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I think this would be crossing a rubicon that goes beyond Trump alone. His underlings have to be fully signed up for what is essentially a coup. Hegseth yes but Im not sure about Vance or Rubio.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 13h

There is a banana in shot which didn't reappear in the UK until 1946. So, clearly the war is over.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 15h

that will be his political epitaph.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 15h

In the second part of this investigation we will go on to consider older, indeed biblical, manifestations as they relate to plagues, of locusts, frogs and boils.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 15h

Maybe she doesn't care about reality and will say anything to be elected?

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 19h

because its easier to monster one side and exonerate the other than accept a problem is intractable.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 21h

He might have figured out he faces a hostile press already and I don't think your stitched together monster will find a wider appeal than they already enjoy. I do think the Greens shooting themselves in the foot and Burnham signalling Rejoin means he will win back enough support. Bookmark that.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 21h

They will which I'm sure will be countered by vote blue get Reform. However I think the louder message will be vote red get EU which I think Lab would be wise to lean into rather than play down as while it is the defining issue that unites both blocks, the pro EU one is the bigger.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 23h

Excellent article. I had some sympathy for the Greens, but was always suspicious of Polanski. The solar powered line should be hung round his neck as a epitath for the rest of his time as leader. They are lost now which is a great shame for the climate crisis, but good news for Andy Burnham.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A very strong contender but in the end my vote went to WESTWORLD.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Great. Enjoy your continued irrelevance.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah there's all that good stuff like a social safety net, striving towards freedom from want and explotiation and doing all you can to encourage human flourishing, but what about my Lamborghini?

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is unrecoverable for Polanski to think he could simply duck this vote and remain 'leader'. The Greens need to decide if they want to become more influential, but willing to make compromises and alliances like other European Greens, or stay ideologically pure and become mainly irrelevant.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was put off by Polanski because he came across to me as a chancer. Turns out he is also a coward.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Really? I can't see either being the deputy to the other.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I thought exactly the same! "I would now ask the jury to retire, as so should I and return your verdict of not guilty"

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Loved season 1 so much I watched all of season 2 & 3 despite hating every bloody minute. They could have got a second season out of it by doing an Aliens vs Alien type sequel where it just became carnage across all the worlds with a final shot of Evan Rachel Wood carrying Ed Harris's head.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think this special pleading is more about him trying to stay out or court, or better still jail.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

He is, the question is, is that just going to be more impotent whining, a lashing out that will be messy but can be coped with, or something more dangerous? I suspect it comes down to whether the people lining up to take over from Trump think they really have the numbers and guts for a coup or not.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had him down as fairly vile, but I didn't think he was that vile. I remember him appearing on the Clive Anderson show and Clive asking "is there no beginning to your talents?" He was clearly referring to Archer's literary ones rather than rather darker arts.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes there is all the complex historical stuff but its so much more satisfying to pick a side. Either side will do as long as monster the other and mistake your simplifications for clarity.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So what does the vote on Zionism at their conference do to the Green's chances? While there appears to be a general consensus they have shot themselves in the foot with the average voters, will the young more radical electorate you describe be more galvanised to vote for them? Any thoughts?

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Clearly I'm missing something and I'd really like to know what it is, as to my mind if you don't know the real cost of training I don't see how you can make any claims about the economic viability of the AI labs. Are all the claims about poor unit economics and subsidising customers simply false?

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is also the issues of bad remembrance where the reality of WW2 is reduced to the Dam Busters movie and a Vera Lynn record. Maybe start with their own experience of the terror, boredom and mobilisation of the early days of Covid, add conscription, fear of invasion and imagine that for 6 years

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Getting his defence in early

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the message is we really don't know how to protect $2 billion planes from $500 drones.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would be amazed if this figure remains in the dozens. I would bet that the combination of sloppiness, arrogance and high speed development that seems the norm at OpenAI means it will end up in the hundreds if not the thousands.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have a friend who was an extra in the opening scene. When asked who they wanted to be killed by he was the only one in his group to choose Sean Bean over Pierce Brosnan.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking forward to Robin Wigglesworth

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What no ones tells you about getting old is just how young it starts for bits to start hurting and not doing what they should and for how many decades it extends.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After the first 2 I said I wanted 4 before half time to prove they really could play this well. And it came to pass! Most fun I've had watching England since we beat Germany 5-1.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As we are discovering life at almost the single celled level responds to anaesthesia in the same way I would say if a system cannot be rendered unconscious it was never conscious in the first place. And before anyone mentions a 'switch', unconsciousness is very much not the same state as off.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I trust on the bottom is printed "the question is when?"

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm thinking people who would claim this is one of the darkest movies ever made haven't seen a lot of Michael Hanake.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd agree that about a quarter to a third of our fellow citizens are reactionaries of some persuasion and I fear this is the norm across a lot of polities. I think there are some pretty deep rooted and atavistic psychological traits based on fear and loathing that seek hierarchies and scapegoats.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think you are being optimistic. I've always thought when push comes to shove the full on neo-Nazi vote has hovered between 12-15% and either comes out or remains under its rock (or votes Tory) depending on the electoral offer.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Maybe not forever, but that would require some sort of compromise and with the leadership split between such massive egotists as Badenoch, Farage and Lowe I can see it remaining so for a while yet. Neither Farage or Badenoch will accept being the junior and Lowe is happy being Ian Paisley (never!).

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only $1 trillion Katie? "Total investment in data centers & related AI infrastructure is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025 to 2032, according to new estimates by economist Stijn van Nieuwerburgh published by the Brookings Institution" (from Adam Tooze). Is this even believable or bonkers?

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think arrogance would be a better term

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

However 1. Post Ukraine closer integration with the EU can be framed more clearly in defence terms 2. The Brexitiers can more easily be aligned with the implosion of the Trump presidency post the mid terms. 3. The AI crash is also going to leave us looking for economic stability/friends outside USA.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Due to space constraints the new office will not be based in the Pentagon but work out of a new centre being built in Salem which has a history of expertise in this area.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the link to Walter Benjamin is pretty insightful. His argument that what happened to art and images at the start of the 20th century due to mechanical reproduction is about to happen to thought itself as it too becomes mechanically reproduced has profound political consequences.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe like the way they have utterly missed the point of literature by using AI to reduce it to plot summaries they could get AI to turn all music into a short jingle? The Mercury awards or maybe even the entire Proms could be done and dusted with ten minutes of soul destroying ring tones.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And while we watch you cry here’s a recap of your journey

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Most people won't hear the arguments just the headline and like admitting Brexit is shit doesn't say what we need to replace it, it does at least demonstrates we need to. Hopefully this is political WD40 just to get the rust off and the conversation actually moving.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wow. I didn't realised they had thought this all through with that level of complexity. I love the fact that the AI's have faces and the humans do not.

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Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or enough of the public. Hopefully he is past the days of trying to appease to the permanently enraged who are lost in a miasma of bile and nostalgia and will focus on those that appreciate that the future will not be in sepia and public services are still a good idea despite having to be paid for.

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