Former journalist. Now specialising in corporate comms around AI regulation. Deeply obsessed with all flavours of tech, politics and (occasionally) football.
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Realistically, a bank holiday to reflect on the rich history of English (men's) sporting failure would be far more appropriate anyway.
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Emily Maitlis savagery:
“You look like you’re in a cemetery, I mean is this a metaphor?”
How many times?
Jeremy Corbyn piled up votes in places where Labour was already popular.
Keir Starmer made Labour popular in more places.
Only one of those things is worth doing.
And a total vote count has no value apart from statistical curiosity.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer received fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn did in both 2017 and 2019
2017 - 12,887,918 votes (Corbyn)
2019 - 10,269,051 votes (Corbyn)
2024 - 9,686,329 votes (Starmer)
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Live TV really can be wonderful. Just as I ask, "can you see Gareth Southgate surviving this?"... this happens.
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This is amazing by @inglesp, comparing MRP projections for each seat inglesp.github.io/apogee/ HT @Samfr
Thing about attacking leakers - it looks like you're angrier about being found out than about the actual issue.
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Fascinating analysis from @pressgazette: "Only the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph & Daily Express have been overwhelmingly positive for the Conservatives in their choice and portrayal of front-page stories."
pressgazette.co.uk/publisher…
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Thread on the big day for the #AIAct ↘️
#AIAct: 🇫🇷 confirmed they will support the text "with strict conditions." In particular, on developing competitive AI models, balancing transparency and trade secrets, reassessing the threshold for systemic models, and avoiding overburdening with high-risk obligations. 1/4
There's a line to go on the front of the manifesto...
Labour's Tulip Siddiq compares fiscal rules and the economy to murder in quite a colourful interview with @NickFerrariLBC
"It is a commitment depending on the fact it abides by our fiscal rules... everything has to depend on external circumstances... its like saying to your partner I will marry you but if I suddenly find out you murdered a two year old last year, you might not want to... I think that's what we are saying. If there's a global financial crisis we need to review our commitments that that time." @LBC
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It isn't just AI generated text that is starting to bleed over into search results.
The main image if you do a Google search for Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole (whose version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow you have probably hear) is a Midjourney creation right from Reddit.
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This video from @NorwichCityFC is the best bit of Mental Health Awareness I’ve ever seen… watch until the end.
Hypothetically, pushing out big stories on Net Zero and HS2 ahead of party conference would really make sense if you had an even bigger announcement on the way.
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It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime.
From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978.
Look, I'll be honest, if Todd Boehly's entire transfer strategy is based around trolling Liverpool, I can get behind that.
It's like someone made the mistake of telling him about the Willian transfer, and he's just buzzing, trying to replicate that high.