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Coincidence corner: Tory peer Lord (Tariq) Ahmad and Qatar From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

"We need a pasty-style guarantee to stop Molson Coors marketing beers as Cornish" Chair CAMRA Cornwall, re planned move of Sharp's Doom Bar & Atlantic to Hartlepool. My piece in Private Eye.

The BBC did indeed credit Melania with the peace treaty - omitting the ‘the White House said’ aspect that was a crucial element of the story. By the time it’s corrected, the idiots will have moved on, whilst still drooling at the thought of her naked and available for their solitary pleasure.….

Reading too quickly, missed the “against”. Sorry.

If you want to see in a nutshell the problem I keep raising then it's in the replies to this thread Brexiters have a very focused pitch - out, out, out Joiners are completely at odds on why, how and when And they end up bickering A politician needs to lead and focus a Join campaign

Commercial AI has not invented new OT attacks, but it has sped up reconnaissance, compressing attackers time to understand targets. Process-specific engineering knowledge remains a barrier... 👉 [read]

Today’s weather advice

Same here, I’ll bet you have the underfloor heating flushed every few years. When we had a traditional boiler the engineer, a friend, also emphasised the importance of flushing the system.

some of the hysteria here seems to ignore the fact that this is *optional*? if it looks like it will damage local tourism, mayors can just... not do it! they can change their minds!

I just assume that business lobby groups are lying when they drum up worst-case figures to oppose new policies. Like the private school lobby wildly inflating the number of pupils who would leave due to VAT on fees

Just noticed that #Screwfix website returns a 403 error. I tried switching off my VPN and the site works OK. Can anyone explain why Screwfix do this. I understand sites that don’t want their content viewed outside the UK, but a tools supplier????

Seatbelts -> fewer road deaths Smoking bans in public places -> an all round good Medical research esp cancer & HIV -> extending/saving lives Vaccines -> miraculous science Safety rules on building/construction -> far fewer injuries/harm

Supposedly eco friendly party in “let’s find ways to block green infrastructure” shock

6/ Russian forces struck Kyiv City with cluster munitions to purposely harm the civilian population, likely as part of wider Russian efforts to distract from Ukraine’s recent battlefield successes and ultimately force Ukraine into capitulation by making daily life untenable.

Great, thanks

In a crowded field Jenrick manages to retain the title of biggest twerp in UK politics.

Has the PHP bug uncovered by AI been overblown? I’m not hearing of any real world hacks using the vulnerability. I am worried that when AI reveals problems, that the mechanisms get out before systems can be patched. Are the AI labs insecure?

Actually it will get used in the UK because how is the UK going to export it? We don’t have any LNG export liquefaction facilities. But the price will be set on international market benchmarks.

Wedgewood Polls has been fabricating their results

I’d expect the costs to fall on AI companies and the data centres they rely on. Does Trump have a “cunning plan” to crash the US stock market?

Act like Trump - do it anyway. Congress won’t do anything while treason is playing out in real time.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local bookstore, café, theatre, bakery, and library. Without us, they can't survive. Without them, neither can we.

Getting worse, I’ve noticed that the web hosting services I use are relying more on people. Not surprising, the AI agents were, from a users perspective, both time consuming and inaccurate. The self awareness, being customers understanding what AI screws up.

I think a lot of people are turning to LLMs for things like recipes. And they're right enough, enough of the time, that the problems aren't terribly obvious to people. (Thus building more reliance on a smaller lane of information transfer & creating, like Google before, an ideal advert channel).

This is what the short-fingered vulgarian considers "funny". He won't be laughing in 15 days. #AccountabilityIsComing11/3

Just checked and of course, the last time there was a Commons vote on this back in 2018, Badenoch voted against the proposals to decant and get on with the restoration of the Palace of Westminster, as the cross-party joint commission had strongly recommended.

Fairly open racism and far right talking points from someone who is, last time I checked, a Conservative peer.

Daniel Zeichner MP: The idea that leaving the EU would free us from the need to deal with our neighbours was fanciful. Brexit simply took away the institutions through which we had spent decades working together. https://www.politics.co.uk/2026/10/daniel-zeichner-brexit-honest-debate-rejoining-eu/

Repeat after me: 1) PIP isn't an out of work benefit. It is a benefit paid to disabled people to pay for the extra costs of living with a disability. 2) Some PIP claimants work. Some PIP claimants will never able to work at all. 3) Impoverishing people doesn't get them closer to employment

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

This is pathetic. Ukraine tested Starlink speed restrictions in Europe and had no issues - the restrictions only exist in Ukraine. The Trump administration is actively helping Russia kill Ukrainians - and risking the lives of US and NATO advisors in Ukraine.

Perhaps. But a moral compass would indicate that's still not a reason to support a trillionaire with a fascist agenda. Not to mention the fact that if all official govt accounts left Twitter en masse, journalists would have to follow them elsewhere or simply not get content.

Anyone who advocates allowing Ukraine to be annihilated by Russia and North Korea is an outright traitor to Europe. www.reuters.com/world/german...

It’s stunning that Israel tolerates such evil behaviour. The settlers seem to have got their methods from those that attacked Jews in Germany. I’d expect more strong condemnation from the Jewish diaspora.

Trump appears to have decided that Russia / Putin is not a threat. And that he can forget the past. An intelligence report showing how Russia is harming the US is what we need. Plenty of ammunition, e.g. Iran.

We all used to laugh at shithole countries where they bribe voters like this. How are the mighty fallen.

I appreciate we haven’t got spare prison places. Maybe the “patriots”should have a well earned break in ex army bases / concentration camps. Looks like threatening behaviour to me.