Five major UK supermarkets are set to trial age estimation technology to accurately guess customers’ ages when purchasing alcohol. Co-op, Tesco, Asda, Aldi and Morrisons are participating in a Government “regulatory sandbox” between January and May 2022, testing the technology’s… Read More ›
Politics
I hate how much they hate you
Listeners have branded this James O’Brien’s best monologue yet as he explains every twist and turn of the deceit and dishonesty engulfing the government. Phew!
When you attack the BBC, the NHS and the Queen you are not patriotic, and you will lose
‘One day, we’ll have a PM who isn’t a monstrous arse. There won’t be knighthoods for failure. The Culture Secretary won’t be a vain moron. The Home Secretary won’t be a dullwitted bully. The govt won’t need to be under… Read More ›
Me? Um… Who me?
On Monday Downing Street declined to comment as it said the gathering – like others reported to have happened under coronavirus restrictions during 2020 – is now being looked into as part of an ongoing independent investigation… More here. Johnson,… Read More ›
The Daily Mail reaches peak gaslight (‘The NHS is not in crisis…’)
Can Britain ‘ride out’ the Omicron wave without another lockdown, as Boris Johnson suggested on Tuesday? Or is the NHS being hopelessly overwhelmed as Covid infection rates soar? The answer to the first question is Yes. The answer to the… Read More ›
The Brexit Battalion
We have long been suspicious that there are people behind what has happened in the UK, and other countries, over recent years and I guess the thread above could well be a part of it.
There is only hope when you accept there is no end game
I have been reading a book called End State: 9 Ways Society Is Broken – And How We Can Fix It by James Plunkett which is hugely enlightening and which has made me think about what is happening today, and… Read More ›
The UK government’s Brexit contract
Guess how many out of the above have been achieved? Yes, zero… Originally tweeted here.
‘I bet you were a brilliant Dad’
Please listen to the entire call. It is impossible to not be moved by John’s words, I cried, and to not be angry by what has happened over the past 18 months. It is a disgrace and it is continuing… Read More ›
1 in 4 Britons ‘not confident NHS can care for them’. It should be 4 in 4.
One in four Britons do not believe that the NHS can care for them properly, new research into the public’s attitude to the health service reveals. When asked “how confident are you, if at all, in the NHS’s ability to… Read More ›
McGST 