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I don't blame the Teachers for striking, so much of Society is dumped on them and they get spat at by grifters like Farage for their trouble. Do we want to end up like the United States or what?

theguardian.com/education/2025

The Guardian · Nigel Farage is a ‘poundshop Donald Trump’, says teaching union leaderBy Richard Adams

Petition to ban anyone with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxbridge from being an MP. It's too strongly correlated with having the dangerous combination of thinking you're an expert without actually knowing anything about the subject you're talking about.

"MI5, the UK Security Service, has warned that Chinese organisations and individuals granted access to UK data can be ordered by Chinese intelligence agencies “to carry out work on their behalf”. But UK Biobank told the Guardian that the NHS unit responsible for health data had in recent weeks cleared it to grant Chinese researchers access to GP records."

#UKPol #NHS #DataProtection #Privacy

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Revealed: Chinese researchers can access half a million UK GP recordsBy Tom Burgis
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…In the UK, some of the stupidest people Labour could have chosen to lead them are leading them.

One of their biggest engineering-related public investment commitments is CCS, a technology mired in fantasy. And they think ‘growth’ can come from a technology of theft, while blathering on about the ‘rule of law’.

These are deeply, deeply stupid people. They’re not going to have an epiphany