Parents have always had control. Every major device and operating system (iOS, Android, Windows) has built-in parental controls. Most social media apps also offer family pairing, screen time limits, content filters, and activity reports. Responsible parents use these tools every day. This ban doesn’t “give power back” to parents, it takes choice away from them and hands it to the government and tech companies via mandatory age checks.

This style of speech is called affective framing btw. It’s what politicians use to sell you on the implementation of a piece of legislation you might take issue with, and it’s executed in 3 steps: Emotional Priming Cognitive Hijacking Value Alignment His speech uses all three.

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

BREAKING: Starmer hits back at John Healey. "We can't fund free breakfast clubs and bullets, I chose middle class children's toast. I'm sorry John has joined the far right but he will be feeling the full force of the law"

Seeing how the media has handled Henry Nowak, it makes me think how much we missed before Elon bought X.

I don’t want to hear about Black Lives Matter. I don’t want to hear about White Lives Matter. Everyone matters. Henry Nowak matters.

The police are unfit for purpose.

An 18-year-old kid gets stabbed in the street. He’s running for his life, begging for help, and instead of saving him, the police handcuff him while he bleeds out because the attacker claimed “racism.” They let him choke on his own blood. No urgency. No humanity. Just cold, ideological policing. Months later? Still no names. Still no suspensions. Still no accountability. Meanwhile, the same UK police have arrested over 12,000 people for social media posts. They move at lightning speed to jail citizens for tweets and online comments, yet they can’t even name or discipline the officers who allegedly let a stabbing victim die in handcuffs on the street. This is the definition of two-tier policing: aggressive against ordinary people speaking online, but protective when it comes to their own failures and protecting the narrative. The British people deserve real justice, not another cover-up. Justice for Henry Nowak.

another week at the prompt factory

RT @RobNoLastName: Tories: 1 month of negative growth in 4 years. Labour: 12 months of negative growth in 18 months. Not making a politica…

I worked in Erasmus. The return on inverstement for the UK was pathetic. Turing was far superior. This is the worst sort of gesture politics and for Labour, who I have voted for all my life, to replace a socially fairer scheme to return to one that is socially skewed, literally disgusts me.

Viktor Orban didn’t cancel any elections and never arrested people for social media posts. He also stepped down after his election loss and is partaking in a peaceful transfer of power. But, don’t forget, he was a dictator. Keir Starmer attempted to cancel about 1,000 local council elections next month and arrests about 12,000 people a year for social media posts. He also refused to let a rival run for a seat in a by-election because he was worried it would be a threat to his leadership. But, don’t forget, he’s a democratic leader.

Man kann über Orban denken, was man möchte, aber man konnte ihn abwählen. Wie kann man Ursula von der Leyen abwählen? Genau, gar nicht.

The EU is governed from Brussels. Brussels governs & sets its rules entirely in the interests of the EU. The UK is a competitor trading nation to the EU. Starmer's 'reset' will make the UK legally bound to follow Brussel's rules which will, he knows, primarily serve the interests of the EU. It will then be entirely within the gift of the EU to manipulate those rules to undermine and penalise the UK as a competitor nation. If the UK challenges Brussels the case will be heard in the European Court of Justice, a court that exists primarily to promote the interests of the EU. Tell me again how Starmer's reset serves the interest of the UK?

EFF should be honest and just say it’s because of board politics. They have every right to engage in freedom of association in deciding where to be present or absent. They don’t need to make up fake reasons like this, and EFF leadership lacks integrity for doing so.

You live long enough to see every institution you once loved - fighting the good fight for digital rights, privacy, and free expression, become the very monster they claimed to oppose. Goodbye, EFF.

The Strait of Hormuz, 33 miles wide and closed. The English Channel 27 miles wide yet open to anyone.

Once again, little boys are being targeted while the British State ignores the obvious problem. British boys aren’t gang-raping little white girls above kebab shops. British boys aren’t forcing 6 year old girls to marry them. British boys aren’t stabbing little girls to death at a dance class. British boys aren’t flogging, beating, torturing, and stoning women for daring to show their hair. British boys aren’t banning girls from going to school or getting a basic education. British boys aren’t forcing kidnapping women and forcing them into sexual slavery. British boys aren’t stripping away women’s basic rights, freedoms, and autonomy. British boys are NOT the problem.

Must have been one hell of a tweet