Colette Austin

Shocked. Shocked, I tell you! /s

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22222219/

Buyer beware: worst retailers for Black Friday bluster revealed Which? says 83% of home, technology and health products were cheaper or the same price at least once outside the four-week annual sales frenzy

The one Black Friday rule to remember - never buy anything in the week before or after and especially anything labelled BF which does indeed have your name on it! bit.ly/44qk2e3

"Far­age has already changed the UK (for the worse) more than any other liv­ing politi­cian. What might the coun­try look like after a period with him in office?"

Martin Wolf, today's FT

Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.

Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...

The so-called Trump Ukrainian peace plan now shrouded in utter confusion in Washington. This is what happens when special envoys with no diplomatic credentials are allowed to go rogue, delivering Putin's narrative for him.

Andy Burnham or Angela Rayner would comfortably beat Keir Starmer in a leadership poll.

Wes Streeting, not so much. 🤭

BREAKING: Elon Musk has immediately disabled the "Account based in" feature on Twitter after more than 50% of the MAGA grifter accounts were found to be based outside of the US.
Most of the pro-Israel and MAGA propaganda accounts were being run from India.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than Leonardo da Vinci Users noted that in a raft of now-deleted posts, the chatbot would frequently rank Musk top in any given field

Why AI can’t be trusted. It can be programmed to say any old shit.

No Reform MPs attended Parliament today for the urgent question on Russia, because the Kremlin didn't think it was a good use of our time.

Very succinct WSJ summary of the staggering migration shock that successive Tory governments inflicted on Britain as they tried to mitigate and hide the economic consequences of the Brexit disaster

An investigation into Russian interference in our politics is long overdue. And we all know who should be questioned first.

Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily

Anyone know why Nigel Farage and his fellow MEPs voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda?

Coincidently, it was around the time Nathan Gill was taking bribes from Russia.

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...

Trump’s latest capitulation plan also serves to prevent Europe from seizing Russian assets

Analysis of the language used in Trump’s Ukraine “peace plan” shows it was drafted in Russian and translated into English.

I’ll try to dig up a link.

Of course he frigging does, he wrote it.

Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

Again, I recall Michael Gove in Parliament basically saying to one pissed off Tory MP after another: Let’s just shitefest this disastrous drivel over the line and argue about the details later. An argument that appears to have won over basically everyone who matters, who then sold it to the public.

Sir John Major: “Brexiteers predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the EU. None have. All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages. As we meet nine further nations now wish to join, which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision.

Elon Musk and his pawn Tommy Robinson are lying to you.

Europe is a very safe continent, with homicide rates far lower than those in the United States or Russia

What a stupidly ignorant comment!

The real threat to BBC impartiality The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...

This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Keir Starmer loathes Trump as much as the next Brit does. Starmer is being diplomatic (sycophantic) because he believes circumstances require it … for now.

Yeah, we’re not. We loathe him. Look at the polls.

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No, that person deserves to suffer or die, but that doesn’t mean the state should kill them. It serves no purpose except vengeance (it doesn’t deter, doesn’t keep the public safer than incarceration and it certainly doesn’t rehabilitate). A full-life term is enough vengeance in a civilised society.

The death penalty is the mark of an uncivilised society. This is one of the starkest cultural differences between Europeans and Americans, I’m proud to say. I sincerely hope the current sweep of populism doesn’t drag Europeans down to the level of Americans.

There’s an important difference between feeling that the perpetrators of particularly vicious or cruel crimes deserve to die and believing that the state should have the power to execute them.

Plus, I hate some of the cowardly things they’ve done to pander to the lowest common denominator, on climate measures and on rights to free expression in particular. Being slightly less dreadful than Tories isn’t good enough. They need to remember their voters.

I agree, but they need to step up their comms game. I follow politics and it’s still hard to find out what they’ve done, what they’re planning and why. Their comms are worse than dire.