Dr Richard Gomer

Microsoft have really turned their cloud offering into the floordrobe of data storage. Between Sharepoint, Teams and OneDrive it's virtually impossible to find anything. Not so much information retrieval as endless manic rummaging.

I have done my CHI reviews <3

Home Sec describes a widely held public perception (UK is the destination of choice for asylum seekers in Europe) + endorses it as true. Home Office data shows it is not true. Whatever merits of her policy change, should not make false factual claims
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3709465...

Well, have they tried undeclaring pot holes?

whomst amongst us

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Curtis Yarvin, David Starkey, and Toby Young all speaking at Oxford this week. Orr now advising Farage invited the author of the Bell Curve to Cambridge. Endorsing race science still isn’t a barrier to entry into the British establishment, continuing a 200 year old tradition.

Nicolas Sarkozy enters prison to begin five-year sentence over criminal conspiracy Former president organised stage-managed departure from his Paris home before becaming first French postwar leader to be jailed Europe live – latest updates

This is how you do it. Well done, France. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The way to answer "has anybody done this since Idi Amin in 1972" would be for Conservatives to name a democratic government that revoked permanent settlement to remove legal rights & then deported, expelled those people.

Important they get asked to give the counter-example to "since Idi Amin"

The more I think about her actual words, and how appallingly under-reported/understood they still seem to be, the more shocked & disgusted I am.

"So, Katie Lam, where do you get your policy ideas?"

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

The @libdems.org.uk and I have written to the Conservative leader urging her to condemn the comments by one of her MPs who said large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The “health surcharge” is an utterly bogus labelling. It’s not hypothecated for health spending and you can’t choose not to pay it and not use the NHS. You could call it an education surcharge or a defence surcharge or anything. It’s just using the sanctified status of the NHS to rip off immigrants.

So I think weasel words like "culturally coherent" are outright extremist racism and whoever utters them should be thrown into the sea. So I don't see how KKKatie Lam and I could possibly have any "cultural coherence". And yet, my utter cultural rejection of her ideas is not qwhite what she meant.

Obviously they're still crap for a lot of things, in a lot of ways, but generally I think LLMs have improved a lot. Except whatever Google is using at the top of their search results, which is utter utter crap.

Most planning authorities don't go looking for planning breaches, so rely on people reporting concerns. Then they'd start an investigation to see whether permission was required, and if so would likely request a retrospective application. Householder may need to modify or remove what's installed.

Yep! The planning regs fortunately don't allow it any more; non-porous surfaces in front gardens require planning permission (which should be contingent on adequate drainage plans).

1 Nurse: It’s become a real problem in this area 2 Nurse: We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction 3 Show a building sign posted: Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it Nurse: Ministers, Spads, Researchers… 4 Nurse: Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely [Nurse on phone taking a call] Ok - we’ll be right over 5 Nurse: We just have a gentle chat [Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster Minister: I understand your concerns… 6 Nurse: Are you OK love? Minister: Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters 7 Nurse: That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian [Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters] Nurse 2: Give us your phone, love 8 Nurse: At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to [We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.] 9 Minister: YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR [woman looks baffled] 10 woman: I just want a bus service Minister: LOOK AT MY FLAG [produces a St George's flag] [ends]

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy. Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

Then fix it.

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

I'm so jealous of the people who honestly believe that there is no such thing as a stupid question.

The "something for nothing" myth How should we value people's contribution to the country?

"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker"

I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...

WIN: Victory in landmark case on gender recognition High Court rules that a trans man cannot be denied a Gender Recognition Certificate because he is trying to conceive, in an important win supported by Good Law Project.

A must read blog about a landmark decision for gender recognition, just published by the High Court today.

Once again, @goodlawproject.bsky.social paid all the costs. goodlaw.social/78iw

THE AUTUMN BUDGET What you will see Daily Mail CARNAGE - REEVES BREAKS BROKEN BRITAIN The Daily Telegraph Worst budget ever in history of budgets - entire country to leave country DAILY & EXPRESS BREXIT BETRAYED - GHOST OF DIANA SLAMS REEVES FOR BUDGET PENSION CUT THE TIMES How the budget will affect the average 94-year-old billionaire Sun REEVES GRIEVES AT BUDGET BODGE-IT The Guardian Corbyn budget better FT FINANCIAL TIMES FTSE up and down 2.5% as Bitcoin bites Dow Jones STAR IAN BOTHAM HAS ALIEN IN FRIDGE

Private Eye doing an excellent job of predicting the forthcoming budget headlines in each paper… showing just how ridiculous they can all be.
Top prizes - *of course* - to the Telegraph, Mail, Times and Express.

This "apology" 100% came from AI. Lazy little fascists.

www.newsweek.com/full-list-yo...

"The Council of Europe has warned that the UK gov's treatment of trans people may well breach human rights law. This must be a wake up call. We've seen an increase in hostility towards trans in recent years. Everyone deserves dignity, safety, & respect - that includes trans people." - Tom Gordon, MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough

Thank you to @tomgordonld.bsky.social, Lib Dem MP, for speaking up for Trans+ people.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

How did you prepare your accounts? These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101 These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Section 1A (Small Entities) of Financial Reporting Standard 102

I should be hanging from a tree by my prehensile tail, not answering demented questions like this one. 😭 The ever loving f*** does this mean?