Paul Lomax
@paullomax.co.uk
Chief Digital Officer in Media. Manc, leftie, foodie, cook, dad, feminist. Talks tech, science, politics, #mcfc, ADHD, gardening, transport, & data. Orange & natural wine fan. Lives in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent, UK. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦Opinions my own.
Have you considered taxing the rich?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Have you considered taxing the rich?
Seems they decided they’d tax it first then figure out how later
Here's the #EV pay per mile consultation. It says motorists will pay an estimate 12 months in advance 🤔. New car mileage will be "checked" at the end of the first and second year. How? www.gov.uk/government/c...
Consultation on the Introduction of Electric Vehicle Excise Duty (eVED)
A consultation setting out further detail on how eVED will work.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Seems they decided they’d tax it first then figure out how later
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Perhaps there is a role for this guy at the Labour Party, I feel like his "people like chicken, let's give them that, the pizza customers will order from us anyway because they've nowhere else to go" ideas might resonate with them.
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Domino’s Pizza parts ways with chief who bet on fried chicken
Andrew Rennie leaves UK group ‘by mutual agreement’ as chair says there are opportunities to drive growth
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Perhaps there is a role for this guy at the Labour Party, I feel like his "people like chicken, let's give them that, the pizza customers will order from us anyway because they've nowhere else to go" ideas might resonate with them.
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
www.ft.com/content/f0bf...
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I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
I do want to applaud whoever at Twitter managed to push through the location data update despite the incredibly predictable outcome. anyone with half a brain cell could’ve seen that coming and I think somebody deserves credit for convincing mgmt to go ahead anyway
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In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
Juries are not perfect.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.
But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.
They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.
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This is a fundamental change to the UK constitution yet seems very low key media coverage?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This is a fundamental change to the UK constitution yet seems very low key media coverage?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
in the last 1.5 years journalistic fact-checking has become significantly harder specifically bc of this, without touching all the other ways education and knowledge-sharing are under attack rn (book bans, censorship, media industry crumbling, etc etc)
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HUGE NEWS: Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles.
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
HUGE NEWS: Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles.
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
A massive bid to redraw the British press. Big political and competition questions lie ahead:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
November 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can you imagine being the richest person in the world and being so pathetically insecure that you have to build an entire AI just to fluff you?
“Leh hey zer hers”
Britain’s DragonFire laser has destroyed high speed drones during recent trials at the Hebrides range, with the Ministry of Defence announcing a £316m contract for MBDA UK to deliver the first ship fitted systems from 2027.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-lase...
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-lase...
British laser weapon downs drones off coast of Scotland
Britain’s DragonFire laser has destroyed high speed drones during recent trials at the Hebrides range, with the Ministry of Defence announcing a £316m contract for MBDA UK to deliver the first ship fitted systems from 2027.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
“Leh hey zer hers”
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Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Eat out to Help Out was killing people, but they “kept it out of the news”.
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That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
A country where Sadiq Khan can lead London, Humza Yousaf can lead Scotland, and Rishi Sunak can lead Britain is a country where the racists had *lost*. So much of this vicious bile has come directly after that and almost no one seems to draw the connection
November 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.
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This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Discover last night that child two (8) may have a photographic memory. I was setting up a Chromebook for him and set a strong random password for his account with a pin on the laptop, while he watched. An hour later he recited the password. Said he could picture the laptop screen and read it back.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Discover last night that child two (8) may have a photographic memory. I was setting up a Chromebook for him and set a strong random password for his account with a pin on the laptop, while he watched. An hour later he recited the password. Said he could picture the laptop screen and read it back.
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Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.
This isn’t ideal… About 20% of the internet is down. Including all the bits I look after. 😭
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.
www.cloudflarestatus.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This isn’t ideal… About 20% of the internet is down. Including all the bits I look after. 😭
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...
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Well that's...gross. Also incorrect. Yes, the public take issue with small boats, but they are actually pretty positive on ensuring people can seek asylum, especially children. We're talking about children for fucks sake and this government just throws this out.
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Well that's...gross. Also incorrect. Yes, the public take issue with small boats, but they are actually pretty positive on ensuring people can seek asylum, especially children. We're talking about children for fucks sake and this government just throws this out.
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Quick interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning, trying to briefly explain why Labour's latest anti-asylum proposals are all but guaranteed to actually make things worse for not only this seeking asylum, but in everything which this government claims they are tackling.
November 18, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Quick interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning, trying to briefly explain why Labour's latest anti-asylum proposals are all but guaranteed to actually make things worse for not only this seeking asylum, but in everything which this government claims they are tackling.
There are two kinds of people in the world - smart people who know they’re lucky, and lucky people who think they’re smart.
November 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
There are two kinds of people in the world - smart people who know they’re lucky, and lucky people who think they’re smart.
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
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Immigration policy being under the thumb of the interior ministry which is also responsible for tackling security, organised crime, counter-intelligence etc is clearly a failed model
It needs to be hived off separately as in Canada, or put under an arms length body under the business dept as in NZ
It needs to be hived off separately as in Canada, or put under an arms length body under the business dept as in NZ
Immigration policy needs to be taken away from the home office. They’ve failed to balance economic effects, humanitarian obligations and border control.
It is so cross cutting it should probably go to the Cabinet office . The HO can then focus on the borders bit while the policy is done elsewhere
It is so cross cutting it should probably go to the Cabinet office . The HO can then focus on the borders bit while the policy is done elsewhere
Unsurprising Labour Govt has gone down rabbit hole of talking as if asylum-seeking can be ended.
They listen to immigration officials, in a fantasy island isolated even from other civil servants.
When Diane Abbott was Shadow Home Sec, she made no attempt to create an alternative policy. But…
They listen to immigration officials, in a fantasy island isolated even from other civil servants.
When Diane Abbott was Shadow Home Sec, she made no attempt to create an alternative policy. But…
November 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Immigration policy being under the thumb of the interior ministry which is also responsible for tackling security, organised crime, counter-intelligence etc is clearly a failed model
It needs to be hived off separately as in Canada, or put under an arms length body under the business dept as in NZ
It needs to be hived off separately as in Canada, or put under an arms length body under the business dept as in NZ
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This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals
And once again, I ask whether Ministers and No10 realise that the readership of one paper can in fact read the contents of another.
Dark forces are stirring up anger in the UK. My asylum reforms are our chance to stop them | Shabana Mahmood
I know some of these measures will face opposition. But a country without secure borders is less safe for those who look like me, says Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals
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Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Immigration is NOT tearing this country apart.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
Politicians like Farage and Mahmodo are tearing it apart by their divisive rhetoric and dishonest framing of the known facts behind immigration.
I despise them for it.
Now 10 years here isn’t long enough. It has to be 20 years.
What a disgrace.
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The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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