The only way maintain standards is not to use AI. When even the professions don’t want to be professional any longer, we are so screwed
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‘We wasted a lot of lives’: CIA spymaster’s caution over past Iran intervention resurfaces from beyond the grave A documentary about Peter Sichel – the ‘Jewish James Bond’, whose wine portfolio boasted Blue Nun – includes striking mea culpas about the cost and efficacy of US involvement in the Middle East

‘We wasted a lot of lives’: CIA spymaster’s caution over past Iran intervention resurfaces from beyond the grave
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Until he gives one to Putin too, as they both bravely suffered “the Russia hoax”

Oh no. How sad. She was also wonderful in The Green Room and her cameo role in The Man Who Loved Women (pictured here)

Incidentally from what I've heard of Robbins at the FCDO there will be a lot of folk very happy about his departure. Shrinkage and reorganisation were a considerable upheaval.

The most over-rated and over-promoted official of his generation.

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Pete Hegseth quotes Quentin Tarantino’s version of Bible Viewers noticed familiar "Pulp Fiction" language in a prayer Pete Hegseth recited at the Pentagon, which he said is a tradition.

So this really did happen. I thought I was reading a John Crace spoof in The Guardian when I first saw the story.

"I'm a mushroom-cloud-laying motherf--ker, motherf--ker!" would have been a more appropriate line for him to lift from the film

"This prayer was recited by Sandy 1 to all Sandys"
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Every time Trump opens his mouth, the markets leap up and down like a spaniel after a biscuit.

It's a pretty strong corrective to faith in the rationality of the financial sector,

That’s too good

David Lammy still plays an important role in UK foreign policy – but he is not the only one Keir Starmer conducts much of Britain’s diplomacy himself, but beneath him is a team of trusted advisers

David Lammy still plays an important role in UK foreign policy – but he is not the only one
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Graduates in space, says man with expression suggesting thought causes him pain

Once we have artificial general intelligence, we'll ask it for some ways to make money with AI, says man who looks like independent thought causes him physical pain

It would be impossible for me to raise a baby without ChatGPT, says cretin

"We should de-escalate the rhetoric", says the man who claims: graduates will be working in space within a decade; artificial general intelligence will tell us how to make a profit with AI (because he has no idea); he couldn't raise a baby without his bullshit machine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Two of them have reached for standing and smiling far too soon

Flags in a row in front of the UN headquarters

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Planeloads of negotiators and too little time: US and Iran’s 21 hours of talks The two sides turned up to test one another’s resolve. It was probably unrealistic to expect a dispute that has taken up years of discussion to be settled in one marathon session

Planeloads of negotiators and too little time: US and Iran’s 21 hours of talks #GI5051 #GI5052

The Croatian-Israeli Diplomatic Crisis: Public Diplomacy or Propaganda? What began as a disagreement over Croatia’s relations with Iran quickly escalated into a broader confrontation involving accusations of antisemitism, references to international law, and comp…

A #GI5052 student's reflections on the diplomatic spat between the Croatian president and Israel

Turns out, when you’re playing 5D chess, you can only think of one move at a time

The US Navy will blockade the Strait of Hormuz, says SkyNews...

Bender be all like, "Yeah, well I'm going to have my own Strait of Hormuz blockade - with blackjack and hookers!"

Look at little Jerkoff in the background, stood there like he’s at a wedding reception. They are such amateurs

“You don’t need a back-up plan.” He still has no idea how he blundered into this shit in the first place

Yet another reason why universities should not be jumping on the AI bandwagon. Within a decade, lecturers will be encouraging disbelieving students to use AI tools, pleading with them: "but, but, but, look at the words come out!"

"You put the schism in the catechism..."

Strait of Hormuz: Iran warning adds to shipping uncertainty Only a few vessels have crossed the strait since the US-Iran ceasefire deal, according to BBC Verify analysis.

Iran Strait of Hormuz warning adds to shipping uncertainty #GI4059

It is the job of your diplomats to make sure this doesn't happen. Complete incompetence.

How Pakistan secured ‘biggest diplomatic win in years’ with Iran ceasefire Analysts say Pakistani officials’ efforts led to breakthrough that has helped avert catastrophe, at least for now

How Pakistan secured ‘biggest diplomatic win in years’ with Iran ceasefire #GI4059 #GI5051

Vicky Featherstone: Were we used by the SNP government as a tool of soft power? Yes, but I wasn’t cynical about it. We were a national theatre and we were asking difficult questions about what it is to be Scottish and they were not censoring us in any way. It was a platform and it was more than you could ever have expected from a national theatre in its second year. We never felt exploited and it gave us the status to enable us to have other conversations with government. I only ever saw Black Watch as a massive gift.

Interesting reflections on cultural diplomacy and soft power regarding the Black Watch play www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a... Featherstone describes it as a gift, gelling with Nick Cull’s analysis uscpublicdiplomacy.org/sites/uscpub... #GI7100

Trump may be using Nixon’s ‘madman theory’ – and similar infamy may await Nixon’s Vietnam strategy appears at play in Trump’s Iran threats, but he may want to ponder the ex-president’s fate

Trump may be using Nixon’s ‘madman theory’ – and similar infamy may await #GI4055 #GI4059

Downplaying Iran’s future nuclear threat while playing to men who think they should be able to tell women what and what not to do

If Kelly really wanted a dignified leader, she shouldn’t have supported that corrupt, lying, rapist orange arsehole