Jack Peters

Politics Graduate @Cambridge_Uni | Former-Pres @CambridgeUnion | Views my own

[The Cambridge Union @cambridgeunion]

We are delighted to announce our Presidential Debate: “This House Believes Margaret Thatcher Liberated the Proletariat”

Proposition: @JackPeters_W @DanielJHannan @jamespriceglos

Opposition: @ClarkeMicah @MarkDrakeford and Lord Glasman

[Freddie Poser @freddie_poser]

Britain losing access to Claude fable isn’t on the BBC or Times homepage, 4th on the guardian, 7th on the FT and below the fold on the Telegraph.

What are we doing here?

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

This is the article/thread from which Reform have taken the single quote ‘Black lives do matter’ - despite the piece explicitly and bravely arguing against the excesses of peak woke. Its use to smear Kemi as a hypocrite is fundamentally dishonest.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

🚨Campus cancel culture strikes again!

Durham University Students’ Union has attacked the university’s historic debating society — the Durham Union, founded in 1842 — over its planned event with author Helen Joyce (@HJoyceGender), calling it “irresponsible and uncaring” and offering a safe space for students distressed by her visit.

While admitting that students have a “fundamental legal right” to debate who and what they want, the Students’ Union is seeking to create a hostile environment around the event and to dictate how it should be run.

It is all so horribly familiar: a Students’ Union weaponising the supposed vulnerability of one group of students to undermine the free speech rights of another.

The Free Speech Union is proud to support the Durham Union through our Ian Mactaggart Programme. We will not stand by while student bureaucrats and activists try to restrict the lawful free speech rights of students and debating societies.

https://t.co/cI1yO22ORT

[Jack Peters @JackPeters_W]

If Zack Polanski thinks 5k words is “too long” that says everything you need to know about the intellectual substance and seriousness of the Green Party.

[John Rentoul @JohnRentoul]

Polanski on Sky News, the authentic voice of the know-nothing Corbynites

[Roger Mosey @rogermosey]

The important thing, whatever your opinions on the substantive issues, is that this debate happened. Five years ago in @cambridge_uni it wouldn’t have been possible. Well done to the Cambridge Union for living up to its traditions of free speech.
https://t.co/aT8zey3I2C

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

I was banned from European Parliament for this speech in 2016.

Just listen and ask why this simple demand was too radical for Europe, and how many women were killed for it.

Happy International Women’s Day 💔

[Julia Lopez MP @JuliaLopezMP]

The Labour Party is about to have a popularity contest over who can spend more of your money, badly. It’s terrifying.

[Laura Trott MP @LauraTrottMP]

It’s utterly wrong-headed to teach children they have a right not to be offended. Schools should be places where ideas are tested and debated, not repressed.

[Claire Coutinho @ClaireCoutinho]

This is spot on from Kemi.

We must cherish and protect freedom of religion and the freedom to criticise religion.

This is why Labour’s Islamophobia definition is so fundamentally damaging.

[Helena Horton @horton_official]

I do find it slightly jarring that an endorsement of the French healthcare system is presented alongside racist comments

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

@ZackPolanski - this is magnificent. Three things I can’t deny:

1. It is a video.
2. You are wearing a jacket.
3. Then you aren’t.
4. Then you are again.

Unfortunately that’s where the accuracy ends.

A few corrections for you:

Peter Thiel is not our CEO. Alex Karp is — and has been for 20+ years. (A lifelong Democrat, for anyone keeping score.)

We are not a “spyware company.” Spyware is malware. Malware is illegal. Calling a software company spyware is, technically, defamatory (don’t worry, we are not suing).

We don’t build surveillance technology. We build software that helps organisations make sense of data they already hold. Not the same thing.

There was no “private tour” of our HQ. There was a public photocall to which the media came. Hence, why there are so many pictures of the event.

Our MOD contract is not “the biggest defence contract in UK history.” Ajax armoured vehicles = £5.5bn. Dreadnought submarines = £31bn. We’re grateful for the work, but let’s keep a sense of scale.

We have no more access to NHS data than Microsoft has to the contents of your Word documents. I think you know this by now.

We don’t have access to patient medical records. Same story.

I agree that “nothing matters more than our health.” Which makes it worth reminding you of what Palantir’s software is actually doing in the NHS right now:

->110,000 additional operations
->15% fewer delayed hospital discharges
->7% more patients finding out within 28 days whether they have cancer

Respect again for what you did with that jacket.

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

“You’re more likely to lose your job to someone who is using AI, than to AI itself...”

Rishi Sunak speaks to @faisalislam about how AI could impact jobs, with the former PM saying the “best protection” is to have a “competence and confidence using these new tools.”

#Newsnight

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Name them, then.

[Next Gen Tories @NextGenTories]

Labour is taxing young people out of work, and hiking grads on Plan 2 to fund more benefits.

Reform believes young people are lazy and ‘don’t work as hard’ as pensioners did.

The Lib Dems want you to rent forever.

Looking for a New Deal for Young People? Vote @Conservatives.

[Simon Clarke @SirSimonClarke]

This sounds totally mad. *Every* single new development, regardless of size? Needing a dedicated new surgery of its own? With no discretion as to other local infrastructure that might be needed more?

What modelling have they done, if any, about the impact on housebuilding, already at a record, devastating low?

[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

That Orban’s defeat is - and should be - seen as such a victory for the West says something about the way that he has become the spokesman and agent of Russia and the autocratic world. The sane Right should cheer this.

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

A Royal Holloway student is facing possible hate crime charges after making a joke comparing a pro-Palestine activist's headscarf to a tea towel in a case the student says should "scare everybody". https://t.co/KqBgtTBYyT