Graham

Bolton Wanderers, Lancs, Boston sports, Switzerland, generally small government, YIMBY, theology, music, quiz, surreal humour. Shrug my shoulders at most things

[Graham @GSA219]

@OfficialBWFC £30k seems like a ridiculously low salary for someone ideally with a Masters to also analyse video and build databases.
Pricing in that you also want experience within the world of football and there surely can't be many people who would take that pay.

[Graham @GSA219]

@PippyBing That sounds completely ludicrous. How does that even work? Are there any decent articles or interviews on these AI screenings?
This definitely feels like something more people need to know about.

[The Rt Hon Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP @LindsayHoyle_MP]

A Bolton legend

[Graham @GSA219]

Five days in and Life is a Highway really is grating
A combination of that, Pougatch, and stupid ads for google and the destined-to-flop Gary Lineker reality show are making me just mute the TV at HT
Say what you want about the BBC, but they don't hate their viewers like ITV do

[Graham @GSA219]

Aaaand it's been about an hour and I'm already fed up of hearing Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts on ITV's World Cup coverage.
This has a chance to be worse than that Brazil, Brazil theme from 2014.
#OpeningCeremony #FWC2026 #WorldCup

[Peter Hague @peterrhague]

A certain amount of underage drinking, even in pubs, used to be quietly tolerated. For The Greater Good. Well that was shut down by a moral panic, and we closed off one major route for teens to socialise and be inducted into adulthood, contributing to the current moral panic…

[Ellen Pasternack @pastasnack_e]

Slopes are unfortunately ALWAYS slippery

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I have a son roughly this age.

I can not ever imagine filming him in tears, and sharing that with the world, for political gain.

Why are so many people so weird these days 🤯

[Institute of Economic Affairs @iealondon]

Responding to the Government's ban on social media for under-16s, @cjsnowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at the Institute of Economic Affairs, said:

"We must stop judging new legislation by the good intentions of its advocates rather than its likely consequences. We know from Australia that most teenagers will get around the ban and that those who are not able to do so will suffer from social isolation.

"There are legitimate concerns about screen addiction among both children and adults, but parents are already able to restrict what their children see online and limit the number of hours they can use a smartphone. These guardrails are removed when kids log in via VPNs or sign up to platforms as adults.

"What the Government is trying to do is reminiscent of attempts to ban the printing press. It is similarly impractical, illiberal and ultimately undesirable."

[Daniel Freeman @1689Freeman]

Giving 16-17 year-olds the vote but banning them from watching YouTube after their state mandated bedtime is surely too absurd even for death throes era Starmerism

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

Tearing my hair out watching news today 🫠

Any journalist covering the “social media ban” but not HOW it works is miserably failing + missing the story.

It won’t be remembered as a policy that kept kids off SM (it won’t) - but as the policy that introduced IDs for the internet.

[Graham @GSA219]

How do @amnestyuk keep soiling themselves like this?
Its actively deceptive to elide that the 'Filton 4' committed GBH and damaged defence equipment in the name of a foreign state
From this post you'd think they're just placard waving marchers who got rowdy and broke some windows

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists

Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.

It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.

The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.

Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future.

The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end.

Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest.

Read our position:

Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: https://t.co/TqQ4cHnoeb

[Graham @GSA219]

@cjsnowdon If you can't see sense and cheer on one of His Majesty's dominions for the joy of patriotism alone I'll report you to the gambling commission for operating an unlicensed sweepstake.

[Graham @GSA219]

Aaaand it's been about an hour and I'm already fed up of hearing Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts on ITV's World Cup coverage.
This has a chance to be worse than that Brazil, Brazil theme from 2014.
#OpeningCeremony #FWC2026 #WorldCup

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

... We would be very concerned about the creation of a fast lane for censorship that can be activated at times that are politically convenient for the government.

It's right that illegal content is taken offline but that responsibility has to be paired with strong protections /1

[Valentin Boboc @doktor_val]

Australia seems to have undergone a rapid expansion of black market activities, from cigarettes to vapes and social media, too. Even if we accept the intentions of the paternalistic impulse as good, still obvious that these actions haven’t achieved anything outside of making a bunch of normal social experiences slightly more miserable/dangerous.

[Graham @GSA219]

@SteveBakerFRSA @FT @profpauldolan Interesting deviation from the newspaper and even the graphic in the tweet; they'll call Brexit stupid on Twitter to get people to talk about it but nowhere else.
You'd need to read the article to find out the author's opinion.

[Graham @GSA219]

@MarcIles He's actually still in the market to buy the club. Just the other day I met him in Middlebrook Bella Italia for a plate of spaghetti and he walked me through his huge ring binder of supporting documents.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

True. The British press has failed today.

Few journalists if any seem to grasp what this means.

It’s a fundamental reshaping of modern civil liberty and the internet in the UK.

Seismic loss of privacy.

Millions of adults will have limited web access. In a democracy...? 🤡

[Graham @GSA219]

@stateofsoho I'm quite certainly not Eton educated, neither am I a fan of Sadiq but both are correct. More to the point, Colvile is correct to call Soho residents privileged.
How many Londoners, even potential future Soho residents have been denied by the Soho Society's ingrained antagonism?