Chris McQuillan

Certainly took up a lot of headspace! 😂

Man holding a mishmash artwork of Newcastle United’s history.

Finding a banner you created ten years ago in an artwork piece of Newcastle’s history is a bit surreal.

You can’t deny Zack Polanski is an excellent communicator

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

This was impossible to predict. Not.

And totally needless. The Online Safety Act will do far more harm than good in the long run. It may already have done so.

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place"

"Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people"

-Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

The difference between expat and migrant is just skin colour.

The BBC has a fucking nerve.

Guardian news alert: National guard troops from Texas arrive in Chicago area as Donald Trump expands crackdown on Democratic cities.

Imagine reading this headline twenty years ago.

I've spent most of the last week researching and writing about the rise and fall of Twitter.

A conclusion I've come to - and it's not exactly groundbreaking - is that mass followings created a sort of cult like atmosphere that sent a few blue ticks with huge numbers completely round the bend.

It is a deliberate act.

And the abolition of judicial review in deportation cases that they are advocating would make it more difficult to challenge mistakes in court (including for legal residents too)

A club statement from Blackpool saying Steve Bruce has been sacked along with coaches Steve Agnew and Stephen Clemence. Stephen Dobbie and Steve Banks will take temporary charge.

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive.

The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

It’s crazy that nobody in the room or on the production team knew it was nonsense. It was a scripted line not a spontaneous error. How many people must have okayed it?

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

Reform UK don’t like to pay for anything…

Incredible conversation kicking off between former candidates and vendors to the party.

Even this statement by an app developer: www.thecafeapp.com/pressstatement

BBC caught rigging Question Time to bar pro-Palestine audience members The Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door of BBC Question Time

This week’s BBC Question Time took place in Belfast, and the Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door. BBC Question Time: rigged Lisa McKee said she was invited to attend, but on arrival at the studio, she was rejected...

People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

Why American families are so much richer than us — The Telegraph High-earning British households are £82,000 worse off, even with the US’s higher cost of living

I wonder whether the Telegraph acknowledge that this is largely due to the Conservative Party they tried to keep in power for 14 years.

🚨 Spoiler alert: they do not. 🚨

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Disappointment at Starmer’s ID cards on ice…
BUT…
- concern about illegal immigration exploded because the far right wanted it to.
- immigrants are not to blame for creaking public services.
Govts are.
- the hostile environment encourages exploitation.
- don’t wave the flag in our faces. Be honest.

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember so many polls being done about who would win a general election if it were held tomorrow at any other point when it was four years out from a GE ? Who is commissioning these polls? What is their purpose? Justification for wall to wall Farage coverage maybe?

BBC Breaking News: Denmark says 'professional actor' behind 'systematic' drone flights over airports

Bloody Martin Clunes up to his tricks again.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

Predictable spin on today’s ugly announcement from our fash-hungry media.