It is sad as we talk about Greenland's sovereignty, apparently it is only as sovereign as it's ability to defend itself.. #r4today

Apropo nothing a classic scene in #startrek, where Mark Twain travels to future: "I come from a time when men achieve power & wealth by standing on the backs of the poor, where prejudice & intolerance are commonplace, & power is an end unto itself & you're telling me that isn't how it is any more"

It is a joke to say the facts, as Nick says, stop there — it is clear that the driver was driving away from the ICE officer who ultimately shot her. The US has become a land of lawlessness and I think Trump won't be happy until the rest of the world follows suit. #r4today

A picture tells a thousand words, a plot of the ave of polls: Before the spring Labour are losing support to Reform and Con and Con losing support to Reform. After summer Lab losing support to Green, Reform to Con and Lib slightly to Green. #r4today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

Venezuela has apparently been saved from a dictator that murders his own citizens, so who's going to save the US from its dictator that murders its own citizens? #r4today

Streeting is currently slithering from his chair onto the floor as his backbone dissolves when faced with questions on US illegal actions in Venezuela! #r4today

Nice to see a balanced panel of two right wingers and a centrist! #bbclaurak

Uninspiring interview by an uninspiring PM. Spineless against Trump. Spineless against vested interests & bond markets meaning more austerity & higher energy prices (renewables are much cheaper). Spineless against anti-migrant xenophobes. He's as useful as a piece of limp wet lettuce! #bbclaurak

It's a bit rich for Theresa May to say "there is a cost for doing something and a cost for not doing something" when she continued Osborne and Cameron's austerity!!! #r4today

"Into the woods" clever and funny modern musical retelling and mash-up of classic fairy tales with great vocal performances from all the leads in this @bridgetheatre.bsky.social production. The 2nd half provocatively asks what actually happens after the "happily forever after"!

I suspect developing superintelligence will be more difficult than people think, since we don't understand properly how human "normal" intelligence evolved. And yes we do not want to develop artificial consciousness with all the moral & ethical issues that come with that! #r4today

By Philp's definition Nigel Farage should have his citizenship revoked: he has been racist to others, called for Jews to be gassed and he hasn't apologised for this!! #r4today

Melvyn Bragg is right, but problem is the capitalist system — supported by the education system — expunges the innate human curiousity from people, turning them into productive machines for profit.. & the vast majority have no choice for they need a salary to live & support their families. #r4today

Taken 60 years, but ugly face of nativism & racist nationalism is rearing head again! Aside from inflation Lenry Henry still funny & on point: "Enoch Powell says he wants to give me £1,000 to go back to where I came from. Which is great, because it's only 20p on the bus from here to Dudley."

Having a BoE independent of gov trying to reduce inflation by killing growth with interest rates and the government trying to spend to boost growth is like you being in control of the accelerator and your grumpy dad in charge of the break!! #r4today

How predictable that the Reform person turns the issue with domestic abuse to demonise ethnic minorities and immigrants! #bbclaurak

A mark of civilisation should be how we treat the worst off in society & fact that we have anyone homeless is damning. It isn't complicated: build more social housing & invest in social services to support homeless in what they need like skills & mental health. #r4today

Just heard a kid on the bus complaining "what am I going to ever use Pythagoras for". Aside from fact that she may one day become a mathematician, physicist or engineer. I think it is a failing of education system if kids have mindset of learning to use rather than for pleasure & curiosity ! 🧪⚛️

Fascinating as a second sibling.. I wonder what that means for the generation in China who have no second siblings! #r4today

Beef burger, chicken burger.. Pork sausage, beef sausages, venison sausages.. ??? #r4today

This guy says people should work for their "personal dignity & purpose in life", when in many jobs people are asked to sell themselves & personal ethics, for a wage so a company can make profit, that helps destroy the planet & people's social well being, is anyone surprised at situation! #bbclaurak

More science funding—yes—but needs distributing more equitably. Current system has very poor success rates & rewards previous success not necess quality. Scientists spend huge proportion of time writing & reviewing grants. Need core funding+randomly allocate grants above quality threshold. #r4today

As we've recognised the Palestinian state I look forward to seeing the Palestinian entry to Eurovision! #r4today

Funny that Justin doesn't mention the fact that we have marginal pricing system where in order to meet demand the contributor which is most expensive sets the overall price even if it continues a minority to meet demand! #r4today www.theguardian.com/business/202...

