Peter Lipman

It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.

People's work is not the government's to give away.

If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!

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In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.

To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.

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There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.

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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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This line in particular is absolutely catastrophic for an incumbent party, not even two years in.

Most Scots believe Nigel Farage is a racist, poll shows MOST Scots believe Nigel Farage is a racist, an exclusive poll for The National has found.

Most Scots believe the Pope is a Catholic, the Earth is roughly spherical, the sky is normally blue, grass green and bears s**t in the woods, poll shows.

www.thenational.scot/news/2572065...

YouGov/Sky News/Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

This is the highest poll result for the Greens, the first time they are in second, and the worst poll result in years for Labour

Mahmood’s move to make asylum temporary ‘may undermine refugee convention’ Law Society says home secretary’s review of refugee status after 30 months is in tension with UK’s legal obligations

Law Society being a bit cautious here, since obviously it is in conflict with what the UK agreed to. I like that the Guardian is making full use of Mahmood's self-sabotaging sartorial choices

Exclusive: Greens second most popular party, new Sky poll reveals Exclusive polling shows the Green Party have leapfrogged Labour in voting intention polls, as the second most popular UK party. Sky's Sam Coates explains.

"Every age category under 50 has the Greens in the lead"

Strategy:
Kids talk to your parents and grandparents about how you want them to leave you in a livable and more just world.

news.sky.com/share/13514377

Record heat wave continues in Southern Africa.
Brutally hot night in JUAN DE NOVA ISLAND with a minimum of 29.6C
HOTTEST MARCH NIGHT IN FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES

A shower later caused a drop in temperature.
New severe heat wave on the weekend.

Britain Elects | Substack Cutting through the noise with Ben Walker. Click to read Britain Elects, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

📊 Ref lead of 2pts, Grns in second
Westminster voting intention

REF: 23% (-1)
GRN: 21% (+4)
CON: 16% (-2)
LAB: 16% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (-)

via @YouGov, 01 - 02 Mar
Chgs. w/ 22 Feb

👇 Read this
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

The expansion of knowledge has unfolded alongside the expansion of harm. The damage is neither unforeseen nor poorly understood; it is documented in real time. What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption.

And tone-deaf Starmer has gall to say "mainstream Britain" does not want Polanski instead of him!
Literally only regards opinion legitimised by billionaire media as "mainstream".
Dismissing the huge amount of former Labour voters in Manchester as not "mainstream". He hates his own voters/members

I have never seen so much social capital pissed away so quickly by any one. It's extraordinary. All Starmer had to do was be seen to be acting on principles of good will and hope. Instead, he chose appeasement of the far right and cosying up to dictators. And so, he got Chamberlained.

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir

If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you'd think someone in the building might have flagged that…

The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills.

The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.

the Green party @zackpolanski.bsky.social should be looking at this graph, the 30% rise in gas prices, and set out its Big State economic playbook, which should include price controls and nationalisation of gas companies.

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

NEW: Over the last decade, Nike has sharply expanded production in regions of Indonesia where workers don’t earn a living wage while cutting its workforce in places where they do.

With @oregonian.com

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide A strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school during the US-Israeli bombing campaign killed up to 168 people. The Guardian has pieced together the incident and its aftermath using verified footage and images from the site Above the pastel murals of trees, paintbrushes, crayons and microscopes, black smoke rises. The glass windows of the school have been blown out by the force of the blast, and its curtains hang shredded from the frames. Against one burned-out wall, the remains of a playground lie scattered: a red plastic slide, a jumble of child-sized chairs. On an overturned bookshelf a pair of pink plastic sandals have been neatly placed, now covered in dust from the blast. Continue reading...

Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded – a visual guide

🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov)

➡️ Ref: 23% (-1)
🟢 Grn: 21% (+4)
🔵 Con: 16% (-2)
🔴 Lab: 16% (-2)
🟠 Lib: 14% (=)

Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)

The Greens are now the number 1 pick for all voting age groups under 50 in this poll.

Some of the Most Amazing #Trees From Around the World #photography #TreePhotography

Link for more photos and information: mossandfog.com/some-of-the-...

The biggest joke with Starmer & this current bunch of incompetents is the idea that they were chasing socialists out of the Labour Party so they could connect with the British public. All this racism & war mongering to echo “what they were hearing on the ground”. Absolute nonsense.

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

AIPAC spent $150k to air an attack ad about 16-year-old me.

Greens overtake Labour in sensational poll The Greens have polled higher than Labour in the latest poll by YouGov, which puts them only two points off Reform UK and five ahead of the governing party.

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again".
Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means.
Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down.
news.sky.com/story/greens...

The destruction of the last 14 years, in numbers This is the reality of austerity. Since 2010, government cuts to public services mean the UK has become a broken country.

What we've lost weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...

This A level economics revision session on Privatisation and Nationalisation includes a crucial point 👇

Rachel Reeves should be pouring money into public services, REVERSING AUSTERITY to boost the economy (and improve quality of life) #springstatement

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RemN...