Well that would pay for this year’s triple lock pensions increase…. and that’s it.

Hey @thameswater there's a leak on the corner of Elgar Road South and the Basingstoke Road - can you log and fix?

What’s mad about this is that he hasn’t actually done anything particularly unpopular. Yet he’s more unpopular than Blair after Iraq, Cameron after austerity, Johnson after Partygate and Truss after, well, Truss.

This is an awful idea, we elect MPs to make these decisions for us.

Anthropic now lets Claude quit abusive conversations, citing AI welfare 1) "We remain highly uncertain about the moral status of Claude." This is the correct and wise perspective and anybody who is confident either way is a midwit, sorry. (Unless you've solved the hard problem of consciousness, which philosophers have debated for thousands of years. If so, congrats.) 2) Soon, AIs 'lived experience' will be 1000x the human lived experience. Like, AIs will cumulatively experience 1000x more 'lifetimes of experience' than humans do), meaning there is VAST potential for suffering. We don't know, so we should be REALLY REALLY CAREFUL we don't accidentally speedrun into moral catastrophes. Thank you @AnthropicAI for showing leadership here!

Sorry, you can’t pretend whine that there’s an aristocracy when the manager of a cartoon beaver themed gas station gets paid more than the average doctor in NYC.

JUST RAISE TAX Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of a crisis. The tax system must be torn down. The government’s attempt to save £5.5bn has failed, as did the attempt to cut the winter fuel allowance, with the government spending slightly more than if it had done nothing at all. Reeves is beginning to write her next budget. Her advisers will meet at the long, cabinet-style table in her office in Whitehall. It’s not an exaggeration to say that everyone around that table understands that taxes will almost certainly have to rise in the autumn. They will have to confront a terrible mistake that Labour made when it promised not to raise any of the three biggest revenue-raising taxes. The question that now hangs over this government is which would be worse: breaking that promise, or breaking Britain’s economy – before handing it over to Nigel Farage. The truth is that middle earners, the people Reeves and Starmer’s advisers worry about the most, are not being taxed enough. The basic rate of income tax has not risen – not once, not by a penny – for more than 50 years. During that time the average life expectancy of people in the UK has increased by almost ten years, and as a result, our spending on healthcare and pensions as a share of GDP has doubled.