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Simon Cook
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Simon Cook
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Data at @the_tpa Helpful regular correspondent
Canterbury, UK Katılım Ekim 2009
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@EduardHabsburg think you may have been hacked. Unless you are actually up for a podcast award
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Got to be pretty embarrassing for @itvnews that their UK editor is getting community noted on things like this
Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
EXCL: 65% of people back the assisted dying bill, just 14% oppose it, as it’s held up in the Lords. One dying man pleads with peers from his hospice bed to give him a choice. ITV News is featuring stories from both sides of the debate as time runs out. itv.com/news/2026-03-1…
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Um @whippletom think you may need a word with whoever wrote the subheader on your article....
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I see from @business that apparently the Habsburgs still owe the Fuggers a boatload of money - wonder how much @EduardHabsburg is on the hook for…
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Help settle something for me:
Two cars are travelling from London to Cardiff and back using the same route at the same time. The red car does the entire journey at 60mph. The blue car does the first leg to Cardiff at 50mph then speeds up and completes the return leg at 70mph.
Which car arrives back in London first?
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As Blackadder said…
Charlie 🏳️🌈@burnleyboi97
It must be fun to be have boomer levels of entitlement
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@JackElsom @DanNeidle But just goes to show that senior politicians largely have very little idea what they’re talking about when they talk about AI
(I mean strictly speaking predictive text is AI)
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@DanNeidle I presume it’s more about images/footage given it’s in the context of deepfakes/misinformation. Rather than ChatGPT-assisted writing.
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Can anyone explain how this would work? Where do you draw a line?
100% AI written with no human involved: sure.
100% human written with no AI involved: easy.
But plenty is in the middle. Everything I write is proof-read by AI. It's brilliant.
Was this post "made using AI"?
Jack Elsom@JackElsom
Tech Secretary Liz Kendall suggests AI-generated content will need to be labelled in future. For many struggling to distinguish between reality and fakes, this is a welcome step. But it's quite the epiphany from Kendall, who dismissed the need for such disclaimers in a recent interview with @hoffman_noa.
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Simon Cook retweetledi
This was the part of the speech where I cringed. 8% is not credible. GBP devaluation, investment flatlining and trade frictions since 2016 can get you to 2%-3% - but 8% would suggest that the other, simultaneous anti-growth measures (rationing of land, energy and capital) had next to no impact vs US. If you believe that, I also have a bridge....
Andrew Neil@afneil
So if Reeves’s claim that Brexit cost us 8% of GDP is correct it would mean we’d have grown four times more than Japan/Germany and almost twice France/Italy. Up there with Canada/US. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. In reality, even with Brexit, we were fastest growing European economy in G7. Just a tad more than France (with no Frexit).
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This is great (but *very* depressing) by @FraserNelson - goes to the heart of how terrible the government is at making use of the data it has
Fraser Nelson@FraserNelson
A 20-year-old on incapacity benefit is more likely to turn 30 and still be claiming than to have held a steady job for a year. Devastating figures from Pat McFadden and. If he releases the full data, it would make an urgent case for reform comment.press/pat789
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Latest in 'drill baby drill' news:
University of Oxford says a UK powered entirely by clean energy…could save households up to £441 a year
In contrast, maximising oil and gas extraction from North Sea would offer savings of just £16 to £82
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
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Simon Cook retweetledi
"Len Deighton obituary: writer who redefined spy thrillers dies aged 97"
thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/…
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And the mega budget and poor management of it was why we only got 2 seasons, with the second season forcefully raced to a close.
Best Movie Moments 🍿@BestMovieMom
Season 1 of Rome (2005) cost $100 million, making it the most expensive show of its time. The crew built a five-acre replica of the Roman Forum at Cinecittà Studios using real marble to ensure the city felt authentic rather than like a movie set.
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Simon Cook retweetledi
"perhaps the most effective of all pension reforms we could see would be for parliamentarians to be switched into DC pensions like the vast majority of the rest of us." bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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I know you know the answer … to both parts of your post!
It’s only March but Renewables Twitter has already built up an unassailable lead in my annual Riefenstahl Prize for Embarrassingly Bad Propaganda.
People who claim to work in the sector (and I exclude abject clowns like Bob Ward) must know the real cost implications of intermittent supplies yet relentlessly pump out this nonsense.
How many excited posts have you seen announcing that “renewables delivered over x% of the UK’s electricity yesterday” yet total silence when it was 10% a day or two after? That happened again last week.
You can, as I do, agree that climate change is happening, yet think renewables are an insane response. But I’m still apparently a denier! 🙄
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Think about it for a mo. If this is the full picture, then why isn't all electricity, all around the world, generated by solar? Clearly, it must be more complicated than this. I'd just like to see more clarity in this discussion, so we could get to the best solution faster/at all
Tony Annett@tonyannett
Renewables are now the cheapest form of energy in electricity generation. People who claim otherwise still think it’s 2010…
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@John_Stepek *if* the solar we’re talking about is giant orbital stations then sounds like a brilliant plan.
Otherwise…
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Simon Cook retweetledi
@tomhfh If the UK built nuclear at the rate the French did and at the cost the Koreans do today, we could supply all our electricity needs for 100 years at roughly half the cost of a single year of NHS spending.
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What has the world come to when I’m agreeing with @lewis_goodall
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Spot on. We’ve come to fetishise “local representatives” far too much, a symptom of our politics becoming smaller and more parochial. What we need is quality national politicians. If they have to be “parachuted” in, and they spend more time in SW1 than the constituency, so be it.
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@John_Stepek @SimonMagus It is a fair point though - I saw replies to this which were on the lines of “you could know how to rebuild a carburettor”.
A generation ago it would have been “how to write a cheque”
Some things just aren’t useful any mor
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@SimonMagus Apart from that you can't change a bloody car tyre now without an industrial drill and none of them come with spares; and let's not mention moulded plugs; basically agree
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This is what your mum and dad do
Anon Opin.@anon_opin
There should be a mandatory GCSE in Life Skills. By the time you leave school you should know how to change a car wheel, wire a plug, stop a dripping tap, how to wallpaper and paint, being able to cook simple meals from scratch, alongside financial skills like budgeting.
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Not like there haven’t been plans for a reservoir for ooh the last 50 years or so.
Better get on and build it rather than moaning about how difficult your job is @sewateruk
BBC Kent@BBCRadioKent
South East Water has said it may "struggle" to supply water to thousands of planned new homes across Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay. More here: bbc.in/3P1F26f
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