Things are pretty bad if the Controls on Immigration mugs guy is your front runner.

And is Ed still in with the Blue Labour crowd..?

Maybe more than one thing is happening at the same time..?

It would be reasonable to ban intentionally addictive algorithms. It wouldn't be easy, and some sort of fair and practical process would have to be concocted, but it would make more sense than banning entire digital concepts.

Wow, this is really weird

This is an unnecessary overreach - there's already a defacto ban on mobile phones in schools.

The Lib Dems didn't need to be messing around with much more important legislation in a way that will limit schools' options.

This seems to be the illiberal work of the Liberal Democrats.

Schools already have a defacto ban on mobile phones - there's no reason to make it a legal requirement.

This could make it difficult to allow for phone use in fringe situations such as school trips and activity weeks.

I think… they're serious??

They clearly won a lot of the back of GTTO - but i think they'll really only have Reform to beat in most places, as the tactical centre+left will vote for them and the Greens likely won't a big effort to beat them. That should give them more of an anti right focus.

I think Labour are strongly relying upon tactical voting, but there could be a lot of places where it's more "anyone but Reform or Labour." I don't know how that'll work out.

They've surely become the absolute locked-in default choice for anyone who's been persuaded that foreigners are coming over here in huge numbers and taking our jobs/living off benefits/committing crimes. 🙁

I'd like to believe this prediction, but I was wondering through Gloucester at the weekend and Reform had a stand out on the street - and I couldn't help thinking how their vast warchest presumably enables them to do this pretty much everywhere.

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

The companies that make the most of AI will be making a conscious effort to continue hiring at the junior level, otherwise the supply of seniors will dry up.

They're not just laying the groundwork for Reform, we're at the red carpet stage by this point.

They've got somebody sorting through the M&Ms for the rider and they're still telling us they're the only alternative.

Starmer doesn't surprise me here.

His top table don't surprise me.

I'll admit it, though: in spite of everything, I thought there were more decent people in the Labour party than there clearly are.

What an enormous betrayal.

I wonder how much work you could get someone to do to pass one of those bot test popups?

They already have people training machine learning models - but could you get someone to, say, deliver a parcel?

Right, I'm moving to San Francisco.

I mean he could try to regain Momentum, but that would be a big change of direction.

I want the biggest ever sign that just says "Change", and I won't settle for anything less.

What's he got to lose at this point? He's already Britain's worst prime minister by various metrics, he might as well hang around in the hope that something good happens.

Sometimes I think our cry-bullies are bad, but you have a whole different breed of them over there.

I fear we'll catch up, though - these guys compare notes 😑

I honestly don't know how anyone can stick up for this awful government.

Surely *this* is enough to show that they're not on the side of decent people?

Reform must be absolutely rubbing their hands with glee with all the work Labour are doing for them.

When they draft this crap, do they not read it back to themselves and think "wow, this makes us sound absolutely pathetic"?

It must have cost them a huge number of votes, and they must be aware of this. Plenty of us have been writing to our Labour MP asking them what the hell they're playing at.

I can only assume that the Labour top table have done it because they want to.

It's like there's a secret competition to see who can be the most pathetic conservative

There's got to be an MC out there somewhere sampling Angine de Poitrine 🤔

It's really hard to think of these people as anything but morons at this point.

It might even be a relief to find that they were self-interested psychopaths, because even someone without an ounce of morality might still see waves of deadly disease as a bad thing for, I dunno, aesthetic reasons.

I don't think hard limits are necessarily a good idea, but the speed limit should be "sticky" in a car - if you smoothly accelerate up to it, the car should hold at the limit unless you force it past by accelerating hard.

Cars seem to be set up to speed.

It's weird that cars aren't more helpful with this… some of them have a limiter that you can set, but they're generally fiddly. A lot of cars already fairly reliably know the speed limit - why don't they make it easier to stick to it instead of drift over it? 🤔

I feel like this nihilistic sort of worldview is a significant anchor in the far right movement… if everything is going to shit anyway, why bother trying to make the world a better place?

I'm inclined to think that this is just one (extremely unpleasant and upsetting) indication of something very wrong within the Labour party.

The people calling the shots seem to have very little regard for their membership, most of their MPs, their traditional base or most of society.