You really do have to be quite spectacularly naive to think that Boris Johnson, of all people on this earth, with his famous attention to detail and in view of the great respect he is held in by European leaders, would somehow be able to get a deal which eluded the team which included, err, Boris Johnson.
In the abstract, it would be amusing to see him try, in the same sense that in the abstract it would be amusing to see John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn running the economy.
But he is this generation's Churchill, so surely he would get a better deal?
If the EU is rejecting Chequers then what's the frigging point of May?
Why should it take Lynton Crosby and Boris to kill a deal that's already dead. How long is May going to carry on with the pretence that Chequers is agreed when it isn't? It's a Dead Parrot and it's time for May to shuffle off.
She's clearly playing a three dimensional chess game of some kind, but what?
Three dimensions - mislead, concede and deceive.
You do know you are in a substantial Parliamentary minority for your hard Brexit
Indeed push too hard and Norway will be the best you get, and indeed we may even ending up staying
I think we are back in the to territory of hard brexit happening by default.
I really hope not
THe Boles plan is potentially much more Brexity. The idea is to exit from Article 50 straight into EFTA which will maintain the EEA Agreement in tact. In a stroke deadlines, cliff edges, the wretched Irish backstop, the CAP and the CFP are all gone giving the opportunity to negotiate into a FTA as circumstances dictate.
Labour have literally spent the whole summer arguing over IHRA.
How in God's name are they still on 37-40%?
Because unfortunately most people don't take any notice what is going on in politics. 90% won't even have a clue what the IHRA is and even more clued up see a tweet saying Labour have adopted it (minus the crucial examples) and move on.
Let’s see what that margin is when they realise they’ll have to pay €50 to see a GP.
Folk who tend to think of the NHS as a failing, bad value for money quasi religion but also think it's a reason that the Norn Irish should hang onto the UK are currently my favourite Brexit folk.
Apparently, according to wikipedia, he was briefly a Geography teacher on VSO.
I had always though the jokes about him looking like a clapped out, 1970s geography teacher, in a particularly tough comp, were just that .... a joke.
How did somebody who failed their A-Levels get a job teaching (even volunteering)...what were the requirements? Can you point to your home country on a map?
If the EU is rejecting Chequers then what's the frigging point of May?
Why should it take Lynton Crosby and Boris to kill a deal that's already dead. How long is May going to carry on with the pretence that Chequers is agreed when it isn't? It's a Dead Parrot and it's time for May to shuffle off.
She's clearly playing a three dimensional chess game of some kind, but what?
Three dimensions - mislead, concede and deceive.
You do know you are in a substantial Parliamentary minority for your hard Brexit
Indeed push too hard and Norway will be the best you get, and indeed we may even ending up staying
Norway would be better than May's Chequers.
I hold no firm and fast opinion on this but I can see TM doing a deal, but whether it is Chequers or not, I am very relaxed about it
Any fool could agree a deal if all they do is sign whatever Barnier tells them to sign. That's like saying Washington could have got a deal with George III.
Apparently, according to wikipedia, he was briefly a Geography teacher on VSO.
I had always though the jokes about him looking like a clapped out, 1970s geography teacher, in a particularly tough comp, were just that .... a joke.
How did somebody who failed their A-Levels get a job teaching (even volunteering)...what were the requirements? Can you point to your home country on a map?
To be fair, for once, to Magic Grandpa, he got two grade 'E's.
Probably sufficient given enough enthusiasm to teach VSO.
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
Labour have literally spent the whole summer arguing over IHRA.
How in God's name are they still on 37-40%?
Because unfortunately most people don't take any notice what is going on in politics. 90% won't even have a clue what the IHRA is and even more clued up see a tweet saying Labour have adopted it (minus the crucial examples) and move on.
True. I didn't know what the IHRA was until last month.
But they may have noticed that Labour have said nothing all summer on anything that connects with their daily lives.
Apparently, according to wikipedia, he was briefly a Geography teacher on VSO.
I had always though the jokes about him looking like a clapped out, 1970s geography teacher, in a particularly tough comp, were just that .... a joke.
How did somebody who failed their A-Levels get a job teaching (even volunteering)...what were the requirements? Can you point to your home country on a map?
To be fair, for once, to Magic Grandpa, he got two grade 'E's.
Probably sufficient given enough enthusiasm to teach VSO.
