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RT @jonathancoe@twitter.com

Ten years ago today, this grotesque book was published.

It was written off as the fever dream of the Tory party's maverick libertarian fringe.

Today one of its authors is Chancellor of the Exchequer. Another is Prime Minister of the UK.

Happy #BritanniaUnchained day everyone!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/jonathancoe/status

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RT @BladeoftheS@twitter.com

A monarchist, an abolitionist, a Liberal Democrat, a Conservative, a Remainer and a Brexiteer went into a bar.

The Bartender said 'Here's your drink Liz.'

(I never let her pick, she always changes her mind)

🐦🔗: twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status

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The deafening silence over Brexit’s economic fallout.
The ONS forecast level of decline (which it is holding to) would result in lost revenues for the Treasury of roughly £40bn a year; enough for the equivalent of 6p off the 20p in the pound basic rate of income tax.

ft.com/content/7a209a34-7d95-4

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Nothing too revealing in this video but if you want to know what's happening in the #UK #Politics George Monbiot describes it well.

yewtu.be/watch?v=nCtk_7nZ8Ns

#Tories #Truss #Starmer #Neoliberalism #Media

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In case it wasn’t clear Conservatives don’t give a flying fuck about ordinary people (see energy bill scam) Kwasi Kwarteng decides now is the perfect time to rub all our noses in their shit:

theguardian.com/politics/2022/

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RT @PeterStefanovi2@twitter.com

Two million adults in the UK cannot afford to eat every day

Meanwhile the Government plans to deliver its latest “benefit” of Brexit

🐦🔗: twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/st

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📢 Take a look at our UK Free to Protest guides! 📢

We believe that people should be able to attend peaceful protests without the police using sophisticated surveillance tools to monitor, track and identify protestors indiscriminately.

pvcy.org/freetoprotest

#FreeToProtest

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Odd that a watch is a traditional retirement gift when one of the benefits of retirement is that you no longer have to care what time it is.

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RT @Haggis_UK@twitter.com

8th September Lord Spencer(Tory donor) says get rid of the cap on bankers bonuses.

14th September Kwasi Kwarteng(Chancellor) jumps to it. twitter.com/FT/status/15701418 t.co/Qgcb27Vqra

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1

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RT @BylinesEast@twitter.com

#Yellowhammer warned that #Brexit could cause problems for
Peace
Order
Ports
Energy
Fishing rights
Health
Social care
Travel
Food
Pets
A reflection of what we now face. Can we begin the path to rejoining the EU?

-- John Dell's letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk/on-yel

🐦🔗: twitter.com/BylinesEast/status

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Great thread. We need Free and Open source Software in the age of deep learning!

RT @emilymbender@twitter.com

I not infrequently see an argument that goes: "Making ethical NLP (or "AI") systems is too hard because humans haven't agreed on what is ethical/moral/right"

This always feels like a cop-out to me, and I think I've put my finger on why:

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🐦🔗: twitter.com/emilymbender/statu

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RT @CarolineLucas@twitter.com

Just when we see the back of a law-breaking, Parliament-proroguing, office-abusing PM in Boris Johnson - he's replaced by a climate-wrecking, handout-refusing, redistribution-opposing, Brexit ideologue PM in @trussliz@twitter.com

Buckle up, it's going to be a rough ride #ToryLeadershipRace

🐦🔗: twitter.com/CarolineLucas/stat

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