“Spain’s migration crisis reveals just how far Pedro Sánchez has fallen.” Where would we be without morning newsletters to frame stuff
Die Capuccinogruft
@thomas.escritt.eu
̶F̶T̶ ̶R̶e̶u̶t̶e̶r̶s̶ Bloomberg correspondent in ̶B̶u̶c̶h̶a̶r̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶A̶m̶s̶t̶e̶r̶d̶a̶m̶ ̶B̶e̶r̶l̶i̶n̶ Budapest. You should all be on mastodon
“We also need to build a system that offers safe routes for people as well, because that also takes away the selling point of the gangs." While Mahmoud had promised safe routes, I can’t remember the last minister to argue that they might be part of the solution. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Burnham pledges to be 'relentless' in curbing small boat crossings
The prime minister says enforcement is increased but there also need to be more safe routes into the UK.
bbc.co.uk
Every commentator saying too many kids go to university has to tell their own kid to not do a degree
The UK is torching one of the few sectors in which they still have a global edge, horrifying to watch.
Larry has forced Burnham to leave his dog in Manchester:
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
theonion.com
This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)
What’s the betting that the hallucination was facilitated by a prompt encouraging the LLM to try very hard to refuse. Wonder if those prompts could be FOI’d
Dan Sohege@danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d agoMany in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Since The Spectator have today posted an article, in the wake of the Berlin attack, about the threat “Islamists” hold against a nation of “freedom-lovers”, I thought I’d look back over the year to see just how freedom-loving The Spectator actually are towards queer people and Pride…
10/ Political skill consists in getting enough people to suspend their disbelief so you can stay in power long enough to fix people’s problems even in ways they don’t beleive in.
We’re bringing back manufacturing though value add is in services We’re cutting immigration even though it’s good for us We won’t rejoin the EU even though it’s FREE GROWTH Not just Britain - a structural political problem with the West 🧵
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.So one of the problems of announcing policies via social video is that you end up saying stuff like this
pace that mind-numbingly inane Spectator "out into the world" butterfly cover, the largest impact of Brexit has been a total collapse in the country's self-confidence
Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · last wk.One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*
There aren't many examples of a country self-inflicted ignorance of its national successes as glaring as how little is made of the tremendous, really wild footprint of the British stage/TV/movie educational pipeline on the global scene
Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · last wk.People know him from Industry but I encourage everyone to watch RYE LANE, quietly one of the best romcoms of the last decade
The editor in chief of The Economist referring here to the AfD’s leader as a “perfectly thoughtful person“ instead of what she truly is - a driver and enabler of German fascism - is a huge part of the problem.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoAt one point she notes that AfD, the German political party that Musk supports, has "real neo-Nazis." Musk literally just shrugs.
Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.
Bear in mind that this would also be excellent marketing for OpenAI, "watch out, our models are just sooooo powerful!"
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w agoOpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'
This is the heart of the darkness in British politics: Simplistic populism that will crash the economy is considered fine and serious policy if it targets minorities. No-one is written off as unserious if they can clothe their madness in anti-immigrant rhetoric.
"This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these s....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
“I didn’t allow myself a moment of reflection…this was a mistake.”
Rishi Sunak: How it feels as a new PM — my guide for Andy Burnham
The to-do list is long but time is short, so the incoming prime minister will have to choose his priorities and put the right people in charge of them
thetimes.com
Not going to start a pile on, but apparently the people of Makerfield see small boats as a symbol of unfairness. 2 problems this raises: 1) Many of them also see my being on the bus while brown as a symbol of unfairness. Should that drive policy as well? 2) Lots of other people have feelings.
Thing is no amount of immigration controls will help you, the politician, unless you have the guts to tackle the idea that immigration is intrinsically bad. Take the moral stand and you’ll be amazed at the freedoms it grants you This is just that dril racism dial tweet isn’t it, without the wit
The most worrying thing? That Andy Burnham apparently has been flitting between candidates. That suggests a lack of grounded political economy. He should have come in with a view his chancellor could only be [INSERT NAME HERE], because that’s his agenda. Does nothing for the ‘weathervane’ fears.
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
I have been added to my cat's WhatsApp group. The whole street has a group so they all know where he is and who has given him treats already. He has a better social life than me as proven by the fact that this is the first group chat I've ever been in.
Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh
