Our politicians cannot defend liberal democracy because they no longer know what it is.
A “major update” announcement from Microsoft today isn’t a ringing endorsement for AI (but is good news for web standards, I guess):
Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction
🤮 Business secretary Peter Kyle continues to live down to his rhyme.
The business secretary, Peter Kyle, later said the Royal Navy could be called upon to tackle the crossings “if needed”.
Family of three are first arrivals in UK under ‘one in, one out’ immigration deal
The silence from centrist pundits who worked themselves into a lather about campus cancel culture is deafening. The rise of the authoritarian populist right makes clear that elites have no principles, and the reason they are not defending liberal democracy is because they never believed in it.
🤮Peter Kyle once again reminding us his surname rhymes with vile
British students lack ‘drive’ of their American peers, says Business Secretary
Apologies in advance for the noise while I do a little bit of testing.
TikTok is an irredeemably evil and immoral company. So, it’s no surprise that Starmer’s former director of strategic communications worked there.
Labour comms director helped write manifesto while still working at TikTok
I was amused at this Bluesky post from our local MP celebrating Daisy Parsons:
Had his government been around at the time, they would have proscribed the suffragettes as a terrorist organisation, and had people arrested for holding signs saying “I support votes for women”.
Indo-European is a perpetual mind-warp for mundanes like me who have limited education in it.
Ever fallen in love with someone you shouldn’t have fallen in love with?
My answer: yes.