John Delaney

YouTube video by Guardian News Boris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'

In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol".

Does he still think that?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...

Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22

Even I thought this was one of mine!

🧵 This piece captures a core problem of the hollow democratic state: politics has become performance, optimised for visibility, not understanding.

You've got to hand it to Madame Tussauds, they really nailed this one

Our politics is increasingly normalised to racism – because politicians are addicted to X The platform has quietly dragged British politics into a dark place

I've written a couple of things over the last days about how the government and much of Westminster remaining on X as the platform becomes increasingly toxic is having consequences for our politics...

This is why pushback matters. When forced to actually defend racism they get into a muddle. (See also Tory ILR plans).

Do populists always crash the economy? Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next

Do populists always crash the economy?

This is the future Reform want

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

I thought this very insightful too - initially it's specific tasks that get replaced first. Most jobs consist of more than specific tasks.

Your direct links to structures have a new format.

Old: alphafold.com/entry/P40763
New: alphafold.com/entry/AF-P40...

Simply add 'AF-' and '-F1' to the UniProt ID. Update your bookmarks and code!

#FUFO

And every comment below is a blue tick demanding even more people are deported. Hardly surprising that politicians spending all there time on X think this stuff is popular.

The character Feathers McGraw from the film "The Wrong Trousers".

Louvre robbery. French police release image of suspect.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London.

I said:

"No. It'll be ULEZ."

(The low emissions zone)

I can’t remember whether our right-wing media was completely detached from reality before Brexit; Gove’s anti-expert rhetoric; Johnson’s blatant lies etc etc. I fondly imagine things were never this bad…

Someone send this to Fraser Nelson please (who keeps talking about a workless crisis)...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

“Paul Marshall controls, co-founded, donates to, or otherwise influences an operation incorporating media, charities, think tanks, conferences, and more. It pumps out the views of an increasingly extreme British right and rewards those who express them.”

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Many of the deals are circular and have given an immediate share price boost to the start-up’s partners. For example, Nvidia plans to invest $100bn in OpenAI over the next decade, providing OpenAI with cash to buy Nvidia’s chips.

But analysts warn of an AI bubble. OpenAI is set to lose billions of dollars a year. If AI does not keep growing exponentially, and if Sam Altman cannot turn a profit, the investor enthusiasm that has boosted these big deals could quickly falter.

Henceforth the red robes will only be worn as an away kit when the Canadian Supreme Court is playing the US one.

A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou

(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)

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Kemi Badenoch talking about what she’d do in power like a football fan explaining which formation he’d use against PSG.