Joe Allen
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Off-brand Joe Allen. I work at @The_TUC
We have spent £180m on plans for a tunnel under Stonehenge. The project is now scrapped. You can be for a tunnel & think spending is a good idea (even if you think the cost of planning is silly). You can be against a tunnel & think spending is a bad idea. But *nobody* can be for spending on this scale with zero result. And yet that is a peculiarly British outcome. Nobody will be reprimanded. Nobody will see their career affected. But that’s £180m of taxpayer money just wazzed up the wall. Totally without repercussions. Multiply this by airport expansions & train route plans and Thames crossings and power stations and other examples you can think of yourself, and… soon you’re talking serious money.
As with a lot of targets, 580,000 heat pumps in Wales by 2035 is looking like...a stretch. > Record year in 2024 of 8.7k. > Need to be doing 50k a year.
From our latest pod, where we debate the challenges that will face any party leading government after the Senedd election in May, including the funding and quality challenges in delivering public services. Pod link below. #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru
Brexit has been a disaster to Wales' economic resilience. We must re-join the Single Market and Customs Union to support Wales economy. Plaid Cymru will forge closer ties with our European neighbours. Vote Plaid Cymru on May 7.
HOW AI WILL DESTROY UNIVERSITIES, by Paul Sagar As a university professor, attempting to police AI-generated essays will land you headfirst into the “toupée fallacy” trap. Imagine if you were to confidently proclaim that men who wear toupées always look bad, and would be better off just going bald. You’d be assuming a toupée can always be spotted. But the good toupées are precisely the ones you can’t spot. The same goes for student use of LLMs. Those who are effective at using the technology to cheat are precisely the ones getting away with it. Even when you do spot the coursework equivalent of a toupée, nothing can be done. Students always have plausible deniability: it’s their word against your gut instinct. The only tenable solution is the reinstatement of pen and paper exams, but this is unlikely to happen. University administrators now admit that we’re past the point of no return. Read more below ⬇️ buff.ly/gJAehdS
I’m sure mid-game notes are important, but at what point does Liam Rosenior become so obsessed by constant scribbles that he misses big chunks of the actual match? Feels like he tries too hard to look busy on the touchline & smart in interviews... #CFC
The Senedd has passed legislation paving the way for a ban on lying in Welsh Parliament election campaigns (50 votes for, 1 against), and for a ban on greyhound racing. (39 for, 2 abstentions and 10 against)
