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2026-10-28

History is something you do: ‘I’m not interested in predicting the future, I’m interested in changing it.’

2026-10-27

Claude will tell you how to manipulate an election: via a classic multi-turn jailbreak.

Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech

Americans Are Officially More Scared of AI Than a Loved One Getting Cancer

UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups

‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims: ‘The report, titled Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment, raises concerns about the use of AI in immigration, saying it is not neutral or accurate and can replicate bias and discrimination within society, particularly when a key driver for its use is anti-immigration policies and rhetoric.’

2026-10-26

Martin Lewis: the money-saving expert… who accidentally cost Britons billions: I don’t think you can argue he hasn’t done a lot of people a lot of good - but argument here is that encouraging people to seek good deals more than investing in the stock market cost lots of people lots of wealth.

The American woman who ripped the heart out of Cadbury: ‘…the fate of Cadbury and the forces that drove its destruction are symptomatic of wider social issues that really are the blame for many of our social ills – namely, our willingness to abandon our traditions, our history, and our responsibility to other people for a quick buck.’

The Queen of shops who accidentally helped wreck the great British high street: ‘The same YouGov survey that revealed 78 per cent of us supposedly value our high streets also revealed that we don’t necessarily value them enough to actually use them: only 28 per cent of respondents said they used their local high street at least once a week, and only 53 per cent of people said they used theirs even once a month.’

2026-10-25

Four months in Poland: Keenan moves to Poland.

The next Post Office scandal? Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide

The Transatlantic Myth: ‘America was never the partner Europe imagined - nor should we want it to be.’

2026-10-23

we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas: ‘This is what we get when any hint of “thinking outside the box” gets slapped down as socialism/communism/anti-business/un-American, generally.’

2026-10-22

‘You are a humanitarian also, sir’: the US feeds Putin with lies as Ukraine’s children take cover and die

Orangutans prefer food associated with sounds of laughter, study suggests: ‘Orangutans base their food choices on whether others appear to be having a good time’

2026-10-21

Flaw in PHP computer language leads to shutdown of websites around world

The Media ‘Manufactured’ Millionaire Exodus From UK, Campaigners Tell IPSO in Open Letter

2026-10-19

turfgrass brain: ‘Throw off your chains, my American brethren, and consign the turfgrass lawn to Revolutionary oblivion’

2026-10-16

Commercial kitchen staff exposed to high levels of air pollution, study finds

UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows

2026-10-15

how i clean my house

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

2026-10-13

Women ‘more likely to be told autoimmune conditions are psychological’: A ‘stark gender divide in misdiagnosis, with women also waiting longer for treatment’.

2026-10-11

Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report: ‘…what I think’s interesting about the nationalists is that they want to take up the cross at marches, and display it, but there’s less of an interest in denying themselves and following Jesus.’

2026-10-05

Money stolen by scammers hijacking UK social media accounts rises 400%