After all that's two 'B's under the modern system
By the standards of the school he went to, two E's is a failure ;-) I can't imagine there are many other alumni who have done so badly.
I do wonder exactly what the evidence is for the claim that Corbyn has fought racism all his life.
What has he actually done? Has he set up any organization or raised money? Any legislation he has promoted? Any particular campaigns he has been responsible for? Or achievements to his name?
We know about his support for the Palestinian cause. And for violent Irish nationalism. But on the anti-racism front, what has he done? Am genuinely curious.
Again another biased, loaded pro EU Best for Britain poll and as I have consistently pointed out Protestants in Northern Ireland voted to Leave the EU and will never accept being part of the Republic of Ireland
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
In a Richard Nabavi sense of the word it would be amusing if the "United" Kingdom lost Scotland but kept Northern Ireland including backstop.
I do wonder exactly what the evidence is for the claim that Corbyn has fought racism all his life.
What has he actually done? Has he set up any organization or raised money? Any legislation he has promoted? Any particular campaigns he has been responsible for? Or achievements to his name?
We know about his support for the Palestinian cause. And for violent Irish nationalism. But on the anti-racism front, what has he done? Am genuinely curious.
Corbyn's idea of fighting anything is to attend a meeting about it and give a short speech. Or perhaps hold a banner. He must hold the world record for protest meetings attended.
Nothing wrong in that in itself. Better to make a protest than do nothing.
But, this is one of the fundamental reasons imho he is unfit to be PM. Even if you agreed with all his views and ideas and points of principle, he is not equipped to actually run a government or legislate. He would have no idea.
I suspect McD will run the government, whilst Jezza continues to attend rallies.
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
Depends if AI creates new jobs or just destroys existing ones
I do wonder exactly what the evidence is for the claim that Corbyn has fought racism all his life.
What has he actually done? Has he set up any organization or raised money? Any legislation he has promoted? Any particular campaigns he has been responsible for? Or achievements to his name?
We know about his support for the Palestinian cause. And for violent Irish nationalism. But on the anti-racism front, what has he done? Am genuinely curious.
Corbyn's idea of fighting anything is to attend a meeting about it and give a short speech. Or perhaps hold a banner. He must hold the world record for protest meetings attended.
Nothing wrong in that in itself. Better to make a protest than do nothing.
But, this is one of the fundamental reasons imho he is unfit to be PM. Even if you agreed with all his views and ideas and points of principle, he is not equipped to actually run a government or legislate. He would have no idea.
I suspect McD will run the government, whilst Jezza continues to attend rallies.
Hey hey be fair....he also signed a million early day motions...many of which were totally bonkers.
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
In a Richard Nabavi sense of the word it would be amusing if the "United" Kingdom lost Scotland but kept Northern Ireland including backstop.
Perhaps they should poll Northern Irish unionists on which bit of Great Britain they would prefer to remain united with.
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
One solution would be to start giving post-doc researchers some kind of job security.
I do wonder exactly what the evidence is for the claim that Corbyn has fought racism all his life.
What has he actually done? Has he set up any organization or raised money? Any legislation he has promoted? Any particular campaigns he has been responsible for? Or achievements to his name?
We know about his support for the Palestinian cause. And for violent Irish nationalism. But on the anti-racism front, what has he done? Am genuinely curious.
Corbyn's idea of fighting anything is to attend a meeting about it and give a short speech. Or perhaps hold a banner. He must hold the world record for protest meetings attended.
Nothing wrong in that in itself. Better to make a protest than do nothing.
But, this is one of the fundamental reasons imho he is unfit to be PM. Even if you agreed with all his views and ideas and points of principle, he is not equipped to actually run a government or legislate. He would have no idea.
I suspect McD will run the government, whilst Jezza continues to attend rallies.
Hey hey be fair....he also signed a million early day motions...many of which were totally bonkers.
No doubt OrderOrder are going through them all, line by line.
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
One solution would be to start giving post-doc researchers some kind of job security.
1 - 3 year contracts are the norm.
In the current climate, I am not sure it would make much difference. The money on offer if you have the particular skills the likes of Amazon are looking for is crazy. I know for instance with the example I gave, the group had very specific expertise, which for an undisclosed reason Amazon wanted to acquire, and they just hoovered up the lot, academics, post-docs, PhDs.
