Tim Gray

Minister says police and crime commissioners will be abolished in 2028 because system has failed – UK politics live Elected policing roles will be abolished and their powers transferred to mayors in England in move that could save £100 million

BREAKING: "Minister says police and crime commissioners will be abolished in 2028 because the system has failed" buff.ly/sP6sNFL

Our economic problems began with 15 years of austerity. Public investment is the key to getting us out of the slump - at the budget, the chancellor needs to change both the fiscal rules and the OBR's role in assessing them to make this happen. 1/3

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 33% (=)
GRN: 17% (-1)
CON: 16% (=)
LAB: 15% (=)
LDM: 11% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 12 Nov.
Changes w/ 5-6 Nov.

I know that this information has been floating around for some time now, but if anyone needs some dots connected, here goes:

British Medical Association ‘threat to future of NHS’, says Streeting ahead of doctors’ strike Health secretary accuses doctors’ union of ‘cartel-like behaviour’ and tells it to ‘get real’ over pay demands

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.

Those are interesting graphs. On the first one, the most obvious point is that solar capacity has been growing like crazy. But also interesting that nuclear is a mere footnote.

Excellent thread on the progress of the clean energy transition detailed in the IEA report (despite fossil fuel interests and Trump putting in spurious scenarios to confuse matters). Worth reading down to the bottom because there are some important graphs, particularly:

Yes, data centers are important sources of electricity demand growth, but hey, don't overlook the main sources of growth, which are cooling, electric cars, manufacturing, etc...

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

Labor rules out giving tech giants free rein to mine copyright content to train AI Attorney general Michelle Rowland shuts down contentious proposal to grant copyright exemption for AI models

Wonderful news! Creative works can no longer be mined by AI without consent in Australia.

If only the UK would follow suit. Sadly, our creative industries are seen as something to exploit rather than to value. No funding, no protection.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

German court rules that OpenAI violated copyright laws by training ChatGPT on music 🎵

• May set precedent for Europe AI copyright uses

• OpenAI disagrees & can appeal

"The internet is not a self-service store, and human creative achievements are not free templates"

— German Music Rights Society

Cynical brain: surely the establishment isn't saddling the public with reduced brain function and education to make them easier to control...

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

Realizing the "we poisoned you all with lead for decades" generation was immediately followed by "we fucked up teaching you how to read, now you're bad at it and hate it" generation to be followed by "Mandatory AI will fry your cognition" generation. Well, shit.

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow.

She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

The silver lining to the surrender by 8 Dems is that the House GOP must return to vote on it. Johnson must swear in Grijalva, and the discharge petition on the Epstein files must force a full floor vote. Stay tuned.

Like many, I want to love the childhood institution of the BBC, but its current affairs output has been blatantly captured by right-wing or at least pro-establishment forces for years. And its effective sponsorship of Farage projects has been astonishing.

In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.

What is this 'good' it supposedly does?

"What do I want from COP30? I want leaders who will look their children in the eye and say: We chose courage. We stopped subsidising destruction. We stood with the global majority who did not cause this crisis," writes @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

Read here: https://bit.ly/47ATlWg

…it’s almost as if the years of hand-wringing moral panic about The Children were more about creating a captive market for AI-enabled surveillance technology vendors than protecting the actual wellbeing of young people…

‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the minds of 16-year-olds | The Observer

“The real challenge for society lies not just in their online worlds but in how little we have invested in their offline lives…Young people are much better at navigating online harm than we give them credit for. We know there are dangers and so do they.”

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

One of the biggest problems with mainstream media is its regular platforming of lunatic people with mad ideas.

Particularly the BBC, which is meant to be about public education.

UK politics is broken in large part because we have lazy gatekeepers of MSM.

Which is why so many are turning off MSM.

I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook

This week's column is on Billionaire Brain: the condition which seems to prevent extremely rich people from perceiving the utterly bleeding obvious.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The era of fine speeches and good intentions is over. Brazil’s Cop30 will be about action | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva This is our message to world leaders: make this the ‘Cop of truth’, before people lose faith, says the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

🌎With COP 30 in full swing over in Brazil.

🇧🇷President Lula gives an empowered message - "We must recognise that the most vulnerable sectors of our society are the most affected by the impacts of climate change, just transition must combat inequality."

https://bit.ly/47L9Bmo

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades

England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.

Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.

People fleeced.

I really hope that the Democratic Party spends some money right now putting out ads on TV and radio and the Internet…

They need right now and for the next 12 months to lock into people’s memories that Donald Trump and the GOP wanted to starve them and their kids on Thanksgiving.

How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ. The AI industry's most important product is not a chatbot or a video generator; it's the story the AI industry is telling about itself

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Just a reminder that Anchorage International Airport is 1) a major hub for communities only accessible via air and 2) the fourth busiest cargo hub *in the world*

So uhhh this is bad for more than just your holiday travel plans 😬

This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?

For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.