No matter how hard I try, Twiter refuses to believe Im an old bloke with grey hair and wont spit my teeth out at stuff like this.

Bran flakes to be classed as junk food under Labour health plan telegraph.co.uk/money/consum…

I ratioed the first trillionaire a few times during the 2024 Christmas H1B wars and got my account reach nuked for six months

On this debate between defence and welfare spending, what if we don’t have to choose? Why can’t we say NEETs (and indeed those beyond aged 24 - say up to age 35) get 6 or maybe 12 months to find a job (/education/training) after which they would be required to join the armed forces? Refusal would mean forfeiture of all Universal Credit etc. There could be a National Volunteering Corp for those who don’t make the grade for the military or for conscientious objectors etc. Obvious carve outs for those who have a physically disability etc so really can’t work. The point is - none of this is difficult surely, IF we have a government willing to show some tough love?

Since when did an AI model become a glorified opinion columnist?

JUST IN: United Kingdom announces "PoliceAI" to help fight crime — claims it will free up 6 million human officer hours / year.

I see we're at the stage of a happening where no fresh video is being produced and posters have to dredge up 5 year old footage from completely different countries and caption it with "these Irish lads don't mess around".

This year the Home Office moved to stop expert sheep shearers from Australia and New Zealand coming to shear British sheep. The people who keep the animals comfortable were declared surplus to requirements. For over a decade, around 75 of the best shearers on earth have flown in each spring on a simple visa concession. In a few brutal weeks they take the wool off up to two million sheep. A top shearer clears a ewe in two or three minutes. Hundreds a day. Calm hands, no panic in the animal. It is a global trade and a young body's game, and Britain has never grown enough of its own. The official line? Fourteen years to train Britons, so the door is closing. Here is what that tidy sentence ignores. A sheep must be shorn every year or she overheats, cannot move properly, and gets eaten alive by flies and maggots. Shearing on time is welfare, plain and simple, written into law and into the animal's own skin. So a government that lectures farmers without pause about welfare has quietly made the most basic welfare task harder to carry out. After the outcry they allowed one "final" year. Then the experts are gone for good. A sector already losing money on every fleece, already burning wool it cannot sell, now told it cannot even get the people in to take the wool off. You could be forgiven for thinking somebody wants the British sheep gone.

Elon Musk could build hospitals. He could fund schools and universities. He could help eradicate diseases. Instead he uses his wealth to fuel hate.

Media covering Musk trillion without any real regard to broader issues of inequality, tech bro abuses of power, his extreme politics. Glad to have been in a primary school this morning where the views on Musk were a lot wiser and less flattering.

Which variety of British crisps would you give to an alien from another planet who came to Earth just to try some?