Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It’s no secret what the NHS needs:
- increase bed capacity by 20,000
- increase primary care capacity by 50%
Total cost = ~£12b
Total amount the private sector took out of the NHS last year = £12b
Yes, it’s a political choice!
@mrjamesob Following the announcement of the Grenfell Tower report, I thought I would pass on my experience. As you know I was a senior trading standards officer made redundant in 2010, one of the first to go as a result of Cameron's austerity cuts.
A white man stabbed a woman and a child in London, UK today.
He got disarmed by a muslim (Abdullah), who is a hero!
Has anyone seen the Far Right, Tommy Robinson, Andrew Tate, and Elon Musk?
We need to have some clarity about the causes of the rioting over the past few days.
A 🧵about the rioters, the instigators (two fairly distinct groups of people), and the processes leading to the current unrest. 1/21
I love him, but no. Plenty far better. Hoy, Redgrave, Daley Thompson, Mark Cavendish, Jason Kenny, Laura Trott, Katherine Grainger......and the often forgotten Rebecca Romero who won in two different sports!
She is not a trans woman.
She just don’t fit your idea of what a woman is.
But she is a woman.
She was born a woman.
As one of the biggest authors in the world, you’ve metaphorically punched her around the head. And possibly shattered the achievement of her life’s ambition