Last year I spoke with another academic who had the same kind of experience with Google. They hired him, all his post-docs and PhDs and moved them all to Switzerland on big bucks. I asked him how did they expect the PhDs to complete, and he basically said they give them time to work on their studies, fly them to the UK when required etc. They know in a year or two they will have yet more highly skilled individuals inside the tent.
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
If England is a corpse, what does that make Scotland?
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
One solution would be to start giving post-doc researchers some kind of job security.
1 - 3 year contracts are the norm.
Older pbers will recall SeanT decrying Osborne's cuts to research while China was investing massively.
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
One solution would be to start giving post-doc researchers some kind of job security.
1 - 3 year contracts are the norm.
Older pbers will recall SeanT decrying Osborne's cuts to research while China was investing massively.
Did he? I mean Osborne? I thought that was one of the few things they protected. Stand ready to be corrected.
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Around a third of leading machine learning and AI specialists who have left the UK’s top institutions are currently working at Silicon Valley tech firms.
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
One solution would be to start giving post-doc researchers some kind of job security.
1 - 3 year contracts are the norm.
Older pbers will recall SeanT decrying Osborne's cuts to research while China was investing massively.
The problem isn't if there is or isn't money in universities for ML, there is and a lot of interesting work is ongoing.
The problem is that the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon will easily pay 5x their salary and obviously start-ups offer the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a potential billion dollar business. Microsoft have lost some top talent as well to the big 3 and well funded start-ups.
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
If England is a corpse, what does that make Scotland?
England just beat India today, the second most populous nation on the planet. I am sure England will be fine regardless
Lol but we'd need to see the detail, this poll smells of shenanigans.
I smell it too. However, I am far from confident that Northern Ireland wouldn't vote for union with the RoI and that Scotland would reject independence. Particularly the latter. Who will argue for union the second time round? We are in union with a corpse thanks to Brexit. The corpse doesn't care about who it is in union withe either.
If England is a corpse, what does that make Scotland?
England just beat India today, the second most populous nation on the planet. I am sure England will be fine regardless
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Mark Lilla, new book: "The Once and Future Liberal"
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
$70 million for a company that had no revenue generating product, but a really interesting data set and skilled staffed many of which came through a particular MPI group with specalist skills in using ML to learn a generalized body model.
Kinda of hard for academic institutions to compete with that.
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Mark Lilla, new book: "The Once and Future Liberal"
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
As I posted earlier today, there is a huge vacuum in the likes of US and UK politics. How to deal with the future challenges, especially ever increasingly automation, including the next wave thanks to Machine Learning that will eat up lots of middle class paper pushing jobs.
What we have is either the likes of Bernie Sanders / Corbyn saying what we really need to do is try socialism, but do it properly this time...or the likes of the Tories (and Hilary Clinton in 2016) who just don't seem to have any ideas other than to say keep calm and carry on.
Margaret Hodge has effectively suggested the only way Labour’s difficulties over antisemitism would come to an end would be if Jeremy Corbyn were no longer the leader of the party.
Well at least they are being a bit more honest about their intentions now I guess. Happy to have another leadership contest if they want.
Margaret Hodge has effectively suggested the only way Labour’s difficulties over antisemitism would come to an end would be if Jeremy Corbyn were no longer the leader of the party.
Well at least they are being a bit more honest about their intentions now I guess. Happy to have another leadership contest if they want.
Attendees at a Farage talk in Australia heckled with 'Nazi evil off our streets.'
Inside Farage praises Pauline Hanson, Donald Trump and Tommy Robinson bit warms of the need to tsrget Islamism rather than the religion of Islam. He calls says May is the worst ever British PM
Also in Australia Steve Bannon calls ousted ex PM Turnbull an appeaser of China and says Australia is ripe for a working class revolt against the globalist, liberal elite
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Mark Lilla, new book: "The Once and Future Liberal"
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
As I posted earlier today, there is a huge vacuum in the likes of US and UK politics. How to deal with the future challenges, especially ever increasingly automation, including the next wave thanks to Machine Learning that will eat up lots of middle class paper pushing jobs.
What we have is either the likes of Bernie Sanders / Corbyn saying what we really need to do is try socialism, but do it properly this time...or the likes of the Tories (and Hilary Clinton in 2016) who just don't seem to have any ideas other than to say keep calm and carry on.
