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[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

It's back. Incredible how giving the state powers to assist people to die, is a now considered a higher priority for some politicians than fixing an NHS that struggles to keep people alive. Grrr.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history.

A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched.

Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI.

£140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers."

Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence.

the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today.

"our work is rooted in transparency."

97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure.

AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure.

one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases.

nobody noticed until now.

[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

This really worries me

A month ago in Wales I suffered a ruptured aneurysm in my abdomen. I lost over 2 units of blood

But the Welsh ambulance service refused to send an ambulance. I was still breathing so apparently didn't need one

I spent 7 hours lying on the ground in a car park. Every time I moved I threw up from the pain. The owners of the car park called 999 6x

One of the people there was a fireman. He couldn't believe that 999 treated each call as a separate incident and couldn't see the details or link to previous calls. He was frustrated because they could see I was seriously ill but you can't see internal bleeding and so there was no way to persuade 999 that it actually was an emergency

Eventually my husband arrived by taxi, journey of more than 3 hours from our home

He gave me my pain meds (the car park people were worried about liability and I was too ill to get them myself). This meant I was able to crawl into the car and he drove me to A&E

He got me into a wheelchair. We waited 75 minutes to see a doctor. I was shivering, heaped with blankets and threw up all over the floor

As soon as a doctor looked at me I was taken straight to resus. The next day I was transfered by blue light ambulance to another hospital, had a blood transfusion and spent 5 days on the high dependency unit

If my husband hadn't been able to come and look after me I have no idea how I would have survived. As it was I nearly didn't

I would not have been able to get myself to hospital nor would I have been able to log into some digital triage system

This scheme seems to assume if you're seriously ill you'll arrive by ambulance and if not you're well enough to navigate a digital portal

My experience suggests that's a dangerous assumption

A week later, back home in England I had another ruptured aneurysm. This time an ambulance came in 2 hours and again I was taken straight to resus

It wasn't the same because I had a recent diagnosis of a ruptured aneurysm so we could tell 999 I was almost certainly bleeding internally. But I was too ill to get myself down the stairs and out to the car. We still needed that ambulance and I still wouldn't have been able to fiddle around with an ipad

Proper triage REQUIRES an actual doctor to look at the patient. It takes a matter of minutes to differentiate between a life threatening emergency and not a life threatening emergency. That's not minutes to get a diagnosis but to know that the person is stable or not stable and if not that needs immediate attention

Seriously ill people can't do it themselves. It doesn't matter how smart or articulate they are normally. Or how tough. Expecting people to manage their own emergency care isn't what a modern health service should do

https://t.co/RMi7L44fUy

[Nick Timothy MP @NJ_Timothy]

David Lammy wants to appoint more judges based on their racial and religious identities.

Now he’s appointing a woke ally to run the Judicial Appointments Commission.

She says equality is “not about treating everyone the same”.

[Phil StandenPaterson @PhilStanPat]

Pay for your replacement

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: Keir Starmer has announced the UK Government will cover visa costs and subsidise companies hiring workers from abroad

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[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

UK state ideology would be hard to better summarise than a police officer arresting a dying boy begging for help over accusations of 'racism' while his murderer watches on, free.

There are tiers to the system, and Henry was at the bottom.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

People are going to ask how this is allowed, it’s because HNH have a registered charity able to accept grants/donations and then an incorporated non charitable arm that the charity gives money to which doesn’t have to abide by the charity commission rules

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Belgian police have warned that "violent ex-soldiers from countries like Iraq and Afghanistan" are illegally crossing the North Sea into the UK

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[Phil StandenPaterson @PhilStanPat]

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[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Find this selective (and possibly sectarian) Puritanism quite funny when her party wants to legalise heroin

[Brian Willott Farms @BrianWillott]

They should change the name to "Strait of Schrödinger". It's both open and closed at the same time.

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

In 1998, Abu Hamza sent a group of terrorists (including his son) to blow up the British consulate in Yemen.

They were caught. During their trial, others amongst Hamza’s thugs kidnapped foreigners in an attempt to bargain for their release.

