Will Reid-Tong (née Thong)
@willthong.com
💻 Release Engineer at a cybersecurity firm
🌹 Ex-Labour fundraiser, 2021-2023
🎓 Ex-Magdalene College, Cambridge fundraiser
🧑🍳 Even more formerly a MasterChef 2017 contestant
All opinions personal; RT ≠ endorsement
🌹 Ex-Labour fundraiser, 2021-2023
🎓 Ex-Magdalene College, Cambridge fundraiser
🧑🍳 Even more formerly a MasterChef 2017 contestant
All opinions personal; RT ≠ endorsement
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Yup this briefing is totally consistent with everything else we've been told about Starmer & McSweeney - at which point the obvious "solve for x" answer is to get rid of the former!
...and that of Morgan McSweeney who is said to have pushed Mandelson's appt.
Labour MPs received calls y'day to assess the vulnerability of their position. “Morgan is completely exposed but I just don’t think Keir can function without him,” one MP said.
Labour MPs received calls y'day to assess the vulnerability of their position. “Morgan is completely exposed but I just don’t think Keir can function without him,” one MP said.
February 4, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Yup this briefing is totally consistent with everything else we've been told about Starmer & McSweeney - at which point the obvious "solve for x" answer is to get rid of the former!
Fascism incoming - and it'll be our fault as the Labour Party for letting it in.
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Fascism incoming - and it'll be our fault as the Labour Party for letting it in.
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Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Most of Epstein’s victims were either too frightened to come forward, or silenced through legal threats. Oh, and here’s a senior British politician giving Epstein tips on how to silence them
Great stuff - particularly great observation that the anti-renewable right are obsessed with passive income yet somehow don't like solar power, almost the very definition thereof at an industrial scale!
January 31, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Great stuff - particularly great observation that the anti-renewable right are obsessed with passive income yet somehow don't like solar power, almost the very definition thereof at an industrial scale!
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Left to right:
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Left to right:
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Dr Who convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Happy Days convention for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Birdfair for safeguarding reasons
* Guy banned from Nazi reenactment society for safeguarding reasons
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something worth remembering: graduates already pay a tax on the benefits of going to university. it's called "income tax". the government takes 20-45% of the increased earnings resulting from your university education.
Pulling together thoughts on the Plan B student loans, the way the system is set up means there will be a 40-50% chunk of people who for some of the most expensive years of their careers will pay a 9% higher tax rate than the other 50-60% and this does basically make it impossible to do tax policy.
January 30, 2026 at 10:16 AM
something worth remembering: graduates already pay a tax on the benefits of going to university. it's called "income tax". the government takes 20-45% of the increased earnings resulting from your university education.
If you've ever prompted an LLM to take you thru a simple concept you don't understand but without giving you the answer, you'll know they're great at finding gaps in understanding. But kids won't know how to write these prompts. As with Claude Code/Kiro, the devil will be in the detail (ie tooling).
We want to make sure tutoring isn't the preserve of a lucky few, but accessible to every child who needs it.
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
AI can help us do that.
Safe, personalised, one-to-one learning support to help every child achieve and thrive.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Poorest pupils to be given AI tutors
Bridget Phillipson says tuition would no longer be the preserve of ‘the lucky few’
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 AM
If you've ever prompted an LLM to take you thru a simple concept you don't understand but without giving you the answer, you'll know they're great at finding gaps in understanding. But kids won't know how to write these prompts. As with Claude Code/Kiro, the devil will be in the detail (ie tooling).
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So basically we have a solid center left majority under PR, or a knife edge possibility of hard right government under FPTP. The country really can't afford the luxury of political parties' vanity when it comes to electoral pacts.
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 25% (+1)
LAB: 21% (+2)
CON: 17% (-1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 25-26 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-19 Jan.
RFM: 25% (+1)
LAB: 21% (+2)
CON: 17% (-1)
GRN: 16% (-1)
LDM: 14% (=)
Via @yougov.co.uk, 25-26 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-19 Jan.
January 27, 2026 at 10:17 AM
So basically we have a solid center left majority under PR, or a knife edge possibility of hard right government under FPTP. The country really can't afford the luxury of political parties' vanity when it comes to electoral pacts.
My wife: "Roxy wished that Rachel and Stephen would win - so happy it came true!" 😂😂😂
January 23, 2026 at 9:49 PM
My wife: "Roxy wished that Rachel and Stephen would win - so happy it came true!" 😂😂😂
Jack: "Maybe they're both Traitors"
Sweet child still hasn't got it - what a game by Stephen and Rachel ♥️
Sweet child still hasn't got it - what a game by Stephen and Rachel ♥️
January 23, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Jack: "Maybe they're both Traitors"
Sweet child still hasn't got it - what a game by Stephen and Rachel ♥️
Sweet child still hasn't got it - what a game by Stephen and Rachel ♥️
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Keir 🤝 Stephen
Wondering
if getting rid of Rachel
will save him
Wondering
if getting rid of Rachel
will save him
January 23, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Keir 🤝 Stephen
Wondering
if getting rid of Rachel
will save him
Wondering
if getting rid of Rachel
will save him
The PM is gonna be raging when he finds out he pledged to abolish the Lords in 2020
January 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The PM is gonna be raging when he finds out he pledged to abolish the Lords in 2020
The annoying thing about #TheTraitors is that everyone thinks their incentives are to eliminate smart people: the Traitors in order to stop anyone putting 2 and 2 together, the Faithful because they confuse being smart for being a Traitor. So the Faithful get less watchable towards the end.
January 22, 2026 at 10:50 PM
The annoying thing about #TheTraitors is that everyone thinks their incentives are to eliminate smart people: the Traitors in order to stop anyone putting 2 and 2 together, the Faithful because they confuse being smart for being a Traitor. So the Faithful get less watchable towards the end.
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In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
UK drops target for international student recruitment
Government to encourage education providers to open campuses overseas as it focuses on reducing migration
www.ft.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:01 AM
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
I work closely with my company's customer support teams as they escalate tickets (as well as regularly using Claude for coding work). While LLMs are incredibly useful when directed by someone who knows the product, the idea it could ever replace their ability to sherpa confused customers is madness.
January 17, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I work closely with my company's customer support teams as they escalate tickets (as well as regularly using Claude for coding work). While LLMs are incredibly useful when directed by someone who knows the product, the idea it could ever replace their ability to sherpa confused customers is madness.
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pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
We now go live to Nigel Farage
January 15, 2026 at 11:49 AM
We now go live to Nigel Farage
Tuition fees are deeply regressive and hugely benefit those whose parents have a spare £45k lying around. We should have a graduate tax instead.
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 15, 2026 at 8:22 AM
Tuition fees are deeply regressive and hugely benefit those whose parents have a spare £45k lying around. We should have a graduate tax instead.
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This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
January 15, 2026 at 7:53 AM
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.
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The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)