Dangers of a shared language and social media that knows no borders. On sites like X, Britons and Americans are indistinguishable. So the British right get drowned in American culture war nonsense an… (View Post)

That's to assume that we have a shortage of people getting STEM qualifications, and that STEM roles are AI-proof. I'm not totally sure that either of those is the case. In my professional l… (View Post)

Possibility one: Becoming a Thatcherite tribute act has always been the plan, and Red Wallers who hoped for a stern nanny state party have been bamboozled. Possibly two: We're at the "Sprin… (View Post)

Yup. Plan 2, as originally conceived, was pretty elegant as a least-bad way to transfer more of the costs of HE to the students. Once graduates had a vaguely premium salary, pay about ten percent of … (View Post)

Couple of things going on. One is accessibility of a campaign message by having essentially the same message in different formats and languages. As a soggy woke-lite centrist, good. One is having dif… (View Post)