“Did you know that 8 in 8 Reform MPs in Great Britain are paid for by foreign actors/entities? Does that seem right? Only your vote for a non-racist party will fix our broken political system.” Fixed it for you, you frog faced treasonous traitor.

The Temu version!

Why does this seem like it could be late stage syphilis - skin conditions and brain problems such as memory problems, personality changes and dementia - all seem to fit.

*Zuckerberg and the crew at Meta

While this is a welcome development, it shouldn't have taken Ukraine drone bombing to put Russian data centres out of action. Social media platforms should have been aware of this from the onset but they were probably happy it was driving clicks and engagement on their sites.

*Zuckerberg and the crew and Meta decided to actually scale back or scrap moderation on the site - this is actually a key way to identify bot accounts and coordinated behaviour. And it just seemed as if Meta was paying lip service to improving the platform from malicious accounts.

With the bot farms out of action - the difference on Facebook is striking. Zuckerberg has repeatedly said he would take action against bot accounts and identify coordinated accounts with "inauthentic behaviour" yet Meta actually seemed to the do the opposite*

Russian apparently had "little impact" but the vote went the way the Kremlin hoped for - and the margin of victory (3.8%) was neither a landslide nor an emphatic victory along with 27.9% of the electorate not voting. It seems to me - we can't prove Russia swung it but neither can we disprove it

It's obvious that they are not spies and the charges are trumped up - they were likely arrested on a whim because they were easy targets and then got stuck in Iran's judicial system.

*Badenoch didn't mention the usual buzzwords like "Brexit betrayal" or "Leave means Leave" - simply saying Labour was "unpicking" the deal the UK signed with the EU. A week after refusing to say if Brexit benefitted London - it seems the failure of Brexit is now obvious to all.

Apparently a more immediate solution to dealing with bot account on social media is to attack the data centres that churn out the content. But it also makes me wonder about what sort of stuff people like Musk will be cooking up in their data centres and the use of AI in doing this.

Except the December 2025 review explicitly said it would not investigate claims of foreign interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum itself, despite the review being prompted by Nathan Gill's Russia-related case.

Finally, a UK Prime Minister recognises the role Russia has been playing in UK politics and beyond. The key question though is how to push back against it - the answer I think is dealing with bot accounts on social media but also putting pressure on Facebook and Musk's X platform.

It seems he had learning difficulties.