I wonder what she’ll say when she finds out that UK government posts on X are appearing right next to some horrible stuff

Is there something similar for the names for the bits of batter* that are sprinkled on the top of the chips?

* Scraps is the correct term for these although there seem to a number of abominations used

I’ve never yet seen a chippy with pepper on the counter

And he wonders why Labour are haemorrhaging support to the Greens

A bigger issue than the individual politicians is why the Government is still spending UK taxpayers money on content on the X platform. It’s about time the BBC, football clubs and corporations also took a stand on this

This is absolute cowardice by Labour. Time someone explained what “leadership” means and that a continual retreat in the face of Reform and the rump of the Tory Party is going to result in their Dunkirk moment

Meanwhile the government continues to spend taxpayer money funding the X platform

Surely this mean Laura Kuenssberg gets that much deserved peerage?

Wikipedia recently announced that most of their traffic is AI bots scraping data off their platform which drives up their cost

www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai...

I was just about to post exactly this. Basically Brexit was something that lived largely in people’s imagination rather than reality and now they’re disappointed and looking for an excuse for their stupidity rather than admit they were duped

You can’t create growth by cutting things. Investment in major infrastructure projects and a far closer alignment with the EU might help unless of course you’re frightened of upsetting the regressive tendency

I believe that he sees leaving NATO as a long term issue. Clearly the position of the current US administration is causing problems for the organisation and I would prefer to see a pan-European military alliance with less dependence on the USA

Trump says lots of things, but I’m pretty sure Putin decided that he’d got what he wanted from his useful idiot already.