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We've also had Labour ministers - I think including our national embarrassment of a Foreign Secretary, David Lammy - openly insulting Trump, which I'm sure won't have gone unnoticed by him.

It seems odd to me that we allow people who hold dual nationality, like Lammy, and are thus not entirely committed to this country, serve in Parliament, let alone in government.

Tomo,

Maybe they could use some of that lovely cash confiscated from Russia to plug labours £22bn black hole?

It’s taken a few days for the media to get their framing perfected but this morning it was being reported that “Trump is claiming the Labour Party is illegally involving itself in the American election” which was then followed by a very quick sound bite from TTK saying anyone involvement by Labour activists is purely on their time only and not in an official capacity.

This really gets my tits as it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand how inappropriate it is for not just Labour Party activists to be involved in campaigning for Kamala BUUUUUUT for that involvement to be coordinated and arranged by one of TTK highly ranked fucking goons!

Anyone with an IQ above zero realises just how bad this is given Labour may very well be dealing with Trump for the next four years.

But at least the media has its narrative now, it’s just something Trump is claiming and they have spent years telling everyone that Trump is a liar so his claim can be ignored. When in fact it is happening and being coordinated by very high level Labour hacks with the apparent approval of TTK himself.

tomo,
There's a very good reason they *should* be suffering from Imposter Syndrome.

For a fair while, governments' favourite euphemism for "waste" has been "invest" (invest in renewables, etc.). "Lend" is a better sounding euphemism for the Ukraine capers, but the return on the "loan" is going to be the same as the return on the "investments". As for the structure, wordsmithing won't help: Peter will still hate me whether I rob him to pay Paul, give to Paul, or lend to Paul.

Not that I need to tell you any of that.

ABC Radio's Law Report was on AI and the law, with some amusing instances of ChatGPT "hallucination". Quite funny. The German fellow who ended up slandered as a paedophile, gangster, etc., by the mysterious training took them to task. There was no remedy. They applied a band-aid to explicitly block his name from searches.

It's the firewall conundrum again: do you assume it's correct and have a blacklist of bad searches? Seems far wiser to assume all results are wrong, but in various shades of egregiousness.

Not bad Spiked article on the decline of the EU, and the folly of Starmer still trying to get into "lock-step" with it.

tomo,
Conceit is the right word. It's going to be uncomfortable for them when they realise that, yes, they *are* on the world stage, but the role is not as leader, but as buffoon.

At Jo Nova's today, we have the bureaucrats at the Californian Coastal Commission throwing obstacles in Musk's way for plainly political reasons.

No great lover of Musk, but I had to laugh at his audacity, offering $1,000,000 prize daily to a random signatory of his free-speech petition. Cheaper and more effective than a media campaign, and the money is more likely to end up in the hands of someone who deserves it.

tomo,
While it would rate as foreign interference, I suspect the funding originates in the USA, and runs afoul of other laws too. Not very likely to be prosecuted though. Lady Justice has had the blindfold replaced with blinkers: only sees what she's pointed at.

Speaking of which, India's Supreme Court has adopted a new Lady Justice statue. No blindfold, no sword. Interesting, the spin put on it in several articles (including that one). We should probably adopt the same changes. It's not that they're improvements, but it is a more accurate depiction of how the legal system behaves. It's the point in Animal Farm where the sheep change to bleating "Four legs good, two legs *better*".

As to the French Revolution, I've been worried about modern parallels for some time. This time la Terreur may be less civilised. Orwell didn't get to the bit where the other animals started guillotining the pigs — a bit gory for a fable.