Left Of London

Britain has the dirtiest rivers, the most expensive energy, the least reliable trains, the most overcrowded prisons, the worst access to healthcare and the widest gap between rich and poor in all of Europe. If you want a verdict on 40 years of neoliberalism, there it is.

We have failed young people more than words can express. #heatwave

The BBC’s desperation for balance once saw then-Tory MP Andrea Leadsom invited on #Newsnight to argue about post-Brexit trade with the actual head of the World Trade Organisation Now they’ll host a #BBCQT special about AI containing not a single critic of AI

Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design. Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale. We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights. Read the report: amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

The UK has “turned into an offshore financial economy”. Speaking to Telegraph journalist Camilla Tominey, former RMT general secretary Mick Lynch argued that the country needs an “industrial plan” for people who “work with their hands”. He added that Margaret Thatcher's sell-off of council homes still plays a major role in today’s housing crisis, helping to ensure the economy only works for the wealthy.

@bbcquestiontime @BBCiPlayer @BBCSounds @BBCNews @BBCOne No one from creative industries on mass copyright infringement? No one on capture of revenue streams by prioritising AI summaries of scraped sites rather than sites themselves? There's zero balance in this panel.

Tomorrow, Question Time is in Dulwich for an AI special Joining Fiona on the panel are Darren Jones, Julia Lopez, Mo Gawdat, Laura Gilbert, and Victor Riparbelli Join #bbcqt, 9pm on @BBCiPlayer, @BBCSounds, and @BBCNews, 10:40pm on @BBCOne Apply to be in the audience here: eu.castitreach.com/ag/mentorn/que…

The latest Israeli military evacuation order is even more extensive, ordering all those living south of Zahrani river to move north. That’s about 14% of Lebanon ordered to leave their homes after the Israeli military declared it a ‘combat zone’. That’s roughly 300 towns and villages, tens of 1000’s of people.

Britain now languishes near Russia - and below Turkey and Serbia - on trans rights. But the anti-trans movement has decided their crusade will never ever ever ever ever be complete. Their all-consuming obsession dictates everything, no matter how many more lives are ruined.

@Prosperity_Inst @jackmrankin Jack Rankin thought Brexit would be a great idea. He was also Tory councillor during RBWM's period of epic financial mismanagement. Not someone you should pay any heed to on economics.

✒️ Our latest Substack is now LIVE. @jackmrankin MP on why the Right must pay attention to language. “The greatest modelling, policy papers, and statistical analysis in the world will mean nothing if we don’t win the argument.” Read here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/prosperity…

Former BBC Middle East correspondent Tim Llewellyn writes of the BBC being a "prime mover" in the "tidal wave of lies and misreporting" about alleged anti-semitism in Corbyn's Labour, and of Israel's financing "a political, racist libel that made impossible proper debate about foreign affairs running up to two general elections". electronicintifada.net/content/how-is…

I'm Jewish, British & 64 All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it? NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I feel I have an answer and it is profoundly disturbing

Political corruption. @Jacob_Rees_Mogg party - the Conservatives @michaelgove and the unlawful VIP PPE lane. The long-awaited independent report concluded that almost 90% of the staggering £10.8bn lost to Covid fraud, error, and botched contracts cannot be recovered.

@SunilSharmaUK Happy to help explain the science in simple terms, if that helps.

So wait the weather was the exact same temperature as 82 years ago ?! But I thought every summer was “the hottest ever” because of climate change …

BREAKING: Israel just dropped bombs on the Qaraoun Dam in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley — a key water reservoir serving civilian populations across surrounding villages. This is not a battlefield target. It is a critical water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide.

In November 2022, Guillaume Lample was using pirated books to train LLMs at Meta. He told a colleague “Everyone is using lib-gen” (a massive pirate library). 5 months later, he co-founded Mistral, which started training LLMs. They have not disclosed what they trained on. It seems natural to ask - did Mistral also train on pirated books? Surprised they haven’t faced questions on this, given Lample’s known, almost contemporaneous use of pirated books at Meta, and his view that “everyone” was doing so.

@jackmrankin Pubs closed at a greater rate under the Tories. I thought you claimed to understand maths?

Our pubs are at the heart of our communities but across Britain, three are closing every single day. ❌ Labour’s National Insurance rise, higher beer duty and mounting red tape are piling pressure onto hardworking landlords and making every pint more expensive. That’s why I’m backing the campaign to hold Labour to account and stand up for Britain’s pubs. 🍻 @GarethDavies_MP

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve_news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

.@AlexCrawfordSky: "Those being mourned are increasingly medics.. the Lebanese govt says they're being deliberately targeted. They call them double taps, & this one was caught on camera. The video we're going to show you is shocking..."

Andy Burnham Proposes Local Public Control for Thames Water. What is the point in a Public Service being run by the Government, but the profits still flowing to the billionaires? Unless of course protecting the billionaires is the only point.

Mick Lynch on Nigel Farage: "He's going to unleash a torrent of racism & division.. putting us into the dark ages" ML calls out the Telegraph: "The Telegraph seems to be preparing itself to become a fully signed up affiliate of Reform & all the racism & disunity it will cause"