el Matto Hardingo @mattharding1982

A bank we work with uses an AI tool to screen every resume that comes in. Here's how it works. We send them a candidate. Their internal recruiter runs the resume through the tool. If it scores an 8/10 or higher, the candidate gets an interview. Anything below that, auto rejected. We sent them a candidate a few weeks ago for a Python Developer role. She just ended a project for us at a competing bank with excellent references. The skills they actually needed for the role? Python, FastAPI, SQL. She had all three, used daily in her last job. The tool scored her a 7.5. Rejected. We pushed back and asked why. Turns out the job description had everything and the kitchen sink listed. Fifteen skills, half of them "nice to haves" that had nothing to do with the actual work. The AI weighted all of them equally and her score got dragged down by gaps that didn't matter. We pushed back on the internal recruiter citing she had the main skills + excellent references. We got her the interview and she got the offer. This is where internal recruiting teams are headed. AI tools layered on top of ATS systems, scoring candidates before a human ever reads the resume. In theory it saves time. In practice, it rejects qualified people because nobody bothered to write a clean job description. The tool isn't the problem, the inputs are. If your JD is a wish list instead of a job description, your AI is going to reject the exact people you're trying to hire. We're early in this. The tech will get better. But right now, a lot of great candidates are getting filtered out for reasons that have nothing to do with whether they can do the job.

Resignation from the League at the End of the 2025/26 Season pitchero.com/clubs/hillingd…

£300 more on your energy bill, because of a war in the Middle East. Britain is sitting on its own oil in the North Sea, and choosing not to use it. Norway did the opposite. They went all in, built a sovereign wealth fund, and now sit on over a trillion in assets. We have the same opportunity. Drill. Invest. Build our own energy future.

GB News @GBNEWS

6 months ago

BREAKING NEWS: Energy bills to SKYROCKET by £300 this summer as US-Iran war causes market 'disruption' gbnews.com/money/energy-b…

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The “Everyone is 12 now” theory truly is foundational for our times.

William Turton @WilliamTurton

6 months ago

A source sent me this photo of Kash Patel’s customized Nike’s. The shoes feature a number 9 (Patel is the 9th FBI director), a Punisher skull (a vigilante killer from Marvel Comics), and his personal logo (K$H). The backs of the shoes show the FBI motto: "Fidelity, Bravery,

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Dirty Business on @Channel4. Brilliantly made, devastating. Water must be nationalised now. The owners of the private water companies jailed.

@90s_writer Still got mine!

Prince Andrew uses his one phone call to call Babestation.

‘I can’t be bought’ My brother in Christ, I watched you scream big chungus and Up the RA into your phone camera for a fiver 😭

Nigel Farage @Nigel_Farage

7 months ago

I can’t be bullied. I can’t be bought. I’ve stood for the same principles for many decades.

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He has done it 3 winter windows in a row. Useless.

B. @InvertTheWing

2 years ago

Dear Johan Lange, It is the 22nd of January, the club is facing the worst injury crisis in its history, and is in a relegation battle, but is still in the midst to end its trophy drought. As the technical director, you have signed 0 outfield players, despite knowing about this

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ENIC get away with it because they haven't been as overt as the Glazers. Since they've owned Spurs: - Averaged 47% wage to revenue ratio (the lowest in the PL) which boosts cash generated from operations to then spend on infrastructure. - Of that cash we've generated from operations, only spent 37% of this on transfers (net) - again by far, the lowest in the league. We are the only PL club who has spent more of its own cash on infrastructure than transfers. Arsenal who also built a stadium (and have actually paid it off) have spent 61% over that same 24 years. Average cash spend on transfers for the PL over the last 10 years (excl Spurs) is 138% of the cash they generate. - Lowest average ownership investment of any current PL ownership excl. the Glazers (the Club's own cash spent on infrastructure far outweighs ENIC's own contribution). - ENIC then walk away as a huge beneficiary when they sell with one of the highest ever investment returns in the game, whilst completely leveraging the club (both by stripping its own cash out and leaving it with c. £800m debt). Their priority has always been growing their return with as little on-pitch focus as possible. Change.

Harlan Coben has done it again. Another 8 episodes of complete shite. And I fell for it, again. TV for people who buy Joe Wicks’ cookbook.

🚨BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer abandons plans for mandatory Digital ID.

I want to thank every MP who put aside any political differences and signed my open letter to Starmer opposing Digital ID. A strong campaign in and out of Parliament has won. Mandatory Digital ID is dead. This is Parliament and politics at its best. We can win.

Got to that stage of Christmas drinking where you're not getting any steaminger just your face goes red.

Wholesale UK Electricity is 35% cheaper than the same period in 2024, Gas is 28% cheaper. What about YOUR bills?

Say all you want but we are watching the long shadow of Daniel Levy’s endless austerity unfolding before our eyes. I’d have setup like this too, but we just don’t have the players. Most players we signed in the last 20 years were good deals from money strapped clubs or gambles, Arsenal went and spent £100m to fix a midfield problem and ditched their keeper Ramsdale when Levy would have kept him. Zero desire to actually compete from the top. Huge 2 transfer windows ahead for the Lewis family.

You grab a sandwich on your lunch break, BEEP. ‘You’ve exceeded your carbon allowance for today.’ You better starve today because some billionaire in a private jet decided your sandwich is killing the planet. You’ll be skipping meals to save your carbon score and they’ll be flying private to Davos, eating steak and laughing at you for complying. Digital ID will bring in a system like this, where you will be limiting how many showers you can have and how much meat you can eat. Where does it end?

Today we’ve heard that out of the G7, price rises look to be the biggest in the UK and that wages slowed again over the summer.  As a result people are getting poorer. The government must act to materially improve the lives of everyone not just those at the top.

🇵🇱 My @thetimes column: Poland’s economic miracle 12 out of 17 Polish regions are now richer than West Wales. It has faster internet, cheaper electricity and more high speed rail than Britain When it comes to regional development it’s the UK, not Poland, that needs to catch up