‘Israeli commentators have argued that Hizbullah had no reason to fire rockets at northern Israel, that it chose to launch this conflict. Nasrallah took a different view.’ Adam Shatz on Lebanon, Israel and the death of Hassan Nasrallah: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Liz Truss has got a son called Margaret Thatcher Truss. She really wanted a daughter but you don't always get what you want.
"High status" people don't even carry their own phones let alone generally use smart watches.
Oh yes, we're going to abolish copyright in the next 12 weeks. 🤪
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Feryal Clark, Labour’s new minister for AI, says the government wants to see the issue resolved by the end of the year
The Pirate Party unexpectedly enters the UK government.
The motivation is principally "efficiency". The social work teams are expected to use the AI to spend less time per client and thereby take on more clients to help to clear backlogs. If they spend same time per client as before they can't do that, even if doing supposedly higher-value activities.
This was (among many others) my own great-great-grandparents who came to London from what is now Belarus in the 1890s. A cabinet maker and seamstress.
Exactly that. There was a perception among many establishment/acculturated Jews that the immigrants would undermine their own position. The immigrants mostly didn't speak English and mostly couldn't work in professions as they were largely prohibited in Russia / Pale of Settlement.
That wouldn't take long.
True. I don't fancy my chances of succeeding.