ChatGPT can’t wield a broom, so how does AI help local authorities deliver non-statutory services? On way is to target street cleaning to the most politically salient wards, thus obscuring the overall failure of service delivery by ensuring local influencers are satisfied.
Starmer is doing a Sunak reset.
The Star Park crows first XI are playing football on the roof.
I’m not sure how we’ll find the solidarity to tackle climate change when no one will push the button on a pelican crossing as that helps other pedestrians to cross too.
Cannot find potimarron today; so am winging it with sweet potato and chestnuts. Wish me luck.
I used to hate peeling vegetables then I got a proper vegetable peeler instead of one of the cheap ones with the stupid orange string.
Farmers, who tugged their forelocks and voted for Brexit though it cut them off from their markets, their low-cost labour force and their subsidies, are now protesting a government tax change that prevents their land being used as a financial instrument to facilitate tax avoidance by the ultra-rich.
I’m typing with my ancient Logitech K380. It’s a much nicer keyboard than you’d expect from the design and for the price. It’s also lasted well, and has insanely good battery life.
The right has offered its successor to the neoliberal order, and that is fascism. What will the left offer? Better managed fascism? Sad times.
Apparently Rachel Reeves is a social democrat. As a fully paid up member of the “words mean something” party, I’m here to tell you she’s not a social democrat but a neoliberal. Maybe more “ordoliberal” than “state capacity libertarian” (aka fascist), but a neoliberal never the less.