Watch this to the end. He knows...

Timely and well worth attending...

In many other countries the head of state would have resigned. Not in France and the EU. The technocrats are rule, anti-democratic by nature and hang on until the system breaks. Why not shorten the working day at school, reallocate the ridiculous pension schemes towards younger people? Just another 'consultation'. and other 'report'. TBH much the same here now. Useless 'kick can down road' reports.

Truly banal address to the nation. We have consulted academics who will write a report.... no solutions, only evasion... a hollow man...

Brighton 3 Crystal Palace 0 On train but should make second half. Son at game on my season ticket!

On panel at Battle of ideas with a Comedian, Lord, Mathematician and Freedom of speech bod. All good spirited. Although people love to take refuge in big abstract nouns like wisdom, creativity etc

This is madness.

Israel is complicit in this brutal ethnic cleansing. Zionism has employed this species of fascism for some time.

Did the historian Helen Carr on R4 just confuse Herodotus with Thucydides?

Today I saw the first flying car. It got from 0-16 in 0.81 seconds and took off, albeit for a few seconds. Those who simply have a deep hatred of Elon Musk will dismiss everything, blind people seeing, paraplegics functioning, a revolution in communications, astonishing breakthroughs in medicine, success in AI tutoring, electric cars contributing towards saving the planet and the possibility of accelerating research and practical solutions to problems in any field. This is churlish and childishly naïve. The flying car shifts the world from 2-dimensional to 3-dimensional transport, without the need for a driver. This revolutionises the delivery of anything; people and goods. Freight and emergency services will come first, then air shuttles on key routes. It is not that cars will disappear, but transport networks will have trains, planes, driverless taxis and air shuttles. Eventually, we may not even need roads. Travel, at some point, will not require the private ownership of a vehicle and will take place within an AI managed 3-dimensional space. Why does this matter? Since the invention of the combustion engine, a complicated and expensive series of polluting explosions using fossil fuels, 55 million people have been sacrificed, killed in horrible mangled bloody deaths on our roads, many of them innocent pedestrians, cyclists and passengers in cars that did no wrong. That’s three times the number of people who died in the first world war. This coming year well over a million people will died on our roads. It is a war level massacre. That’s not to count the much larger number who suffer life changing and other injuries. Over 30 percent of UK emissions comes from transport. If you are even remotely interested in climate change, you should welcome the fact that electric cars are now commonplace. Driverless taxis are operating in many cities and countries. The Cybercab is not after Uber’s market but driving itself. I have never driven a car and look forward to the day when I can be driven, safely, at negligible cost, without being ripped off, anywhere, at any time. This morning I was also reading a Google paper on AI beating Doctors on clinical decision making and Great Ormond Street’s AI interpreted infection test machine that will change the world forever, saving many, many lives. I work in this field and have never been so excited about the future than I am today.

Good piece. Burnham is basically making a huge error in using Foreign Policy as a proxy for Domestic politics, most notably Brexit. Some see thisheading for disaster... spectator.com/article/does-a…

Turchin appears to have been right… bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq80…

Astonishing sentence, really astonishing...

Over before it started...

Who the **** is Alice?

Obvious question is how this was even possible. Shines an uncomfortable light on the employers bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqgk…

Hold on to your hats, this will be a hoot…

Scottish parish church with its own local Sistine Chapel....

No Farage fan but this is ridiculous…