Pam Treanor UK

Traitor
From John Crace:

So there is a depressing symmetry in homicide: just as protecting very-young children is almost always a question of protecting them from their own parents, protecting older people is often a question of protecting then from being killed by their own adult children.

The thing to remind yourself is that the triple lock is only a small transfer from today's young to today's old; it is a much bigger transfer *to* today's young (in their capacity as tomorrow's old) from tomorrow's young.
www.ft.com/content/9bae...

Wait, wait. Like Microsoft Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Palantir...
The US reaction could strangle us all

The UK is wedded to US tech. Time for a divorce Ofcom’s investigation into X is not just a regulatory issue. It will define our future relationship with America

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Yipes. You can't say we weren't warned

Maybe Greenland = Sudetenland?

Yes, protect our physical borders. But also protect our technological borders. Unlicensed gambling should not be accessible. #itvnews

London is a great city

Campaign to keep two south west London police stations open ends in victory Wimbledon and Mitcham Police Stations saved from closure after Merton Labour campaign. Mayor of London confirms sites to stay open, boosting local…

www.london-now.co.uk/news/2573599...
Campaigns can work!

Excellent

Hold on to optimism in 2026!

A Risk of Cognitive Convenience What ChatGPT and GPS have in common

A Risk of Cognitive Convenience
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Taxi drivers vs bus drivers

Shameful ad hominem attack on the BMA rep today by #NickRobinson #bbcr4today

Thank goodness your name isn't Fiona Millar

(By United Press) Washington D.C., Feb. 13—Movie Czar Will Hays has banned the filming of a picture based on Sinclair Lewis' novel "It Can't Happen Here," Lewis said. The author said Hays was afraid the film might offend Adolpf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, or the Republican Party "which might win the next elections."

Ponied up for a month of newspapers.com, went right to the New York Daily News and quickly found this gem from Feb 16, 1936.

BBC spine recently spotted in… #nakedweek ?
Satire? Yes please
#BBC

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I love this site www.bbc.com/pidgin

BREXIT!

Is it just me or is this a very spidery autumn?

Graphomane | Neal Stephenson | Substack Neal Stephenson's Substack. Mostly about the intersection of tech and art, with some excursions, digressions, and tangents. I will talk about projects I'm actively working on. I have a personal financ...

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I've had enough of this #brokenbritain talk. UK is a great country with great people and great resources.
Yes there are problems. Let's fix them

And doing it more

Leadership
@london.gov.uk

Is it different in the southern hemisphere?

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

Every now and again we need to remind ourselves that normal service in the economy stopped around 15 years ago, and it’s little wonder people are stressed and looking for scapegoats ifs.org.uk/data-items/r...

Israeli arms manufacturer closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action Elbit Systems’ Bristol site was the subject of dozens of protests by the direct action group

www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

You know, freedom of speech, freedom of thought.
Cuts both ways of course

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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Looks like a clear night