Gill Cookson

Anyway, there's nothing like a war in the Middle East to remind us why we need renewable energy. More solar, wind, tidal and wave power please!

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

As ever, they were acting outside their powers - it’s still the Dept of Defense, whatever they claim.

Sir Keir supports whatever illegal shit the US tells him to

The most unpopular prime minister since records began stands resolutely behind the unprovoked attack on Iran by the two countries that are actively carrying out a genocide in the Middle East.

But please, do elaborate more about "extremism on the Left", Mr Human Rights lawyer KC.

Who’d have thought it? A Labour PM campaigning for the downtrodden. Using his influence to do the right thing.

Trump on a psychiatrist's couch, the doctor is speaking

"These big benefits from tariffs - Are they in the room with us now?"

Cartoon: Bill Bramhall
for: New York Daily News

Or if Charles had been a girl….

Can’t wait for the next episode of 24 Hours in Police Custody.

The only thing 'illegal' about people in #ICE detention camps is their
- arrest
- incarceration
- isolation
- communication ban
- lack of legal representation
- treatment
- starvation
- abuse
- deportation.

Perfectly poised for presidency, then.

Thanks. Better late than never! I’ll watch on catch up, assuming it’s not since been censored.

Nationwide? Though only twice a week.
Santander just closed, but I think there’s a Barclays.
But agreed, nothing compared to just a few years ago.

Does Redcar Post Office even open for an hour a week?

Redcar’s still full of banks, but how many are open on the day you need it?

But then who plays Andy Burnham?

“Specialists”?

🤣🤣

“And what else did you get for Christmas, dear?”

Mason talks little else.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

Many Americans are pleading for a boycott.
And do fans realise the dangers of even walking down the street there?
Is there a campaign underway in the UK?

Today's morning message comes in 3 parts. Bear with me.

We all have dark days. Days of sadness or loss that echo at every anniversary, any time we're reminded. Ben West has those & decided to do something good when they happen.
#GoodMorning, everyone

[Content warning: mentions of suicide]

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

What happened to the Palestine Action C4 Dispatches that was supposed to run last night?

Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

Some realism at last. And adaptability. ‘Boots on the ice’ about sums it up.
You don’t necessarily have to agree with Carney, and he respects that in his thinking.
UK govt? Totally flat of foot in comparison. No big picture.

globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

Now that does sound scary.

But seriously - re judges, politicians etc - cognitive decline can strike at any age, or not at all. That should be factored in.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Note to self: next time, avoid anything so complicated. (I won’t, of course.)

I did wonder why no one had tried to sort out what the Yorkshire ironmasters association was up to c. 1800.

It’s 8.45 and I’ve already deleted maybe 200 words and added very little.
All the better for it, possibly!

This is a masterpiece! Read on…