Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from
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Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from
I think we need people to start listening to new experts that said this many years ago
Okay, so I am definitely going to have to go freelance, at least for a while. So, if anyone has any advice on actually building up and finding freelance policy and comms works, including providing media and advocacy training, campaign planning and strategy please let me know.
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
Screenshot with the words: Ms Mahmood told an event in Westminster on Thursday that the Home Office will launch a consultation on how to remove families with children legally, including considering how force can be used against children. If the pilot is successful, the government will extend it to all failed asylum seeker families.
"Children may be forcibly removed...in handcuffs..."
Appalling from the Home Secretary. UK Labour has learnt nothing from the embarrassing defeat in Gorton & Denton.
Pandering to the right does not work. It only makes life worse for everyone.
Abolish the Home Office!
www.theguardian.com/...
Also: North Korean levels of propaganda and deference for the royal family
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists.
STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
I shared this list with a Labour MP who was hypocritically celebrating Southampton's LGBT+ community while doing nothing to oppose his government's anti-LGBT+ record.
He said that he would not respond to "ludicrous, exaggerated hyperbole".
And they wonder why LGBT+ people loathe and detest them.
This government is hideous. It doesn't need any analysis or deep dives to know that this is a fundamentally cruel and inhumane policy idea and no different to that pushed by the likes of Reform or Trump.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
Side by side comparison of two news articles: a recent one about Shabana Mahmood announcing that asylum seeker families will be paid up to £40k to leave the UK within 7 days, and one from 2010 about Nick Griffin announcing that the BNP would offer non-white Britons £50k to leave the UK.
This says it all really.
I hope my MP @laboursatvir.bsky.social is standing up to these monstrous policies being put forward by her government.
I still can’t believe Joani Reid’s husband is an alleged Chinese spy and an Alba plant snuck into the number one spot on the Labour Lothian list and Anas Sarwar tried and failed to coup Starmer. What a month for the Scottish Labour Party.
“Eat up your diet fascism like a good boy or the bad men will come and force-feed you full-fat fascism” - Shabana Mahmood
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Interesting, subtle difference between these attacks Mahmood put out today. Against Reform it's "unless we address these concerns, people will vote for them" but against the Greens it's just "their policies are bad". People who support Green policies are not a group that needs to be appeased.
✅ Wilfully lying about people seeking asylum and other migrants
✅Framing migrants as criminals or a "burden.
✅Inflammatory rhetoric
✅Increased deportations
✅Deporting children
✅Targeting specific nationalities
Etc etc
Labour is absolutely copying Trump
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I'm dismayed by rumours govt may scrap the windfall tax on oil and gas giants
With energy bills still driving cost of living pressures, it's senseless to cut taxes for highly profitable polluters, who already receive £2.7bn per year in tax breaks
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour is dead, Nadia. Join the Greens.
Not for the first time, see also denial of citizenship for refugees based on manner of entry for example, Labour appears to have forgotten that Article 34 of the Refugee Convention exists. It very explicitly was the intention of the framers that refugee protection would lead to naturalisation.
These people really don't get that it's not a comms issue, there isn't a secret combination of words that'll turn things around. It's that everyone has noticed they're not just terrible people, but terrible at governing too.
They're doing the "comms issue" thing again. A friend was at a NYE party with a load of people who work for Labour and they kept talking about "comms issues" like that's the problem. My friend mentioned he was really liking Zack Polanski and got a sharp "I've met him, he's weird" back hahahaha
Labour MP on social media the next day: “We got an extra £5 in government funding to repaint postboxes in my constituency. That’s the difference a Labour government makes!!”
Starmer: “We are going to kill every first-born child.”
Normal person: “That’s horrible!”
Labour activist: “Oh, so I suppose you want Reform to win!”
Tehran is 2/3 the size of London in terms of population.
Real privilege to speak at the launch of Trans Actual recent report.
Absolute solidarity with the trans community and everyone working so hard for a better future for trans and non binary people. 🌈🏳️⚧️
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Joani Reid who suggested Corbyn was a Russian asset despite zero evidence? Her husband? Ah fuck, she's gonna be LIVID.
metro.co.uk/2026/03/04/l...
YOUR JOB IS TO PICK THE MOST AWFUL ACTOR POSSIBLE TO PLAY JAMES BOND. GO! Ricky Gervais.
Man you want to participate in something and then someone gives an answer so objectively correct that there’s no point adding onto it
Your government's policies on asylum are monstrous, reprehensible, inhumane. They are worse than anything the Tories ever did. They will cause suffering and harm to many people. You MUST know that. WHAT are you doing to oppose them? HOW can you continue to support a government that is doing such evil things? WHERE is your conscience?
Wrote to my MP @laboursatvir.bsky.social
I don't believe she supports this evil being done in her name. But will she or other Labour MPs do anything to actually oppose it? I guess we will have to see.
