America’s willingness to tear down the past in relentless pursuit of a better future is why it’s winning. Remember 2017 when the Elizabeth Tower renovation was nearly cancelled after MPs found out the clock was going to be switched off temporarily.

Me after realising that all this chat is about one seat in the Welsh Parliament

God this is a depressing self-appraisal

YES

Very little here that doesn’t also apply to the UK irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

‘Hint’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Turns out, people vote to be richer

you've heard about The Alan Turing Institute (~£30m/yr), but do you know the issues with the British Business Bank (£25b), the closest thing we have to a sovereign wealth fund? or how VC incentives costing £1b a year don't help scale or sovereignty? to fix this chart, we need to fix *them*:

I have a letter in today's FT arguing that there is no real trade-off between pursuing frontier growth and catch-up growth, but that catch-up growth driven by more building is what will deliver the biggest growth in the near term.

Autumn is the best season and it's not even close

“broad scientific consensus around superintelligence being safe” is commie nonsense and will always be used as a bludgeon imo

This guy is a Eurocrat obsessed with regulations, literally Javier Milei’s Waluigi

The superintelligence ban proposals are totally unworkable, but you just know that some <100 IQ MPs will be pushing the Government to adopt this in the AI Bill. This should be resisted at all costs, otherwise the UK will become an AI pariah like the EU.

Germany gets it

Not allowed caffeine today because of a scan later so I’m just running on the natural energy of rage against Britain’s enemies.

Alexa, define irony

Rachel Reeves getting the productivity forecast from the OBR