This is crazy. AI is a tool. It will be transformative, but it is just a tool. It can already sit under other portfolios. Imagine creating a Desktop Computer minister when that was transforming the workplace in the 90s, or a Browser Minister in the 00s, or a Smartphone minister in the 10s.

Zoë Crowther@zoecrowther.bsky.social · 2w ago

Kanishka Narayan is the first UK AI minister to attend Cabinet My interview with Narayan last autumn provides insight into his approach to the brief 🧵👇 (1/6)

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

I was joking

Emma Jacobs@emmavj.bsky.social · 3w ago

Burnham should appoint Lisa Nandy as culture secretary then someone should tap him on the shoulder and tell him

good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned)

@laperry2.bsky.social · 2w ago

www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...

@edent.tel it was not always like that, and doesn't need to be. And certainly shouldn't be with quality outlets. Back in 90s I produced Robin Oakley and sourcing and fact-checking had to be absolutely solid or it didn't go on air. Now someone gets a random whatsapp and it's broadcast 5 mins later.

What kind of job was that?!?

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm never going to be able to browse the Hairy Bikers cookbooks in quite the same way again

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Man, 28, charged with murder of former MP Ann Widdecombe

You had one job (sacking Shabana Mahmood)

And there we go. This government is just going to be more Reform lite. Greens and Lib Dem’s - we’re looking at you now. If Greens can get a bit more serious across the policy spectrum, or Lib Dems can fight the far right more than other progressive parties, then I’m open to go their way.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

And yes Mahmood stays at Home Office.

Remember this is a great chance to clean up your news feed: Look for any journalists who wrote pieces or tweets saying they had it on good authority that Mahmood would be chancellor, and mute the heck out of them. They are little more than WhatsApp gossipmongers, and we don’t need that.

It’s funny. Faisal is a great journalist and as straight down the line as they come on impartiality. But there is such an accepted narrative in UK media, that they never react to policies about stopping immigration (for eg) with “but what will it cost?!!” Only positive policies about improving life

Laura Phillips@lauraphillips.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of Truss's worst legacies is to give the lobby an obsession with small moves in gilt prices.

Will Dunn@willdunn.bsky.social · 2w ago

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE ***THURSDAY***

I don't want to be too judgemental but I don't think it's right that the BBC's White House correspondent is clearly out of his mind on drugs

Julianna 💎@batariangal.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Oh, come on BBC, how are you still talking this rubbish?

I’m inclined to support Burnham. But if that tragedy of a Home Secretary remains in cabinet, let alone in a top post, I’m out. That will show such colossal lack of principle and judgement. I’ll tune out of the whole lot for however many years and vote Green or Lib Dem next time around

I see Labour MPs still announcing stuff on X, a platform specifically designed to make people hate them, 100% shaped to push them out of public life and which would ideally see many of them in prison. Funny old world.

Now let's see Burnham do the same kind of positive moves over in the UK please...

S Bear Bergman@sbearbergman.bsky.social · 3w ago

Nerdily, I think think this is because Mamdani’s team conducted strength-based research - they also asked people what they’d LOVE to see happen, not just what was aggravating. Then a team went and figured out which ones of them could be accomplished within the current budget and: win after win.

Yeah but does he mean Labour like in 'for the working people' or as in 'maternity' where it's going to be intensely painful with a lot of screaming, and then we get left with a small psycho for the next five years at the end of it?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w ago

Burnham to say his government will be ‘unashamedly Labour’ in first speech as party leader – UK politics live

If you have an Instagram account, don't forget to go turn off the new sneaky "features" that allow The Entitled to pretend they can make a thing.

Well I figured that was the trajectory, but happened a lot quicker than I expected. Sucks if your index or pension fund was forced to pile in on it because of the Nasdaq rule changes

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 3w ago

today was the first day spacex's stock closed under its IPO price of $135. it closed at $131.11. if you bought the company's IPO shares, you are now underwater.

A responsible move, and in the face of likely punishments. Bravo to the NBC and ABC execs for their backbone

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Breaking: NBC and ABC announce they are refusing to air Trump’s presidential address tonight.

I don't think we'll have anything like equality in politics until women are allowed to hold influential roles without having to assert themselves as being somehow "hardline" or "tough". It's so patronising and, fundamentally, sexist.

It's completely inert, but the size of your fist and takes 24 hours to dissolve on your tongue, so your mouth is blocked and you can't eat all that damn cheese

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Breaking News: The FDA approved a daily pill that can lower cholesterol levels far below what statins can, clinical trials have shown.

Wow. The Department for Education has just published new projections which estimate that the number of pupils in state-funded schools in England will plummet by more than 9% by 2031 amid falling birth rates And yet this issue receives probably 1,000th of the coverage the immigration debate receives

A reminder that this is the guy we're all now supposed to be listening to on the subject of the safety of MPs

Why not give Danny his current title "Daily Telegraph columnist and employee of a Russian oligarch"? Or does that not give his views the same credibility as the BBC title he held over a decade ago?

Press Gazette@pressgazette.co.uk · 3w ago

Ex-director of BBC Television Danny Cohen has told the Jewish Chronicle: "It is very disappointing to see the incoming prime minister give one of his very first interviews to Gary Lineker, who left the BBC after sharing a post about Zionism" www.thejc.com/news/politic...

Wanted to check the modern name for the Department for Trade and Industry, and there is really quite the ride starting here: www.gov.uk/government/o... And then clicking on each message about what the new name is, until you arrive at the current name (until next week?)

Department of Trade and Industry

DTI was replaced by BERR and DIUS in 2007.

gov.uk

I should follow up to say, if we want to open our front doors for children to play, we should make (temporarily) closing streets to cars easier, we should ensure there are welcoming, playable spaces within (independent) walking distance, and we should make local walking and cycling routes safe.

Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'll go with Skenazy's headline - "If you want your kids to thrive this summer, don’t just turn off their phones – open your front door, too" - but not this: "the original experience blocker is fear". Blaming parental fear avoids big questions about cars, hostile public space, and austerity.

Fascinating. Obviously I’m not clicking the link and scrutinising whether Gavin’s summarised it correctly because I’ve got more scrolling to do.

Gavin Jackson@gavinjackson.bsky.social · 3w ago

The rollout of high speed internet in Uruguay worsended early childhood development. But not because the kids spent too much time in front of screens, because the parents did. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w ago

"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Surely this is just the Westminster rumour mill suffering heatstroke? If this did happen it would instantly show Burnham has the same failure of judgement as Starmer: "Let's focus on trying to make Reform happy" He would instantly lose my support on day 1

Fionna O’Leary@fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 3w ago

I understood from Burnham supporters is that he is politically far more astute than Starmer. If that is true then appointing Mahmoud as Chancellor is an astonishing faux paux. Quite apart from her utterly alienating record as Home Secretary www.theguardian.com/politics/202...