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Jeremy Hunt is now the most popular Conservative politician in the country. The Cameroon comeback is ON!
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Of course, these two websites are linked: governments are excited by the benefits of better understanding their own data, but nervous that sharing that information with their electorates will end badly for them:
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The second is the UK's Covid-19 Dashboard, a brilliant innovation which, essentially the UK government has decided is so good they want lots more from the people who helped make it, but don't want anyone else to be able to see it for themselves:
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The first is data.justice.gov.uk, a website that might as well just have 'short sentences in the UK: what are they good for? Absolutely nothing!' as its masthead: ft.com/content/defd4e
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In my column tomorrow, I wrote about two government websites and what they reveal about political and policy divides of the coming decade:
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My column in tomorrow's paper (featuring, as per, a really cool picture by ) is on the things government likes about being able to better understand data (and the things it really, really hates):
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I can't believe Jurgen Klopp is going to win two league titles and finish 10th in the same season.
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The independent commission set up to determine if Manchester City should be punished for alleged financial breaches spanning more than a decade will have the power to strip the club of its previous titles, @theipaper can reveal.
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O/c, it's true to say that machine intelligence should not be the final decision-maker. John Thornhill wrote a great piece recently on the need to modernise the world's nuclear launch procedures, as it happens, if you want to read about a real problem:
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Thanks to the 'for you' tab, I have discovered a new level of 'inventing a guy to get mad at': a text-generating AI (which can't speak) is refusing to drop a N-Bomb to stop a H-Bomb.
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Great, insightful column by , though I found the chosen linking device rather upsetting:
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It's an outfit with five pockets! What's the alternative to the suit, we all start wearing dungarees to work? This is how civilisations fall.
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Misandry is the gradual elimination of the suit (a forgiving outfit for the maturing gentleman) in favour of the polo shirt.
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This is what bank staff are now wearing.
Will schools eventually eschew shirts, ties and blazers too?!
bbc.co.uk/news/business-
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Really interesting read this about Chelsea’s spending and their commercial strategy more broadly.
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New analysis looking at how much money Chelsea have really spent under the new owners.
Yes, player amortisation, longer contracts and other accounting tomfoolery will help meet FFP regulations, but what does this mean in the real world? #CFC
swissramble.substack.com/p/how-much-mon
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There are a lot of Conservative MPs willing to very forcefully express their disgruntlement. But for a clue as to which way power is flowing in the Tory party, look at what MPs feel able to say publicly:
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And the most important thing about it (because this influences the decisions made or deferred for the next two years at least) is that it is thus far, by its own standards, a successful comeback tour:
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Liz Truss's 'sorry not sorry' tour is focussed squarely on the Conservative party: a long essay for the paper read by more party members than any other, a sitdown interview with the magazine read by its power-brokers:
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This is dreadful viewing. Increasingly feel like Viv and Beth's injuries were the death not only of our title challenge, but of our Champions League qualification.
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Can I shock you? I love it when Spurs win games, despite what I said earlier.
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I got to speak to Sally Wainwright about the importance of local detail, humour, the joy of dialogue and why she doesn’t write weak male characters
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Fascinating piece about the Adani affair and what it means for Modi's India:
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#AndrewNeilShow tonight on C4 at 1800
predicts will go in an imminent reshuffle & tackles on the Brexit white elephant
Truss column is“delusional, utter nonsense, garbage”
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Went to see ‘The Lehman Trilogy’. Still brilliant: fascinating to see a different cast’s take on it.
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I preferred it when Everton were a good team who never beat even very bad Arsenal sides, to now, when Everton has become a team who cannot beat anyone *other* than Arsenal.
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The only things in life that are inevitable are death, taxes, and Arsenal contriving to lose against Everton this coming Saturday.
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Like Alan Partridge, you can't take away 's chat. The podcast is changing soon, but in the meantime I'm in the chair with for some great politics talk
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In the spirit you should write down your worst predictions: there is more chance of me being elected Grand Duke of the KKK than there is of the SNP picking an evangelical Christian as its next leader.
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I have lost count of the number of people, unionists and nationalists, business veterans and third-sector enthusiasts, who have come away from dealings with Kate Forbes hugely impressed, writes @chrisdeerin. newstatesman.com/politics/scotl
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*sisyphus on the phone with his parents* yeah i’m actually making a ton of progress with the boulder…no there’s not really like promotions…no yeah I can definitely ask
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Excellent from on the 'U' shape of public tax/spend over lifecourse. Net gain at start/end of lives (when need it most) and net loss in the middle. But difficult to appreciate e.g. when a baby, or when haven't yet received the benefit on.ft.com/3RwBohz via
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‘Generational warfare’ disguises the real divide in society excellent review of the current debate by
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A great opportunity to read
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I think it's a good example of how voters have a more sophisticated grasp of their material interests (boomer welfare is good class politics for many, many young voters!) than a lot of politicians:
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'Intergenerational warfare' is a product with plenty of willing sellers in Westminster but very few buyers in the country as a whole. This excellent column by (drawing on research by ) helps to explain part of why:
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Wrote for on the trend of 'presenticians' - current or former MPs with their own shows. Channels want content; politicians get recognition. It's a challenge to broadcast norms & the party machine. Could it lead to a British Tucker Carlson too?
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They fled the Nazis and found safety in Scotland. Then Churchill sent them to an internment camp on the Isle of Man.
A beautifully told story by & her brother via : enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/8cfd097
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"For all its previous lead on green tech, Britain cannot compete on subsidies and it is not setting the rules." - excellent column:
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