This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more.
This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead.
Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards.
What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning.
Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to.
I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.
At what point is a government held to account for not spending their tax payers money on things that improve the lives (or roads even) of the actual tax payer?
The average price of gas in America is $2.82 per gallon.
There are 19 states where you can find gas under $2.
Here in Los Angeles, it’s over $4 and you get to step over homeless people while you fill up.
Californians are being ripped off.
This is theft.
🤯 It can take 6 hours to travel across Wales by rail
Meanwhile, in England, billions are being spent on huge railway projects that Wales is effectively paying for and getting nothing in return
A Plaid Cymru government will fight for the money we are owed from Westminster 🏴
🤯 It can take 6 hours to travel across Wales by rail
Meanwhile, in England, billions are being spent on huge railway projects that Wales is effectively paying for and getting nothing in return
A Plaid Cymru government will fight for the money we are owed from Westminster 🏴
Glorious, this BBC hack, pontificating about net zero, gets annihilated by Guyana president Irfaan Ali. The UK was also once covered in forests which could have absorbed CO2 - but we chose to chop it down to build factories and ships.
https://t.co/mS4hnPFFzW
Uganda cut down trees to sell to China. Part of the deal is China pays Uganda to plant replacement trees, makes sense. Why are Welsh government paying Uganda to plant trees?
🚨SENEDD'S AFRICA TREE PLANTING SCANDAL CONTINUES🚨
After we exposed Senedd members wasted our cash planting trees in Uganda, one may have expected them to drop the project. But that would be wishful thinking. They've shamelessly doubled down and vowed to carry on. Disgraceful.
Of course there are British rapists. OBVIOUSLY. We all know that. That doesn’t mean we have to willingly import even MORE from the third world.
It is really not a complicated principle.
Sadly, we can’t deport the British ones. We can remove the foreign ones.
Let’s do that.
Latest YouGov post-Budget poll: Labour’s general approval rating falls to minus 60 (12% approve, 72% disapprove). At this rate most Labour MPs and cabinet ministers will be out of a job come the next election.