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Such a beautiful story of an enduring friendship. Do read.
December 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Such a beautiful story of an enduring friendship. Do read.
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They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it
December 14, 2025 at 12:09 AM
They're selling you the same pasta in different shapes and you're falling for it
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A new element in this anecdote. You don’t ‘banter’ with a 9 year old at 17. This is racism + cowardly bullying.
Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa".
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A new element in this anecdote. You don’t ‘banter’ with a 9 year old at 17. This is racism + cowardly bullying.
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So, bad news and good news then?
![Extract from FT article.
According to the Al agency Graphite, at least 52 per cent of internet content was machine-generated by May this year. Not only does this Al-generated content threaten the integrity of the web, it could also endanger the resilience of future AI models.
[Graphic showing that AI-generated content has surpassed human-written articles since early 2025]
If Al models ingest too much synthetic data then there is a danger they might go "mad" - or suffer from model autophagy disorder. When the input for new models increasingly becomes the output of older models then it risks model collapse, says Ethan Smith, Graphite's chief executive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2cadvbwpkxtuvmv2gpy5laml/bafkreigof2qnhtn5dlbo7igg56kbmmktjddpy4atiuexl2dkhocvlrzq7i@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So, bad news and good news then?
Yet again ridiculously evident that former Oxford University Conservative Association chair Nick Robinson absolutely hates taxation, his voice dripping in contempt with one loaded question after another. Really poor attempt at neutrality on a flagship BBC programme.
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Yet again ridiculously evident that former Oxford University Conservative Association chair Nick Robinson absolutely hates taxation, his voice dripping in contempt with one loaded question after another. Really poor attempt at neutrality on a flagship BBC programme.
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The great thing about delaying hard decisions is that you never have to make them and it all turns out fine in the end (Ed - pls check).
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The great thing about delaying hard decisions is that you never have to make them and it all turns out fine in the end (Ed - pls check).
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NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
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Just thinking about Celebrity Traitors last night and the fact that if they’d been on that train just 10 seconds longer the scenes would have been horrific. Massive relief all round I imagine, it would have put a serious crimp on what has otherwise been a very successful series.
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just thinking about Celebrity Traitors last night and the fact that if they’d been on that train just 10 seconds longer the scenes would have been horrific. Massive relief all round I imagine, it would have put a serious crimp on what has otherwise been a very successful series.
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social quoted on BBC radio news responding to Rachel Reeves budget hints and NOT quoting Nigel Farage????
Is that the sound of the Overton window shifting?
Oh and now they're doing a long voice clip from Yaxley-Lennon.
Steps forward, step backwards...
Is that the sound of the Overton window shifting?
Oh and now they're doing a long voice clip from Yaxley-Lennon.
Steps forward, step backwards...
November 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social quoted on BBC radio news responding to Rachel Reeves budget hints and NOT quoting Nigel Farage????
Is that the sound of the Overton window shifting?
Oh and now they're doing a long voice clip from Yaxley-Lennon.
Steps forward, step backwards...
Is that the sound of the Overton window shifting?
Oh and now they're doing a long voice clip from Yaxley-Lennon.
Steps forward, step backwards...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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NYT games admitting its inspiration here?
October 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
NYT games admitting its inspiration here?
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More good news for the Chancellor ahead of the budget next month!
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
More good news for the Chancellor ahead of the budget next month!
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
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Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget Andor being the best of Star Wars, here’s Mr Blobby instead of Darth Vader in Rogue One.
October 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Forget Andor being the best of Star Wars, here’s Mr Blobby instead of Darth Vader in Rogue One.
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Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Yeah, I think I see the problem here - it's not that the video store was good, it's that you miss being a teenager
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It’s proper telly innit
October 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It’s proper telly innit
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future
October 6, 2025 at 11:38 AM
if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future
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"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"
RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...
RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...
Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC
YouTube video by maxinebendix
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"
RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...
RIP to the greatest to ever do it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisQ...
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Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
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Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter".
Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.
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I was at this school. A former teacher told me he didn’t like this story, because none of us should be judged on what we did at 17. I agree. People should be judged on the distance we’ve put between our adult selves and what we did at 17 – especially if what they did was sing Hitler Youth songs
“Another colleague described his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views. Yet another colleague described how, at a Cadet Force camp organised by the college, Farage and others marched through a quiet Sussex village late at night shouting Hitler-youth songs.”
www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...
www.channel4.com/news/nigel-f...
Nigel Farage schooldays letter reveals concerns over fascism
Channel 4 News obtains a letter about Ukip leader Nigel Farage, from his days as a schoolboy, in which teachers are quoted as accusing him of being "racist" and "fascist".
www.channel4.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I was at this school. A former teacher told me he didn’t like this story, because none of us should be judged on what we did at 17. I agree. People should be judged on the distance we’ve put between our adult selves and what we did at 17 – especially if what they did was sing Hitler Youth songs
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ugh. I hate having to rearrange my wooden cutting board and chef’s knife to make room for my cast iron pan in the dishwasher
September 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ugh. I hate having to rearrange my wooden cutting board and chef’s knife to make room for my cast iron pan in the dishwasher
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Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
September 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?