I looked at the budget to try to help. Primarily it is rent (for lodging in SE London, hardly glamorous), secondarily it is the cost of barrister exam fees which it seems the chambers in question doe… (View Post)

I am not sure about an outright ban on algorithms, but only a few days ago we had many on this board report dolefully about the descent into paranoid conspiracy-mongering they had witnessed in friend… (View Post)

FT: The Canadian province of Ontario has said it will cancel a $100mn contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink in retaliation for US tariffs. “We’ll be ripping up the province’s contract with Starlink. Ont… (View Post)

We can only pray. (View Post)

Confusion over presidential wishes is really the least of the issues. Musk has no constitutional status whatsoever, but seems to have taken control of critical (including HR) government data, and has… (View Post)