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Mark Lilla, new book: "The Once and Future Liberal"
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
As I posted earlier today, there is a huge vacuum in the likes of US and UK politics. How to deal with the future challenges, especially ever increasingly automation, including the next wave thanks to Machine Learning that will eat up lots of middle class paper pushing jobs.
What we have is either the likes of Bernie Sanders / Corbyn saying what we really need to do is try socialism, but do it properly this time...or the likes of the Tories (and Hilary Clinton in 2016) who just don't seem to have any ideas other than to say keep calm and carry on.
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
I am confident that in the long term things will be ok, but the short term upheaval will not be pretty when lots of middle class folk find a computer has replaced their skilled professional position in the same way as skilled manual labour have had to deal with similar revolution over the past 20 years.
I really wouldn't want to be 30 year old doing a low / mid level job that revolves around doing some basic analytical work, as ML techniques can do it better than you especially if overseen by 1-2 humans.
Margaret Hodge has effectively suggested the only way Labour’s difficulties over antisemitism would come to an end would be if Jeremy Corbyn were no longer the leader of the party.
Well at least they are being a bit more honest about their intentions now I guess. Happy to have another leadership contest if they want.
You think Hodge is vying for the leadership?
I think Hodge doesn't want Corbyn to be leader of the labour party, the way to change leader is to have a leadership contest, the complain and stamp your feet until he stands down routine must surely be confirmed as something that isn't going to work at this point.
Also in Australia Steve Bannon calls ousted ex PM Turnbull an appeaser of China and says Australia is ripe for a working class revolt against the globalist, liberal elite
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
It's not going to create the same number or type of jobs. It's hard to see any other possible outcome but UBI from here. It's just a question of how and when we get there.
And the costal liberals wonder how people in the rust belt could possibly vote for Trump....Ford factory only employees a fraction of the former workforce and the party of the working man is arguing over...
My point was that your average worker in the rust belt worrying about if his job at the Ford factory is going to go hears about leading figures in democratic party arguing over this. I am not sure their response would be suitable for a family friendly website like this.
Mark Lilla, new book: "The Once and Future Liberal"
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
As I posted earlier today, there is a huge vacuum in the likes of US and UK politics. How to deal with the future challenges, especially ever increasingly ay keep calm and carry on.
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
I am confident that in the long term things will be ok, but the short term upheaval will not be pretty when lots of middle class folk find a computer has replaced their skilled professional position in the same way as skilled manual labour have had to deal with similar revolution over the past 20 years.
I really wouldn't want to be 30 year old doing a low / mid level job that revolves around doing some basic analytical work, as ML techniques can do it better than you especially if overseen by 1-2 humans.
Those kind of jobs coupled with skilled manual jobs are what a majority of workers do, hence if automation goes badly expect the populists to be in the majority for most of the next half century and a universal basic income funded by a robot tax to be inevitable
Also in Australia Steve Bannon calls ousted ex PM Turnbull an appeaser of China and says Australia is ripe for a working class revolt against the globalist, liberal elite
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
It's not going to create the same number or type of jobs. It's hard to see any other possible outcome but UBI from here. It's just a question of how and when we get there.
The question largely boils down to how long can the owners of capital keep convincing everyone that it's immigrants and not automation which are taking their jobs.
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
It's not going to create the same number or type of jobs. It's hard to see any other possible outcome but UBI from here. It's just a question of how and when we get there.
Even I agree with you on that. A UBI of some form will eventually come in
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
It's not going to create the same number or type of jobs. It's hard to see any other possible outcome but UBI from here. It's just a question of how and when we get there.
The question largely boils down to how long can the owners of capital keep convincing everyone that it's immigrants and not automation which are taking their jobs.
The owners of capital want both cheap, low skilled immigrants and automation, the majority of the population want neither. It is the clash between them that is fuelling the rise of populism across the globe
Love the brass neck on DavidL trying to blame Argentina's current economic crisis (and running to the IMF, which went so well last time - also under a neoliberal right wing government) on Corbyn-style policies when the country has had a hard-right government for three years and this collapse has come *after* the enactment of the failed hard-right free-market extremist policies he claims everyone should love. Unspoofable, as I believe someone here used to say.
See also - Brazil, where the right wing couldnt win an election so had to steal the presidency, and unpopular austerity measures have likewise presided over economic disaster.
