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For the record: inflation 2.6%; annual growth 1.3%. So you want us to triple growth.

And all we need to do to escape this black hole is travel 1% faster than the speed of light. How hard can it be???

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Your regional stats beautifully dismantle the idea. His plan is to fix the economy by fixing education. Which is a bit like saying a cart and horse can't go anywhere because the cart is too heavy while not considering that the lack of locomotion might be solely due to the absence of a horse...

Started writing on Andy Burnham’s education proposal thinking “not sure about this”. Realised in writing “no, I am sure: it sucks!”

These guys came to me one by one, and now we solve mysteries all over Dumfries & Galloway

Joking about Philp's ego aside, it's scary that it's "routine" to fire off small arms in the middle of the "busiest shipping lane in the world" - let alone near another boat.

Those of us who follow politics have to suffer with this great burden. (Though still not as great a burden as the memory of Chris Grayling.)

Fucking hell as if receiving automated rejection letters for jobs wasn't bad enough.

I would be amazed if most people in the UK know who Chris Philp is...

Reality has a well-known left wing bias. And so do AIs. (Okay, the "bias" is in the training data. But the bias is in the training data because reality has a well known left wing bias...)

One of the things I find odd about UK skills and jobs policies over the last 10 years is the idea that - for young people - place is destiny. It's like we've taken the Brexit memo and double stamped it into meaning you need to stay put to be a success. The geographical footprint of the UK is *tiny*

all happening at the Mail today www.dailymail.com/home/article...

Not scientific. But I have spent long aeons in the Guardian's comments.🤭 Neoliberalism is _the_ bogeyman. It was of a piece with saying he'll roll back the last 50 years and return to the mythical age of Social Democracy. His willingness to name the demon said, "I'm on your side"; Corbynism-lite.

I like a good old-fashioned slashdotting. You don't see it much these days. And props to the poor techs desperately trying to sort it out.

Really liked these three-axes of being a PMs. The only nit is Burnham is disparaging "neoliberalism" to connect emotionally with the voters Labour is losing to the Greens.

Lessons from an unPrime Minister willd10.substack.com/p/keir-starm...

Of course we want immigrants working in social care and the NHS. And if we looked at immigration sector by sector, most reasonable people would agree we are happy to have immigrants in almost every sector. Which is why this debate is so infuriating! Well what gives?!

Basically, the Tories are saying they are okay with social care provided its made from pixie dust and fairy farts (or, possibly, funded by cutting welfare). Otherwise it's a "no" from them. 🤣

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...