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Chinese manufacturing defeats the French Intifada
The French don't do revolutions like they used to
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
Imagine that. Harvard is reinventing a great books college. And the students do really want to put down the phones and pick the classics up.
“A lot of what we get out of this class is the human experience, and you can’t get that out of AI,” said Peggy Urdan, a government and neuroscience major from Lexington, Mass. “The only way to get anything out of this class is to not use AI.”
wsj.com/lifestyle/harvard-cl…
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
UK: Somalian migrant Dahir Ibrahim has raped so many women at knifepoint in the UK it is almost unbelievable. These women's lives will be changed forever but he has successfully won several court cases now because of human rights laws.
He has successfully appealed a prison term after multiple rapes and was given a community order. Within weeks he had raped more women at knifepoint.
After being finally sentenced to 10 years he blocked the Home Office's ability to deport him (Kier Starmer might have been his defence).
He has now successfully sued the NHS trust since despite being addicted to Codeine has has argued that he was made to take it during Ramadan which goes against his human rights. And he has won.
You tell me how fkd up the UK is right now.
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
In 885, Viking forces besieged Rochester, but Alfred’s forces drove them away.
And again, when the Viking army returned in 892.
The Kingdom of Kent had been incorporated into the larger West Saxon kingdom by about 825, and this helped cement Wessex’s political control.
Today is the anniversary of the death of Alfred the Great, who died in 899. Famous for defending his kingdom against Viking invasion, Alfred also strove to rebuild learning and education among the English - to restore both their 'wealth and wisdom': aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
If you had told people about LLMs a few years ago, they would probably have predicted a knowledge explosion because they make learning much easier, but just with the Internet and free online courses before, what they show is that the main problem was always demand and not supply.
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
In 2005, a tram system proposal for Leeds, the largest city in Western Europe without a mass rapid transit system, was rejected by central government as being too expensive. It might have cost as much as £1 billion. Meantime, we have £5.7 billion for this.
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
Shabana Mahmood strongly disputes (to a rather smug Lib Dem MP) the notion Brexit caused the small boats crisis.
Feb 2026
FT editor doing regime stenography
“If the internet went down completely for a day, a week, how would I survive?”
The FT's Gillian Tett questions whether we are all prepared in the event of a cyber-attack after the government's 'Be ready' advice.
#Newsnight
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
My understanding of modern dating is that no one is attractive enough for anyone, doing literally anything is an ick, and the entire species is out of its own league.
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This is so hopeful
Exactly why people voted Labour - to become preppers
"It's encouraging that people are taking practical steps to be ready"
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting reacts to #Newsnight learning of the huge upsurge in sales of key items the government said people should stock up on for a crisis.
My latest for @unherd on the rumours that Viktor Orban is in the running for post of UN Sec-Gen.
National populists might be tempted to contest the commanding heights of liberal transnationalism, but they risk repeating liberal failure - i.e., losing national democratic support
The EU has already made room for figures from Europe’s populist Right.
Now Viktor Orbán could take that battle to the UN, writes @thephilippics 👇
buff.ly/92A42bx
I went onto the @VoicesCassandra podcast to talk about my latest piece in @AmericanAffrs asking what happens to global Islam and jihadism after the end of America's unipolar hegemony?
Luke Sheehan offered plenty of probing, thoughtful questions:
cassandravoices.com/current-…
Philip Cunliffe retweeted
I wish the Serbian students all the best, but when the entire Western political-media establishment is celebrating your victory, that doesn’t bode well. It doesn’t mean the entire movement is co-opted, but it does mean that very powerful forces definitely think they *can* co-opt it and use it to transform Serbia into another EU-NATO colony.
