"A wizard will do it" has been the UK Government's excuse for broadly doing nothing for the last 45 years, with increasingly desperate attempts to identify said wizard as the decades rolled on and everything got worse.

In U.K “the government’s sweeping ambitions to make Britain an AI superpower appear to be underpinned by minimal attention to what tradeoffs or resources might be required” Indeed, “it seems the (Labour) government did not even bother to audit the promised sums” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You really have to take a moment and think about how insane this is. That’s a quarter of the entire output of the country’s public infrastructure going to support about one hundred sites.

I like how vague this is about what it was that happened in the last decade, and why left wing people might have good reason to be suspicious and angry about anything coming from their supposed comrades. Sure, some stuff happened, but that’s all in the past now.

It'll work on the softer ones up until the point it becomes undeniable that Burnham's role is to just sell the same bullshit, but better. Then they'll either revert to pre-Burnhamania, or just double down because of sunk cost fallacy.

Burnhams first job as PM should be to open an investigation into how much free shit this prick took

The funniest about starmertroopers still fighting a lost battle is he was always incompetent, this is from 2011! Just take the L and admit you got conned into buying a lemon, you'll probably feel better

Getting in on the ground floor. Andy Burnham resign bitch

Really telling that of all the political analysis about the defeat of Keir Starmer, none addresses this at all. Yet, for a lot of people it really was one of the turning points of his short-lived premiership, and in a lot of cases it is *the thing* that they remember Starmer for

In those final moments he unflinchingly recited the shahada

STARMER DEAD (metaphorically)

if starmer is going to be remembered at all, and it's a big if, it should be for being a deeply authoritarian and nasty streak of piss who enthusiastically supported genocide overseas and worked tirelessly to make the lives of trans people worse all to appease a handful of brain rotted fascists

As we said years before he was ever near number ten: a bonnet ornament, a mascot, a balloon with a face painted on it. A stuffed shirt who was hired precisely to represent deeply malignant people, working unseen and offscreen.

Devoured by private equity. Bernard Matthews Body Shop Byron Burger Casual Dining Cath Kidson Claire’s Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Homebase Maplin Thousands of jobs lost, supply chains destroyed, creditors not paid, pension rights lost, taxes dodged. Yet govts venerate PE.

I think if a perception exists *among the people tied to the governing project* that power lies completely out of the hand of the highest ranking politician in the country, that something Interesting has happened and probably needs to be investigated.

One thing that really characterises Starmer and his supporters is that they're all looking for the guy in charge and act furious when you point out that it's the Prime Minister.

On the other hand, when Jennicet Gutiérrez asked Obama to end the abuse of trans women in ICE detention and stop all deportations, while at a White House Pride event in 2015, Obama mocked her to her face and she was thrown out and briefly detained.

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

this is the nastiest government of my life. the entire time i've been alive we haven't had worse than starmer's labour.

Infantino claims he can't do anything about Referees, players, journalists and fans being banned from the World Cup because in every country there are Governments. In 2023 Indonesia refused to let the Israeli U23 squad have visas FIFA instantly moved the tournament to Argentina

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

Not buying this at all. They couldn't be arsed to check the lad when he said he'd been stabbed. The footage is all there.

you cannot be serious

But you said AI was never sick :(

Twitter mentions are a fucking mess today because of Clarkson's Farm Fascists pretending a sweetheart deal on tax is a greater threat to farming than climate change, lol.

The BBC have invented Goodwin's Law: any political discussion programme must include a Nazi.

"You don't like data centers? Well, golf courses are bad for the environment too, so I guess we'll get rid of those too??"

are you taking the piss

Computer, show me the most Bluesky user with the worst fucking take possible

Privatisation of the NHS NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms. Private sector focused on profit, not service. Money buys less. Public purse depleted. NHS capacity not expanded. Why would it train staff? There is no public mandate for privatisation of the NHS.

One thing that keeps me going is remembering how deeply anti-human our opponents are on a fundamental level. Maybe what you make won't "make it" but at least it'll be made with a joy these people can't understand.

CBA doing this on Twitter after having Owen steam into my mentions on a two-day old throwaway post, but you've clearly not been blacklisted? You were on LBC a few weeks ago, Jeremy Vine on Channel 5 before that, and still have a weekly Guardian column alongside your own platform on YouTube.

Already as sick of Burnham as I am of Starmer. Get the Labour Party in the bin tbh.

"Labour, by implementing this policy, and for their earlier banning of gender affirming care for trans youth, are measurably more extreme on trans issues than the Republican party in the US."

Just doing the bad thing with a frowny face rather than a smiling one.

Well, he's certainly showing he's more than a match for Starmer in the "say nothing of substance but still manage to annoy everyone" stakes.

God I hate those libs who are still like "there's literally nothing Biden could've done to stop the genocide."

“Can I shock you? I actually love progressive, social democratic politics.” “Really?” “Ooooh yeah. Yep. Big time. Big time.”

“By bringing employers, the NHS, and patients together we can help people recover faster, stay connected to their jobs, and get the economy firing on all cylinders.” — your boss will be able to harass you about returning to profit generation when you are not well, and we will call this ‘connection’

Gonna be honest, the Reform councillors don't look like the arseholes here.