Eddie Clarke

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I'll give out TWO books.

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If you'd like one, let me know.

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Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet The Homeric epics are thought to have been composed in the 8th century BCE. In the case of these ancient poems, however, “composed” is a very ambiguous term.

Archaeologists Think They’ve Discovered the Oldest Greek Copy of Homer’s Odyssey: 13 Verses on a Clay Tablet

Labour have decided there's still a teeny tiny risk of getting too many votes. To be absolutely safe, they're setting fire to another big batch.

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YouTube video by Owen Jones They Kicked Me Out For THIS? Owen Jones Visits LABOUR CONFERENCE

I went to Labour conference - and then they revoked my press pass.

I found a party defined by delusion - and literally running away from its record.

Where to even begin.

Watch it here 👇

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Israeli quadcopters shooting children.

And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.

Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.

And our government continues to assist it.

I wonder if he will have learned how to pronounce the name of the First Minister and leader of Welsh Labour by then.

Or remembered that there's a pretty important Senedd by-election in 3 weeks' time that Labour is pretty likely to lose.

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Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain People worry that students are increasingly using generative AI in their work. It saves time, but what is it doing to their brains?

What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.

She should be in prison. Making money out of death and other people’s suffering is an abominable crime!

But make her the first and not the last to be brought to account.

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP Lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

"We cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP Lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/ph6f

Mone released Without prejudice letters yesterday showing she offered £20m to the Gov. Today she’s been ordered alongside her grubby husband to pay £122m. She might have a boat to sell.

I am delighted. But want to understand what happens if she doesn’t cough up by 15/10.

Keir Starmer's Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a 'Darker Path' Towards a Reform Government The Prime Minister's condemnations of Reform's racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage's anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov

The central argument of this conference has been that the way to beat the racists of Reform is to give them almost everything they want.

How Labour's mixed messaging on migration is pushing the UK towards the 'darker path' of a Reform Government
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Why do people keep saying that Brexit has left us poorer by £40 billion?

It's not a one-time thing. The loss is every year.

It's like if your salary is permanently £500 lower than it otherwise would have been.

After a year you're down £500, after 2 years £1,000, etc., on where you should be.

Lights, camera, corsets! Exhibition explores the craft of period drama costumes Stepping through the doors of the Fashion and Textile Museum at the moment feels like stepping through the back of a wardrobe into a land where the air smells faintly of lavender sachets and starched ...

Stepping into the Fashion and Textile Museum at the moment feels like stepping through the back of a wardrobe into a land where the air smells faintly of lavender sachets and starched lace, and everyone looks ready to promenade along a gravel path.

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Good. This is an important victory.

It's a stain on our democracy for Michelle Mone to remain in the House of Lords. But it's even more important that the Tory ministers who set up the corrupt PPE VIP lane in the first place are properly and fully held to account for the scandal

Tommy Robinson's 'Unite the Kingdom' Rally Was Sponsored by a Convicted Fraudster Allegedly Behind Cryptocurrency ‘Rug Pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by a convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal

Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom Rally was sponsored by a convicted fraudster allegedly behind cryptocurrency ‘rug pulls’

The far-right rally was bankrolled by convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal
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Being depressed, Mr Robinson, is not just feeling a bit sad because it's raining today. Depression is debilitating. So, yes, it will prevent you from looking for work (let alone work at all)
#r4today

Probably unpopular reflection from this Labour conference - mainstream political parties including this one are no closer to being able to understand how delivery in government can lead to popularity. Just as there have been no obvious paths to growth since 2008.

Looks great! 😍

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

Lol, I was going to joke that they probably conducted the AI analysis using a photograph only (which would be absurd given that paintings demand first-hand study, examination of materials, support, etc), and then I visited the AI co.’s website & saw this on the front page:

AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master He is one of the most revered artists in western art, yet just a few dozen works by Caravaggio have survived. Now the 17th-century master’s hand has been confirmed in a painting that Sotheby’s and the Metropolitan Museum in New York had dismissed as a mere copy. Scientific analysis of The Lute Player, which was bought for Badminton House in Gloucestershire in the 18th century, has concluded that it is by Caravaggio, with a probability of 85.7%. Continue reading...

AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio

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Britain is going backwards under Starmer, Labour voters say Disappointing figures come on the eve of a crucial Labour Party Conference

"Britain is going backwards under Starmer, Labour voters say"

And the reason they give?

Brexit.

I think Digital ID cards could well become Starmer’s Poll Tax.

Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it.
Yes, they might.
And he should wear it as a badge of honour.
Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet.
Where's the hazard in that?

File under: No Shit, Sherlock!

199 years and 364 days ago the first thing resembling a modern train left from here!

People want lower rents. They want cheaper bills and publicly-owned services. They want an NHS that works.

Why can’t this government just do things that would actually improve people’s lives?

We can fix this country. We just need the political will.