Matt "Winter is here"

There are always lower depths for him to descend to

Indeed. Frankly disgusting

Alito is basically daring Democrats to reform the Court. And yet!

3 million disgusting nudified images were produced by Grok in just 11 days.

Existing safeguards don’t work; we need preventative measures for AI.

My letter with other MPs to @lizforleicester.bsky.social.

Breaking: the head of DOGE in Kent has resigned.

My impression of Matthew was that he was a decent man leading a fundamentally ill-conceived project.

Many of them seemingly guilty of much worse than trivialising his crimes

More like conspiring with him to commit more, and then committing more

Utterly bizarre priorities.

I agree, though it's worth noting that the US has one, and the French have had several

So many people approach any debate as: "this is my side, any deviation from my view means the other person is on the other side"

Comfortably the largest number of people I've blocked are people filling in my beliefs for me on the basis of the beliefs of other people they once argued against.

Everyone that close to him certainly did.

Would be a great pity if this legislation did allow us to get rid of all the other douchebags. Starting with Michelle Mone

There really doesn't need to be. What he did was genuinely a terrible abuse of public office and there's a very real prospect of prison time

Which of course doesn't mean there isn't more...

Good team, unlucky

Also just gutting to go from 365 to greater than 10x that

#FPL

And so many...

That's only because we have something of a free press keen to hold folks like this to account. Branson looks like he might be next...

The biggest scandals are in the US (e.g. Trump, Musk), just nobody's following them up because they're all terrified

Theory: 2025 was characterised by *relatively* little (non-state) MAGA violence because they felt like they were winning. 2026 is already full of MAGA violence because they feel like they're losing.

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Massive attack on Ukraine tonight.

The “cost of living” lurks behind every one of Sir Keir Starmer’s decisions, whether on matters of state or factional infighting. That obsession is a gamble from a government suffering extinction-level polling econ.st/3M3rJkv

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There isn't... but almost all countries effectively put a value on it.

E.g. France has 'free HE' but it's so bad that 30% of enrolments are in the private sector despite competing with free public education.

Indeed, outside N Europe, HE is almost never free for all.

Sure. But that argument supports infinite spending on HE. Which is daft.

There has to be some way of valuing HE and therefore the support the state provides. Whether you make that valuation explicit or not, it's still made

I'm not trying to convince them of that

This thread has too many people who can't read.

If students are unhappy, they could of course *just f*cking vote*

92% of Somalians don't work, but >50% drive Mercedes?

Could be...

Indeed.

So lazy when London crime rate data is available at the click of a button

It's astonishing how blase / immune from accountability they all were.

I'm generally against saying 'elites are evil', but there's no doubt that many, many of them are exactly that

"And how long have you felt these symptoms."

"Ooh, about 108 years?"

IMV, some traditional HE is just mis-selling.

Exactly how we 'ration' HE - perhaps better expressed as match public investment to public benefit, is very difficult. But we need some way to do this other than writing a blank cheque to the sector.

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2) The marginal academic student attends a univ that adds nothing to their labour market success through brand. So if they are to benefit from the education> what they lost by entering the labour market late, they need to earn more than as a non-graduate. We know that many don't

B/

It's not an entirely daft perspective, or at least the opposite ("it doesn't matter what you earn") is very naive for 2 reasons

1) Higher education is a very expensive good. Someone, somewhere has to pay for it, and so rads in aggregate need to earn well to do so

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