note that it's the right-wing parties, who have complained that UK should have joined US strikes on Iran, who are now also demanding the Labour government steps up household help with energy bills
yes. the things that would make social media safer for children are almost all just the things that would make social media non-harmful/much less harmful for *all of us*.
if you do it by age verification then nothing will stop a child in a difficult home accessing stuff via parents' accounts
So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.
And Trump is at it, his minions are now arresting members of the press. I still cant wrap my head around people thinking it would not be so bad with Trump. It’s terrible and will get much worse. www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...
Whether or not it was a good idea for Mark Rutte to call Donald Trump "Daddy" just depends on what day it is
Trump says the 2020 election was "a rigged election...people will soon be prosecuted for what they did".
The most Unhinged Headline of all time
Musk’s recklessness associated w/Grok’s nonconsensual sexualization of girls & women has rightly been attracting a lot of attention.
I was pleased to sit down w/ fantastic host James O’Brien of @lbc.co.uk in the UK to discuss the issue at length.
Direct link to interview:
youtu.be/Q5MP0Q4mCBE&...
Today's good news corner: New data published in Transport for London’s Travel in London report shows cycling journeys are up by 43% compared with 2019 levels
Tfl says the number of daily cycle journeys has increased by 13% since 2024 alone, with 1.5 million daily journeys taking place in 2025 (1/x)
The brilliant @jamesrball.com had the good sense to actually check the dossier against what Trump said on Jan 6. And guess what: the dossier cut the more threatening stuff out.
O’Brien & Lineker live on stage.
Tickets available here.
All proceeds to Global’s Make Some Noise.
(Don’t tell the Daily Mail.)
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Five grooming gang survivors tell PM they will stay on panel only if Jess Phillips remains in post
Thank you to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on, one of the v few people in the UK press to follow this story during what is now a decade of media apathy &/or complicity
Dunno, but a former UK prime minister declaring what will happen to Palestine is not something which went terribly well before.
Trump: "The UN was interesting bc as you know, a few days ago they introduced me, 'ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.' I'm looking at my teleprompter and that thing was dead, stone cold dead...I actually got good marks. Do you think Biden could've done that? I don't think so."
'We should be bold, courageous, decent citizens - and call him out.'
Sadiq Khan doubles down on his position that Donald Trump is 'racist, sexist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic.'
‘I was born in Tooting. Where am I going to go?’
Sadiq Khan challenges Sarah, who claims there’s ‘too many brown faces in London’ and ‘immigrants need to go home.’
‘Why has the poster boy for the far-right taken on London?’
‘Because we’re proof that diversity works.’
Sadiq Khan warns that figures like Donald Trump are ‘playing on the fears’ of those concerned about unlawful immigration.
"A taxi driver told me" - Nigel Farage accounts for why he thinks sharia law could replace British law on @lbc.co.uk
Disaster. It’s finally happened. He’s found the podcast mic. An eight-part exposé on my stinginess with Dreamies is about to drop.
Surprised to see that the Telegraph, Times and Mail don't seem to have written up the study about LTNs cutting deaths and injuries by more than a third. I guess the PR email must have got lost or something. They're normally all so interested in the subject.
This is exactly what I want
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Grok are falsely claiming that two photos shared by Gavin Newsom, which he claimed to show National Guard troops sleeping on the floor in LA, were from 2021 in Afghanistan.
In fact, both photos were published in an exclusive report by the San Francisco Chronicle today.
"T. Eliot is toilet spelt backwards."
—Samuel Beckett to Thomas MacGreevy, 9 Jan 1937
That’s really interesting to me because I’ve always felt that he describes a London from the perspective of a person who is not OF London - but perhaps it’s just a city I’m not old enough to remember
Ah...this explains why Badenoch was very vocal about the India deal to the unwitting media, but didn't raise it at #PMQs.
Okay, but what does this, in policy terms, actually *mean*? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
American Brexit
