Tim Hughes

My stockpiling efforts so far amount to several weeks’ worth of poppadums

Zia Yusuf claims, in his threat to sue ITV, that undercover reporters were being paid to canvas for Reform. But paying canvassers is illegal under the Representation of the People Act (1983) www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/2... Have I got this right, legal peeps?

OUTSTANDING

Woke up from a very complicated dream about producing promo material for a new Wes Anderson film starring Sylvester Stallone called “Udon Noodles (The Shot Defines Him)”

My wife posted a picture of us enjoying our anniversary dinner, and our MP liked it so I guess we’re the establishment now.

Posted a £2 plug adapter to France. It cost £7 to send it and €8 in customs fees.

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

This ‘ukraine bombs data centre and bot traffic on social media disappears’ story is very tempting, but everyone I can find sharing it is exactly the type who shares tempting but fake stories for numbers. Any remotely reliable sources?

Thread. You can’t counter this type of operation until you admit that it exists.

It feels remiss of this article not to mention that the leader of the council concerned has just been elected to parliament www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This execution livestream’s going to be pay-per-view on a Trump media channel, isn’t it?

Boom!

"A big petro-state did it and ran away"

For reasons, I found myself looking at the Adam Smith Institute website earlier, and who is this shit written for?

We (ok, my wife - i was tech support) screened the People’s Emergency Briefing last night. It’s a great watch and I urge you all to see it.

Me: The account's in my wife's name. My name's Tim Virgin Media: OK Mrs Tim how can I help?

In which a journalism professor posts an article from an AI slop site which is 6 years old and wholesale stolen from the Guardian with no critical (or self) awareness.

These need to be rebranded as solar and bee farms

These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.

And even wilder that they are seen due to him FILMING THEM HIMSELF FFS

The only way they would shut down AI is if it became self-aware but started to say things like 'net zero now' and 'stop destroying orangutan habitat'. Do you know how quickly they pull the plug if AI came out as woke 😂

bro you had one job

Bold move of Brighton Uni to derecognise unions while yer actual TUC is in town www.ucu.org.uk/article/1464...

Having a cheeky chablis in La Coupole in Montparnasse and quite aside from it being a beautiful space, it’s really elevated by there being no music on, just the thrum of conversation.

I’m in that Paris

On the left, Dan Niedle's column in the Telegraph

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I know there are more important things going on right now, which no doubt you will address tomorrow, but I have just tested a hypothesis expounded on Mystery Hour today, and can confirm

@channel4news.bsky.social tonight showing again why they’re the only news programme I watch. Outstanding stuff.

The media has insisted that it was in the public interest to run endless stories questioning the integrity of Jason Arday. So I await the endless stories about *this* guy.

www.maptap.gg September 3 99🎯 98🎯 99🎯 88🎉 99🎯 Final score: 956 Let down by Chile being so silly

I find this tweet to be significant beyond the obvious cringe factor. We have built a media environment in which people make statements that display utter ignorance, they never bothered to check the facts underlying their claims - and it sways votes./1

Have been quietly enjoying Ludwig, but the suggestion that the local MP can suspend the police chief has enraged my inner local democracy nerd

Today in unreadable Reach websites, I clicked a link to a Mirror article in the Facebook app. After three seconds it spontaneously opened the Booking dot com app, then when I went back to Facebook not only had the Mirror page crashed but it took the Facebook app with it. Absolute junk all round.

There is only one member of our household that is hooked on tinned fish

Confess I wasn't sure whether to read it because of the 'How to spot' headline; but this, by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social, is, IMHO, very good.

Anyone watching Kabul? It’s truly harrowing.

No psychiatrist or psychologist with ethics would assess a person without meeting them. And if they did, their ethics would mean their assessment should stay confidential.

Just spotted my first actual “taking are country back” in the wild. This is in response to the self-acknowledged neo-Nazi group White Vanguard planning a march.

Fuck me, a second one??