Let's start the Christmas discourse 🎄

Fabulous shot taken yesterday by Robert Martin of two walkers descending from Ben Nevis via the Carn Mor Dearg arete, framed by Sgurr a Mhaim in the midground with the Glen Coe peaks and Cruachan at the back.

🚨 PM confirms that govt will accept the recommendations made in @JohnFingleton1 review of nuclear regulation. Business sec has also been ordered to "apply these lessons across the entrie industrial strategy", Starmer says.

Roses are red My aunt is called Celia

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Last week I had to write a column about covid. This week I decided on some light relief and opted for penguin necrophilia

UK GDP per person is 6 to 8% lower today than if we had remained. Business investment is down 15%; employment and productivity by 3 to 4% each. Those magnitudes are no minor frictional cost of new trade arrangements. (£)

Happy Fake Christmas to all my American friends. Hope your turkey is as dry and tasteless as ever xx

A senior academic has been suspended by Manchester University. His “crime”? Using the n-word during a disciplinary meeting while defending a colleague’s context-specific use of language. The meeting took place after a fellow academic was accused of upsetting students by using

Good to know this Guardian reviewer knows their Kenneth Clarkes from their Civilisations

The nuclear Taskforce report dropped today. It's a MASSIVE piece of work setting out everything the Government needs to do to fix nuclear. Here's a thread of the best reactions. First mine (& @BritishProgress)

When you were in the RAF, what did you serve in Grandad? Operation Nostril

(I mean this sincerely. These companies have very clever nerds paid many millions in salary, so obviously it is)

If it knows, when interrogated, that it's lying, why is it so hard to program in a "interrogate yourself and make sure you're not lying" function?

Finally it has nowhere to hide.

I ask for its sources. It answers like a weaselly undergrad in a tutorial ("Good question! I can't find specific sources. Let me see if I can identify the source of confusion" THE SOURCE OF CONFUSION IS ENTIRELY YOU)

I still find it insane that this happens. I ask chatgpt for allied recon missions in the Cold War over berlin. It gives me two really specific answers: 1/

In the spirit of the below, I'm muting this, so will miss messages both good and bad. Have a good weekend!

Can't dispute this take from the Telegraph. "What the Covid Inquiry should have said: how Miss Universe spiralled into chaos"