“Brexit has been a fucking absolute unmitigated disaster.

And it will be a living nightmare until some politician has the balls to put a referendum in a manifesto and run on it and go back into the EU.”

Said ⁦@NoelGallagher⁩.

Yup - that’s spot on. bigissue.com/culture/music/… Yes, I know he’s changed his tune since his North Korea comment, but isn’t that what you want?

Don’t you want people to change their minds according to facts and the world around them?

And credit to him that he calling out the impact on youths, when youths want Rejoin:

If someone *outside* a polling station asks you if you have ID…

…the correct answer is “none of your business”. And take a photo of them too.

They’re not being helpful. They’re trying to fiddle statistics.

When even Cabinet Ministers back away from Conservative branding… And the Deputy PM would also rather be seen in the Greens’ branding than in true blue.

Delighted to say that at ⁦@YorksBylines⁩ we have our first article written entirely by AI -

- and on the subject of itself.

Enjoy & marvel… yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/techn… That also means that Chat GPT now has its own author page on Yorkshire Bylines:

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What happened to the missing 45 MPs that supposedly also backed Boris?

My take:

1) If he had them, he would've run

2) He had a fake-it-til-u-make-it strategy to get more onboard

3) The undeclared were prob conditional on him passing the mark- so BoJo said "that's good enough" 4) Then when he couldn't get any more of those conditional MPs to declare openly, to set up the chain-reactions he needed - he realised he had to change tack to avoid egg on his face, having said he had 100

5) He tried to bully Penny or Rishi to join his ticket

So the main hall at #conservativeconference is a ghost town…

But the pro-European @euromove fringe event is packed to the rafters.

The times they are a’changing. And overflowing, apparently. Should’ve turned up earlier. 🤷🏻‍♂️

THREAD:

The Met consistently refused to investigate Patygate despite overwhelming evidence.

They then launched an inquiry days before Sue Gray report release, delaying the report at key moment.

They issue 1 fine to Johnson for the least serious incident & include Sunak.

1/ Johnson tells friends that he's been assured he'll get no more fines (reported on 24/4 - so Johnson knows outcome *one month* before Met announce).

Met delay issuing fines to Downing St during local elections.

Met issue fines for Nov event, but not Johnson despite photos.

2/

MASSIVE respect to this woman. She’s been arrested already of course.

What a hero! 😲 Apparently her name is Marina Ovsyannikova and she’s an editor at Russia’s Channel One.

Will post more as I findvout.

Anti-war protest in Moscow right now. It’s growing… Credit to @fbkinfo for this footage. Makes sure you are following them please to support those brave Russians ✊🇷🇺

No10 says the Queen has approved knighthood for ex education secretary Gavin Williamson.

At a time when we’re trying to tell the world we’re not corrupt?!

I can only assume this is because Sir Gavin was once given the book of buried bodies & this sordid gift keeps him quiet. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Fascinating thing is this:

When Gavin Williamson was fired for being useless, he was also wildly unpopular in the Tory Party.

So for someone that loathed within the Tories to gain such an honour at this sensitive time…

…indicates he knows something very significant.

One thing that gnaws at me is that, unlike science, politics is not becoming incrementally better.

Despite all the positive potential latent in humanity... our politics seems not to go forwards, but rather to tap a cyclical churn of cynicism, farce, corruption & ineptitude. Now obviously, this is impressionistic and there are many dimensions of "progress" (diversity of inclusion, depth of knowledge base, effectiveness of self-correction mechanisms...)

...but I was mainly thinking of quality of information & thought offered to the public.

Actually… this appears to be the origin:

https://twitter.com/elizabethbangs/status/1486109593231052813

Gove: “Everyone knows [Sue Gray] is a person of great integrity”

Oh?

“In September 2011, Ms Gray advised Michael Gove, then education secretary, that email sent in private email accounts on government business was exempt from transparency laws.” BBC,2015
And here is the article that’s from.

EVERYONE should read it.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

Who is Sue Gray?

If you’ve not read this (from BBC 2015), you should.

“Even when a document trail exists, Ms Gray is enthusiastic about keeping it a secret. We know that she advised special advisers on how to destroy email… to thwart FOIA requesters.” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… “I know of half-a-dozen occasions where Ms Gray has intervened to tell departments to fight disclosures under the Freedom of Information Act. Civil servants… state that she was behind that department's doomed attempts to keep the diary of Andrew Lansley a secret”

I’m so incensed at the thought of the UK government pulling us out of Horizon Europe that I can even sleep. *can’t ffs

293 new Covid deaths today.

That’s shocking. This is shoddy management, people. 😔 *293 new Covid deaths reported today, for those that have complained.

More important point being- the daily and weekly averages are alarming. We’re still in triple figures daily and this feels very much off the media & govt comms radars. I personally feel that’s dangerous.

!! HAPPY HALLOWEEN !! 🧙🏼‍♂️

Here’s my green flame pumpkin.

[The science of it in the thread…] So the burning green liquid I poured into this is essentially:

Methanol + boric acid.

Just mix them up. By a gentle condensation reaction, that makes trimethyl borate:

3CH3OH + H3BO <—> (CH3)3BO3 + 3H20

The methyl borate burns bright green (any methanol burning is colourless)

THREAD.

While we were in the EU, Our UK govt and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had many running battles over water & air pollution.

UK govt kept trying to be lazy on pollution. The ECJ kept trying to hold UK govt to cleanliness standards it signed up to.

Some articles... theguardian.com/politics/2009/…

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I just interviewed Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

Discussing the incident of the Insulate Britain protesters blocking a woman in tears trying to get to a hospital - he says he’d do the same.

… and he would block an ambulance.

/thread
That’s the shock part to get your attention.

This was a full 1h interview in which we thoroughly covered why he would be prepared for, even maybe welcome, protests to cause deaths. He says that happened in civil unrest movements of the past - only extreme levels are effective.

Stop. Just… stop. 🤦‍♂️

#KermitTheFrog
So silent you can hear teeth cracking from the cringing… 😬