Catriona Shepard

Gardener. European. Loathe Brexit.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

The BBC leads bulletins with Farage “honoured and humbled” to get Britain’s biggest ever donation (like ot is a peace prize!) How about ‘Farage in fresh funding scandal as crypto convict pardoned by Trump becomes latest donor.’ Can we not sack the Gibb/Reform team who write the headlines and control BBC online? Thank God for Channel 4!!

[Catriona Shepard @TreenShep]

@BethRigby It’s so utterly weak.

He is blathering on without substance, he looks like the wizard of oz behind the curtain. Booooring, he says in a dry throated panic and oh dear, as each heckler is removed.

He has nothing! All misery and defensiveness- not a syllable of hope to utter.

[Verbatim @Verbatim_Media]

Our yearlong investigation reveals Nigel Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry.

Do your thing internet.

https://t.co/kZz1cXBtz3

[Bradley Wall 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺🇬🇧🌍 @BWallArthur]

Richard Tice dodged more in tax in one single year than most people earn in their entire lifetime.

That isn't a party run by patriots.

Taxes are the lifeblood of a country.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

I'd wager a bet that if Angela Rayner, or a Green Party member had 'avoided' £600K in taxes the right wing rags would be screeching unpatriotic and devoid of any morals across the media. But as it's Richard Tice a Reform UK member it's acceptable.
#BBCLauraK

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

June 1983. A 28-year-old Steve Jobs walks into a design conference in Aspen, Colorado. He asks the room who owns a personal computer. Nobody raises their hand. He says “Uh-oh.”

Then he spends the next 55 minutes describing the next four decades of technology.

Jobs told the audience Apple’s strategy was to “put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you, that you can learn how to use in 20 minutes… with a radio link in it so you don’t have to hook up to anything.” That’s an iPhone. In 1983. The Mac hadn’t even shipped yet.

He described an MIT project that sent a camera truck down every street in Aspen, photographed every intersection, and built a virtual walkthrough on a computer screen. Google Street View launched 24 years later. He said office networking was about 5 years away and home networking 10 to 15 years out. The web went mainstream in the mid-90s, about 12 years later. Dead on.

He described software being sent electronically over phone lines, with free previews and credit card payment. That’s the App Store, 25 years before it launched. He even compared it to the music industry and said software needed “the equivalent of a radio station” for free sampling. Apple built the iTunes Music Store 20 years later.

The AI prediction is the one that hits different now. Near the end, Jobs talked about machines that could capture a person’s “underlying spirit” or “way of looking at the world,” so that after they died, you could ask the machine questions and maybe get answers. He said 50 to 100 years. ChatGPT arrived in about 40.

The weird part is this speech was lost for nearly 30 years. The full hour-long recording only surfaced in 2012 when a blogger got a cassette tape from someone who attended the original conference. The Steve Jobs Archive didn’t release actual video footage until July 2024.

His timelines were consistently too fast. He wanted the “computer in a book” within the 1980s. Apple’s first attempt was the Macintosh Portable in 1989, which weighed 16 pounds and cost $6,500. The iPad arrived in 2010, 27 years late. He guessed voice recognition was about a decade away. Siri launched in 2011, nearly 30 years later. The vision was right every time. The clock was wrong every time.

Apple was doing about $1 billion a year in revenue when Jobs gave this talk, with under 5,000 employees. Today it’s worth $3.7 trillion.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Reverend Jesse Jackson called on each of us to be heralds of change, to be messengers of hope; to step forward and say “Send me” wherever we have a chance to make an impact.

How fortunate we were that Jesse Jackson answered that call. What a great debt we owe to him.

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Exhibit 1.

Here’s @nigel_farage on the day article 50 was triggered:

‘Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart. You helped with this hugely’

2/

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. (Pt 2)

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share. (Pt 1)

*one voice altered to disguise identity

[Gordon McIntosh ✨ #FBPE 🇪🇺 💙 @Gordy_Mc1ntosh]

Why are two millionaire Toffs called Nigel and Rupert seen as saviours of working people by anyone?
Genuinely baffled, these people represent the rich who have been screwing the country over for years whilst blaming a tiny number of migrants for the damage the rich have done.

[Tim Clapham @CrossofBexhill]

Well well well. The May conspiracy for regime change. Its exactly what Farage, Musk and the BBC are trying to do now

[Brendan May @bmay]

You may not rate Starmer, but if you think a Farage government is what the country needs I fear you will be sorely disappointed.

The media would love nothing more than Farage as PM. The last person they salivated over like him was Boris Johnson.

Be careful what you wish for.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

This is the guy who directed the Melania movie.

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Elon Musk has finally published X's algorithm. At its heart: an equation for engagement that scores an argument 150x more than a "like"

In my Times essay, I look at social media power over the news - and the tricks that are only now becoming visible.

https://t.co/yc50CjyZPY

[Catriona Shepard @TreenShep]

@campbellclaret Watching Fred Fleitz in a full Trump like bombastic interview right now on bbc news, and I detect a favourable change in the manner of the bbc interviewer.

That bombast and those executors of it are losing power.

Thank goodness.