Patrick Hill

No but I am! Going in May. Thanks.

Global Big Beer moves to close leading cask ale brewery Global brewer Molson Coors has announced that it plans to close Sharps brewery in Cornwall by the end of 2026. The usual talk of difficult decisions is on display but for companies like this, its n…

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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

Oops.

"The move has sparked immediate backlash on ChatGPT and OpenAI communities online, across threads with thousands of upvotes on reddit of users claiming to be unsubscribing."

Sharing breaking news about US-Israel strikes on Iran?

🛑 Don’t share unsourced, undated images/video/graphics.🛑

✅Check timestamps. RTing old info adds to the fog.
✅ Check original sourcing. Trusting the person who shared it isn’t enough.
✅ Check image credits.
✅ Check your impulses.

Very much this. Westminster relying on muscle memory of two-party politics is in no fit shape for politics as it is now playing out in the country.

Brilliant🤣

The BBC World Service for me.

I’m afraid this letter shows why so many Labour MPs think Starmer needs to go. His political antenna is non-existent. If you have just been humbled in a by-election it might not be the best idea to slag off the choices of the voters who deserted you in their droves.

I grew up with Dixon of Dock Green so....
Kray twins with a clip round the ear...

What a quote

Surely an injustice! No doubt this statement means Goodwin is "deeply concerned" that some voters, egged on by Danny Kruger's ideas of 'traditional family values', may have coerced their relatives into voting for the "sectarianism" of Reform.

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Thoughts and prayers with Chris Mason today after his party loses.

Roadmap published on how Scotland can go further on land reform

A fresh roadmap setting out how Scotland can go further in land reform has been published by the Scottish Land Commission

Here's all you need to know 👇

It's rather depressing that, in a three-way by-election with potentially seismic consequences - in which voters had a genuine range of options - less than half the electorate showed up.

By-election turnout is never great, but I don't think we should just shrug over this.

I totally agree but also struggle to imagine this happening. Appalling policies like ending refugee family reunion and the “earned” settlement proposals should never have been dreamt up. But I can’t see Labour backing down now even though electoral oblivion beckons.

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The £500k “Boat Migrant Payout” Story Isn’t What You Think How unlawful phone seizures, selective reporting and misleading headlines turned a government failure into a culture-war outrage.

Another splendid 'debunk' from @monkemma.bsky.social. It's hard to overestimate just how much work it takes to excavate, accurately and in detail, the layers of half-truth, falsity, misinterpretation etc. of these kinds of stories: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-500k-b...

Calls to move England’s home insulation scheme into council workers’ hands Thinktank proposes councils stop using private contractors in attempt to improve quality and spending

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#Bluesky- home of #TheArchers.

Grace must be getting tired of Peter Mandelson falling from her time and again.

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Take a seat #tariffrefund

Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour? These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.

This is excellent from @iandunt.bsky.social on the government's proposals on settlement: unsupported by evidence, counterproductive on integration, cohesion and economic growth.

As Ian says not too late for government to think again.

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Wearing a Stuff the Jubilee badge back in 1977 guaranteed no one would sit next to you on public transport...

I wanted to abolish the monarchy before it became fashionable.