Malcolm Quinn

‘In Greek and Roman mythology, the underworld could be accessed by both land and sea.’ Duncan Fyfe @ftweekend.com The era of cheap flights was yet to come.

Marina Hyde: ‘Pressed on this data indicating that wedged halfway up Trump’s colon is not actually where the British public wants to be, Nigel Farage told reporters curtly: “I don’t follow public opinion.”’ Poor old Nigel, caught between what the public reject and what his backers want delivered.

🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet.

The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company.

The irony is spectacular.

Foucault Resources A list of the resources on this site relating to Foucault – bibliographies, audio and video files, some textual comparisons, some short translations, etc. For details of English translations …

Much more extensive research resources on Foucault are listed here - progressivegeographies.com/resources/fo... - bibliographies, textual comparisons, audio and video links, etc.

A fascinating insight into Gwen John’s artistic process.

The balcony at the Battersea Arts Centre lit in pink.

My wife has gone to see some performances delivered from the balcony outside the Battersea Arts Centre. Vox populi, vox Dei.

A fascinating insight into Gwen John’s artistic process.

Remember when words communicated concepts which could be combined to express ideas? Those were the days. I miss language.

Indonesia suspends its participation in Board of Peace

“Indonesian FM Sugiono said the decision to suspend participation was taken because of the latest military escalation in the region, which has directly affected the foreign policy priorities of countries involved in the initiative”

‘It was Trump who said our troops hadn’t done much in Afghanistan. It was Trump who threatened to invade the territory of a sovereign NATO ally and who has repeatedly threatened to shatter the alliance.’

The balcony at the Battersea Arts Centre lit in pink.

My wife has gone to see some performances delivered from the balcony outside the Battersea Arts Centre. Vox populi, vox Dei.

NHS takes the financial stress and trauma out of health care, not perfect but blows the US system out of the water any day

A person and an LLM could both defend themselves in a war crimes tribunal. At the end of the trial, you could pass judgement on the person because they are one of a species. No such luck with the LLM.

‘Like the inaugural winner Johnson, architects love dictators; despite their left-ish rhetoric they genuflect before autocracies. Planning is easier in a dictatorship.’

Yesterday, I had an eye test. The optician said that she wanted to check out a possible hole in my retina and that I should go to the eye hospital the same day. I went, had more tests, and luckily there is no problem. None of this cost me a penny. The only admin was her letter to the hospital. #NHS

Why not join a war in which Trump wants to appoint the next leader of Iran?

As Ian Kershaw said of Nazism: ‘escalating radicalisation around heroic, chimeric goals’

Yikes! At least I got a very definite 'no worries' from the eye hospital

I don't think we disagree, except to say that an LLM would defend itself in court in the same way as a person would, by using ordinary language. However, the LLM would have read a lot more books.

A person and an LLM could both defend themselves in a war crimes tribunal. At the end of the trial, you could pass judgement on the person because they are one of a species. No such luck with the LLM.

This is burying accountability, not avoiding it.

I was referring to @peterjukes.bsky.social comment that we not dealing with intelligence. It’s difficult to see how AI arrives at decisions, thus a rhetoric that it has reasoning abilities of which we know nothing etc. This approach is already used for life and death decisions on medical insurance.

A good way to bury accountability tho.

Mi chiederai tu, morto disadorno, d'abbandonare questa disperata passione di essere nel mondo? Would you, in death unadorned, have me abandon my desperate passion for being in the world?

being in the world

Pier Paolo Pasolini, from ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’, tr Stephen Sartarellli

This is what Badenoch, Farage, the Murdoch press, and Paul Marshall's stable of GB News weirdos want us to get behind, and you know what I'm good, thanks...

No oil tankers have passed through the Strait of Hormuz in the last 24 hours, Bloomberg reports.

‘Brexit means Brexit’ reminds me of the most self-destructive political slogan I’ve ever heard- in Singapore.
‘Don’t Oppose for the Sake of Opposing’ became the mantra in one GE when, as always, the ruling party/family gained all but a handful of seats.
I still can’t get my head around it.

‘Like the inaugural winner Johnson, architects love dictators; despite their left-ish rhetoric they genuflect before autocracies. Planning is easier in a dictatorship.’

"Maybe the Pritzker delay says exactly what we need right now" With the Pritzker Architecture Prize in potential jeopardy over its patron's links to Jeffrey Epstein, Edwin Heathcote reflects on the award's relevance in 2026.

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