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How to spot fake AI-written press releases Reporters are being bombarded with millions of press releases from virtual PR agencies.

"Press Gazette has spotted more than 100 examples of fictional content sent by dodgy PR companies being published by major newsbrands in recent months."

Including quoting people who don't exist.
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Excellent! Fair play to them!

Has Netanyahu announced yet when he will be recommencing the razing of Palestine on the pretext that someone (definitely not the IDF) has broken the ceasefire?
(Asking for a bookmaker friend...)

We all know this is true. Anyone opened a book yet on when Netanyahu will explain why he had to renege and it has nothing to do with him facing charges for corruption? If so, put me down for one week, now that Orangina's Nobel aspirations have gone south so he's lost interest.

Viewed from the safety of not being in the UK, it's actually hilarious. Her smug, condescending, bullying tone signalling she's about to be supremely confidently completely & utterly wrong about every aspect of today's topic, whatever that is.
Genuinely astonished she's still in position tbh.

The tears are running down my leg as I piss myself laughing at the deluded narcissist.

Differing political definitions of patriotism 3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊 Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism", , comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel Johnson's much-quoted remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words still count for some of us. Shaun Leavey Sherborne, Dorset Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness". "In 300 years' time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure. Jerry Stuart London SEI Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag". °. She doesn't indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism. The Rev Paul Dowling

“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”

Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.

I suspect that the people who actually read his drivel or listen to his cant are interested enough in politics to recognize a shilling Tory when they see/hear one. The sooner he is dumped, pops a label on his forehead and goes off to work for Reform with all the other dumped Tories the better.

listen to this man 👇

....and yet, they never challenge Reform for making the comments and policies which caused the rebuttal in the first place. They've nailed their colours to the mast.

It can't be long now before the only heretofore classified files which 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙣'𝙩 been released are the Epstein files.

I resemble that remark... very succinctly put!

I suppose he could always just fuck off for good.

qtwtain

tl/dr
He's as mad as a bag of frogs.

I'm old enough to remember having my car window smashed and the radio stolen, before detachable front-panel radios became the norm. No market for that sort of thing any more.

I was so astonished that I almost forgot about the Epstein files. Almost.

The most dispiriting thing about these photos of MAGAts, wherever they are grouped together, is that none of them ever looks happy. They are always either despondent, angry, or aggressive. They have their dictator and his autocracy, and yet they are perpetually aggrieved about something - anything.

Wolfie Smith would have known just what to do.

I immediately thought of this song.

Beginning to seem like the only party that the Press aren't urging to undertake a leadership change is Reform.
Weird, that.

You are not employed by BBC News and I claim my 5 euros.

I think I can help here - it's because they're a bunch of misogynistic right-wink wankers.

Fair point, but we'd get stymied by the three-year license renewal rules eventually.

Bloody youth mibikity scheme should get on its bike.

Venn diagram with Bono in the left circle, an oboe in the right, and a bonobo in the centre.

Venn diagram

It's because they are deeply thick.