Alex

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Base and superstructure? :P less facetiously, I agree all round but think you’re slightly too kind on some of your peers for why they don’t write about complicated policy

British politicians have the wrong kind of money on the brain Westminster struggles to talk seriously about most topics and in particular about the economy

This week’s column: on a political class obsessed by trivia and unable to talk about the economy in particular:

Hadn’t clocked that- that’s interesting. I am a bit worried about the number of key players who are early 30s and will be mid 30s by time of the World Cup…

so I just looked at the script- and the answer appears to be once. Just before they attack them, so we know military intervention is ok

Hey, it calls them the Confederacy- therefore we know they’re evil because of historical American connotations

a man with a beard is holding a light saber and looking at it . ALT: a man with a beard is holding a light saber and looking at it .

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'Be real Labour': Unite cuts Labour affiliation fee by 40% and hits out at government - LabourList Trade union Unite has cut its affiliation fee to the Labour Party by 40 percent, amounting to a £580,000 drop in funding for the party.

Strike funds don’t come cheap these days

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Could be you one day xx

Ah anything responding to Stella is fair enough

haha fair enough (I also really didn’t like the vocation/contract line, why do they not think about work?)- to steal Stephen’s point though it would be nice if the justification for the positions was why these things matter instead of ‘these things matter because they were/are part of Labour’

If this is about the Naismith piece, he didn’t really say anything about work though- just the standard BL vibes (including a misreading of historic efforts round family wage) do any of them have anything interesting to say about work?

Personally I wouldn’t call it either

work is a vocation not a contract was particularly asinine. For a lot of people is it just a contract

Britain was ‘dependent on energy imports’ through the 14 years of Tory rule from 2010-24. Their policies actually made us *more* dependent on oil and gas imports, not least of all Osborne’s decision to ‘dash for gas’ fired power stations and the ban on English wind farms.

The logical conclusion of his line of thinking is we should nuke Iran.

quite funny he thinks it’s a commitment to international law that has held countries back as well, no evidence of that being breached at any point in the last 20 years…

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Or just drop a bomb and fix things, which really comes down to ‘if we blow some of them up I’m sure the savages will be a bit more civilised’

They’re sad they missed out on shooting the natives

If Ed Milliband had voted to bomb Syria then none of this would have happened

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first test four English players started, today one of them wasn’t available and another played at 13 instead of wing.

Second test four English players stated again, same issue as above with two of them and another on the bench today.

Third test three started.

But yeah, ‘great for the lions’

Not to be Mr Revealed-Preference again, but if you are a white collar man who dreams of manual labour, you can just go do a course and try and get a job.

People don't because they don't want the reality of it - either because of the money, or social performance reasons.

CANNOT WAIT FOR THE NEXT BBC FIVE LIVE RUGBY UNION DAILY PODCAST

England, grand slam favourites (according to English press)

I did actually find a bust that looked like me about three years ago

My feed is one constant stream of Rhys Carre appreciation, love to see it

So, a lot of people on here don’t seem to fully grasp the import difference between a chatbot like chat gpt, and an agent like Claude. Or why for most tasks Claude is vastly more powerful than chat gpt even when linked to a fundamentally weak model.

Would you go as far to say likely?