Tony Blair having a pop at Keir Starmer over Iran? Seriously?
The man who dragged Britain into the Iraq disaster alongside George Bush now wants to lecture others about war.
Honestly, the nerve is staggering.
Does he think people have forgotten Iraq — or just that we’re stupid?
I think you can always tell whose had a manual/physical job (or one without regulsr hours) and who hasnt.
Because those who have would normally do a lot to avoid going back - and dont do the weird fetishisation of them. Because their often painful and shit.
I can’t wait to listen back ro the lecture. GLP-1 is absolutely not the answer to a public health problem created by commercial forces.
Nobody admits to gout either. Nor varicose eczema. But piles are - bizarrely - quite mentionable.
Claude's claimed competence level
I'm not a "AI is all hype" guy. But Anthropic's claimed capability level for Claude when it comes to work tasks is clearly nonsense. No, Claude can't replace 92% of management tasks for instance. Not least because most of them are about trust and relationships.
A person is standing against a blue illustrated background and holding a large photo of a child wearing a pink top. To the left, text reads ‘Lee Chan – Insight lead.’ At the bottom, a yellow text box contains a personal statement about choosing a career in applied social research in government and encouraging others from similar backgrounds to consider this path.
A person stands against a colourful background with abstract shapes and holds a printed photo of an elephant next to two people outdoors. Text at the top reads: ‘Dr Alicia Demirjian – Consultant Epidemiologist and Clinical Lead for Antimicrobial Resistance and Prescribing.’ A yellow text box at the bottom contains a message encouraging curiosity, asking questions, striving for excellence, working hard, and enjoying the journey as well as the destination.
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Did you see these stories from some of our female scientists recently?
On #InternationalWomensDay, we thought we would reshare them to celebrate the incredible contributions women make across UKHSA. 🔬🧪
Today is the Covid Day of Reflection.
Let’s remember & reflect.
And keep fighting for justice & change.
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I'm sure it's just a massive coincidence that they used all the same words, ideas and punctuation.
Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.
Autistic people seem to feel joy differently – here’s what it can tell us about neurodivergence
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Dorothy Day, a Catholic activist, was the only woman Pope Francis mentioned in his address to Congress. Photo credit: Getty Images.
#ResistanceRoots
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. ... No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
— Dorothy Day
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Are people sicker now than in 2019?
Civil servants in England are.
Sickness absence rates have *risen by between 12% to 23% across the age groups*.
Are things getting worse?
It certainly looks like it.
This is exactly what we predicted repeat covid infection would do.
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Labour complaining about the right wing press is like penguins saying how shocked they are by how cold Antarctica is. You'd have thought we'd have figured this out by now - it's been over 100 years since the Zinoviev letter.
Rather than bringing Starmer down with the Mandelson/Epstein stuff, perhaps we should accentuate the Bannon/Epstein (and more) stuff which talks about supporting the European far right and breaking the world system.
Via Brexit, Reform UK and the new model Badenoch party tagging along.
#R4Today
Please read this and then watch the video. It is just too good. I scrolled back through 10 hours of my time line to find it again to show Mark.
Exactly. The children are invisible.
This works only if we think of children as parental property to the age of 18, rather than as small citizens with their own needs.
"We estimated that motherhood cost the average Danish woman a total of about $120,000 in earnings over the first 20 years after they first had children – about 12% of the money they would have earned over those two decades had they remained childless."
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People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia.
In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.
We’re treating social media like a moral failing rather than an infrastructure substitute.
When young people have no safe, low-cost third spaces, the phone becomes the youth club, the park and the bus pass.
If we restrict that, we need to replace it with real-world belonging, not just rules.
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Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection.
If you take that away, what do they have left?
Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.
There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.
Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople
"The risk is not making AI conscious, but making humans zombies, parasitized by fake realities with real consequences" 🔥
Bekker & Ciaunica popping the hype bubble and reasserting the value of care for living beings
Go read any set of ICB Board papers and you’ll find the whole system has made 9-figures worth of “efficiencies” in the year, yet the ICB providers are often still nowhere near break-even budget.
It is frankly impossible to cut that much without cutting patient care.
The dude whose company, thanks to Labour, will run our military analytics and to whom Wes Streeting is giving our personal healthcare data.