Hamza was eventually convicted in the USA of, inter alia, ordering that kidnapping - during which four of the hostages (including three Brits) were killed.

Separately, amongst the gang convicted of the attempt to blow up the consulate alongside Hamza’s son was Shahid Butt.

Shahid Butt is now a candidate for council in Birmingham Sparkhill in May’s local elections.

This is where our suicidal empathy brings us. Someone convicted of explicitly targeting this country’s diplomatic mission for destruction is a political candidate in… this country, today.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

People forget that in the 1990s, Britain was the fourth biggest manufacturing economy in the world.

Through the 1990s the number of jobs in manufacturing *increased*.

From 1993 to 1998, British manufacturing employment increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million. Not unrelatedly, across the same timespan, electricity prices dropped by 22%.

Our manufacturing crisis today is above all an energy crisis.

[Andrew Lilico @andrew_lilico]

So Jenrick's Reform will be keeping the Blairite monetary policy framework (BoE Independence), the Cameroon fiscal policy framework (OBR) & at least 1 of the 2 key fiscal burdens (triple lock & NHS spend). Basically, Reform now rejects almost any reform of macroeconomic policy.

[Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford]

Stark warnings from Lars Jensen, a maritime expert, this morning on the impact of the Iran war:

* The impact will be 'substantially larger' than the oil price shock of the 1970s

'Back then the amount of goods not just oil but also fertiliser, aluminium it was a lot less than we were depending on today. The impact we're seeing today is going to be substantially larger than what we saw back in the 1970s. A lot of people are underestimating what the impact is.'

• The current oil price rises are 'just beginning'

'It would appear we are only at the beginning of those price escalations. We need to keep in mind that a lot of the oil that was loaded in the Persian Gulf prior to this crisis is still right now arriving in some of the refineries around the world. That will soon stop. The oil shortages we are seeing are only going to get worse. Even if magically the Strait of Hormuz would reopen tomorrow'

* Even if the Strait of Hormuz opened tomorrow there would be six to 12 months of higher prices

'Even if you open tomorrow you are going to feel these higher prices at least for the next six months or more. That's before we take into account the facilities that have now been destroyed in the Persian Gulf. We need to sit back from a global perspective and start to work around that we will face massive energy costs, not just while this crisis goes on but also for six to 12 months once it is over'

* Britain may have to follow other nations in advising people to conserve fuel - but in reality there is little I can do

That might have to be measures if you want to keep costs under control because with the developments in the last few weeks in the Strait of Hormuz it appears exceedingly unlikely there is any short-term respite to the flow of goods. In reality not very much. At the end of the day it boils down to whether or not Iranians want to shoot at ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

* Serious concern over fertiliser shortages leading to higher food prices

'We talk a lot about oil. What has me a lot more concerned is fertiliser. We've got 20-30 per cent of the seaborne fertiliser in the world originating from the Gulf. This will mean rapidly escalating food prices'

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

Important: a big chunk of Qatari gas output and LNG train expansion was designed to feed European demand. There was a big investment programme to increase LNG supply by more than 50% by 2027. Not coincidentally, this was the date that Europe was going to ban completely the purchase of Russian gas. In other words, the Iranians are smashing Europe's entire energy plan, such as it was. The big question now is will Putin stick to form and provide Europe with the energy it needs to stave off economic disaster, or will he finally twist the knife by banning sales to Europe in anticipation of the EU ban in 2027? This is the gamble European leaders are now making. Relying on the Russians to play nice after everything. Breathtaking incompetence.

[Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon]

Thwarted in their attempts to kill people when they’re nearly dead, the political class have settled for killing people when they’re nearly born.

[Ed Conway @EdConwaySky]

👀
EXCLUSIVE- QATARENERGY CEO TELLS REUTERS: WE MAY HAVE TO DECLARE FORCE MAJEURE ON LONG-TERM CONTRACTS FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS FOR LNG SUPPLIES TO ITALY, BELGIUM, KOREA AND CHINA
- From Reuters.
This is bad.