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“To turn off, go to Settings > Apps > Photos on iOS and turn off Enhanced Visual Search. On Mac, open Photos and go to Settings > General to do the same. You must do it on each of your Apple devices.”

Damning moment on Newsnight as Dorries admits that the child grooming scandal was "never discussed" when she was a cabinet minister.

The Undertones Teenage Kicks Brixton ACE 1982 youtu.be/JezbKHaOgro?...

can't tell you what it feels like to work in the NHS as a trans woman right now. giving my life to this service while it's being run by a man who is actively malevolent towards me

I think the best thing that could happen with this bill is that it leads to a government commission on assisted dying, where the issue is considered in the detail it requires and public opinion is sought. I disagree with those who are saying that 5 hours is sufficient time for debate.

You think nothing Musk could do could lower your opinion of him? Think again

The Daily Mail just won the right to say Douglas Barrowman has "cocktail-sausage fingers". And it won the right to say his actions ruined thousands of lives, led to two suicides, and that he lied about his ties to a likely fraudulent tax scheme. Thread.

The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed. Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed. By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Kim Leadbeater - who came first in the private member’s bill ballot - is going to use her slot for a bill on assisted dying. This is significant because it means the bill is pretty much guaranteed a debate and is also likely to get a vote. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/a...

I wrote about a development that I think might create some quite fundamental changes in the power between the state and the private sector: the role that civilian companies are increasingly playing in war. engelsbergideas.com/essays/how-c...

Just found out that the voice actor that recorded the line 'you know when you've been Tangoed' for the adverts was GIL SCOTT FUCKING HERON, and now I need a lie down