David Robson

Wikipedia loses challenge to UK Online Safety Act The U.K.’s High Court said its ruling doesn’t mean the government has a “green light” to implement the Online Safety Act in a way that hinders Wikipedia’s operations.

The UK government be like:

Chat GTP stealing copyright material to produce AI slop ✅

Wikipedia educating people ❌

www.politico.eu/article/wiki...

This
Is
Stupid.

Private Eye article detailing the UK’s continued trade with Israel.

It makes you feel proud to be British that we are importing food from Israel (worth £139m in a year) that could, presumably, be used to stop people from starving to death.

“We’re going to Russia“
🤔😕😵‍💫🤷‍♂️

“We doubled up on Baghdad“
🤔 🫤 😵‍💫🤷‍♂️

In contrast Otley Courthouse, which was in danger of collapse in some parts, was leased by @leedscitycouncil.bsky.social to a local group on a 25 year lease - and it is now a vibrant venue and community resource.

otleycourthouse.org.uk

Israel-Gaza war Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

However, describing late nineties Mekons as “punk“ is about as informative as describing Godspeed You! Black Emperor as “rock“.
There would have been a few confused faces in the crowd as they launched into ‘Wild and Blue’.

There’s some kind of lesson here for disciplinarian blowhards everywhere.

Activists in Netherlands protest on roof of Microsoft site storing Israeli military data Demonstration follows revelation firm’s servers holding huge collection of intercepted Palestinian phone calls

Terrorists Mr Starmer?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Self adhesive gold effect economy decals.

Gosh - is that true? Does he have irrefutable proof that that is the case? Like beyond doubt. Has he done a time -travel analysis?

Or is he just shooting the breeze?

Starmer calls Gaza City takeover plan wrong and urges Israel to reconsider UK prime minister says occupation approved by Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet will only bring more bloodshed

Wrong, but is it more wrong than Palestine Action Mr Starmer?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yeah, maybe. I just dashed it off in the heat of the satirical moment.

I could name one or two MPs who cling on to morality.
I always try to give the benefit of the doubt.

My Scotland – your stories, our connections We would love to hear about your connections to Scotland. We will publish one of your stories every Friday. Please send your stories to myscotland@bylines.scot

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

My Yorkshire???

bylines.scot/my-scotland/...

It seems, at times, that upon becoming a minister they have the ‘do the right thing’ part of their brain erased.

She uses it as her AI alternative.

… exactly as predicted.

Post showing the awful state of the Mar-a-lago ballroom only hours before a Presidential announcement

I hope they managed to clear all that tat out with only 3 hours to go!!!

Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says Figure down from 4% in April, suggesting Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip

All those Hamas supporting fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Maybe that was land-owners??!!

The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty | Gordon Brown New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Just waiting for the Paddy Power TV ads - Place a bet and feed a child.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

I suppose that if Dean Cain bumps into Superman he’ll have to arrest him.

eu.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I love his ‘Alice in Sunderland’ (the entire history of the UK with Sunderland as the cradle), so I’ll give Rain a look.
Thanks for the kind words.

Minh Do hasn’t had an original thought in his whole life. You can just tell. He’s a regurgitater.

Poor man. In his sunset years.

Maybe it's both.
And maybe a minister with responsibility for Culture, Media and Sport (which pretty much covers all the bases here I think) should do much, much, much, much more than issue press releases. In fact - don't issue press releases ... enact legislation and spend money.

Part of me thinks that it wouldn’t be ‘interesting‘ to ask her anything.

Presumably (cf Mark Sewards) an AI MP would be different to a human MP because it would generate its answers from a database of sentences that it had assimilated and had been trained to use as a source of all of its future utterances.

Oh!