Yes, I tried and failed

He’s a lunatic.

So Epstein doesn't matter?

Which means the foreseeable future

If you attack Starmer, you're helping Farage.

Starmer created this crisis by sacking a qualified and competent woman.

And when he sacked career diplomat Karen Pierce to give Mandelson her job, SIX other senior women diplomats left FCDO as their careers were doomed under his government.

He's done far worse, but I'm fine if this does for him.

And Truss

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Did he though?

Apple really doesn't need more 'dad energy'.

Thrilled in that way, but what about his own connections with Mandelson?

I wonder whether Wes Streeting enjoyed Olly Robbins' performance this morning.

Mandelson's first major task when he arrived in Washington (which to be fair he did pull off) was having to soothe Trumpworld that a pro-EU, previous Trump critic and China dove had become ambassador.

It was just the old story of appointing political allies to diplomatic posts - something which we learnt today some in Downing Street wanted to do to one of the sacked comms directors, too.

The 'Starmer appointed Mandelson because he needed someone to manage Trump' - not true. What happened was:

1) From the general election there was a desire in Downing Street for a political appointee
2) There was no question that the US embassy had good Trumpworld links as it was

Of course many more people would be rallying to Starmer's defence if he hadn't been such a godawful PM so far.

Never did

I still like Ed.

I hope the takeover of InfoWars by @theonion.com and @timheidecker.bsky.social that resulted from the bankruptcy brought on by Alex Jones’ evil attacks on the victims of Sandy Hook brings you as much joy as it does me.

P.S. We don't need fuel, we need energy.

Bloody apostrophes. I blame autocorrect.

Maybe.

Anyway, the UK does produce it's own energy. Solar and wind, with a bit of wave and tidal.

Are you being 'Island-of-Strangers-splained'?

I've been to a bullfight just once, in Sevilla, and there were two injuries just that time. One quite nasty.

Yup. Sigh.

As would I

The speed with which applications can be made by bad actors will be increased, so the sheer volume of crap that we have to sift through will increase.

You must be a recent follower. I’m not going your research for you.

And that the child wants the school to know about their status. They very often don’t.

And yet if you allow LLM use, everyone suffers, including dyslexic people.