Regardless of your view of this team, its fans, the crisis in the middle east or antisemitism, taking AI-generated content at face value is astonishing incompetence. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…

Wikipedia is 25 years old today. It has many flaws and limitations, but it's an extraordinary project and achievement.

The source for Google AI's bold claim that BBC presenters Stephen Nolan and Chris Buckler were previously in a romantic relationship is this article from Attitude magazine. The article is about Stephen and Chris from Gogglebox. Nothing to do with Nolan and Buckler. 🤦‍♂️

Feels almost pointless saying this, because I only met Mickey Brady briefly when we were Assembly candidates (he was a much more serious candidate than me). But my impression of him was positive. I am sorry to hear that he has died.

Trump is acting like an international gangster. The Prime Minister has tried appeasing him for 12 months and has failed. It's time we finally stood up to him and united with our European allies to make him back down.

Listening to the paper review on the radio. They just referred to "the largest Chinese embassy outside China." How many Chinese *embassies* are there inside China?

I'm a Liberal Democrat, so I don't know a lot about the inside of the Labour Party, but was there anything, apart from his grandfather, which aligned Peter Mandelson with Labour rather than the left of the Conservatives?

Dentist tried to give me a filling. She managed to numb my mouth but, oddly, she couldn't numb my tooth. So we gave up. Now I'm feeling sorry for myself because I'm not feeling the left side of my face.

I asked a girl out for coffee. She said how about 10 tomorrow? 10 is a mental amount of coffees to drink. Date cancelled

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There's a brilliant urban legend that Jerry Lee Lewis once employed a Japanese hostess just to alter the documents on wooden shipping containers. Good myth's Geisha's crate falsifier!

I'm not saying that I'm stupid with tiredness, but I've just caught myself thinking that I could make pancakes for breakfast, the natural time to eat pancakes, some year when shrove Tuesday falls on a Saturday.

Jesse Jackson's death the day before Ash Wednesday has me thinking. "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." "I am somebody." Both are true. Both are important.

Going to be late for work because the bus got caught in roadworks. But I'm still in a better position than the older gentleman who was waiting in the rain, with his rolator, at a stop which the bus couldn't access because of the roadworks.

On days like today, I miss Nicholas Witchell going out of his mind with boredom, standing outside in the rain, freezing his gonads off.

“Police officers with a crown on their cap badges will sit down with lawyers from the Crown Prosecution Service and decide if there is sufficient evidence to charge the King's brother.”

I'm not saying it's been a busy week, but I've just sent this message about a bit of kit I was supposed to collect for an event in Dublin this weekend.

This is worth reading because it shows how long we've known about Prince Andrew's dodgy friends, but also because it contains a line about diplomacy which made me laugh on a day when I thought nothing would. johnfinnemore.substack.com/p/what-i-said-…

I do not support the Ayatollah's regime in Iran I utterly condemn the attack on Iran by the US and Israel There is NO contradiction whatsoever between these two statements

Annual post for St David's day youtu.be/c0aBSlY8JBg?si…