Reposted by Gwdihw RacingDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 03/10/2026He hasn't used AI-generated synthetic focus groups to test public opinion, though, has he. For the same reason that I couldn't use Grand Theft Auto to drive a car. 210926
Gwdihw Racing @gwdihwracing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dan Neidle is like Susie Dent. Just pops up every once in a while with a tax equivalent of a humdinger word of the day. Beautiful stuff. 080
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service 331888
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social On the still ongoing, horrific, but little covered war in Sudan. How it illustrates the difficulties of ending wars, and whether there is any route to ending this one. (Free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-sudan-...samf.substack.comThe Sudan War: is there any way out?Since April 2023 Sudan has been consumed by a vicious war that gets far too little attention in the West. 46730
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Look, there's a lot you can quibble, but I really think the absolutely catastrophic absence is Taskmaster. 5321
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026The BBC News app this morning leading with Burnham in NY (far enough) and then... Two features on the dangers of cheap bleph eyelid surgery. 5392
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 22/09/2026Anyway, this has all the makings of a classic British scandal where something really bad happens, and we pretend the conditions weren't painfully obvious beforehand. 421317
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingChris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there is no sensible reason why a 5 year spouse visa cost us a little over fourteen grand. none whatsoever. and that's before you break it down to the addition of renewals every 30 months, the health surcharge, the endless price hikes, the final kick in the teeth for ILR (three grand! to settle!) 318091
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431632459
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingSarah Fenway @kingrikk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It says they’ve told the author, but did they tell Walliams as well? 519532
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingBen Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A remarkable moment on Sunday’s broadcast. 28259103
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingHannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very sad to learn of the death of Bonnie Greer. Her voice on race and humanity will be missed. I had the pleasure of working with her on a few occasions during my time as an editor at the Independent. This one piece from 2016 sprang to mind. How right she was: www.independent.co.uk/voices/donal...independent.co.ukAmericans want Donald Trump to be their SaviourWe want to turn to someone we can trust. This is not about leadership, but the cult of The Leader 2399
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK? 64873124
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingBen Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Credit to Mary Carillo, new Hall of Famer, for once more talking about the accusations against Zverev on the U.S. Open World Feed broadcast today. That feed is broadcast not only around the globe, but into those earpiece radios folks are wearing around the stadium. 622532
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The focus on *misinformation* after the terrible Southport murders did risk the unwitting inference that the mob should have found a church with Rwandan parishioners instead, or that the mob attack would have been justified if the perpetrator had been a co-religionist of those at the mosque. 312939
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026Did I just imagine section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023? 1725696
Gwdihw Racing @gwdihwracing.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I unfollowed and muted a journalist/writer this morning who I in print really enjoy reading, but who 2-3 times a week just decides "I can't let this member of the public on here gently share their view. I must dunk on them repeatedly and aggressively until they delete/repent". Sadly liberating. 000
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Even leaving any politics at all aside: as general rule, no state can allow a group of masked men to be able to close down critical infrastructure. This is basic stuff. 112607504
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingChris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary' 9259931593
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 08/09/2026WTF - first BBC question to Pat McFadden "Are you focusing too much on the protestors, and not on the issue that millions care about: small boats?" 60757171
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/09/2026@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...as.ft.comLabour’s muddled migration policy won’t stop thuggeryA government that can’t distinguish between ‘legitimate concerns’ and open racism is only making things worse 22865323
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't. 12730279
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is the thing, I am happy to accept that I am wet, lefty liberal on immigration compared to the voting public, I'm not really prepared to accept the same on the topic of black masked militia men blocking infrastructure! 640676
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This should be the easiest open goal in the world for a progressive government - they are literally violent criminals. Most voters do not like violent criminals. 35998213
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingAndrej @tepid.meme · 07/09/2026At some point we are going to have to address the fact that these people fundamentally want migrants gunned down in the water and nothing short of corpses washing up on beaches will make them happy - and that that’s not a “legitimate concern” 19733
