Age standardised mortality rates from 1942 to the end of 2020 for England and Wales. Note that the rate for 2020 is lower than the rate for 2008 and every year before 2008. Source: ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationa…

I have just seen a post on a local forum where someone is asking if anyone might be able to provide some work experience for one of their children who has a BSc and has just completed an MSc. This is why universities are not working - if you come out after 4 years and still need to rely on your parents to find work there was perhaps not much point in getting those degrees. I know this sounds very uncharitable of me.

Using children as a reason for removing previous freedoms from young people is deeply dishonest and is almost inevitably one of the early steps in eventually controlling all of our digital interactions.

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AI is not going to replace software engineers. All work we, in my organisation, merge into the live system needs to go through an automated LLM-driven code review. Last week this system started suggesting breaking changes to our code and in one instance it actually suggested something that was syntactically incorrect in terms of coding - if I had accepted the suggested change it would have broken the build on our build servers. Another change it suggested would have completely broken the logic in the commit - it was a shockingly bad suggestion. I commented to my lead lead that it was as though someone had poisoned the LLM and the AI agent was just suggesting rubbish. One on my colleagues was just accepting the AI suggestions which was breaking their build. This is why AI is not going to replace software engineers.

I am now fairly sure that Starmer and his cronies want the island to erupt into riots so that they can bring in the full communist state they fantasise presiding over.

The US administration hate Starmer, his own country hates him and his fellow MPs hate him. What will it take to get this into hus thick skull?

The Odyssey is perhaps a relevant story for the West, today if ever, where we are returning home and have discovered that our house has been taken over by undesirables.

Masked morons in Belfast burning down houses and cars? Is this a left-wing operation trying to pin the blame on the "far-right" ?

How do you think we should feel, our native citizens again and again come under brutal attack from those from outside of our island and our politicians say nothing but "If you protest you will go to jail!" - how are we supposed to feel about this?

I have noticed that there are a whole bunch of accounts created around June 2013, with very few posts, that are being used to spam ads showing @Nigel_Farage attacking people on BBC Question Time. These all use fake images and are definitely some sort of coordinated disinformation/propaganda stunt - but who the hell is running it?

Flipping 'eck, I am about to put on my winter socks - it's a bit parky indoors in June too.

There appears to be a massive propaganda operation taking place on X at the moment that shows completely fake images of @Nigel_Farage attacking other people on BBC Question Time.

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I would probably "categorise" myself as a conservative with a small "c". I say this because in my 35 years of working I have noticed that there is a pattern and tendency in business to encourage and reward those who enforce changes across teams or businesses. These changes are almost always about restricting and controlling others and I don't think I have ever seen much improvement from these changes. The changes generally just end up being a case of doing things differently rather than a measurable improvement. It's why I don't make team or business-wide suggestions but rather if I see a change I can make I will do that to improve my own performance - and here's the thing, not being a "squeaky wheel" these changes are almost never noticed. I think it's why the "noisy" people tend to make it to the top, as society and business rewards those who shout rather than those who just quietly get on with things. It also means that those at the top tend to be those who like to control and impose changes on others.

I do not know of, or remember, a time before Starmer when a US administration criticised the UK leadership so publicly.

This is the sort of 💩 that AI serves up as a response when doing a Google search for "Gene Hunt".

Much as I dislike The Guardian, those of us who lived through the 80s will remember this great advert. I think those losing their sh!t over the Rafa Jódar video would do well to see this old advert. youtube.com/watch?v=_SsccRkL…

Hang on a minute... Let me get this straight... The driver got a shorter prison sentence than the passenger? Please make it make sense. BBC News - Pair jailed over 139mph fatal crash in 30 zone - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yr…