The BBC News website kept the Polanski T-shirt story going for three days, but Reform’s scandals (standards investigations etc) seem to vanish after a day. Is it my imagination?
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust
More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism
theguardian.com
It's probably been done but I've done it again. Inspired by tonight's Channel 4 News interview in which Streeting appeared pixellated (not a euphemism).
BBC News seems to have lost all its internal navigation. I presume this is an accident. Maybe they laid off the person who turns the handle. One for @scottygb.bsky.social
Nigel Farage has been stoking up pogroms against people of colour and spreads far right white nationalism into the mainstream leading to attacks against people of colour in this country. So no I don’t give a shit about a guillotine tshirt.
Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.
I had to go into "my news" on the BBC app, and even in the LGBT+ section of that, it's the second article and says "thousands" not 150,000. If it was ten TERFs it'd be top of the headlines on the front page of every news app, and we all know it.
Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 2w ago150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Ruin a comic book character with a typo: Mangeto
Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a comic book character with a typo: Mr Frieze
To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Its not just me & Angela Rayner. If this Labour government rule out rent controls, a wealth tax, refuse to nationalise water companies, drill for oil and gas, continue to arm Israel - The country will be asking what's the point of a Labour Government? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls
Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
standard.co.uk
It's driving me insane. The govt spends £1.4 trillion a year. Borrowing estimates are often by tens of billions over a year. But we're supposed to imagine money is budgeted to the last penny.
Karl Whelan@karlwhelan.bsky.social · 2w agoChrist almighty. The British obsession with itemized “pay fors” for everything is insane. This is just really not how fiscal policy or government works anywhere functional.
There are ways to trim your videogame development budget, and then there are *ways* to trim your videogame development budget.
To be clear for non-tech followers: an LLM can only output content, such as text or images. That has no impact on the world until we make it so. Text output can be commands or tools called. But we have to explicitly wire those tools to the tool caller. If you do that without controls, that's on you.
A fine example of why the BBC should not publish vox-pops (“‘Bus fare cut is no good for those who drive’ says Durham man” is literally the headline here) without challenge or context. Buses, famously the preserve of the managerial classes.
HOW POLITICAL JOURNALISM WORKS: Before: "Keir Starmer has no vision, he's just tinkering" After: "Andy Burnham's making big promises, he's setting himself up for failure"
"How important is this for Andy Burnham personally?" Fiona Bruce asks Chris Mason as my eyes roll down the street. #BBCNews
After singing about love, every one of these performers will be rounded up and sent to a concentration camp by ICE. #WorldCupFinal
I have already vomited seven times during this closing ceremony #WorldCupFinal