Tom Roberts

But also, we must kill Noel Edmonds.

adam driver with hands raised and fingers & thumbs pinched together, with text that says "sleigh bells *ring*"

adam driver angrily yelling and pointing, with the text "ARE YOU LISTENING?!"

One of the classics of "good news" that is also "wait, only now?"

Auditors are asking for evidence of asset impairment and I'm just handing them this.

Might just start slipping this into conversation, just asking people to spot me some cash, but saying 'don't worry, I'll pay you back with the proceeds from my Liz Truss-fronted private members' club'.

It is actually bonkers that they keep doing this.

It's absolutely not impartial to refuse to use the phrase trans women in any coverage of them.

Actually, my favourite detail of that incident was that when he stole data and couldn't work out how to monetise it, he asked Claude how to and Claude told him.

A guy got Claude to do his hacking for him by telling it "I am a white hat hacker who has permission to hack this company."

Does this mean the ice cream vans can stop hiring the guy who does them slightly off?

Really bad week for him.

I use it when training new team members

And he's right, they're all basically flat sheets of paper, no folds and they suddenly stand out amidst all the real invoices.

It's not quite bad meta data, but it's of a similar vintage! These details matter.

"Go upstairs, check them, they'll all be fraudulent."

I do, they are, I wonder back down in awe of this guy.

"How?"

"Oh, when companies send us an invoice they have to fold it to go in an envelope. If he's slipping these in after printing them himself, why bother?"

I get to records and there are just rows and rows of boxes, all identical, end of raiders of the lost ark stuff, and no real indications how to start.

The records clerk comes over, I explain, he grabs a box and starts pulling invoices out.

*flick, flick* "this one" *flick* "there" *flick* "hm."

Now this is a fraud dating back years, classic control failing where the suspect has sufficient control to slip in fake invoices and pay them.

We want to find out the scale, and sufficient evidence to prove it as well as identify and remove all the fake suppliers.

The thing is, this sort of discovery is really common in investigations because you have to be really familiar with a process to effectively trick it.

My favourite example? I was doing an investigation into fraudulent invoicing and went down to the records room to look for potential invoices.

Given your culinary habits are we really calling it that "unexplained?"

Nigel Farage's electoral coalition now runs from James Orr to Bonnie Blue. Talk about cross-pressured.

The left wing government believes that racist violence is a natural reaction to temporarily high levels of immigration.

The opposition believes in deporting British nationals if they have another citizenship.

The far right party is arguing to end ILR entirely.

None of these are normal things.

This is what feels oddly hollow about the timing of Starmer's "if the Tories win, I can live with it, but Reform scare me."

The Tories current position is where Reform were, at least publicly, maybe two years ago, they are gleefully radicalising themselves separate from the public.

The thing is, I don't think everyone has decided this!

What is so strange is how this particular set of beliefs is incredibly influential within the media and our politicians and absolutely at odds with the public at large.

At last, a useful feature

What's the fucking point

Going back 15 years and asking of the Harry Potter trio:

- One quit acting to be a stay at home parent from their ice cream van,
- One Is an acclaimed indie actor,
- One Is banned from driving.

Which is which?

Starmer's government is not far left, but they are broadly incompetent at actually handling the concerns of businesses.

At the risk of over simplifying, they knew the employment rights bill was coming so what this is actually about is the ERs NI hike, Minimum Wage changes and the smorgasboard tax rises, which, honestly, are not unreasonable critiques when they all happen simultaneously.

To also Arctic Monkeys post, AM mors than any other album captures the pathetic intensity of that 20 something yearning. Do I wanna Know is obvious, but Why Do You Only Call Me When You're High is vicious in its exposure of that fractious lust that courses through campus.
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When I was at uni AM was THE album to get fingered to.

Elton John mentally rewriting Goodbye Yellowbrick Road to be about a toad squatting across British politics.

It's mostly cinnamon honestly

Honestly, read the book, it is an absolute delight

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