The Bristol CONVERT Meetup #6 was a big success last night. Our biggest turnout yet (35). All lovers of CRO & experimentation. Save the date: 14th June, 5-7pm for the next one. 💥 #experimentation #abtesting #ux #analytics #cro #conversionoptimisation

My friend Phil (here with me tonight) seems to like holidaying in countries where the political climate is incredibly unstable. If you were to recommend him such a destination - where would you recommend? #TRIPLIVE @RestIsPolitics

Recently I published the results of my climate change and SEO survey over at @sengineland 📊 I'm sharing those results here again in tweet form. Q1: How to reduce the environmental impact of a website? 51% of you opted for Green web hosting ✅ [1/21]

Thank you to @ryanwebb for organising another great event, and to Alun Lucas from @ZukoAnalytics for your talk on form optimisation too!

Fascinating that a Spectator journalist can have such a strong argument with the Reclaim leader. IMO that shows how uninformed their (his) views are.

i've seen crazy ads in my life but NOTHING compares to this.

Join the first Wake Up Call in 2024 this Friday at 8.30am with @ryanwebb 9 lessons learned leading a digital agency through several years of rapid growth buff.ly/3RDZR5o Wake Up Call is a free online event exclusively for BCI members.

An MP with some backbone 👏🏼👏🏼

My MP 🤦🏼‍♂️ #AlternativeFacts

Congratulations to Sophie Ridge. It is not OK for Claire Coutinho to talk about Keir Starmer's "meat tax" or Mark Harper to talk about local authorities powers to "limit shopping choices"? When did it become part of a minister's job to promote non-existent conspiracy theories?

WARNING: THREAD CONTAINS GRAPHIC LANGUAGE 🧵 What a morally vacuous, embarrassingly incompetent monster Suella Braverman is. Having worked at the Home Office deciding asylum applications, I know the 1951 Refugee Convention's terms are far clearer than her pernicious propaganda would suggest. She says many asylum seekers base their claims on “feeling” discriminated against in their home countries. But the scope of the Convention is limited to people who believe they have a “well-founded fear of persecution” for some specific reasons. Those reasons are race, nationality, religion, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. Mere feelings of discrimination would not meet that rigorous test, and any application made on those grounds would (rightly) be fast-tracked for refusal. She suggests that persecution, by definition, must involve a threat to life. Not true. Persecution often DOES involve a threat to life, but other things can qualify as persecution (arbitrary detention, unjustified confiscation of assets, withdrawal of state protection from crime). Braverman knows this, but the boneheads whose votes she is soliciting do not, so hey, why not spin the line? In my time at the Home Office, I refused many asylum applications which, on the evidence presented, clearly did not meet the test of a well-founded fear of persecution on Convention grounds. The majority of those applications were made by people (mostly young men) who appeared to be seeking better economic futures for themselves and their families. That's completely understandable, and I never blamed them for trying, but it's not grounds for asylum, so neither did I feel any guilt in refusing them…that's not the purpose of the asylum system. But I did grant asylum to a number of people who had clearly faced unimaginable horror in their own countries before escaping to the UK, where they felt safe and where they believed they would be able to live the rest of their lives in peace. There was the Sikh activist who had a kettle of boiling water poured over him during a police interrogation. There was the woman from a minority Muslim sect who, when her husband died, and her neighbours started throwing stones through her windows at night, sought the protection of the local police only to be publicly ridiculed and then gang-raped by six officers in front of her three young children. There were the young Tamil men forced to inhale the fumes of burnt chilli powder by Sri Lankan police. Others hung upside-down and beaten for days until they confessed to crimes they played no part in. And many, many more with genuine, provable experiences just as gruesome. Nearly thirty years on, I can still recall the faces of those people as they recounted their experiences to me during interviews and the tears in the eyes of the interpreters as they translated words no one should ever have to hear. Since my days in the Home Office, I can’t recall a single Home Secretary who hasn’t had to wrestle one way or another with the asylum system. But neither can I recall one who has approached the task with as little humanity in their heart as Braverman. Truly, she is in a league of her own. I simply don’t believe the majority of people in this country support the cruel policies that Braverman embraces so enthusiastically. As I listen to her today, my sincerest hope is that when Open Britain and our partners finally deliver a functional democracy in this country, monsters like her will never again be able to game their way into high office and abuse the power they find there. This is our fight. If you've read this far, please consider giving this a retweet and following me, @OpenBritainHQ and @StopTheRot_UK so you can be part of this positive change. Thank you.

Maturing as a football fan is being able to admit "Marching On Together" is probably the best song in football.

Steve Lamacq has decided to make a well-deserved change to his broadcasting career 💚 He will begin a new weekly show on 6 Music, Steve Lamacq’s Teatime Session, on Monday 8th January (4pm-7pm). Steve will present his final daily weekday (4pm-7pm) show on Friday 20th October.

Leeds United fans describing the Georgino Rutter goal to their mates at work #lufc #mot

It is quite difficult to process the true gravity of the Letby case. It doesn’t require a particularly long career in criminal law to read things that are for most unimaginable. But today, well. I was struck by the pain etched on the face of the Sky News presenter outside court faithfully reporting the victim impacts statements. Even Mr Justice Goss displayed the occasional moment of pain when delivering the sentencing remarks - a trained consummate professional, but you could see it. At a time when it has become a national sport to comment on the failings of the criminal justice system its worth noting that today epitomised its best. A detailed painstaking investigation by officers who may well never be recognised. Prosecution and Defence teams dealing with information of such volume, complexity and emotion that it’s almost too difficult to comprehend. But day in and day out they did their job to allow a jury to do its job. And finally the jurors. One of the most grave, complex and saddest tasks we could ask of them, and for an immense length of time with a personal sacrifice we will probably never know. So, to all those involved in this horrific case, thank you.

Almost a week has passed since the latest CONVERT Meetup all about #experimentation for good 💚 and hosted at our office space. Big thanks and appreciation to @ryanwebb for organising, Morgan Legge and Tom Locke for speaking, and @Convert for sponsoring.

Is it just me? All this ChatGPT (and AutoGPT) noise. Hyperbole at best, bullshit at worst. "It’s time to reimagine the way we interact with the internet." All those in Silicon Valley who managed to save their cash from SVB are probably falling over themselves to invest. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thank you for your piece in @guardian today @crblease. It really struck a chord after similar experiences with my dad in 2016-17. Is there a petition or any way I can support the - completely logical - call for medical records to be available digitally? theguardian.com/commentisfre…