Chris Drew
@cj-drew.bsky.social
Cornishman in Salford.
Speaker of languages.
Enjoyer of sports.
Speaker of languages.
Enjoyer of sports.
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In these messages, at least 13 Labour MPs complained about the govt asking them to post an announcement on X
@politicshome.bsky.social has spoken to other MPs, including ministers, who agree with these complaints
One minister said the govt's statements on this so far were "not good enough"
@politicshome.bsky.social has spoken to other MPs, including ministers, who agree with these complaints
One minister said the govt's statements on this so far were "not good enough"
January 9, 2026 at 2:21 PM
In these messages, at least 13 Labour MPs complained about the govt asking them to post an announcement on X
@politicshome.bsky.social has spoken to other MPs, including ministers, who agree with these complaints
One minister said the govt's statements on this so far were "not good enough"
@politicshome.bsky.social has spoken to other MPs, including ministers, who agree with these complaints
One minister said the govt's statements on this so far were "not good enough"
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Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.
How government engagement on X works. A wholly typical post and a wholly typical reply.
January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Modest proposal: any minister claiming the government “needs” to be on X should have to read out the top ten comments on their department’s most recent post.
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So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
So his response to the criticism of his app generating sexual deep fakes of children is... to try to monetise it as a feature
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Coming to CORNWALL soon
Shows in BODMIN
www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j...
And FALMOUTH
thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...
Shows in BODMIN
www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j...
And FALMOUTH
thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Coming to CORNWALL soon
Shows in BODMIN
www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j...
And FALMOUTH
thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...
Shows in BODMIN
www.ticketsource.co.uk/intobodmin/j...
And FALMOUTH
thepoly.org/whats-on/eve...
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Cornwall Council Leader, Cllr Leigh Frost, has given an update in the wake of #StormGoretti.
January 9, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Cornwall Council Leader, Cllr Leigh Frost, has given an update in the wake of #StormGoretti.
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Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 7, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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I’m not sure “there’s nothing we can do about the sexual abuse image factory ask OfCom” is going to hold much water as a line taken by a government which (a) has a huge majority (b) just passed legislation to regulate what people can access online
Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there.
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government
January 7, 2026 at 1:29 PM
I’m not sure “there’s nothing we can do about the sexual abuse image factory ask OfCom” is going to hold much water as a line taken by a government which (a) has a huge majority (b) just passed legislation to regulate what people can access online
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If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.
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Lisa Nandy has broken her silence to post to Facebook about the Wigan Christmas tree collection service.
In the time since a major platform started committing and enabling a strict liability offence for sexual crimes against children the Secretary for Culture, Media and Sport has posted on said platform three times, put out one instagram post and written an article for Wigan Today.
January 7, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Lisa Nandy has broken her silence to post to Facebook about the Wigan Christmas tree collection service.
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It is *quite alarming* that this very important but also very basic distinction seems to be eluding UK authorities.
January 7, 2026 at 7:38 AM
It is *quite alarming* that this very important but also very basic distinction seems to be eluding UK authorities.
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I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.
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So many reasons I could not cut it in politics, but one is I would just laugh inappropriately too much. Imagine, you’re at a meeting of senior leaders and the CEO comes out with this crap.
Keir Starmer has this morning urged Cabinet to keep its nerve amid grim opinion polling (today’s YouGov put Labour in third place behind Reform & Tories)
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
“Governments do not lose because polls go down. They lose when they lose belief or nerve. We will do neither,” he said
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
So many reasons I could not cut it in politics, but one is I would just laugh inappropriately too much. Imagine, you’re at a meeting of senior leaders and the CEO comes out with this crap.
"It’s not funny, it’s just sad. The only “running joke” here is the Labour party."
Appropriately angry response to Starmer’s recent former head of strategy from @stephenkb.bsky.social:
Threatening to strip someone of their citizenship is no joke
That this Labour government seems to find Alaa Abdel Fattah’s predicament a laughing matter is unconscionable
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
"It’s not funny, it’s just sad. The only “running joke” here is the Labour party."
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Both @charlotte2153.bsky.social and @kevinmckenna.co.uk have called on the government to leave X. After viewing hours of Grok's output, it's hard to escape the fact that every post - from government or anyone else - and every minute on that site is helping to fund an industrial abuse machine.
January 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Both @charlotte2153.bsky.social and @kevinmckenna.co.uk have called on the government to leave X. After viewing hours of Grok's output, it's hard to escape the fact that every post - from government or anyone else - and every minute on that site is helping to fund an industrial abuse machine.
