Steve Hunt 🔶🇪🇺

It's The fucking Critic. What did you expect?

Brexellends

Amazing

All corporate donations ought to be banned outright. And a strict limit placed on personal donations, set at an amount the average person could feasibly afford

Not trying to be divisive but if your profile mentions a star sign then I'll not be following you back

It's that time of year when National Trust members have the opportunity to stop the reactionary Tufton St mob from gaining influence.

Exactly what's happening on the BBC. They report on some outrageous news story involving Reform which gives them more publicity, so they rise in the polls, so the BBC justifies amplifying them further.
BBC doesn't seem to realise they're promoting a far-right org that will defund them if voted in.

It's true that Reform is polling well. Fortunately the next general election is about four years away. Reform gained control of several local councils in July and are making an embarrassing mess of running them, so hopefully people will see how bad they would be at running the country.

Every single attempt to optimize away the understanding part of writing code will introduce bugs that end up taking 10 times longer to find and fix.

The finding part requires first understanding what the code is supposed to be doing, and identifying that it is not doing that.

Yes, for one thing pages can't get mislaid or put out of order. Although there are tractor feed laser printers.

Because of multipart carbon stationary, presumably

*£200K+, obvs

Yes and even worse all costs of MP constituency offices (rent, staff salaries, supplies and all) have to go through the MP's expenses. Leading to people getting upset at headlines of £200+ annual expenses as if they spent it all on mars bars. Would be far better to have it administered centrally

The hypocrisy of Reform going on TV to allege that certain groups are constantly over represented on TV is truly epic.

And so many people don't realise that. I had a ridiculous twitter exchange with someone who was convinced the NHS was a money pit because - he thought - his bottom of the range health policy gave him cover for everything that could happen to him. ("Gold Plated" - his words 🤣)

That's why UK private health insurance policies cost a few thousand a year, and US policies are a few thousand a month. The UK ones don't cover the cost of putting you back together if you are in a crash, fall off a ladder, etc.

(Well, it's one of the reasons. That and rank profiteering obvs)

How thoroughly unpleasant … how does she think non white British born families felt for decades being invisible on TV.

Our diversity is our strength

How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money The disgraced royal has lived in luxury for decades despite being an outcast and having no obvious means of financial support

Don't overthink it, Guardian. Having been born to believe he was a member of their ridiculous god's chosen family, of course he would take whatever he wanted from wherever he could. Time to abolish the scrounging royalty and put an end to this pox on the nation.

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Snippet of Byline Times, November 2025, pointing out how the British mainstream media has created a "perfect circle of self-perpetuating hype" around Nigel Farage, i.e. how his prominence in MSM feeds his popularity which in turn justifies further coverage, and so on. Author proposes that this is a predictable consequence of an industry that has restructured itself around virality.

Superb piece by @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social in this month's @bylinetimes.bsky.social mag: "Britain's Media Has Let Nigel Farage Reshape Political Journalism - Why?" This article alone was worth my annual sub to one of the very few news outlets still doing proper journalism

A good example of why the press should be forced to give corrections equal prominence to the original article, not hide them away on a page nobody will see

I really don't care for any sort of religion. That's what I decided when I was 5, and 55 years later I can't see any reason to revise that view. Why do people believe the peculiar myths - please enlighten me

PEP 0 – Index of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) | peps.python.org This PEP contains the index of all Python Enhancement Proposals, known as PEPs. PEP numbers are assigned by the PEP editors, and once assigned are never changed. The version control history of the P...

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Risk from Unicode support in source code has been known for some time... It's a shame that editors and code review tools like GitHub etc don't do *something* to alert the viewer

UTS #55: Unicode Source Code Handling share.google/8cUcbimZ40rs...

Probably mid 90s. Unfortunately the industry decided that advertising alone would be enough and so it never happened

In the early days of news media getting a web presence, there was talk of microbilling - pay a few pence to read an article, without needing an account with every news outlet. Never happened. I'm sure it would generate more revenue than paywalls because who subscribes to more than a few of those?

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It would be very funny indeed if this happens because for pragmatic reasons it would make perfect sense for the UK to do it too. Imagine the uproar from the sovrinty mob... "Protect are clocks from Brusels interference" ⏰🤣

"Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms. "This will do nothing to stop the boats or fix our broken immigration system – problems caused by the last Conservative Government that Badenoch still hasn't apologised for. "I say to former One Nation Conservatives who have been abandoned by their party’s lurch to the extremes: you have a home with us. The Liberal Democrats will always fight to defend our fundamental British freedoms and the rule of law." Ed Davey

Kemi Badenoch has chosen the side of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage with her plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights.

The ECHR is a proud British creation, championed by Churchill, that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

Clearly it's high time that there were stringent limits on political donations. No corporate donations should be allowed at all. Individual donations should be capped annually - at an amount that the everyday citizen could feasibly afford. Jail for anyone caught gaming the system

A short history of the Liberals, SDP and Liberal Democrats This short history of the Lib Dems is adapted from Peace, Reform and Liberation: A History of Liberal Politics in Britain 1679-2011.

Want to know more about the history of the Lib Dems? Here's a short history of the party and its predecessors