The sheer number of people on this site who are furious about a £2 fare cap when they don’t use buses is the precise reason why humanity is fucked and destined for oblivion.
Those people. All of them.
In Ed Miliband's first remarks overseas as foreign secretary, he condemns Iran but not the US or Israel and mentions "our Gulf partners". He talks of Russia's "aggression" but not Israel's, and speaks vaguely of the "suffering" of Palestinians. No change.
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I DO NOT want self-driving cars.
I DO NOT want humanoid robots.
I DO NOT want Al in every app I use.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want a habitable planet.
we’ve had no rain for months, three (!) heatwaves, temperature records shattered, wildfires, thousands dead and we’re only halfway through summer. of course we should be hitting net zero within 10 years you maniacs
Apparently Miss Rachel is "evil" for not wanting to fund the bombing of kids in Gaza and saying Jesus was about love, not war.
These people have lost the plot.
People are talking about a suspension or ban, but seriously, if this happened anywhere else, it would be considered what it blatantly is: assault and battery, and he should face genuine legal repercussions for behavior like this. A lifetime ban isn't enough.
My view is that there is a fundamental confusion within government and UKRI about the relationship between scientific research, Universities and growth. A strong science base and strong Universities are necessary for growth, but they are not levers you can pull to generate it, at least over the typical lifetime of a parliament. Science is the curiosity led exploration of Nature. It delivered the modern world, but it was not invented to do that. If you try to conflate all these things together you’ll get neither economic growth nor transformative scientific progress, and you run a serious risk of destroying the Universities and the science base upon which future growth depends.