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*Whiney Starmer voice* Sadly you must give Bluesky your card details before you can DM & show your knickers to the Knicker Inspectors before you pee because we're protecting women and chiiiiildreeennnn
*5 minutes later*
*5 minutes later*
Starmer's spokesman says the reports of Grok's activity is "disturbing" but doesn't say UK Government will take any action
January 5, 2026 at 12:39 PM
*Whiney Starmer voice* Sadly you must give Bluesky your card details before you can DM & show your knickers to the Knicker Inspectors before you pee because we're protecting women and chiiiiildreeennnn
*5 minutes later*
*5 minutes later*
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What "counter narrative"? Are ministers getting into the replies every time WesternDionususEnthroned✓ sharts out another 36-tweet thread on Great Replacement and the Jews, or do they just crosspost some anodyne bollocks about road investments?
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
What "counter narrative"? Are ministers getting into the replies every time WesternDionususEnthroned✓ sharts out another 36-tweet thread on Great Replacement and the Jews, or do they just crosspost some anodyne bollocks about road investments?
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Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.
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BBC Three haven’t even scheduled this on their main channel in the next two weeks.
What is going on??
What is going on??
Found out thanks to Cookdandbombd that there's a new series 'just dropped' of Things You Should Have Done, with reportedly absolutely zero BBC promotion. I really enjoyed the first series, it had an inspired level of daft to it. Anyway, it's here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Things You Should Have Done
Get a job! Pay the bills! Clueless Chi is forced to fend for herself when her parents die. To get her inheritance, the ultimate stay-at-home daughter has to step it up.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 10:31 PM
BBC Three haven’t even scheduled this on their main channel in the next two weeks.
What is going on??
What is going on??
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French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.
January 3, 2026 at 3:02 PM
French Foreign Ministry: “The removal of Maduro from power and the violation of sovereignty constitute a serious act of aggression against the dignity of the Venezuelan people and their right to determine their own future.
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I also got duped into reading this story on the Mirror, and it's not even "news" as all three things (Commonwealth Games moving to TNT; Boat Race moving to Channel 4; Eurosport is dead and their stuff is on TNT now) are old stories.
Headline from @manchestereveningnews.co.uk reads "BBC loses rights to two historic sport events as Wimbledon moves to new TV channel in 2026". But neither of the events is Wimbledon, and the "new channel" is just TNT now showing tennis highlights because the Eurosports brand has been dropped.
January 3, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I also got duped into reading this story on the Mirror, and it's not even "news" as all three things (Commonwealth Games moving to TNT; Boat Race moving to Channel 4; Eurosport is dead and their stuff is on TNT now) are old stories.
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Headline from @manchestereveningnews.co.uk reads "BBC loses rights to two historic sport events as Wimbledon moves to new TV channel in 2026". But neither of the events is Wimbledon, and the "new channel" is just TNT now showing tennis highlights because the Eurosports brand has been dropped.
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Headline from @manchestereveningnews.co.uk reads "BBC loses rights to two historic sport events as Wimbledon moves to new TV channel in 2026". But neither of the events is Wimbledon, and the "new channel" is just TNT now showing tennis highlights because the Eurosports brand has been dropped.
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Non-Western countries will laugh, rightfully so, at the EU for its double speech: when it is Russian imperialism, the EU fights back, when it is US imperialism, the EU calls for “restraint” and “monitors the situation”
The EU is burning a massive opportunity to act as the leader of the free world
The EU is burning a massive opportunity to act as the leader of the free world
January 3, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Non-Western countries will laugh, rightfully so, at the EU for its double speech: when it is Russian imperialism, the EU fights back, when it is US imperialism, the EU calls for “restraint” and “monitors the situation”
The EU is burning a massive opportunity to act as the leader of the free world
The EU is burning a massive opportunity to act as the leader of the free world
BBC out there interviewing the least impartial people you could imagine.
“This hasn’t been forced by violence.”
Oh aye? Munitions and capture sound pretty non-violent…
“This hasn’t been forced by violence.”
Oh aye? Munitions and capture sound pretty non-violent…
January 3, 2026 at 11:17 AM
BBC out there interviewing the least impartial people you could imagine.
“This hasn’t been forced by violence.”
Oh aye? Munitions and capture sound pretty non-violent…
“This hasn’t been forced by violence.”
Oh aye? Munitions and capture sound pretty non-violent…
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You don’t have to caveat your condemnation of blatant disregard for international law with your negative opinion about Maduro. Indeed, it’s better if you don’t.
January 3, 2026 at 11:03 AM
You don’t have to caveat your condemnation of blatant disregard for international law with your negative opinion about Maduro. Indeed, it’s better if you don’t.