Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, has in recent days begun responding to users with information about violence against white people in South Africa, doing so without any related prompts about that topic. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

Jesus christ: “The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News. nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

Enough. We demand rapid, safe, and unimpeded access to starving civilians in Gaza. We have a plan. We have thousands of trucks of food at the border. Let us in. Let us work. bit.ly/3S7M0oo

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So he raised the tariffs, paused that raise, paused that pause, then paused that pause of the pause. And no-one knows if it'll be paused again (and if such a pause will be unpaused) or what happens when (or if) the pause whose pause was paused concludes.

If this doesn't make you proud to be British, I don't know what will:

Make no mistake. This is an extinction level event for American scientific dominance.

The Settlers, the doc I made for the BBC, is now available to stream in the US on BBC Select. It couldn’t be more timely with the announcement today that the Israeli govt has approved construction of 22 new settlements in the West Bank - which are illegal under international law.

I watched this happen on the morning of 4 June 1989 in Chang’an Avenue, near Tiananmen Square, the morning after the night’s massacre. Don’t believe the propaganda lie that no massacre took place: I saw 40 people killed in front of me before giving up counting in despair.

last time a us president deployed the national guard without consent of the governor was 60 years ago. 1965: when lyndon johnson used them to protect civil rights demonstrators in selma, alabama over the objections of governor george wallace. different times.

Context that must be included in news reports: The Madleen is a civilian vessel, it is UK-flagged, it is carrying humanitarian aid, everyone on board is unarmed, and it was sailing in international waters.

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

London-listed commodity trader Glencore uses one of its Swiss registered trade desks to buy Russian copper that's under British sanctions. (Yup, Glencore is happy to list on the London Stock Exchange, but will bypass the UK government rules on Russia by claiming it's Swiss)

A missed opportunity to testify that the US obviously does not have plans to invade one of its strongest allies

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BREAKING: British MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion after 24 weeks in England & Wales, marking the biggest step forward in reproductive rights in almost 60 years.

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

You really couldn’t make it up. Question Time is now doing a whole show on what it’s like growing up in Britain today….with a panel that includes only one person under the age of 45. The average age of the panellists debating what it’s like being young in Britain today? 48.

I would really like to see another teacher get air time....