I can’t remember being more disappointed by any politician. @andyburnham needs to abolish the House of Lords. It’s a vector for corruption. Because that’s what this is. A pay-to-play capture of a UK lawmaker by Silicon Valley’s worst firm.
This young woman explains in poetry how the Sidney Sweeney "just sports" ad is actually that deep.
Sweeney really is just another male centered pick-me.
Oligarchy is not just an American issue. It is global. The billionaires are not just buying American politicians, they are funding right-wing parties all over the world — including the UK Reform Party. Democracy means one person, one vote. The ultra-rich must not be allowed to buy governments ANYWHERE.
Assisted Dying: Same bill, same parliament.
The different result was not on principle but a procedural issue caused by a tiny number of unelected peers who think themselves more important than the rest of us - elected or not. So self-reverent any means are justified to them.
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This week has been delightful in the AI discourse.
AI dudes: Yeah, so, there is, like, a 10% chance this technology could kill us all in less than a decade.
Public: WHAT
AI dudes: Yeah, but on the plus side, we're making progress on cool things. We just solved a notoriously difficult math problem.
Public: Uh... okay?
AI dudes: Yeah! Although... we kinda-sorta may have stolen the work of mathematicians to do it and tried to buy off one of them with the condition he throws his colleague under the bus because that colleague works at a rival AI company.
Public: Uh...
AI dudes: And we actually don't know if it's necessarily a good thing in the long run for these notoriously difficult math problems to be solved before we understand the full implications.
Public: Uh...
AI dudes: And this is while we've been stopping what may be ongoing attempts by some rogue actors to use our technology to build biological weapons.
Public: Uh...
AI dudes: But we're getting really rich in the process! We, specifically, I mean. Not you. You may actually be unemployed soon.
Did anyone catch Tommy Robinson’s interview with a door last night? He pretended I was behind it. Tense stuff. Thankfully, the door gave nothing away...
Watch: Tommy Robinson: Where’s The Money Gone? Dispatches
https://t.co/dGVt6xpPNb
@labourlewis I was a lifelong Labour voter until the appalling treatment of Keir Starmer. You've just been sniping from the sidelines since the start - you come across as nasty and vindictive. Perhaps still sour about your failed leadership bid?
After the Andrew Tate saga, I decided I hadn't had enough of being called a soyboy. So I've made a new film investigating Tommy Robinson. This wednesday. Channel 4. 10pm.
If reform win, these thugs will be patrolling the streets, checking your ID, your sexuality, your gender, your ethnic background all to decide if you’re entitled to be here or not.
We are on a precipice and we need to act.
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The demolition of Starmer was systematic operated by dismantling him step by step.
Step 1. Order and stability - the summer riots were instigated by the far Right 3 weeks in office. The government had barely started and the country was in chaos. - message delivered: Starmer will not bring order and stability.
Step 2. Make landslide victory disappear from discourse - undermine it by asking immediately for a change of government (Musk, 250 milion followers August-September 2024)
Step 3. Destroy Moral authority - Daily Mail and Telegraph launch the so called “gift scandal” - October 2024 - message delivered: Starmer and Labour are as bad as the Tories
Step 4. Seed internal divisions - Angela Reyner house taxes - Force Starmer to sack her - Divide & conquer
Step 5. Constantly undermine Starmer persona through systematic attacks, disinformation and repeated mantras: “Dictator”, “Two Tier Kier” and so on - objective: trasform him into the opposite of what he represents
Step 5. Make electoral success disappear and turn it into an imminent disaster through manipulative use of polls. Create the narrative that, with Starmer, Labour will lose the elections (with nobody even blinking at the absurdity of this happening 3 years before the elections)
There were, of course more steps, but mostly repeating and enhancing this structure.
This didn’t happen “naturally”.
I haven't had a chance to watch #bbclaurak yet this morning, but it appears Farage has been allowed to lie his way through another BBC interview, utterly unchecked.
He was NOT told by counterterror police or any other police force, to stay away from the stage at Reform conference.
Just a plain old lie that was fact-checked by West Mids police yesterday afternoon.
Laura Kuenssberg knew this was a lie when she interviewed him but made a decision to allow the lie to pass.
What happened to ethics? Where has the BBC gone wrong?
Shocking.
Nearly 16 hours since Channel 4 News and Verbatim revealed serious allegations about Reform UK’s funding, and I can’t see a single tweet from Sky News Deputy Political Editor Sam Coates about it. @SamCoatesSky
Yet when there’s a Labour story or a chance to go after Keir Starmer, he rarely seems to miss it. His latest post is about the Greens and Labour.
So it’s a fair question: why the silence on this story? Is this simply an editorial choice, or should we be asking harder questions about consistency in political journalism?
@Vinc_Ev_ Farage said he would get rid of SKS and used manipulated polls to speed the process along. What is unforgivable is Burnham took advantage of those polls and campaigned on an anti-Starmer ticket. Shame on the 300 MPs and those in the @UKLabour who went along with it.