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A thread about representation of the Scots language and public libraries. According to the 2022 Scottish census a total of 1,527,590 people (28.8% of the population) ticked the box to indicate that they could read Scots. 1/
The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed. Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed. By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The question facing the Conservative party is what to do when its core beliefs turn out to be fantasies.
Shock news as Alex Salmond, former SNP Leader and First Minister, and now Alba Leader, has suddenly passed. Salmond got his start in elected office in Banff and Buchan in 1987, going on to lead his party in 1990, and into the successful 1997 Devolution Referendum.
98% of the adult cares homes closed to protect people from harm were run by for profit companies. And 90% of children's homes. Time to end this absurdity. Core public services should not be cash cows for private equity. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were run for profit
Choices, choices - teenagers are faced with too many and not everyone can get it right occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
This is very good on the use of ChatGPT in academic work. “If writing is thinking, as I repeat to my students multiple times a semester, then offloading any part of that thinking to a machine is anathema to the process.”
I wrote about an exchange I had with some of my computer-oriented friends yesterday and why ChatGPT is bad for academic papers, even if you're just using it to find sources. joshuapnudell.com/2024/10/04/s...
Yesterday I ended up in a long conversation with friends sparked by this article. They are computer people (programmers, IT, web admin types) and largely pro-AI, while I, the historian and teacher,…
How did Whitehall react to the Scottish indy referendum in 2014? Was it a prelude to the Brexit referendum in 2016? Have lessons been learned should there be future existential risks to the British state? Philip Rycroft talks to Peter Geoghegan Watch: www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/events/savin...
Ten years ago the Scottish independence referendum posed an unprecedented and potentially existential challenge to the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. In this talk, Philip Rycroft, Former...
Claudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico's first female president thanks in no small part to her popular predecessor, AMLO. Now, she seeks to chart a course of her ownClaudia Sheinbaum becomes Mexico's first female president thanks in no small part to her popular predecessor, AMLO. Now, she seeks to chart a course of her own
Before Tuesday’s inauguration, Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president-elect, embraced AMLO, her popular predecessor.