But everybody (present company excluded, obvs) believes that they need another 20% net income just to be comfortable. and that a 2% fall is an unimaginable horror.
How does the government help them imagine it? Just by doing it a year before the election? What can they do to help people adjust?
I'm all for somebody hiding No10 for a while…
#BattleFatigue
SURELY Trump's problem is dementia?
Doesn't that give Vance a cast iron excuse to step up and thank Trump for his service on behalf of a grateful nation?
Ooo: what did you decide to come home with?
#TraditionalBritishTourism
#Elgin
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Not sure how the case of someone whose clearance was withdrawn is analogous to the case of someone who was cleared. Whatever reservations may have been expressed in the clearance process.
I hate seeing bright people punching down, Dianne!
<wags finger sternly>
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FWIW, it'll put the pips in the right place if you ask it for standard representations, but struggles with the court cards, being denied external images. Would you see the latter as a positive or a negative?
Claude is at least consistent.
But my question is, what is the consequence of passing this test? Does the AI get inside your circle of trust?
I didn't ask it for playing cards. I asked it for hands. If I asked it for playing cards and it got them right, how would that change your view?
claude.ai/public/artif...
Does this mean that you trust Claude?
If not, what is the purpose of your test?
A Parson's Jacket?
Classic mid century British cuisine!
Starmer has many problems.
If it were proved that he is just a front for a corrupt centrist project designed to fit the British government back into a cozy clique of the rich and powerful, then it's time to give Rayner a shot and clean out the rancid apparatchiks.
But this doesn't do that.
If you live by the M&M, …
We can but hope.
This would be a bad time to lose a PM who is doing a reasonable job on the world stage, when that is badly needed.
And losing him to this spectator sport political froth would be a tragedy.
It's an interdepartmental squabble. They are probably both right, in their own terms.
The WORST thing Starmer may have done is been too quick to believe that he was in the wrong. Frankly, it's been a while since we've had a PM who could say that.
The rest is spectator sport politics: ignore it.
Lammy is his PR guy, not his boss.
The PUS is the boss of his department. Ministers are there to secure budget and make sure the Cabinet and public are on side.
Honestly, it's almost as if you believe in democratic accountability!
Meh
…or, worse, careful.
It's almost as if M&M picked the luckless Starmer to front their Centrist Labour project on the understanding that he would follow their guidance…
Didn't he specifically say that he WAS curious?
'Starmer said: “Let me be very clear to the house – this was in response to questions which included whether concerns were raised, what the Foreign Office response was, and whether they were dismissed.'
It's the difference between delegation of responsibility and abdication of responsibility. Any competent CEO (including the CEO of the CPS) understands that very well.
'Starmer said: “Let me be very clear to the house – this was in response to questions which included whether concerns were raised, what the Foreign Office response was, and whether they were dismissed.'
Doesn't this mean that they DID ask?
By "remove the levy on electricity bills" do they mean the levy that returns a small proportion of the superprofits caused by buying cheap renewables and selling at the price of expensive gas? If so, how exactly will this reduce electricity prices?
Surely if he really is lying to Parliament about having asked for and been denied the truth, he can't expect to get away with it? Wouldn't this just be handing an unanswerable charge of deliberately misleading Parliament to his enemies?
That's the generous view.
The other being "When Mandelson and McSweeney were looking for someone to front their centrist capture of the Labour party, he was ready to pledge allegiance…"
It's the view of the founders. They'll need to insulate the company.
A novel where the hero is an Everyman (the exact opposite of the tech bro elite) who spends the entire story trying and failing to destroy a technology too powerful for the Great & Wise?
Only if you come to the end of the books sad for your hero/ role model, Sauron.
Also, weirdly, by a story about an Everyman who tried and failed to destroy a technology too powerful for the Great and Good.
An STD for the NHS.
Unless it can take steps to insulate the company from the political views of its founders.
Like, you know, every other serious government contractor.