Sean of the not you xmas, it's November
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FFS. We used to be a real country, with proper data protection.
Have to say I’m not a huge fan of the govt policy of making peoples’ backups less secure
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users - Apple Support
Here's what it means.
support.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
FFS. We used to be a real country, with proper data protection.
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Have to say I’m not a huge fan of the govt policy of making peoples’ backups less secure
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
Apple can no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in the United Kingdom to new users - Apple Support
Here's what it means.
support.apple.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Have to say I’m not a huge fan of the govt policy of making peoples’ backups less secure
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
support.apple.com/en-us/122234
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What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.
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Hard to explain to non-Brits, but yes, people are genuinely emotional about a tube extension. Makes sense once you realise it's the only good thing to happen in ten years
The Elizabeth Line in London is interesting because it is concrete proof that it is actually possible for the state in the UK to do something good, like just straightforwardly it's a useful addition to our public transport infrastructure that works well and looks nice. So why are most things crap?
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Hard to explain to non-Brits, but yes, people are genuinely emotional about a tube extension. Makes sense once you realise it's the only good thing to happen in ten years
It's almost like AI doesn't actually work, along with all the other drawbacks
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It's almost like AI doesn't actually work, along with all the other drawbacks
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UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
UK government project using AI to find benefit fraud resulted in:
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- A 46% false fraud rate
- Anguish for families who were wrongly accused of fraud and had benefits stopped
- Months of additional work for government, setting up a hotline, correcting false fraud
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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This thread is a great primer on how to translate dogwhistles into something you can actually see.
Fascinating to break this down and understand what stage of brainworms the Spectatorati are at now.
November 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This thread is a great primer on how to translate dogwhistles into something you can actually see.
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I mean I for one think it's excellent that a right-wing takeover of a current affairs department means we're going to lose a publicly funded broadcaster. I personally am looking forward to the BBC being a Netflix-style institution. I actually hate the freedom to experiment that the BBC has.
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I mean I for one think it's excellent that a right-wing takeover of a current affairs department means we're going to lose a publicly funded broadcaster. I personally am looking forward to the BBC being a Netflix-style institution. I actually hate the freedom to experiment that the BBC has.
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I do think it's weird that in UK governance in general it is far easier to now implement what are, whether you agree with them or not, basically paternalistic restrictions on consumption (the choking porn ban being the most recent example) than actually raise taxes and spend money.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I do think it's weird that in UK governance in general it is far easier to now implement what are, whether you agree with them or not, basically paternalistic restrictions on consumption (the choking porn ban being the most recent example) than actually raise taxes and spend money.
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Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
November 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Perhaps the BBC could offer Trump one of his beloved deals: they'll apologise for broadcasting sections of his speech, if he apologises for trying to overthrow an election, lying about the result, pressuring election officials, urging a crowd to "fight like hell" & pardoning those who did just that.
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My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
Revealing division in my timeline between (1) my insider friends who have lived privileged lives who are very keen that we defend the BBC and think it's important it survives and (2) my outsider friends who feel (at best) ambivalent about the BBC's survival.
November 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.
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Some aspects of our friends’ responses are healthy.
But no one should be in any doubt: in months, Trump has destroyed the trust the US had earned over the better part of a century, & it’s not coming back.
Everyone is making alternative arrangements. US leverage & influence will plummet.
But no one should be in any doubt: in months, Trump has destroyed the trust the US had earned over the better part of a century, & it’s not coming back.
Everyone is making alternative arrangements. US leverage & influence will plummet.
The Zeiten, they are wending.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
61% of Germans say their country invested too little in its military capabilities.
66% say we relied too much on the US for our security.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Some aspects of our friends’ responses are healthy.
But no one should be in any doubt: in months, Trump has destroyed the trust the US had earned over the better part of a century, & it’s not coming back.
Everyone is making alternative arrangements. US leverage & influence will plummet.
But no one should be in any doubt: in months, Trump has destroyed the trust the US had earned over the better part of a century, & it’s not coming back.
Everyone is making alternative arrangements. US leverage & influence will plummet.
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this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
this has to be the single greatest image in the history of sports
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I'd also like every time he's mentioned, he should be introduced as "34 time convicted felon, Donald Trump"
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I'd also like every time he's mentioned, he should be introduced as "34 time convicted felon, Donald Trump"
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As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
As a TV licence payer I would like to give the BBC my permission to say fuck off to Trump.
FFS
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 AM
FFS
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The worst thing about flags and poppies being stolen as performative tokens by cunts, is the implication that the members of my own family who fought and died over the last century or so were corned-beef nostalgists who mainly climbed into Lancasters and foxholes to stick it to the libs.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The worst thing about flags and poppies being stolen as performative tokens by cunts, is the implication that the members of my own family who fought and died over the last century or so were corned-beef nostalgists who mainly climbed into Lancasters and foxholes to stick it to the libs.
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explaining to my grandkids that the choice was fast trains and healthcare for everyone or a digital girlfriend for elon musk and that’s why they are walking to the witch doctor
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
explaining to my grandkids that the choice was fast trains and healthcare for everyone or a digital girlfriend for elon musk and that’s why they are walking to the witch doctor
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If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
If the BBC is guilty of anything it has been far too ready and willing to follow the right-wing media narratives pushed by the billionaire press barons, instead of pursuing its own independent journalism based on exposing and uncovering the truth – regardless of whether people want to hear it.
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The BBC is really showing how appeasement of fascists doesn’t work.
November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The BBC is really showing how appeasement of fascists doesn’t work.
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This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This as not simply populism, it's an extreme assault on public institutions and structures. The last week has been about the BBC, but comes alongside mounting attacks on judicial independence/the European Court of Human Rights. Treating each issue in isolation will see them killed off one by one.
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Let go of what you can’t control so your hands can hold more snacks.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Let go of what you can’t control so your hands can hold more snacks.
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
See you at the weekend
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November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
See you at the weekend
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It's funny how not a single professional journalist that I can see has mentioned that this form of editing is very standard practice, and the BBC was never in trouble for playing say, a clip of Corbyn as Voldemort on Newsnight.
When your only standards are double they're very easy to knock over.
When your only standards are double they're very easy to knock over.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
It's funny how not a single professional journalist that I can see has mentioned that this form of editing is very standard practice, and the BBC was never in trouble for playing say, a clip of Corbyn as Voldemort on Newsnight.
When your only standards are double they're very easy to knock over.
When your only standards are double they're very easy to knock over.