I think what fascinates me is that this is an attempt to outsource the actual human connection bit to an AI

In a sane media culture, this would be the end of him.

I've written in The MJ with Patrick Diamond about London devolution. Stronger governance and more fiscal autonomy are important enablers to get London motoring, alongside more muscle to build infrastructure and homes: www.themj.co.uk/stronger-dev...

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

@edwardluce.bsky.social is always worth reading www.ft.com/content/a284...

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

Why would any woman listen to Donald Trump, let alone when pregnant? The ‘man’ who would cheerfully let you die from an ectopic pregnancy? The sum of everything your mother ever warned you about? A dear friend to Epstein. You’d get kinder and better advice from a three-year old 🌻🧸

🚨🚨"If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it," "You have been warned." @radek-sikorski.bsky.social to #kremlin. www.politico.eu/article/rado...

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...

It's so strange to me how the absolutely core question at the heart of politics - "what kind of society do we want to live in?" - is so absent from discussion, either assumed settled or reduced to meaningless generalities.

Editor to subs: cut 'highly contentious' and replace with 'batshit crazy'.

breaking from me: the trump administration just suffered its first major loss in court over its onslaught on offshore wind the revolution wind project can now resume construction after a federal judge found its developer orsted was likely to win against the trump order to stop work @heatmap.news

It is highly unusual for America to stand behind another country’s currency in the way it has intervened on the peso. We explain why it has done so

Tomorrow night will be Jimmy Kimmel's most watched show in history - and MAGA are inadvertently responsible for that. But most importantly, Kimmel's First Amendment rights triumphed because of public pressure against Disney. Civic resistance matters. It delivers results. Keep it up, America.

This is the way

That's a LOT of current/former Disney talent. @thr.com $DIS www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

Poland will shoot down objects violating its airspace, prime minister says

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"The moment our countries build a common view at the strategic level, it will ease cooperation on precise operational objectives" @joeguiffard.bsky.social and Calvin Bailey MP argue for closer security cooperation between France & the UK to face the threat from Russia ukandeu.ac.uk/franco-briti...

The second extract about my book proposal - a super helicopter view of it... Whilst I am pushing it out to literary agencies to get an agent I figured I should share it with my public Your comments, critiques, contributions all gratefully accepted... digitalpolicy.substack.com/p/what-this-...

People get in a tizzy about whether to use legal or practical or moral arguments, to deploy reason or emotion, data or storytelling. The answer is: everything. Let him have it.

Things are feeling bleak right now, so it's worth sharing how California, the world's 4th largest economy, is doubling down on offshore floating wind.

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

The idea of mass deportation of people who had legally migrated into a country used to be a clear indicator for not only far-right, but far-right extremist policies. This says a lot on both how far Reform has radicalised, and how these kind of ideas are becoming normalised in Western democracies.

An important read. We continue to conduct research on various types of risk and insurance coverage.

the requirements to succeed on new media platforms are almost precisely the opposite of what successful experts… have trained themselves to do: maintain an institutional tone of formal detachment & stay ruthlessly on-message at all times.’ @noupside.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

All reminiscent of liberals’ paralysis pre-2016. Complacency + dismissive contempt for Farage + dislike of incumbents + embarrassment in defending the status quo.

Especially the Ministerial Code: they’re looking forward to being the paid brokers for the most damaging and useless corporate interests in the U.K. and beyond. That’s the goal here, and the racism, misogyny and homophobia are just the ticket to ride if we’re desperate and hateful enough to buy it.

Reform’s new position on indefinite leave to remain is even more extremist than Donald Trump’s crackdown on US immigration. If any of Reform’s political opponents fancied saying they publicly, that might be nice. Handily, it’s even true.

Correction: it is backing lobbyists against scientists, and every time this happens it worsens our future. The blockers are the powerful interests vested in the old economy, and we need governments who understand that this is not the twentieth century any more. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time? This is why:

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Our emissions and other ways of trashing the planet don't just jeopardise the future of humanity but also that of most of life on earth as we know it. And all the other species are totally innocent!

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

We have a unitary executive in which the president makes all the decisions, especially those about which he has never even been informed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Asked by Newsweek whether she thought Tommy Robinson had been "unfairly demonised", Liz Truss says: “Yes, I do.” A Conservative Party serious about ever regaining power would have slung her out long ago. www.newsweek.com/liz-truss-br...

Real "I saw Lord Hermes dancing with the devil at the crossroads" energy. The whole report is that a lawyer, then in private practice, gave free advice to a charity regarding the law. And if anyone avoided deportation as a result? That would be because they were legally entitled not to be deported.

Between the racism, the fossil fuel destruction, the anti-vaxing and the development-killing corruption, the scientific analysis of Trumpism is that it’s 💯garbage…

Fascinating to read a piece demanding further marketisation to solve the escalating crisis caused by previous rounds of marketisation which never quite grasps how the strategic function of specific institutions can force governments into panicked nationalisation rather than Schumpeterian destruction

And yet, the EFH defines our current regulation of climate related financial risk. Apparently mandatory disclosures for climate related financial risks will let financial markets converge on the correct pricing of that risk: essentially the semi-strong version of the EMH… And yet it won’t. It can’t.

and a retired meteorologist shall lead us

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

I confess I become increasingly irritated with Brits who inform me in what kind of deep trouble my country is in, and how blind we are supposedly to this, at a time when right wing nationalism is surging in Britain and NATO is hanging by a thread. My Friends. We are in the same boat.

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

The maximisation of shareholder value has long been hollowing out the US economy and now it’s eating its democracy…

Endless grift