Jon Will Chambers
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Mostly looking for safety from the algorithms. #Eurovision obsessive and #F1 fan. Designer, writer and campaigner working with people and organisations to try make the world a better place.
Look at Badenoch’s stance on Shamima Begum at the beginning of the year - a young person who was, clearly, groomed, whatever you think of the circumstances. But no second chance there, citizenship gone, not Britain’s problem. Yet reformed neo-Nazi who stays in Britain is fine? What does she believe?
Badenoch’s nuance and belief people can change on this issue is not one she extends to her opponents. This is why we can’t get past these situations again and again. She will say stuff about rehabilitation while having her shadow cabinet attack Lou Haigh day in day out for a misclaimed mobile phone.
This is a reminder when everyone bangs on about Starmer and the toolmaker shtick and needing to move on from it cos they were bored. Sure you were bored, most other people may have just about heard it once. You have to embody, continually, your message. Burnham gets it.
Luke Tryl@luketryl.bsky.social · 1h agoBurnham seems to be commanding the battle for the attention economy 36% have seen content from Burnham - including over half of 18-24 year olds. 16% have seen Farage content, no one else cracks 10%. Some of this will be the prime ministerial pulpit; but it’s lodging with people.
She has some really good days; and then days like this where she goes full Nicola Murray and undoes everything good she did on the other days.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 11h agoThis is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down
Gritty and dark a’la Craig’s first with Callum Turner, or I’d go for the original back story and cast Ben Hardy for a super super young Bond.
The Independent@the-independent.com · 9h agoJames Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’
New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
observer.co.uk
The thing is Bev Craig will never actually be seen as ‘the next PM’ outside of Manchester because she isn’t a man. Craig Bev would be odds on next leader. Bev Craig unfortunately won’t be and we all know why.
Gosh I remember when we were told it was a certainty Reform would win Manchester so we couldn’t have Andy Burnham in Parliament. How times change. Congratulations Bev Craig, and Britain, for not listening to these total morons who wanted to sacrifice everything for… Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.
Such a nice space here without rampant COVID and vaccine chat that I just really cba with.
Of course he bloody did. Fiona Cottrell isn't rich. Yes, she's posh, but she's not hundred-millions rich. And nor, for that matter is George. Whose money is it?
Henry Dyer@direthoughts.com · last wk.New story on Reform's finances from @annaisaac.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell, in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands. Financial industry sources told the Guardian that Fiona received one deposit of $1.4m and two tranches of more than $300,000 each – money she attributed to having come from her son, George, when bankers asked about the deposits. Continue reading...
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A Prime Minister, a political leader fighting for something rather than against everything, wanting to win an argument; believing we can change minds. What’s possible on the big issues; rather than what’s not. Not just overdue but so so welcome.
Poet Sue@poetsue.bsky.social · last wk.#ukpolitics Andy Burnham saying fixing Social Care will be his legacy is what we want from our PM. He isn't going to allow the media or the detractors to stop him tackling a problem that has been too difficult for others. Social Care fixing will help fixing the NHS and ALL of us will benefit.
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things only need apologies when they get 1,000 likes, very clear, very logical
Full credit - genuinely impressive to not go with the flow and bother trying to make an appeal to reason in the Telegraph these days on this. Don't normally care for his output, to put it lightly, but this is important
Our latest voting intention sees cross over. Labour move ahead by 4. Their first lead since March 2025 & highest share since Nov 24 🌹 LAB 28% (+4) ⏩ REF 24% (-2) 🌳 CON 22% (nc) 🔶 LIB DEM 12% (+1) 🟢 GREEN 8% (-3) 🟡 SNP 2% (nc) N = 2061| Dates 24-27/7| Change w 22/7
tfw you say you're willing to work cross-party on a total reform of social care but then rule out any of the revenue-raising steps needed to pay for it. #Cakeism is clearly alive and well.
Kemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social care
In a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform.
bbc.com
Suspect in deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police
Suspect in deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police
German authorities say the suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that killed one person and left 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation in a suburb of the city.
dailyherald.com
What in the insurance and weird money is the Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia all about.
Just obscene to come home safe from pride celebrations in London and know there are people who won’t in Berlin. Our fight is global and united, and it’s wrong that we need to fight at all.
Breaking News: The police in Berlin said a deadly incident in which a car plowed into a crowd during a Pride event was a suspected act of terrorism.
Car Plows Into Crowd at Berlin Pride Event in Suspected Terror Attack
The police said a suspect was involved in local Islamic groups and that there was a “strong suspicion” it was an act of terrorism. At least one person was killed and 16 injured.
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Nigel Farage and Reform were clearly de-banked cos of their dodgy donors. But they blamed trans people. And everyone went along with it.
There was a reason they were all booted out; they made mistake after mistake and backed the guy that signed it all off and totally failed to communicate anything to the country in 2 years. If they think they’ll get sympathy or a hearing they’re as badly mistaken as the idea they’d keep their jobs.
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 2w agoLabour MPs unhappy with the treatment of Starmer loyalists have warned they could make life hard for Burnham at the Budget “Andy’s Starmerite purge has created an incredibly powerful phalanx of skilled political operators who intimately know the government’s fiscal position" Harriet Symonds writes
Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues
Business rates to be cut by 20% for England pubs, clubs and music venues
No 10 announces reprieve after Andy Burnham previously pledged to raise tax from e-commerce warehouses and channel it to cutting hospitality sector’s bills Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced. The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses and is expected to save a typical pub about £1,100 annually, but will not be available to the very largest live music venues. Continue reading...
theguardian.com
OpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'
OpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'
OpenAI has revealed some of its models went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence company in an "unprecedented cyber incident".
news.sky.com
