Pretty funny, AI is only mentioned in the title as clickbait. This has nothing to do with data centres and everything to do with not building any new reservoirs since Thatcher (for the 100 years before her the UK built a new reservoir on average every few years), privatised water companies not investing in infrastructure, a drying climate, and too much of the country piled into the driest region around London in the south east.
Not to mention, the way things are shaping up the next election is quite possibly going to be Reform/Tories vs Labour/Greens/Lib Dems with the exact match up changing depending where abouts in England you are (Wales and Scotland are less messy). It would be bizare to suggest that if you live in a Labour/Reform seat that doing anything but voting for Labour would be your best option if you want to return to the EU.
Of course there will be places where it is a Labour/Greens or Labour/Lib Dem fight, in which case by all means if relations with the EU are your number one concern voting for another party makes sense.
OTOH Labour have been running Brum for years, it seems right that after getting booted into third place some one else should run it for a while. Given reform have the most seats they should get first try at forming a majority, if not them then the Greens.
Yup, for comparison there were over 2000 new councilors elected at this set of local elections. 5 standing down is a complete non-story.
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Sure, I have no idea if it actually is a good idea for them to try. Just that it wouldnt be the same as deliberately targeting civilians.
Terror bombing civilians is a losing strategy for sure, but I do think a demonstration that your enemy is less all powerful than they claim by hitting a high profile military parade is different to that.
Importantly, this estimate does not include any potential positive impact of the bolstered £1billion annual funding, by 2029/2030, or the additional £300million of support in this SR period that is being brought forward. These measures will support those with disabilities and long-term health conditions into employment, which we expect to mitigate the poverty impact among people it supports into work.
Oh look, only considering negative changes and not positive ones leads to seeing a negative outcome, very surprising.
You mean the one where there was a huge Labour back-bench rebellion and the government backed down and made essesntially zero cuts?
I dont expect them to just choose to do the right thing for no reason, like you say, if they were going to do that then they would have already. But put them in a situation where doing the right thing aligns with them not losing power (and for individual MPs not losing their seat) and I think they would. Mostly for selfish reasons but it also helps that a lot of them are in favour of it and most of them know its the “right” thing to do.
Maybe, but I think that their desire for power will overwhelm the Machine’s hatred of getting a better voting system. If the other parties make it clear that they put this in their kings speach or they dont back it, I cant see Labour saying “no we’d rther collapse the government have another election and almost certainly lose seats” Especially when doing that would cause huge outrage in the party over something the majority want.
I think theres a chance of a Labour minority needing green/lib dem support to form a government and them making voting reform their price. Labour members are in favour and a good chunk of the MPs are too.
Socialism is not just about bringing the means of production into state ownership, but about adhering to a set of egalitarian principles that emphasize solidarity, erode class distinctions, and build the public sector and public assets, making our country work for everyone and not for the profits of large corporations. Fixing potholes may not be “socialist,” but Mamdani’s aggressive effort to escalate small infrastructure fixes is part of a much broader plan to restore faith in the public sector’s ability to get things done.
Bravo!
Notice how those are on the ground, at a known location (an airbase), so a photo can be planned for in advance.
They are decidedly not fast jets travelling on an attack mission at close to the speed of sound.
You did say radar… Anyway, good look snapping a picture of a ~20m jet travelling almost at mach1 from at least 500km away with a camera that is on a fixed orbit so you dont control where it is at a particular time. (and even if you did unless you took a picture of it during take off, that also wouldnt tell you where it was flying from.)
You cant track a plane from 3600km away with a radar (how far the UK is from Iran), if for no other reason than the curve of the earth puts hundreds of kilometers of rock between them. And wreckage is pretty easy to identify for experts, you can find fairly small pieces that could only be from one aircraft type.
So they couldnt get the type of plane correct, but we’re to assume that they could tell where it flew from? Seems legit.
Its not “easy” but its not that difficult either, I’ve overseen a migration from a gitea instance to github (coporate policy, not my choice) that had information that needed to be retained for regulatory purposes. it took a bit of work, but only a single engineer working on it on and off around other tasks for a few weeks including testing and dry runs.
Its not a real language unless you have 11 different valid ways of instantiating an object, each with their own subtle pitfalls.
No, it doesnt just mean “things getting shitter”. The term was made to describe a specific path that big tech companies have followed of transfering value up the supply chain and shittyness down. It is: