Mancunian Candidate. Rock over London, Rock on Chicago.
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Kite-flying exercise to see whether Burnham can sell what Starmer couldn't.
EXCL: Downing Street is considering whether plans to replace key disability benefits for the under-25s with work and training should be expanded to older age groups, the Guardian has learned, in a move that risks reigniting Labour tensions over welfare changes.
The PM and other cabinet ministers are looking at applying the idea of βparticipation firstβ to all working ages, meaning spending billions more on support to enter the workplace while cutting or removing some disability benefits.
The move would be a risky political one given the difficulties that Keir Starmer faced with getting changes to health and disability benefits past the Labour parliamentary party last year, with a rebellion leading to a major U-turn.
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The UK establishment are currently oscillating between "we need to put spyware on your phone right now or you're a paedo" and sheepishly looking at the floor and pretending they had no idea X politician or Y light entertainment personality was a sexual predator.
That's why I'm backing @ijm and @jessphillips in urging the Government to extend device-level safeguards to detect and block child sexual abuse material β including live-streamed exploitation β on all devices.
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What's the betting Euan Blair has invented an app that uses ai to do all this and only needs root access to your phone in order to function
That's why I'm backing @ijm and @jessphillips in urging the Government to extend device-level safeguards to detect and block child sexual abuse material β including live-streamed exploitation β on all devices.
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Gaza had over 2 million olive trees until 2023.
About 150,000 remain.
Genocide is not only about killing. It also entails intentionally destroying the conditions of a people's existence and inflicting severe mental harm upon them.
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Every scaremongering campaign about people faking is designed to attack the genuine cases. It was true of asylum seekers, it was true of trans people, it's true of disabled people.
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We had a more robust social safety net under Thatcher simply because her ideological children hadn't come along to give the neoliberal project another 35 years of hacking pieces off and giving it to the private sector to feast on.
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We haven't done anything BUT crude cuts for the last 45 years.
βUltimately I think there isn't an alternative to crude cuts.β
The government wonβt win the argument on welfare reform until the public realise βwe're in an emergency in terms of our public financesβ, says Daniel Finkelstein.
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Homicide and drug deaths spiking quite blatantly here from non-existent to substantial. Suicide also very high. Speaks to a prison service that has lost its grip even as the prison population should have become easier to manage
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Picked the absolute funniest time to do AI boosterism.
EXCLUSIVE:
Britain needs to embrace artificial intelligence and invest in data centres because it will offer the country a "productivity revolution" and bolster the wages of ordinary workers, the Chancellor has said
In an interview with The Times John Healey, the chancellor, said that artificial intelligence "is coming whether we like it or not" and that Britain needs to take "maximum advantage" of the opportunities it offers
He said that artificial intelligence has the potential to draw investment to Britain on a "big scale" and argued that Britain needs to develop its own "sovereign" artificial intelligence to bolster economic growth and national security
Healey believes that the improvement in productivity the technology brings will filter through to everyone. On Wednesday he discussed the artificial intelligence "revolution" with Kevin Warsh, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a visit to the UK. Andy Burnham, the prime minister, also briefly attended the meeting.
Healey said: "He [Warsh] believes we're on the edge of a productivity revolution and transformation with AI.
"We had a good discussion because he sees this as not just potentially bringing benefits to the super-rich and big tech, but already in the US, signs that it is increasing, raising the level of productivity, therefore the value and the wages of many ordinary workers. It may be that we're starting to see some of that in some of the detail of the growth figures today in Britain."
He added: "I think the signs are it's a revolution already underway. The challenge for policy makers and I think the change for investors the challenge for investors and business is how do we make the most of this for Britain, and in doing so reassure people about the steps we can help take against the risks that they quite rightly also feel and see."
Healey said that Britain can learn from the bitter debates over the "free for all" of new data centres in the US by ensuring that they have the support of communities. In the Budget he announced a new data centre βcovenantβ, which will require owners to invest in local communities, create jobs and protect water supplies in exchange for priority access to the national grid.
He said: βIt [artificial intelligence] is coming, whether we like it or not. Many people are already using it, I want to avoid the free-for-all on AI and data centres weβve seen in the states.
βSo where NHS health data is used with AI, I want that data in Britain, not in data centres abroad. Where AI is used for our security, I want that data in Britain, for Britain, not abroad. To do that, we have to develop more data centres. Iβm ready to back them if they provide the community benefits and can help build public trust.
βIf we havenβt got the independence, we havenβt got some of the control and sovereignty on our AI capacity in the UK, then we will find that we canβt provide the level of confidence, the level of security that I think people are rightly wanting, and we canβt make the most of the big economic opportunities that are there.β
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China is literally the only hope for the world. Nothing good is happening outside of China
The godfather of Taiwan's DRAM industry says China's CXMT will flood the market with memory products "in two years". π wccf.tech/1lioj
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πΉNEW VIDEO -- MI5 is Hiding the TRUTH About My Dadβs Murder
UK government lawyers have tried to block a public inquiry into the role of state agents in the unsolved murder of Sean Brown in Derry in 1997.
We spoke with Brown's family in London.
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a dying country killing off its young people to cater to the whims of pensioners
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First of all, the number of disabled people in the UK has not "doubled" since COVID. Nick Robinson is conflating changes in claims with the total disabled population.
Secondly, the elephant in the room is the curiously under-explored consequences of repeated COVID infections.
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βUnder international law, hospitals are afforded protected status but have been repeatedly attacked by Israelβ¦ the World Health Organisation has documented 1048 attacks on healthcare facilitiesβ¦β
The BBC now including this context reveals it was consciously omitting it before.
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Two Blairites laughing at how Burnham is conning the left. They have it wrong. Despite their cynicism we actually live in a hopeful country where people are willing to give a new leader a chance. That will soon come to an end.
Burnham makes leftwing gestures to avoid taking leftwing action β Janan Ganesh. Wish I'd written it ft.com/content/978493a9-7c1cβ¦
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Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza today, killing six people including a surgeon. The media still calls this a βceasefire.β
Would it be the same if an Israeli hospital was bombed?
The double standard isnβt an accident, itβs racism that treats Palestinian lives as disposable.
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Short term pain for long term gain that never materialises has been the argument of every government of my adult life
Anyone who thought the Milburn review would shrink from radicalism has just been proved wrong.
PIP and Universal Credit replaced for young people. The money moved into job support. More for those with the most severe conditions. Short-term pain for long-term gain, and he says so.
This is what our politics needs more of. Kudos to Alan and the team for taking the fight to the young NEETs crisis, one of the defining issues of our time. Tuesday's report looks like it has the answers.
Now we need the political will to turn review into reality.
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One from the archives
Jonathan Portes: "There's a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher"
If AI was any good I'd be able to tell it to send this tweet to everyone who said "At least they aren't the Tories", or "Well, they can't be any worse than the Tories" or similar bullshit in any election since they did deeper PFI and NHS selloffs than the Tories did in the 90s.
