Tim Stanbridge @TimStanbridge

“You’d better remember where you were watching this tonight because in 30 years’ time, somebody will probably ask you” 🥹

Remember when Musk challenged the World Food Program to explain how he could solve world hunger with just $6 billion, they did, and he just completely ignored them?

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DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

3 weeks ago

Elon Musk has become the first trillionaire in history.

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James Milner retiring means 2026-27 will be the first English top-flight season since 1956-57 that will not feature a single player who played under Sir Bobby Robson.

Britain has gotten poorer over the last decade. Brexit didn't work. Disposable income has fallen more than in other European countries and certainly more than in the US. They cut their nose off despite their economic face, a populist, nationalist, emotional decision, and now they're stuck because you can't get the same deal with the EU you once had. People are done with both parties and they want to throw the bums out. Now Farage is rising. I've met him and think he’s a con. Go read his economic proposals — some of them are hate-based, some are tribally based. Farage's broader economic proposals are populist noise that will make the country weaker and hurt the very people supporting him.

I'm delighted for Nigel Farage. According to @nberpubs, Brexit gave our country a 6-8% reduction in GDP per capita, a 12-18% reduction in Investment & a 3-4% reduction in productivity. But it gave Nigel Farage a gift of £5millon. So that's alright.

Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky

2 months ago

Nigel Farage tells @MrHarryCole the £5m gift is a "reward" for Brexit Says it's "nothing to do with the Electoral Commission" and "I'm not in the least bit concerned"

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I’m 32 years old and I want to change the state pension. With the triple lock, based on historical growth (4.5%) when I reach my pension age. The state pension will be £30,100 a year. This would account for £512bn a year. The current government budget is 1.2Trn. This would be 3x the current NHS budget. The triple lock is unsustainable. Now the debate, no one is saying that pensioners shouldn’t recieve support. That goes without saying. But there shouldn’t be a non-means tested, non contribution based pension which gives everyone blanket support. Especially when you consider 1 in 4 of over 60 years are asset millionaires. My view is, we need to have a means tested only state pension. Which is reassessed every 3 years. There is no “pot” people pay into, national insurance is just a tax - there is no ring fenced fund for a state pension. It comes directly from taxation ever annum. Without changes like this, young people will suffer while older people - who receive their pension and political protection because they actively vote - will continue to have a glorious quality of life.

Good Morning Britain @GMB

3 months ago

More than 12 million pensioners will see their state pension rise 4.8% today under the triple lock. But the government has been accused of doing too little for working-age households so is it time to scrap the triple lock?

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Sorry that’s unforgivable from your captain

Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.

@HighwaysSEAST I’ve been stuck here for an hour. Any idea when it will reopen?

Convincing friends to watch Detectorists Friend: So what’s the show about? Me: Two guys with metal detectors, talking bollox Friend: And? Me: The club president loves buttons, his wife makes bad lemonade, oh and the bad guys look like Simon & Garfunkel Friend: … #Detectorists

We’ll never know how good Flintoff might have been had he not had to serve at the Battle of Hastings:

Dave Tickner @tickerscricket

6 months ago

Meanwhile, on Facebook.

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Tell him to do one… seriously, I’m good for a doubling of the licence fee next year Fight the 🤡 Go to court Admit the editing error/put it in context, admit it was wrong, but didn’t change the fundamental truth of the programme or the Jan 6 insurrection

Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey

8 months ago

Trump wants to destroy the BBC and Farage is egging him on. To all those who love the BBC, now is the time to speak up.

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🚨 SHOCKING 🚨 A HUGE illegal waste dump has appeared between the A34 and River Cherwell, linked to organised crime. Every rainfall risks toxins washing into the river. We’re calling on the Environment Agency & Cherwell Council to act NOW. Our rivers cannot wait. 👇👇

Gone on Traitors, become best mates with Joe Marler and necked on with Kiera Knightley. Some month Joe Wilkinson’s had. 👏🏻

I’ve watched this probably 8 times in a row and I am crying dude

As an outsider, it really mesmerizes me how a People descended from the mixture of Angles, Saxons, Danes and Normans, who united their kingdom with Scots and Welsh, to then set up an empire in 4 continents, could claim multiculturalism is contrary to its national identity

Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski

9 months ago

British.

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NEW: Weekend @TheNewsAgents No-one can be certain how transformational AI will be, to the economy, to human psychology, to the human experience. Either way, I am absolutely certain our politicians haven’t thought about it enough or even begun to properly grapple with the potential economic, regulatory and political implications. They just get giddy and think it will solve all their problems, choosing not to reckon with the *politics* of the AI revolution. Instead they allow AI companies to do it for them, risking the creation of a new set of oligarchs, the like and power of which we’ve not yet seen. This is a special TNA report from California, Nevada and London on how AI is leaving our politics behind. And fast. Listen now. Edited/produced @RorySymon podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Brilliant. This is a beautiful takedown by Prof Becky Malby, of most of the myths around taking water back into public ownership, including its cost. Also demolishes the idea it’s possible for ANY regulator to effectively function within a privatised water model. Join the campaign here: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-be…

IlkleyCleanRiver @CleanIlkley

12 months ago

In case you missed C4 news tonight..

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I once asked a lawyer* why legal terms are in Latin & he pointed out that definitions in English drift & migrate through usage but using a dead language made it more likely that definitions would remain static over years & centuries. Rare example of a lawyer* making a good point.

Anon Opin. @anon_opin

12 months ago

Since the Romans are all dead, it's probably safe to stop giving things Latin scientific names that nobody understands now.

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Me if I was a BBC News commissioner: "I want a deep dive into Bezos' tax affairs, with a detailed analysis of his global tax payments comparing it to national and regional tax norms." BBC News commissioner: "I want wall-to-wall photos of who is wearing what in Venice."