What’s the frequency for forklift/crane certificates or similar? Driving a car should be regulated similarly (with the proviso that it is accepted that many blameless people will be found unfit to drive, and society should accommodate them by means other than lowering safety standards).

As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.

If the UK had ranked choice voting or proportional representation, they’d have a chance of bringing up the left flank, and possibly even having the clout to force Labour to compromise. Though under first past the post, they’ll find it next to impossible to break through in most seats, at best holding seats their high-profile founding members already have (Corbyn’s not going anywhere) and fighting the Greens for Brighton and Bristol (which would probably result in Labour picking them up due to the progressive vote being split).

There was also one in Stockholm, presumably from the same meteor shower.

A step in the right direction. Operating a car should be as strictly regulated as operating any similar piece of heavy machinery (with the proviso, of course, that society should be organised to not require driving a car to fully participate in). Though it’s cheaper to let people who wouldn’t be given a forklift certificate in a million years drive a Land Rover to the shops if they prefer and accept a level of road deaths as the inevitable price of progress, so that’s what we’re stuck with.

Bet it’s the Moonies. They’re cashed up and all over right-wing politics across the world.

New Big Balls just dropped

I agree that Brighton is the wrong place for this sort of thing. A tour of shopping centres in economically depressed areas would have been more appropriate, perhaps with some third-tier 90s boy/girl band most people have forgotten.

Progressive party in “intolerance of regressive views” shocker

This sounds like, in the best case, it’d be like one of those Christian alternative-rock festivals, organised to demonstrate that you don’t need the Devil’s music to have fun, where you have bands playing watered-down, Jesused-up versions of punk/emo/metal and some dad in Vans and a studded belt taking the mike between bands to tell everyone that the raddest thing is to obey your parents and abstain from drugs and premarital sex.

A more likely scenario, though, would involve this being to some extent an anti-wokeness hate rally, with conspiracy theories about how the foundations of Western Civilisation are under threat from the gays and communists and, of course, (((those people))).

Given the extortionate cost of printer ink, owning a printer is a mug’s game. Much like owning a car if you live in a walkable urban environment but might need to drive somewhere once every year or two.

The next episode will involve him using an Executive Order commanding the Mint to make a Presidential Crown or something.

Only because it’s now empty and all the devils are here

Presumably the Owners want him in power.

AI: a cool-looking car, but it’s papier-mache, and falls apart when subjected to any physical forces.

This is my surprised face.

Horny and stingy is not a good look.

The hard part would be imposing a customs border between it and the rUK (they’re economically tightly integrated). Beyond that, there’s no queue, so they wouldn’t be waiting behind Azerbaijan or something, and their institutions either already meet EU standards or are close to doing so.

Do you think Farage would be more amenable?

Much of “AI” is labour arbitrage, delegating the work to workers in countries with lower wages and weaker labour protections while pretending that the machine that interposes between them is doing it. There’s a joke that AI stands for “absent Indians”.