Ally Tibbitt

It's a Dinosaur Jr kind of an evening. music.youtube.com/watch?v=ybEx...

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Incredible. Student List are candidates selected by groups of students to form an anti-corruption party. Another youth-led movement overthrowing an authoritarian government in Europe.

From “aristocracy to assetocracy” - Prof Huw McCartney, a colleague at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, explores the make-up and wealth in the House of Lords, which so desperately needs reform: theconversation.com/from-aristoc...

Now independent MSP Amanda Bland has spoken for the first time on why she left the Reform UK party in Holyrood: because of what she calls "abusive, misogynistic behaviour" by Reform leaders, who are named in this piece.

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

Once again I would like to ask the universe how I can stop Google News sending me push notifications about football? All this AI and profiling and still Google can't tell I hate Football. Maybe I should find it reassuring...

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is indeed the issue. It looks like we're facing the apocalypse with unloved tinned haggis, a huge tin of duck confit which is too involved for lazy eating, many tins of basics rice pudding, tinned prunes, grapefruit, packet soups from 2009, a jar of mincemeat & an obligatory Fray Bentos pie.

I'm not really sure this is a good news story. Is it not a total failure of the privatised grid system to provide functional connections to both generators and end users? www.thenational.scot/news/2666159...

"Doorscaping" is a thing now, and you'll just have to deal with it. theconversation.com/autumn-wreat...

Millions of websites and online tools have relied on the PHP language for decades – but newly disclosed bugs could let hackers easily take them over.

If you're trying to speed up the shift to renewable energy why would you make gas cheaper? 🤷

There is an increasingly disingenuous narrative peddled in Scotland about the impacts of granting new oil and gas licences on North Sea production levels and job security. Amid this, it’s important to look at evidence 🧵

Who Funds You have now done a post following up this reporting - giving CCR their lowest grade for transparency whofundsyou.org/october-26-r...

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Great work from @allytibbitt.me, releasing the latest #WhoFundsYou assessment of think tank funding. Find out who's more transparent, who's more opaque, and who needs an especially low rating! whofundsyou.org/october-26-r...

*Waves at global situation* Maybe we should be upgrading grid / storage with a little more urgency? "In 2025, more than 10 terawatt-hours of renewable electricity was curtailed in Scotland – enough to power every household in the country for a year." www.heraldscotland.com/news/2664495...

It's good that SNP members voted to encourage the party and the Scottish Government to leave x.com But Meta and TikTok also have form for suppression of political speech they don't approve of. Maybe our governments need to think much bigger to protect democracy? www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

💥An Israeli think tank whose "sovereignty index" and studies reached reputable media and academia is actually part of a Russian influence operation. Leaks show the Kremlin's propaganda firm Social Design Agency planned influence ops as early as 2024. VSquare.org

The shocking true cost of net zero policies right there.

This morning we launched the cross-border FOI guide ‘Access Europe’, alongside Alexander Fanta of the FOI Network. The guide walks you through FOI in 39 countries, and from the EU institutions, and includes practical knowledge that you’re unlikely to find in other resources, such as:  👇🧵

I’m sorry, what?! “Salmon are carnivores and eat other fish in the wild, so feeding them chicken is entirely natural,” said an executive at a major salmon-feed producer.” Feeding them humans would be just as “natural” BTW. www.ft.com/content/8f1e...

Great stuff from @fullfact.org here: fullfact.org/ai-benchmark... #AI

If ever there was an issue that highlights how weirdly centralised the UK is... What a bizarrely trivial thing to need Secretary of State attention. Is this the same in Scotland too?

Two very exciting messages for you around Digital Democracy Edinburgh! First: registration is open, so please do book your tickets: tictec.mysociety.org/event/digita... Second, we're also calling for speakers - full details at www.mysociety.org/2026/10/14/d...

Time to batten down the hatches .

Europeans need to make it clear to musk, that starlink operation licences depend on keeping Ukraine supplied.

Cutting unworkable CCS makes sense. But cutting funding for heat pumps? Madness. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Millions of pounds of public money going into enabling opaque off-shore ownership of data centre... www.theferret.scot/scotland-dat...

Absolutely bizarre that Tom Watson was given a lengthy radio interview on BBCR4 to promote Palantir to the country.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Ah, so IEA research likely behind this massive exaggeration of Net Zero policy costs. #junktanks www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rent controls would cut public subsidies to landlords and benefit those on low incomes. www.jrf.org.uk/housing/how-...

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

In this week's Wester Ross Round-up: > Lochcarron locals rally around after house fire > Local shortlisted for young trad musician of the year > Poolewe Oktoberfest this weekend > Lots more local events and jobs Check it out and subscribe: gairlochtimes.org.uk/lochcarron-l...

This sounds like an extraordinary amount of effort to go to over one critical discussion panel. Haven't these people got better things to do than policing European civil society? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If Carney gets the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump will invade Canada. Which would be ironic.

Interesting... But sadly not much use for people resident in the UK. impressdisputeresolutions.org/impress-disp...

Letter printed in The Times today

The web and mobile apps of major conversational AI engines transmit prompts, titles and conversation permalinks to advertising data firms, alongside device IDs, hashed email and other persistent identifiers. Comprehensive analysis, like always from this team: jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/i...