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@AndrewOrlowski What term would you use for the model that is furthest ahead in the AGI race? Or does my question itself carry the same ignorance!

Fun fact: “Frontier Model” is a buzzword last heard in 2023 and was advanced by the EA cult. It’s a propaganda phrase. They borrowed it from Asimov. I think Danny is a good man and sincere, but to find a UK politician echoing posthumanist jargon in 2026 is jarring, to say the least.

Any rightist saying there's merit to this proposal but they should focus on how much better it'll make public services... please LISTEN to how they are talking about it. They think being able to use an ID scheme to crack down on populism is the best thing to recommend it.

Oh so it IS a tool of political suppression.

Very fair. A note of thanks - my brother's wife was worried about him getting upset with engaging in online discourse and about the unrelenting negative stream. The Critic isn't sunny uplands but it is thoughtful and bounded. So I made a deal with him that I'd get him a subscription and he'd slow the doomscrolling. Reader, it worked! Thank you.

2 was more about Britain generally not having to host pro Hitler foreigners in Britain when we lost so many fighting him, though British Jews have double the reason. Re 3, yes, I think that if he was a foreign white country singer who had repeatedly said the equivalent things about black people then, no I don't think he would be headlining a British music festival within the year (rightly). Is your sense really the opposite?

@DanieldeRhondda @defossardf and as for no.2, well, the Jewish community here already lives under quasi-permanent siege, so I think the damage is done there already tbqh (and not because of Kanye or anything he's said)

@defossardf Do you have any distinction between foreign nationals applying for a visa vs British citizens here? I am strong pro-free speech for British citizens in our society, but don't think that means we have to benevolently welcome non-Brits who glorify Hitler or jihad.

My answer would be that we have no duty, including under Freedom of Speech for British citizens, to allow in foreign nationals who glorify violent jihad or Hitler. I agree with you on the double standard, but would bank this win and double down on banning those who glorify violent jihad... I slightly disagree with you on the motivation too. We can't tell, but I can imagine this harming Labour more than helping it, even if the right thing to do. The number of Wireless attendees alone is not far shy of the number of British jews.

A disgraceful decision, especially given their repeated refusal to use this power against those who pose a genuine threat to the country and those who call the place home. If Kanye West had been an IRGC member or outlaw Salafi-Jihadist ideologue, he would have been allowed in…

@JewDahMac @JoosyJew Exactly. I have no duty to want a foreign rapper here who has recently celebrated my country's most evil and destructive enemy. British Jews have double the reason to tell him to bugger off, but we all should.

@JoosyJew @j4ppleby I think it should have been framed as much as being about Britain not having to give a visa to someone who repeatedly glorified the man so many of our greatest generation died to defeat.

@TomWright165389 @AdamPollock @PolitlcsUK That's not how I see it or the words I would use in their normal meaning.

@DanieldeRhondda @AdamPollock @PolitlcsUK That’s effectively what banning Kanye is, anti-hitlerism is the national religion

🚨 BREAKING: Wireless Festival has been cancelled after the Government blocked Kanye West from entering the UK "Wireless Festival is cancelled and refunds will be issued to all ticket holders. As with every Wireless Festival, multiple stakeholders were consulted in advance of booking YE and no concerns were highlighted at the time. "Antisemitism in all its forms is abhorrent, and we recognise the real and personal impact these issues have had. As YE said today, he acknowledges that words alone are not enough, and in spite of this still hopes to be given the opportunity to begin a conversation with the Jewish community in the UK"

@Donna_Rachel_ Yeah, and just to be clear - I understand and sympathise with your opinion. Difficult. Mostly I just wish it wasn't so.

@DanieldeRhondda We'll have to agree to disagree.

@Hrushworth @andrew___robo Let me get it to you after Easter weekend! Some cool stuff been going on behind scenes but only the raw data, so really valuable to combine with your more public work.

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