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026On reflection I’m considerably angrier about the lack of response from the government to yesterday’s blockade of the port of Dover than the policing, though I am very worried by what looks like a massive intelligence failure. Sometimes “disperse then scoop them up later” is a reasonable choice. BUT 13467112
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 06/09/2026It’s really weird reading weird supposedly pro small business stories when you run a small business. This paperwork is not what bothers you! It’s a minor annoyance! It’s the taxes on hiring young staff, the cliff edges, and the sense your fellow small companies aren’t paying any tax at all. 1627131
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 05/09/2026Find and replace "Starmer" for "Burnham" here: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...takes.jamesomalley.co.ukIt's time to tell the racists to fuck offAnti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced 0338
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingLou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026BBC report on the radio makes a point of saying the mood was “intimidating but not hostile” in Dover this morning, right before describing the massed men wearing balaclavas and blocking key infrastructure as shouting “Whose streets? Our streets.” I dunno, lads: sounds intimidating AND hostile to me 1721177
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026My first draft would be something like: "Masked thugs plotting to shut down major infrastructure under the threat of street violence is unacceptable. Those responsible will face the full force of the law". But that's just me, I guess. 619456
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision. 32809210
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt. 1312689711
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 05/09/2026Also seems an intelligence failure that this many people could orchestrate together. 1027368
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingBen Rothenberg @benrothenberg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026From the U.S. Open: “Serena and Venus Williams will not be available for press tonight.” Deeply unsurprising. 0355
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingAdam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is really good. I wonder whether PIP claimants who vote for Reform will convince themselves that it'll be other leas deserving people from whom benefits will be removed. 353
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingCaptain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 16/08/2026The BBC has now had to revise this headline 3 times to try and get something approaching impartiality I am incredulous as to what is going on there 51708214
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You do actual you, BBC, because otherwise what the actual hell is the point. We can get innaccurate headlines, literals and gratingly chatty copy in a myriad of other places without the hassle of the license fee. Know your strengths. Existential flapping, I’ve seen that one before. 39014
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The welfare state was far more generous in the 1980s (and 90s) than it is now. Just like London was far more violent and much dirtier. We misremember so much of the past. 5748
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again. 3742421100
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/08/2026Scousers 🤝People without eclipse glasses Not looking at the sun 218236
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Often find it interesting that despite us now having a left wing government, every reference to "the left" in podcasts or similar is clearly about a subset of the online left in a way that just has no connection to actual power. 71307
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yeah, this fundamentally misunderstands the problem. The issue is that both Local Authorities and Trading Standards have been cut to the bone and have no capacity to investigate. I'd also add "foreign born," listen to yourself! 107916
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingChairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Petroc Trelawny is hosting Radio 3's evening show from the roof of Broadcasting House tomorrow for those who'd like to listen to the solar eclipse. 1326
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingJonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro... 6219134
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 10/08/2026BBC website leading with small boats I see, despite numbers down 43%. Just unacceptable. 52757173
Gwdihw Racing @gwdihwracing.bsky.social · 08/08/2026@danneidle.bsky.social fyi you get a passing lovely mention here. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 13-14 ish minutes in.bbc.co.ukElis James and John Robins - #564 - I Tire of You, Glowing in Welsh and Chris Edwards’ Bad Skin - BBC SoundsElis is being told he's sexy whilst John receives writing advice from a big hitter. 000
Reposted by Gwdihw Racingelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Not only did he stop her from challenging the world record, but what he did was extremely dangerous and could have hurt her. She initially defended him, thinking it was a mistake. He’s the one who then came out and said he did it because he’s racist. www.bbc.com/sport/weight...bbc.comPowerlifting racism row: 'I feel unsafe' says Sonita MuluhA powerlifter who was disqualified following an alleged racially motivated act has said she "does not feel safe" when competing, and says black athletes are frequently booed in competitions. 16016
Reposted by Gwdihw RacingProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason OkundayeThe Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye 26837281