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Ed Cumming retweeted
'I visited the new Oxford Street – it’s a far cry from Sadiq Khan’s pedestrian ‘paradise’'
Find out what @edcumming thought of London’s grand revamp 👇
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The NS has been alarmingly sensible recently so it’s heartening to see it still has this stuff in the locker
OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
Make it happen @GoalhangerHQ
Ed Cumming retweeted
OpenAI, Anthropic & another US AI company donated at least ~£40,000 worth of prizes to a hackathon at Number 10 this week - yet the government didn’t announce their involvement publicly (I only found out via an FOI request).
What’s more, each company got to send two people into Number 10 for the event. So they gave a gift, and they got access to Number 10 as a result.
I don’t think unannounced freebies like this are appropriate when so much rests on how (and whether) the government regulates AI companies.
Ed Cumming retweeted
Whatever you think of fact and fiction in the lives of Jeffrey Archer and Jason Arday it is hard not to note that both JAs would have been speaking at 7.00 pm tonight in Cheltenham had their stories not changed. @CheltLitFest
Ed Cumming retweeted
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
The English Understand Wool
How sheepish is Europe? This map shows the distribution of sheep across Europe. Source: buff.ly/dSfHDOe
There should be a function in Word/Docs where you enter a word count at the top and it counts down in big font like a rocket launch
Ed Cumming retweeted
Scoop: The Green Party member behind the 'Zionism is racism' vote is close friends with an Al Qaeda terrorist.
Approached by the Telegraph, Lubna Speitan defended Mingh Quang Pham, who is serving a 44-year sentence for plotting a suicide bomb attack on Heathrow.
He had planned to target passengers returning from Israel, using shrapnel dipped in rat poison.
In 2015, Ms Speitan offered to testify in Pham's defence in a US court.
Today she said it was "insulting" and a "character assassination" to ask about her relationship with the convicted terrorist, and claimed it was part of a "mainstream media" plot to discredit her.
Read the full story here (gift link) telegraph.co.uk/gift/9eecdc9…
Good get
Jeffrey Archer has died at the age of 86. The novelist and former Conservative party deputy chairman died peacefully at home on Monday, according to his publisher HarperCollins.
In one of the final interviews before his death, he spoke to The Spectator’s editor, Michael Gove, about his last novel, Adam and Eve, in which the lives of two children born on Armistice day in 1918 are changed by war.
Lord Archer explained that he had been inspired to write the book by the events of September 1940, when Hitler changed his mind three times about invading Britain.
Listen | spectator.com/article/jeffre… | @michaelgove
