Prof Rob Dover

Dear The British, please take being in politics more seriously. The whole deal is making things better for your fellow country dwellers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That's a lot of spending, making and recruiting to be done.... Oh and an entire change of culture. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

It's an interesting provocation: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Very true

Meanwhile, in 1913.... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Periodically, one should always return to Wodehouse....

Claude solves 30 year old cryptography problem: www.anthropic.com/research/ecd...

Even for a country hardened by street insurrection, the events at the weekend were shocking. The context for the riots is the underlying tension linked to France’s election next year bit.ly/4sc9pGh Photo: AFP via Getty Images

People who claim Russia should be appeased in case we use nukes never explain why they think the world is a better place now the use of nuclear blackmail is a legitimate tool of statecraft. They never even stop to ponder the question. /

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Nearly close to incitement is that Lowe post...

No one is addressing the core problems that the country faces

Your regular reminder that the best available evidence shows this is simply not true

Scaramucci, 11 days in the role, says "records are there to be broken" www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...

Another triumph for Starmer. I think firing Robbins without cause was the moment Whitehall completely lost faith in him.

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What we are seeing here is a Trump-Musk pass the sh!t show game. Look, Musk does not do this without Trump--that is just the reality. Trump wanted this, Musk was happy to oblige. However to blame Musk is a sign of how panicked the administration is (which is a good thing).

Half a Scaramucci: bbc.in/4ioj2P0

This means consequences of attacking our oil refineries are hurting us badly.

📢 The @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social appoints a new director: @anandmenon.bsky.social will succeed @cergrant.bsky.social as director, taking over at the start of 2027.

Europe needs to stand up independent capabilities.

Race politics, electoral impact AND flying cars. It's quite the cv. cnn.it/3VT4Btu

It's not an amazing use of compute: www.instagram.com/p/DeeH_Z-kQw...

I shouldn't have to unfollow a government feed to avoid seeing animals eating humans. Can we please go back to some form of normality, and by normality I don't mean ancient-Rome-normal.

We've all been there... (Nope): www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...

So, umm, are we under attack? news.sky.com/story/hacker...

The Trump administration threatened senior Ukrainian officials with a total cutoff of U.S. intelligence sharing and access to the Europe-led PURL weaponry scheme if Kyiv strikes Russian energy infrastructure, sources told the Kyiv Independent.

Interesting development. Assume highly automated. And a way to mitigate tariffs.

Andy Burnham will on Monday formally reopen the fraught national 'conversation' about Brexit. ft.trib.al/7Uisolp

30,000... we need to stop thinking HE is as it was. It isn't. What is HE now? Not just a shadow of the prior version, it needs to be its own thing now.

Agreed. It's 'ok' to make AI more dangerous if it's for controlled national security purposes maybe.. but not in the consumer applications: www.economist.com/leaders/2026...

The strategic realignment and the emotional call to 80years of history that seems to have been smoked. Very sad. But the real world is where Europe needs to be.

Zelensky with a sharp move just before the mid terms. Shows where the power is in modern politics...

Oh

Opinium/Observer (7th-9th October fieldwork) has these party standings + leader approval results. 🌹 LAB 29% (-1) ➡️ REF 23% (-2) 🌳 CON 20% (+3) 🌍 GRN 9% (-2) 🔶 LD 9% (n/c) 🌹 Burnham +8 (n/c) 🌳 Badenoch 0 (n/c) 🔶 Davey -6 (n/c) ➡️ Farage -26 (-4) 🌍 Polanski -29 (-7)

EU capitals are quietly preparing for how to respond to a major hybrid attack that leaves several citizens dead, according to five diplomats and officials. That outcome looks increasingly likely, they warn. 🔗 vist.ly/5msy5

UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

The debate about whether Trump was ever a Russian asset is pointless. No-one will ever know. But what we do know is that it doesn't matter. Because Russia is the only winner of all the US foreign policy work this year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm watching pundits discussing America buying Russian diesel and live streaming an execution. Has Charlie Brooker taken over the news?

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

I know I shouldn't like this.. but I do... spectrum.ieee.org/walking-robo...

The government have a policy,but they just don't want to announce it.

All very normal in a functioning democracy

August Hanning spent seven years at the top of Germany’s foreign intelligence service with access to some of the country’s most closely guarded secrets. Then came a second act.

Are we under attack? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still not a great story.

Well, yes. But Gerstner (the venture capitalist with attendees regret) and Michael Dell were presumably there because they've been advocating for child trust funds and they've got mugged off as the President decides to talk about something else.

Child of the 80s. He was quite a feature and my grandmother thought he was mustard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.