Seb Tallents

Do we have any mothballed destroyers we can sell the Yanks in return for, i dunno, New England or something?

Ukrainian mood today be like:

If my lawyer screws up, especially negligently, they are on the hook. If my LLM legal advice is wrong then I'm the negligent one. And that's the problem with AI, it's not actually doing the key "lawyer things". It's mimicking the output of lawyer activities without the crucial value add.

Isn't this exactly what happened with every wave of automation - it tends to create new demand by lowering the marginal unit price, which unlocks new applications.

The key thing you buy from a lawyer through isn't the analysis - it's the assurance,risk transfer and accountability

Parliament has no jurisdiction over the EU.

Rescinding article 50 would lead to a situation not unlike trying to revoke the independence of the colonies.

It can certainly mandate an officer of the crown to write to the president of the commission rescinding A50, who will then ignore it.

It can't. We could while we were still a party to the treaty. But the process has completed, we are no longer a party to the treaty, and can no longer avail ourselves of the terms and processes of it.

There's no one weird trick that let's the UK undo Brexit. We can rejoin only by applying.

Counter point - it is a displacement activity for the inability to regulate tech firms from making harmful design choices in the first place.

That's what it sounded like.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

There is a tendency in progressive movements to look for structural fixes to cultural problems.

My suspicion is they are all too much on social media or engaging with other people on social media.

Perhaps the real Westminster bubble is the obsession with immigration.

So the likelihood of a Reform GE victory less than it might seem from the polls.

4. Labour are mad to pursue policies to attract reform curious voters. It's costing far more in losing their left flank than attracting the right.

...tends to support:

1. The populist right have a vote ceiling of around 30%

2. Reform can consolidate that vote, but it's narrower than the Tory core vote.

3. Embracing all those Tory failures into the party was a bad move (the wrong Tories: repels the left wing of the Tories and much else)
...

Interesting result in the by-election.

Near total consolidation of the right wing vote to Reform, but beaten by progressives (Green and Labour) such that *any* split between progressives would have won.

Obviously it's one seat, extrapolation dangerous etc. but...

@darrenpjones.bsky.social @torstenbell.bsky.social @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social - smell the damn coffee!!!!

"𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝟯𝗿𝗱 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁..."

Clear as mud

I'm struggling to understand how this can have such an enormous budget even before it mysteriously doubled unless it's for the whole managed service.

Is this for just an online test, or is it for some sort of managed service (all the sites where you go, sit down, do the test online on their computers while being observed?)

Though the President was perceived by some viewers as a great squirming mass of strings, others an implacable shiny simulacrum of wire and metal, and still others a heaving, quivering, undifferentiated wall of flesh, he stayed on message on the economy, with a single harsh unbroken scream.

... as policial asylum seekers", he screen shotted that into a separate thread and said I was clearly a Brexiteer. I pointed out that was a violation of BS safety rules (as it was then), he blocked me and then spent weeks using another account to stalk me and secretly "warn" anyone I engaged with.

He did that to me too. I was explaining HMT logic on youth mobility was unlikely to extend to removal of NHS fee and home university fees; he said that failure to agree those terms made the UK like the GDR; so I joked "well if you really think that you should be letting our youth in unilaterally...

"Great repeal bill" gosh its like Johnson reheated.

Didn't they say that about rural payments agency, only it was a chauffeur driven limo?

I think more likely they are expressing their general anger to the US the best way they know.

And I'm sorry if you think it's xenophobic but I do observe that most US citizens seem unaware - as you apparently are - that the US govt isn't merely just talk and threats, but involves actions.

Well no. I just struggle to understand why you think some Canadians (and other countries) do treat the US govts threats and overt actions of interference as the actualities they are rather than notional. You attribute their reaction as trolling or "entertainment"..

I don't think it is notional to them. I think the fact you think they *should* regard it as notional is part of the general slightly solipsistic US attitude to the rest of the world that precisely drives the general fury towards the US as a whole; which in turn drives the trolling behaviour.

Also, again, the political destabilisation is happening now: like undermining Ukraine, leading to Grays ldeaths there, and risks a full blown war in my country.

It's terrible what is happening to US citizens; but I do not accept this should be more important to me than what your govt is doing to us

threatening way to us, and this sort of "well it doesn't represent us, and we the American left are the true victims and true resistance here, butt out" is, at best, irrelevant to the rest of us.

What are you trying to achieve here, exactly? To convince non-US citizens that they are wrong to worry about the 900lb gorilla threatening to subvert their freedom? It doesn't matter whether MAGA starts or ends in the US. What matters is MAGA controls the US state, and is behaving in an alarmingly

It's not words either, MAGA is working with fringe politicians in Canada, Greenland and Europe - it looks very much like early phases of the Russian playbook before the little green men show up.

It may well be all a bunch of narcissists saying outrageous things that can never come to pass. Or not.