Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

Hello Professor Falken I am using Grok to control my nuclear arsenal. (lots of drama) How about a nice game of chess.

Detail of the engineering behind the Oxford Botley Road rail bridge including the 130(!) meter brick arch. www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/deliv...

These could legitimately have been sold in the Rome branch of IKEA.

We are retired Harvard Business School professors who have devoted our lives to business education. We ask that the leaders of the business world in the United States — some of whom it has been our privilege to teach — speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough. Or Cuba. But it doesn't rhyme.

The enemy in this case being truth.

It's like one of those admissions questions at university where you think they're asking something really clever. But they're actually asking 'what is inflation'.

And your supply, which you have wish’d so long, Are cast away, and sunk on Goodwin Sands.

Using the private jet, I assume.

this is NUTS. sorry to keep fan-girling, but the level of reporting is just exceptional.

I do wonder if the Government (and the Labour party) *still* thinks that what it sees on X represents the views of the British population.

Did Grok write this.

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

What is happening in US politics is awful, but in some way guards as a vision of what could be to come if we vote for authoritarian ideas in the general election.

It's important to remember that, all along when Donald Trump or Nigel Farage and their ilk say they want "to change politics for good" they don't mean that in a positive way. It's more in the way that a serious head injury can change your personality for good.

Would pair very nicely with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Having imported its own ideas for a DOGE and ICE from the US, Farage’s party now appears to be copying the Trumpian tactics of alleging vote-rigging in elections bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/r...

Sound familiar? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

Are we sure Labour Spin isn't being outsourced to Grok.

This from a month ago - stuck me at the time as a very positive message.

I think the words you were looking for were "Congratulations to the winning candidate on their victory, we will obviously reflect on the result and what we can do to increase our support in the future"

Closing the libraries kind of makes sense if the plan is to get everyone reliant on AI so that people no longer have the capacity to think critically. www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

Superb.

Media group... OK, Truth Social... fine. Divest. Surprise but OK... Major player in... Some media thing? Nope, NUCLEAR ENERGY. Suppose they're going to requisition Los Alamos or something.

One way of interpreting this statement is that the *keeping* fighting for voters is sustained, but the ' *and* fighting against extremes in politics on right and left' is new.

Doesn't seem ideal.

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening? This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

Chart from the Guardian article on UK flood risk. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

note how the Tories and Libs Dems weren’t even on the pitch in Gorton

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…

Beaten by... a plumber... the Establishment candidate.

Hmm.

1.9% for the opposition party is very very low.

The Green Party Has Just Increased the Plumber Shortage for Hard-Working Northern Families. Should They Be Held to Account? - all papers

G&D was the lowest vote share in a by election for the Conservatives since the 1918 Reform Act.

So the Telegraph is taking this well

The Mancunian candidate. Unlike the Manchurian candidate. And actually useful.

my mum lives in Gorton and Denton and funnily enough you could predict this result simply by looking at my tweets about her political feelings over the last year.

Anyone anti-Reform can be spun in their eyes as the Establishment candidate. Bit like the Manchurian candidate, but actually useful.

This is an amazing write up of the by-election. Because it doesn't mention *at all* how Reform did not live up to (some) expectations. It's purely angled against Labour. Not highlighting the Green win. Not highlighting the Reform loss. Not, in other words, fair. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

Hope, like Obama's campaign. That's what's needed.

A very good speech. Also worth noting the Reform candidate being unable to give her the courtesy of listening.

There you have it, Reform determined to inflict maximum damage on our democracy at every opportunity.

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It makes you want to go to New York and start again as a preschooler.

Trump’s own bank regulator is reviewing the Trump family's application to form a crypto bank. A company tied to the UAE’s top spy is a co-owner. The public deserves transparency, so I asked to see the unredacted application. Here's his response: