There have been 200 bids on deregulated AI Growth Zones sites since Keir Starmer launched them in January 2025.
The US and UK both refused to sign up for the EU's AI Safety Summit in April 2025.

Some early reviews of my new novel #BabysBreath from the other place.

Available in hardback, paperback and ebook from 1 Sept. Preorder for Kindle now amzn.eu/d/0OgCNws

Read the first chapter here.
babysbreath.co.uk/chapterone.h...

70 questions the UK government must answer about Gaza ‘Mainstream’ journalists have failed to investigate the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide. Here is what every minister should be asked.

Q27 — A few days after the government suspended free trade negotiations with Israel in May, Britain’s trade envoy to Israel visited the country to promote trade.

Why is the UK conducting business as normal with a state committing genocide?

www.declassifieduk.org/70-questions...

There were police everywhere in central London yesterday. I think there’s an attitude from some politicians who think the public likes this - that we’ll see it as a show of strength.

Are you joking? Londoners want to move about our city, and exercise free speech tolerantly.

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Try Scotland. No disagreement here.

Radioactive water from UK nuclear bomb base leaked into sea, files show Exclusive: Polluted water was released into loch near Glasgow because Royal Navy failed to maintain 1,500 water pipes, says watchdog

www.theguardian.com/environment/...? Yeah but it’s only Scotland .. who GAF eh?

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

How Stanley Kubrick’s film “Dr. Strangelove” exposed dangers inherent in nuclear command-and-control systems.

Alternative Numbers, courtesy of a graphic designer, a shoddy economist, and Project 2025.

Stephen Moore’s record:

📌2008 – Urged the Fed to raise interest rates as the economy was crashing into the Great Recession
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South Park

I sort of don't like to admit it (residual Scottish "don't make a fuss") but the Texas Dems are showing fantastically well how to elevate a political issue in the media. Perhaps The SNP could learn from them.

Reform Dog Bites Media Man The British press is failing in its duty to ask the right questions of Nigel Farage

How we will look back at the British media's current constant indulgence of Nigel Farage and his brand of anti-migrant politics as the biggest collective failure of our times
@adambienkov.bsky.social
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

It’s time for Scotland to write its own future — with its own voice, for its own people. #IndyRef2 #YesScotland

Strict rules for British tourists going to EU to come in within weeks

Passengers will be asked a series of questions to confirm they have proof of accommodation, sufficient funds for the trip, medical insurance and a return or onward ticket

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Rupert Lowe.... what a bellend.

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

If you had £9,500 to waste, what would you say?

Despite computerised systems, DNA evidence from Nicola’s hairbrushes, mobile phone records and a big blue tent, the police investigation into ‘SNP fraud’ will soon take longer than the Yorkshire Rippe... Professor John Robertson OBA, Crime Correspondent As Nicola Sturgeon speaks of the ordeal of being arrested and as MSM Monitor’s question above waits to be answered, the trial …

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/08/09/d...

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Yayyy I am back from holiday and WRITING - next newsletter out tomorrow. Missed you all! I’ll be updating everyone about what’s happening with PAs since the Leng review came out ….
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We're in France... the drivers are very... French.

New doctors driving Ubers and working in bars to make ends meet due to 'recurring cycle of debt' Newly qualified doctors are driving Ubers and working in bars to make ends meet as they face a "recurring cycle of debt", the British Medical Association (BMA) has said.

Newly qualified doctors are driving Ubers and working in bars to make ends meet as they face a "recurring cycle of debt", the British Medical Association (BMA) has said

www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

What can the FBI do in Texas redistricting fight? Not much, experts say. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) has said the FBI granted his request to help bring Democratic lawmakers back to the state. But the bureau appears to have taken few concrete steps.

Sen. John Cornyn said FBI agents had been assigned to help Texas law enforcement track down the more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who left the state amid a messy redistricting fight.

But it's unclear what steps the FBI is taking, if any.

1\ My "dumb" forecast of Russia's deficit after July results. Assumes historical patterns, and likely overestimates the final deficit. Still, maybe useful as an upper limit. It gives 10.2 trillion rouble full-year deficit (vs ~3.8tr plan), despite surpluses in the next 2 months.