Tom Hill

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

In 'How They Broke Britain', I do a pretty good job of detailing the depth & breadth of Tufton Street/Tory/Murdoch/Mail attempts to scupper the BBC, even as I castigate some presenters for going too easy on precisely the people who seek the Corporation's abolition. But I should have done more. 1/2

The sentiment expressed at the end is exactly why I haven't watched it the whole way through more than twice 😄

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Cabinet Office now taking over policy, legislative and strategic responsibility for Digital ID. DSIT just has to design, build and deliver it. #IAmNotANumber questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

No 10 writes the functional specification, DSIT writes the technical specification, and what are the chances of the two marrying up?

"Amazing result for Plaid Cymru, so here's a guest from Reform anyway..."

But what if it turns out to be your favourite session?

EMAIL ADDRESSES SHOULD NOT BE CURRENCY

So is a beer with tabacco leaves in it even legal in the UK? 😁 #RomanianBeer

the thing that’s particularly cool about this is that he just very easily makes morgan’s takes look *weird*, by dint of honestly and simply speaking from the standpoint that trans people are ordinary human beings with the same rights to respect and dignity as anyone else

Quote: I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember this too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick. Stewart Lee

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

Labour on form I see. 2.7 million people sign a petition saying "do not introduce digital ID" and the first words of their response are "We will introduce digital ID within this Parliament". Labour aren't listening. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

Safer and more welcoming spaces – I’ll drink to that I wrote this follow blog before the news was announced that The Great British Festival (GBBF) would be no more. It has been well over a month since my experience at GBBF and with those terrible sca…

I wanted to recap what happened after GBBF and assess what we can do to make festivals, events and venues safer and more welcoming spaces.

Thanks to the amazing people in beer, whisky, gin and music to who shared thoughts, learnings and resources.

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They might as well be MJ-12 at this point. #DeusEx

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson.

Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract

Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer.

What a carousel of cronyism

STOP TELLING ME WHAT NIGEL FARAGE HAS SAID I SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO KNOW

I'm in, but make it XHTML 1.1.

Yeah I've been getting quite a few of those. Usually trying to get me to talk to them about a job. Blockety block indeed.

The fact that this still looks ten times more stylish than the front of my desk is just depressing.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Dispelling harmful misinformation about M&S 'trans' bra fitting row Dangerous misinformation over an M&S 'trans' bra fitting story is spreading online; here's what we actually know.

The moment I saw that "trans bra" M & S story I sensed it was nonsense.

Seconds later, having read the Telegraph piece I knew it was worse than that. It was deliberate hate mongering completely devoid of evidence, names and facts.

Superb job of debunking it here
www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/06/m...

We must get online safety right! Lord Clement Jones and I have written a letter to the Secretary of State regarding our concerns about the implementation of the Online Safety Act, calling for a cross-party committee from both Houses of Parliament to ensure effective implementation.

This is real: President Trump is standing on the roof of the White House briefing room right now and no one knows why

I can't believe "Let's pivot our messaging to appeal to far-right voters who'll never support us in a hundred years" hasn't been more successful.

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

It’s been obvious for some time that Musk’s platform is deliberately & dangerously hideous. There is nothing to stop politicians, up to & including the government, removing themselves from it entirely. Their every utterance would still be reported, regardless of how it entered the public space.

Building wrap of Jabaliya camp in Gaza opposite Labour Party HQ reads "Protesting this isn't terrorism"

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.

We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

It's this bit that always kills me:
"OH. I. SEE"
"Yes, but what does it stand for??"

It's a shame that the writing went downhill in the later seasons.