Stephen Kinsella
@stephenstroud.bsky.social
Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project; Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve; Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025 Director, Stroud Book Festival
Badenomics on display again.
Full Fact@fullfact.org · 4h agoAndy Burnham has claimed only 500 prison places were added between 2010 and 2024, but Kemi Badenoch says the Conservatives created 14,000 new places. Can these two claims add up? We’ve had a look at the figures 👇 fullfact.org/crime/how-ma...
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
I can’t believe ‘here’s your prison sentence, you will serve half, but your co-defendant who got a bit longer for something a bit worse will do two-thirds, but one of you can go home early on curfew and that one will now do a third and the other a half’ hasn’t worked out for us.
Great to be on #JeremyVine #BBCRadio2 talking #lidos this afternoon, can’t wait to get into our 50m spring-fed 1930s gem in #Stroud, opening August 15 after a community fight back against planned closure (from 1hour36) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Jeremy Vine - 04/08/2026 - BBC Sounds
Jeremy and guests discuss the news headlines and talk to the people making them.
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This made me want to go see The Odyssey. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview | Peter Swallow
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow
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This brought a lump to the throat. Reminded me of Silent Running.
Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@maxbrockbank.com · 2d agoNot just another AI movie. An autonomous delivery robot drove off the end of a pier in San Diego and quickly sank. The company called it an isolated navigation error. Was this the first example of AI committing suicide due to workplace stress? No, it was pier pressure.
Rod Liddle, eh? It’s always an exercise to scan the obits and notice the words that don’t crop up.
@stephenkb.bsky.social won’t be surprised we just had an announcement that our train Berlin to Brussels is delayed 90 minutes because of an “earlier issue”. That would of course explain why they only told us more than 10 minutes after it should have arrived.
Antiwordle #1639 17 guesses ⬛🟥⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥🟨🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟨🟨 🟥🟥🟨🟨⬛ 🟥🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 A new PB. @michielvanhulten.eu
vibes innit. Not to say there aren't policies, but you can't feel them yet
I see that "Richard Tice" is trending. That must be nice for him.
Anyone else who wants to be "excused duties" at these sham events, knows what to do. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk · 2d agoWeirdly, despite repeated requests, I haven't had any invitations to Reform press events since I asked a month ago whether Farage was scared of questions about his finances.
I have never met this man. But I would hesitate to cross him.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 2d ago⚡️Update: President's top ally Umerov appointed head of Foreign Intelligence Service.
He’s lost the support of an area the size of Wales. That’s a lot of football pitches.
David Boughton@davidjboughton.bsky.social · 2d agoSo, family sitting in hotel room in Berlin, watching (in German, no subtitles) Quantum of Solace, a film I years ago struggled to follow in English.
A Rube Goldberg machine masterpiece [📹 Hiratoshi Kubota / pitagora.maker] Original post
Connections Puzzle #1148 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Almost hate completing this.
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A few years ago I was wandering around Fort Clinch in northern Florida and found this. I posted a picture on Facebook with a comment about Hoffnung's anecdote and promptly got half the best lines quoted back to me in the comments.
For no particular reason I dug up this gem. youtu.be/OOGfg1B3ZMw?...
Gerard Hoffnung addressing the Oxford Union in 1958
YouTube video by pjasew
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Good old BBC. Paving Paradise to put up a parking lot. And we’re seeing just the same pattern in academia Meanwhile we’re able to subsidise data centres during a drought
Rob Cameron@robcjournalist.bsky.social · 4d agoOverwhelmed at the response to this piece on the end of my 22 years with BBC News. Thanks for all your expressions (of gratitude, surprise, incomprehension, encouragement). They mean a lot. Read why it happened - and how I feel about it - here: robjcameron.substack.com/p/goodbye-to...
In 2021 JPMorgan said it would “learn” from the debacle of the European Super League. Five years later it was behind Infantino’s plan to sell FIFA to the Trump family Perhaps it should stop learning. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
JP Morgan ‘misjudged’ football fans over European Super League
US bank’s involvement in ESL funding prompted sustainability downgrade for ethical performance
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Antiwordle #1637 10 guesses ⬛⬛⬛🟥🟥 ⬛⬛🟨🟥🟥 🟨🟨🟨🟥🟥 🟨⬛🟨🟥🟥 🟨🟨⬛🟥🟥 🟨🟨⬛🟥🟥 🟨🟥⬛🟥🟥 🟨🟥⬛🟥🟥 ⬛🟥🟥🟥🟥 🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥 A battle from 3 to 10.
When I fail to control my dog and it bites someone, I am responsible. Certainly civilly, and possibly criminally. Now, replace "dog" by "AI". It's not that hard to understand.
