the moment the city's Tories are down in the sewer with Musk, Farage and Jenrick: www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-lo.... #london #conservatives
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The state of the US summed up in a single image...
November 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The state of the US summed up in a single image...
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The government must remove its accounts from X.
It’s colluding with a threat to national security.
It’s colluding with a threat to national security.
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The government must remove its accounts from X.
It’s colluding with a threat to national security.
It’s colluding with a threat to national security.
Wow. Just wow. Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, gave Trump a $1 million donation and now he's cancelling the publicly-funded free tax-filing alternative. theoverspill.blog/2025/11/06/m...
Start Up No.2553: the age of anti-social media begins, Internet Archive’s next steps, TurboTax gets free rival killed, and more
The monk Gregor Mendel didn’t just work on inheritance; he also recorded weather. But much of his work is lost. CC-licensed photo by Russell McNeil on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each …
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November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Wow. Just wow. Intuit, the makers of TurboTax, gave Trump a $1 million donation and now he's cancelling the publicly-funded free tax-filing alternative. theoverspill.blog/2025/11/06/m...
This would be an excellent policy!
A quota of 15% of school places should be given to pupils eligible for free school meals to ensure they have an equitable chance of attending an effective school, @bristoluni.bsky.social research suggests
Call for schools to have FSM pupil places quota
Giving pupils who receive free school meals priority for 15 per cent of places in schools could create a more equitable admissions system, researchers suggest
www.tes.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This would be an excellent policy!
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Journalists and politicians need to finally wise up and pay attention. There hasn't been an excuse to remain on X for at least a year, but reporting like this *proves* that the website is a radicalisation engine for the the extreme right.
Leave X, do it today.
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Leave X, do it today.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Journalists and politicians need to finally wise up and pay attention. There hasn't been an excuse to remain on X for at least a year, but reporting like this *proves* that the website is a radicalisation engine for the the extreme right.
Leave X, do it today.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Leave X, do it today.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Once again (sigh), no Labour MP should still be on X. Government departments and councils should delete their accounts and move their social media comms to other platforms.
"The X algorithm prioritises sending new users right-wing leaning content", a Sky News Data and Forensics investigation reveals
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Once again (sigh), no Labour MP should still be on X. Government departments and councils should delete their accounts and move their social media comms to other platforms.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
If we are going to make our cities safer and more pleasant places to be, we have to challenge motonormativity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Motonormativity - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
If we are going to make our cities safer and more pleasant places to be, we have to challenge motonormativity. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motonor...
Fingers crossed that iPad OS 26.1 fixes the bug that causes the Wi-Fi connection to drop every couple of minutes.
November 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Fingers crossed that iPad OS 26.1 fixes the bug that causes the Wi-Fi connection to drop every couple of minutes.
Well…
It's finally happened.
Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up.
www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...
Christmas cancelled in Kent because Operation Raise the Colours tatty lamp post flags prevent the Christmas lights going up.
www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...
a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
ALT: a white flag with a red cross on it is waving in the wind
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Well…
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A Brexiter writes...
November 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A Brexiter writes...
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
November 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
What is happening with this outfit?
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Genuinely such an interesting long thread on why these suits look crap and yet how a particular type of crap suit has become a cultural signifier for right-wing men.
America is on course to destroy itself through sheer stupidity.
FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
America is on course to destroy itself through sheer stupidity.