Its almost as though there is something affecting the continent that transcends neoliberal / keynesian policymaking (the ongoing commodity prices collapse).
Venezuela is suffering, but this is as much from devestating sanctions and sabotage as mismanagement. During the Chavez years, Venezuela's economic performance was historically excellent.
Notable of course that one of the earliest adopters of Venezuela-style social democracy in the region, Bolivia, which has beaten off the attempts of right-wing coup-mongers over the years, is one of the best performing economies in Latin America.
Love the brass neck on DavidL trying to blame Argentina's current economic crisis (and running to the IMF, which went so well last time - also under a neoliberal right wing government) on Corbyn-style policies when the country has had a hard-right government for three years and this collapse has come *after* the enactment of the failed hard-right free-market extremist policies he claims everyone should love. Unspoofable, as I believe someone here used to say.
See also - Brazil, where the right wing couldnt win an election so had to steal the presidency, and unpopular austerity measures have likewise presided over economic disaster.
Its almost as though there is something affecting the continent that transcends neoliberal / keynesian policymaking (the ongoing commodity prices collapse).
Venezuela is suffering, but this is as much from devestating sanctions and sabotage as mismanagement. During the Chavez years, Venezuela's economic performance was historically excellent.
Notable of course that one of the earliest adopters of Venezuela-style social democracy in the region, Bolivia, which has beaten off the attempts of right-wing coup-mongers over the years, is one of the best performing economies in Latin America.
Absolutely.
Must keep remembering that Chavez came to be worth a few hundred million dollars, and his family more, because of the excellence of his economic policies, and nothing to do with the galloping corruption / ruler self-enrichment that is characteristic of socialist countries.
Unless automation creates new jobs to replace those lost it will only accelerate the rise of populist parties on both right and left while also fuelling demands for a universal basic income funded by a tax on robots
It's not going to create the same number or type of jobs. It's hard to see any other possible outcome but UBI from here. It's just a question of how and when we get there.
That will surely encourage fewer robots and lower productivity, whilst media commentators who bewail the Rise of the Robots (Ta-Da!) also bewail the alleged UK lack of productivity. They can't have it both ways.
We have been through waves of automation before, and switches to new industries happen quite well. Here we are now some way into the revolution which is supposed to be an existential threat, and we still have full employment, despite a workforce which has expanded by 3 million or 10% in the last decade.
I'm not convinced that this is anything like the existential crisis claimed.
Margaret Hodge has effectively suggested the only way Labour’s difficulties over antisemitism would come to an end would be if Jeremy Corbyn were no longer the leader of the party.
Well at least they are being a bit more honest about their intentions now I guess. Happy to have another leadership contest if they want.
IMO dumping Corbyn would not even scratch the surface. The core of the antisemitism poison in Labour is around Corbyn's friends, fellow-travellers who have had the green light to join Labour, fellow campaigners, and organisations where Corbyn's endorsement has flown a flag giving permission to hate Jews.
Corbyn's opinions, behaviour and heroic "circumlocutions" (*) have brought it to wider attention, especially recently, but the roots are very deep.
(*) How many different stories to Jeremy eventually tell about Tunis - was it 4 or perhaps 5?
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But he is this generation's Churchill, so surely he would get a better deal?
https://twitter.com/wesstreeting/status/1036281481495240705
"Stay out of Schengen open borders regime and bring back British passports"
https://twitter.com/DarranMarshall/status/1036374336331022336
https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1036362813776818176
https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1036364807681835008
https://twitter.com/DAaronovitch/status/1036367763537895425
How in God's name are they still on 37-40%?
So time to relax and turn off the light
Hope everyone has a peaceful night's rest
Good night folks
I had always though the jokes about him looking like a clapped out, 1970s geography teacher, in a particularly tough comp, were just that .... a joke.
She is not going to go down in history as uniting Ireland.
That's Jezza's job
https://twitter.com/MeanwhileScotia/status/1036366844649779200
https://twitter.com/kevverage/status/1036370904815726592
Probably sufficient given enough enthusiasm to teach VSO.
After all that's two 'B's under the modern system
But they may have noticed that Labour have said nothing all summer on anything that connects with their daily lives.
What has he actually done? Has he set up any organization or raised money? Any legislation he has promoted? Any particular campaigns he has been responsible for? Or achievements to his name?
