Steve Burrows

Yes Nanny. I don't care how well-intentioned this is, it's the wrong approach both ethically and practically. It will not achieve its stated aims, it will alienate large swathes of the population, and it will harm, demean and disadvantage the UK. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…

@unherd @arisroussinos Good piece @arisroussinos. Personally I'm suspecting this tragedy will have pushed back reunification by a significant number of years: sadly in some minds the border will start to feel more like a barricade against the menace of the EU than a barrier to Irish integration.

Belfast after the 'beheading', by Aris Roussinos (@arisroussinos) The nightmare scenario for Sinn Féin would have been Catholics rioting against immigrants. That did not happen: instead, working-class Catholics merely turned out to watch their Protestant neighbours riot with an anthropological detachment newly devoid of open contempt. I have never until now heard working-class Catholics, from devoutly Republican areas, talking about the coming together of the ‘Orange and the Green’ with anything other than derision. At Ardoyne Roundabout, one of North Belfast’s most volatile sectarian interface areas, protestors from both communities shook hands and declared amity in scenes that were genuinely startling. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/pZILUkj

Awful. Exactly why @UKLabour One-in One-out scheme is so evil - it encourages wannabe illegal immigrants into the hands of traffickers. To defund and halt this exploitation UK needs to state clearly that _all_ illegal arrivals will be summarily deported. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@MerrynSW Successful policy. Labour wants fewer people to be privately educated, it has had a downer on private education for decades. It is achieving that goal - and doesn't care about the consequences!

Want less of something? Tax it. How many more examples of this does this government of twits need?

As one who despises both Blair's and Starmer's govt's for the huge damage they've done to the UK, I want to recognise and praise @alanmilburn1958 for the frank content of your "Young people and work: interim report". You've exposed real harm caused by socialist dogma. Thank you.

A @UKLabour minister, and ex-minister, doing something useful. 👏 The problem is not our young, it's the government, unions, employment regs & taxes. Just as business leaders have been saying for years: greedy politicians have directly caused these harms. bbc.co.uk/news/live/clyp…

Shocked and disgusted by this. Whilst I think we all recognise that social media can negatively impact our children, control of this is the responsibility of parents. Abdication to the "Nanny State" has already broken UK society and should be reversed. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Reality is that headline is the Net Increase, 'cos over 800,000 came to the UK last year, while 642,000 gave up and left - and who can blame them? Six decades of mad, bad policy across both Conservative and Labour gov'ts disadvantaging UK-born youngsters. It needs fixing.

Hey @10DowningStreet, relaxing sanctions on Russian oil 'cos you're not prepared to defend UK interests by helping force Iran to respect "Freedom of Navigation" is immoral, unethical and intrinsically corrupt appeasement. Typical of you; soft on evil, turn a blind eye. 🙈🤬

@PaulCli68311802 @BBC Probably not, but the BBC has become a woke propaganda engine, "progressively" disenfranchising an increasing proportion of the population (and contributing to the destabilising and divisive de-normalisation of British society). Unless it changes audiences will fall further.

@2of @BBC Somehow I don’t think purging the BBC of drag queens is at the top of his agenda…

Hard times for the @BBC. My advice for Matt Brittin; "De-woke or go broke". Huge opportunity to fix Auntie, but will need to be very unpopular with staff. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Got to laugh at this Labour leadership farce. Reality is that @Keir_Starmer, worst PM the UK has had in my lifetime, is the best that Labour has to offer. The only way that the UK moves forward is by ditching corrupt self-serving @UKLabour forever. bbc.co.uk/news/live/crlp…

@Mark1957 🤣

A Blairite, a Brownite, a Corbynite and a Starmerite walk into a bar The barman asks: “What are you having, Andy?”

@r0ck3t23 Some truth in this.... but do humans have the brains to cope with the opportunity jobs of the future? Personally, I'm dubious!

Jeff Bezos asked a room to imagine going back a hundred years. When almost everyone was a farmer. And telling those farmers that in 2018 there’d be a job called “massage therapist.” Bezos: “They would not have believed you.” Then a friend took it further. Bezos: “Forget massage therapist, there are dog psychiatrists.” He looked it up. Bezos: “Sure enough, you can easily hire a psychiatrist for your dog.” The room laughed. The point under the laughter wasn’t funny at all. Every time a major technology shift hits, we do the exact same thing. We count the jobs it will destroy. We never count the ones it will create. Because we can’t. They don’t have names yet. The fear is always specific. AI will replace accountants. AI will replace radiologists. AI will replace drivers. The fear has job titles and timelines and projections. The opportunity has none of those things. Because you can’t name what doesn’t exist yet. A farmer in 1920 could understand losing his job to a tractor. He could not understand gaining a career as a social media strategist. Not because he lacked intelligence. Because the entire chain of inventions between his world and that job hadn’t been built yet. Radio. Television. The internet. Smartphones. Social platforms. Creator economies. Every single link in that chain had to exist before “social media strategist” could even be a sentence. That’s where we are with AI right now. Everyone is staring at the tractor. Nobody can see the thing seven inventions away that doesn’t have a name yet. The fear is loud because it fits inside language we already have. The opportunity is silent because it doesn’t. Every technological revolution in history created more jobs than it destroyed. Every single one. Not because anyone planned it. Because human needs expand faster than machines can fill them. We didn’t need massage therapists when we were breaking our backs on farms. We needed them after machines freed our backs and stress replaced labor. The demand didn’t disappear. It migrated somewhere no one was looking. That is exactly what’s happening right now. The jobs AI creates won’t make sense to us yet. They’ll sound as absurd as “dog psychiatrist” would’ve sounded to a farmer in 1920. Until someone is running a $200 hourly practice with a six-month waitlist. The entire conversation right now is about what we’re about to lose. Nobody is talking about what we’re about to gain. Because the gains don’t have vocabulary yet. A hundred years from now, someone will stand on a stage and describe the jobs we couldn’t imagine today. And the audience will laugh. The same way we just did.

@bt_uk @bt_uk Regrettably, as a rural dweller, I am quite often out of mobile / SMS reception. Are you able to implement a _proper_ 2FA mechanism such as Google et. al. Authenticator rolling codes - this mechanism is used by many inc. UK Gov't HMRC to authenticate users!

I understand Steve, the security of your data is our top priority. To keep your information safe from evolving online threats, we have introduced Two-Factor Authentication for all My BT accounts. This extra layer of protection confirms it’s really you logging in, making it much harder for anyone else to access your account. As keeping your data safe is so important, this new security step is now mandatory to access My BT.

Hey @bt_uk can you please report this scammer account to @X - more likely to take it down if you complain to them!

@bt_uk Well done. Now can you please sort out the "how to turn off 2FA in My BT" issue I raised with you yesterday? Ta!

@2of Hi Steve, thanks for sharing - I've gone ahead and done this now as you're right that it isn't a genuine BT account.

@bt_uk Tried that via BT website.. but it only permits me to change / update the mobile number used for 2FA texts, it does not permit me to turn off 2FA. And I'm not going to try to solve this over the 'phone 'cos I'm very hard of hearing, I expect, rightly, web services to work!

Hi, Steve. For step-by-step instructions on disabling 2FA, please click the link to our community page below.👇 community.bt.com/t5/General-ema… If you have any difficulty, please contact our technical team on 150 from your BT mobile or 0330 1234 150 from any other line. We will be happy to investigate the problem.

@bt_uk you have forced 2-factor authentication on to my My_BT account without my consent. Your website says it is optional and I can switch it off, but there does not appear to be a facility to do so. How do I turn this unwanted 2FA off? bt.com/help/security/…