What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
I found this very persuasive.
The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime.
And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.
Performative cruelty from a government that should know better and was voted in to do better
This party is considered credible opposition.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
LOLOL
Thoughtful and thought-provoking piece about AI in the classroom www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
Horrifying.
incredible, he did the joke
The first sentence is “Nigel Farage has sensationally claimed…”
I’m appalled by this from the Mail. Ugly, straightforward racism, and amplifying the spurious claim of its favoured candidate (even the Reform party chair said last week that any irregularities wouldn’t have changed the result).
Well, no, they’re not just as wrong. The bigger error is not seeing that “trying to win over voters from a party on the opposite end of the spectrum, whose values your core voters oppose” is not same as “chasing voters from party on same side ideologically whose values your core voters like.”
Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
Can't get over the horror of this story.
Extraordinary graph.
Sectarian.
The sheer contempt and entitlement in that word.
Thousands of Muslim voters just voted for a white, (I think) working class non-Muslim woman because they feel abandoned by Labour and agree with her views on a huge foreign policy issue and on immigration policy
If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.
I was at the count in Gorton and Denton last night and we all saw Matt Goodwin eat ballot papers. His girlfriend and team begged him to stop but he kept stuffing it into his mouth and making grunting sounds like the Cookie Monster
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.
Hmmmmmm.
You got to feel for Matt Goodwin.
Sorry missed a word. You got to feel contempt for Matt Goodwin.
Great thread.
What a photo
The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.
The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.
Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…
This is a great piece (written pre by-election result) that really gets to the heart of Labour’s vote haemorrhaging.
Sort of forgot that this whole thing was still going www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another lifetime!
Wow George, end of an era! Good luck with whatever is next.
Yes absolutely there would be. I remember reading Sam Knight's New Yorker piece about austerity a couple of years ago and being so infuriated that Osborne is just like "we won the argument! everyone's doign austerity now! we got everything right!" Made me want to punch a wall.
