Reform’s View of the World is Centuries Out of Date!
Richard Tice seems not even to have a grasp of secondary school science and has shown himself to be quite […]
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Nick Hollinghurst
Working for social democracy and a greener world through the Liberal Democrats
Category: Politics
The universalisation of Trumpism?
Is this a second – and more plausible – threat from AI?
Stephen Mihm from ‘Bloomberg Opinion’ wrote recently,
“The large language […]
How Many Warnings do you need?
For me the biggest news (of the week, if not the century!) was that on Monday the BBC at last […]
Read more →PETER HEGSMITH AND HIS ROBOT AGENTS ARE WATCHING YOU – OR WILL BE SOON!
Yesterday I wrote, “Pressure is building for extra power stations to help out AI techbros, and with the cost put […]
Read more →AI (2) The very many early days of AI.
AI has already had a long and spasmodic history of development so far.
Inspired by Alan Turing’s speculative essay of 1950, […]
‘More Law’ is not the answer to Labour’s Free Expression and Free Speech Problem.
Several months ago, the Labour Government, following damage to Air Force planes by members of a group whose stated aim […]
Read more →DIRTY BUSINESS, DIRTY OIL, DIRTY TANKERS.
To finance its war against Ukraine by selling oil, Russia is using old tankers, often without valid registration or transponders […]
Read more →DISTURBING SURVEY OF US OPINION REVEALS THE FRAGILITY OF AMERICA’S COMMITMENT TO DEMOCRACY.
Although billed as showing that “a vast majority of Americans express support for democracy” and that “88 % of respondents […]
Read more →FAIR AND SQUARE FOR INVESTMENT AND REWARD
When companies invest in UK they do so in the hope of profitable business – and UK welcomes this as […]
Read more →The Public Service Ethos must be Defended
There are many public service activities where it is inappropriate for private contractors to be involved. The contractors in some […]
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