How Keir Starmer was undone by caution and no clear plan
FT’s political obituary of the outgoing prime minister
By @chris-smyth.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d926...
our real prime minister 💕
Before you say it - I KNOW London has one of the best bud services in the world and infinitely better than most of the U.K., but the fact remains that it's getting significantly worse and that merits some kind of attention
"Get a Lime bike" is really not an adequate response to the deterioration of bus services in London. What about elderly people / people with disabilities / people with buggies or little kids / people who don't cycle or who don't feel safe on a Lime bike on the busy roads?
The headline is not the, only, story. Very interesting findings on the changing media landscape.
News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/news...
Terrific piece by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social:
Ok so basically they did exactly what they said they were doing to do if Israel kept doing what it said it was going to keep doing and so what actually are we doing here pretending there was another outcome
The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.