Privilege to take part in the Fleet Air Arm Awards in Parliament yesterday. In particular, to present the ‘sailor of the year’ award, and to say my thanks to everyone involved for their service to our country. Every award required the highest levels of bravery, skill & commitment. Congratulations to every recipient!
My new recording and music video for “Light of a Clear Blue Morning” featuring @laineywilson, @MileyCyrus, @IAMQUEENLATIFAH and @reba is out now. I hope this song brings you lots of love & light. 💛 https://t.co/jdGyFp4SHG
All net proceeds from this recording and music video will benefit pediatric cancer research at @VUMCchildren in Nashville, TN.
Sorry we don’t think any of you are good enough to win against a man but dw we’ve got a banging idea for a tiktok that will deffo prove how much we respect you …
The Labour peer said the party should not have a male leader succeed Andy Burnham, adding that “for every man who stands for leader and gets to be a leader, he has pushed a woman... into second place behind him”.
There has never been a full-time female Labour leader. By contrast, Kemi Badenoch is the Conservative Party’s fourth female leader, after Margaret Thatcher, Baroness May and Liz Truss ⤵️
https://t.co/loupUT6Nhz
We went on a school trip to the exhibition and then he came to do an assembly at our school. The lore was that he came because all the boys in my class signed up to donate their bodies.
Oasis caution against looking back in anger, yet the narrative Manchester’s other favourite son rehearsed in his first speech as Prime Minister was based on hackneyed old grievances
https://t.co/8Ob9xY57Ov
My favourite quote from a Labour MP: It is all fucking nonsense 🙃
Why quotas won't help Labour's woman problem ... and all the silly things that go with it ⬇️
https://t.co/MDFPrpZFVR
Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
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.