We know about his support for the Palestinian cause. And for violent Irish nationalism. But on the anti-racism front, what has he done? Am genuinely curious.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/09/02/britain-faces-artificial-intelligence-brain-drain/
This is quite worrying e.g. About 18 months ago Amazon literally bought up a whole research group Sheffield University who specialize in a particular niche area of ML.
Nothing wrong in that in itself. Better to make a protest than do nothing.
But, this is one of the fundamental reasons imho he is unfit to be PM. Even if you agreed with all his views and ideas and points of principle, he is not equipped to actually run a government or legislate. He would have no idea.
I suspect McD will run the government, whilst Jezza continues to attend rallies.
1 - 3 year contracts are the norm.
Last year I spoke with another academic who had the same kind of experience with Google. They hired him, all his post-docs and PhDs and moved them all to Switzerland on big bucks. I asked him how did they expect the PhDs to complete, and he basically said they give them time to work on their studies, fly them to the UK when required etc. They know in a year or two they will have yet more highly skilled individuals inside the tent.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/air-conditioning-office-still-sexist-dont-care-anyone-says/
The problem is that the likes of Google, Facebook and Amazon will easily pay 5x their salary and obviously start-ups offer the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a potential billion dollar business. Microsoft have lost some top talent as well to the big 3 and well funded start-ups.
Gordon's little speech. Some hilariously moronic comments underneath. He is both a Blairite and a Tory.
Not sure he would use this precise example, but probably he would argue it is of a piece with the identity politics of the Dems that has turned millions off from them.
Start talking about shared citizenship and how we can improve the living standards of ordinary folks and stop banging on about all our minute differences would be his message I think (I paraphrase).
https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/03/amazon-has-acquired-3d-body-model-startup-body-labs-for-50m-70m/
$70 million for a company that had no revenue generating product, but a really interesting data set and skilled staffed many of which came through a particular MPI group with specalist skills in using ML to learn a generalized body model.
Kinda of hard for academic institutions to compete with that.
What we have is either the likes of Bernie Sanders / Corbyn saying what we really need to do is try socialism, but do it properly this time...or the likes of the Tories (and Hilary Clinton in 2016) who just don't seem to have any ideas other than to say keep calm and carry on.
Inside Farage praises Pauline Hanson, Donald Trump and Tommy Robinson bit warms of the need to tsrget Islamism rather than the religion of Islam. He calls says May is the worst ever British PM
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/02/nigel-farage-fans-heckled-outside-event-perth-australia
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-03/steve-bannon-says-china-is-at-economic-war-with-west/10174604
I really wouldn't want to be 30 year old doing a low / mid level job that revolves around doing some basic analytical work, as ML techniques can do it better than you especially if overseen by 1-2 humans.
Those kind of jobs coupled with skilled manual jobs are what a majority of workers do, hence if automation goes badly expect the populists to be in the majority for most of the next half century and a universal basic income funded by a robot tax to be inevitable
See also - Brazil, where the right wing couldnt win an election so had to steal the presidency, and unpopular austerity measures have likewise presided over economic disaster.
Its almost as though there is something affecting the continent that transcends neoliberal / keynesian policymaking (the ongoing commodity prices collapse).
Venezuela is suffering, but this is as much from devestating sanctions and sabotage as mismanagement. During the Chavez years, Venezuela's economic performance was historically excellent.
Notable of course that one of the earliest adopters of Venezuela-style social democracy in the region, Bolivia, which has beaten off the attempts of right-wing coup-mongers over the years, is one of the best performing economies in Latin America.
Must keep remembering that Chavez came to be worth a few hundred million dollars, and his family more, because of the excellence of his economic policies, and nothing to do with the galloping corruption / ruler self-enrichment that is characteristic of socialist countries.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/9993238/Venezuela-the-wealth-of-Chavez-family-exposed.html
An open and shut case.
We have been through waves of automation before, and switches to new industries happen quite well. Here we are now some way into the revolution which is supposed to be an existential threat, and we still have full employment, despite a workforce which has expanded by 3 million or 10% in the last decade.
I'm not convinced that this is anything like the existential crisis claimed.
Corbyn's opinions, behaviour and heroic "circumlocutions" (*) have brought it to wider attention, especially recently, but the roots are very deep.
(*) How many different stories to Jeremy eventually tell about Tunis - was it 4 or perhaps 5?