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Chief UK political commentator and executive editor, FT. https://t.co/jdZ62mYag2…

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Ive been looking for a good reason for why I don't watch The Traitors - Henry Mance has provided my post-hoc rationalisation

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'I could pay $1000 for an AI-powered anti-snoring pillow or stick with the actually intelligent device known as a wife who digs you in the ribs when you get too loud. I am told that all models come with this function as standard'

The AI rebrand rip-off
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'Build a better mousetrap and the world apparently will beat a path to your door. Alternatively, if you don’t actually have any new ideas, perhaps you can just rebrand the existing device as AI-powered'

When AI-powered means rebranded rip-off
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Excellent & on target ⁦robert shrimsley⁩ - the madness that is 'Politics is failing Britain’s universities' & weakening one of UK distinct competitive advantages - he raises the right questions ⁦Universities UK⁩ ⁦⁦SCI – Where Science Meets Business💡⁩ via Financial Times
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“The doomed pursuit of unity…” Analysis of Sunak’s bloody Rwanda victory on the day Tory poll ratings fell to Trussian levels of 20%. With ⁦Lucy Fisher⁩ and ⁦Anna Gross⁩ on.ft.com/4b32syE

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“You wrote a textbook on a complex area of international law! Nah nah nah nah nah!”

What next? Reading out Starmer’s Legal 500 entries? Reciting the urban myth about him being the inspiration for Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones?

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Democracy by Margaret Atwood
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One of four challenging films from the FT's Democracy 2024 series also featuring Elif Shafak, Aditi Mittal and Lola Shoneyin.

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Of course, the real power play for Rwanda rebels would be to stick with their principles, vote down the bill and declare they are joining Reform if they lose the whip. I'm sure it's what the five families would do

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'The good news is that while the coughing gets bad at night, in the daytime fits are brought on only by a handful of niche activities such as laughing, breathing and eating.' Get well soon robert shrimsley! ft.com/content/a25bbf… via @ft

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'Whoop does not do justice to the bellows which emanated from my throat. The bedroom was filled with something akin to the mating call of a water buffalo.'

@RobertShrimsley on contracting whooping cough at Christmas on.ft.com/3RYxnTM

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To be told I had whooping cough felt akin to waking up in a Dickens novel where characters succumb to consumption. It has a charmingly retro feel but frankly I expect something more of the zeitgeist My Dickensian christmas affliction

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To be told I had whooping cough felt akin to waking up in a Dickens novel where characters succumb to consumption. It has a charmingly retro feel but frankly I expect something more of the zeitgeist My Dickensian christmas affliction ft.com/content/a25bbf…
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Starmer promised “a politics that treads a little lighter on all of our lives”. Like as if, says robert shrimsley ft.com/content/f977f5…

Starmer promised “a politics that treads a little lighter on all of our lives”. Like as if, says @robertshrimsley ft.com/content/f977f5…
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Interesting briefing from Keir Starmer yesterday that he was willing to defend Labour health interventions against 'nanny state' jibes. As robert shrimsley writes in this excellent column, there could be more of that if Labour wins
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Starmer intends to be far more transformational than his reassuring rhetoric lets on.

Why Starmer will not tread lightly on voters’ lives ft.com/content/f977f5… via @ft

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