If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.
This is an amazing, and insane, story.
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me there has been "no change" to the Government's policy on using X, despite Elon Musk helping to incite the hateful scenes we saw in Belfast last night.
Also no new plans to take action against X for its role in the violence
Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
Fiona Bruce: You described yourself as sexist.
Robert Kenyon: Allegedly.
Bruce: What, you're denying that was a tweet by you?
Kenyon: No
We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
your regular reminder that Reform published a draft bill in May last year which promised to deregulate the crypto industry and cut stamp duty on transactions from 24% to 10%
At what point does the government move to do something about the open incitement of far right pogroms on X? Or the spreading of hate speech and wild misinformation on the platform? It’s all happening in plain sight. What else has to burn?