My recently published paper in @epljournal.bsky.social was written up for @physicsworld.bsky.social website. TL;DR using branching process theory I calculated times to extinction of an epidemic, so if we'd stayed in 1st lockdown—in principle—we could have removed infections within a few months. ⚛️🧪

Calculating sentences by pen, paper & calculator just shows you consequences of Tory austerity. And sadly fact this Labour gov don't at the very least having a temporary software solution (I could write code to solve this in a matter of hrs) shows you effectively we still have austerity #r4today

I look forward to a time when we don't need to rely on people's charity to tackle something as basic as homelessness. But apparently the gov spending to do something about this will spook the bond markets. #r4today

This panel is completely biased to right wing/centrist economic orthodoxy. The @greenparty.org.uk are offering an alternative viewpoint and polling the same as Labour and Tories, but there is no one to counter the economics of balance-the-books'ism. #bbclaurak

This discussion shows the ridiculousness of having fiscal rules based on very flaky OBR projections! Meanwhile people are still in poverty and investment in green technologies and insulating the UKs leaky homes is lacking!! #bbclaurak

Why is the premise of Amol's questions to head of OBR that welfare spending is too large and that debt is bad. We need the BBC to stop being a mouthpiece of orthodox economics and thereby the interests of the rich and powerful. #r4today

#r4today financial segment helping us be in hock to and being exploited by the bond markets! The fact that they're ok with Reeves budget is not a good thing! Instead we need govs to spend to tackle the many deep challenges in the UK and a BoE backing the gov instead of working against it.

Pretty sickening that the BBC are so pally with an investor in bond markets. Bond markets want to make profit from gov borrowing and have no interest in the social welfare of the country. Again the BBC show complete bias towards orthodoxy on economic matters! #r4today

For me the key thing about Farage's racist comments is that he could easily say that was who I was then, I've changed, I denounce them and apologise to those students. But he didn't and that tells me everything you need to know. #r4today

Goodnight everyone

Haldane really disingenuous about @zackpolanski.bsky.social using perjoratives "lala land economics" & "funny money solutions": borrowing is not QE & he didn't advocate printing money! Haldane lashing out to avoid substance of argument: govs can borrow to command resources in economy. #bbclaurak

Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social actually talking economic sense and very clearly and forcefully stating that govs are not households!! #r4today

The goal of gov is not to get debt down—goal of gov is to spend to drive the economy, by giving money to people to spend in the economy to drive demand and to invest in the infrastructure: both encourage private investment. As Keynes said "Anything we can actually do, we can afford" #bbclaurak

Feels like rewriting of history here—it was always about protecting NHS from being overwhelmed with COVID. Also as my paper shows, we did not need an endless lockdown to eliminate COVID & but potentially a matter of months if we stayed in lockdown in June 2020. #r4today bsky.app/profile/bhav...

What's shamebolic is a discussion of our economic future without saying capitalism has caused climate change and will cause future economic damage. This is like arranging the deck chairs on the titanic, when we should be moving to a war-like economy to defeat climate change. #r4today

If you look at composition of BBC board of 13 (before resignations) then only one who you could say is out-and-out on the left (Muriel Gray) with the rest likely centrist or further right. So not a surprise that in fact there a bias against anything left wing, socially or economically. #bbclaurak

Fact that Laura Kuenssberg asked both Mahmood and Phelps basically the same questions tells you everything you need to know! #bbclaurak

What made me angry about Tories is they had knack of promoting ethnic minorities with callous views to positions of authority, since they calculate that it is more difficult to call them racist or immoral. It seems with Mahmood Labour are taking a leaf out of their playbook. #bbclaurak

Someone should send Trump this! #r4today

Lewis Goodall: "I would have much more time for the Prescott dossier if it raised partiality questions across the spectrum – complaints about Reform over-representation, Green and Lib Dem under-representation, a tendency to follow orthodox economic analysis.." #r4today

Have written for the New Statesman about why, if he will not accept an apology, the BBC should welcome a Trump lawsuit. They should show guts and fight it because impartially matters and if they don't, they will have tacitly accepted a rewritten history. www.newstatesman.com/politics/med...

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You've got to ask why promising UK green technology companies — here developing hydrogen electrolysers and fuel cells, which could be critical for storing excess energy capacity of renewables— are being allowed to fail by this Labour government?! #greentechnology #greentransition #hydrogen

So the left & right both criticise the BBC, so surely they are unbiased?? But BBC is the defender of the currently right wing status quo/centre & interests of those in power. The status quo may have been more left post war, but right have been constantly pushing it further right since. #r4today

Pray tell me why the BBC are asking an investment banker from Deutsche Bank about the UK employment situation and macroeconomics! Clear left wing bias!! #r4today

This is all misdirection. While the BBC continues to fail daily to talk about the facts on how neoliberal economics has failed working class communities and society, we get the right wing zealots sniff blood to push the BBC further right and the country closer to fascism. #r4today