Edward Bird

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Surely “Cook on Costs” would trump that.

Good to see Starmer showing some backbone. Being gaslit by Trump about the special relationship is ironic in the extreme.

Seen on that other site...😆
What's really in the Epstein files!

Commuting into the city this morning. It sounds like half the train has a virus. The lessons of Covid forgotten already.

Never again wonder why Russia was willing to spend billions getting Trump into office.

Sadly, the Brits STILL don't understand it's all happening again with Farage.

As an FYI, am trying the Standard Apple weather app - it’s not bad.

Reinstate the previous design of the Met Office app Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Support the petition to reverse the change: c.org/bngFtZzvDc

Exactly.

The Greenland crisis is surely proof enough we need to investigate Russian influence in UK politics.

We’d like a return to the old version of the app please. The new one is shite. Have a look at the reviews on the App Store if you don’t believe me.

What, he bruised his pinkie?

The question for millionaire defector Nadhim Zahawi is this: what was it persuaded you Farage and Reform are no longer racists and Xenophobes? Was it one of them being convicted for taking Russian bribes or the 30 plus individuals who have come forward to reveal Farage’s racism and antisemitism?

Well some cute animals.

Correct on both counts.

Mussolini was shot and then strung up from a lamppost.

What I would like to know is why Dulwich College didn’t expel the odious young man?

Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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ChatGPT firm blames boy’s suicide on ‘misuse’ of its technology OpenAI responds to lawsuit claiming its chatbot encouraged California teenager to kill himself

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Amazing how the global tech giants want to avoid paying taxes or any restraint on their growth yet cheerfully hand responsibility for the consequences of their disruption to the state (whether it’s AI or social media) expecting the state to protect the millions affected without the funds to do so.

The world’s digital empires are jostling for power – in Europe, we can’t afford to be useful idiots | Thierry Breton The EU is under US pressure to unravel its hard-won online safety laws. We must not give in, says former European commissioner Thierry Breton

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That assumes you don’t think it can get worse. Surely you just have to look to the USA to see that. Public service broadcasting may not be doing all we want it to but at least we can contest it and work to improve it. We can’t do that with any commercial broadcaster.

The BBC faces an almost existential level decision. If they roll over on the Trump demands they will lose enormous integrity with most of their supporters both in the UK and around the world. If they capitulate to Trump who next, Putin? Every other despot?

Hard won reputation gone in an instant.

The racism, Islamophobia and anti semitism over on X is breathtaking. I reported several posts. Not sure why I bothered. Apparently none of them violated their rules. The only conclusion is that Musk is deliberately fomenting hatred and violence.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this

Appalling, kicks down on one of the poorest countries in the world.

Somewhat random post. One thing I do miss about the old days was watching a celluloid film. In the quiet scenes the only sound would be the hum and rattle of the projector, never loud enough to interfere but sufficiently present to add to the atmosphere. If you think back you can still hear it.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."