As always, 2 things can be true at once: 1. Any police force using AI to generate reports & evidence for their decisions should be disciplined & heads should roll 2. The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was likely justified due to real risk of racist, violent hooliganism #r4today
As always, 2 things can be true at once: 1. Any police force using AI to generate reports & evidence for their decisions should be disciplined & heads should roll 2. The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was likely justified due to real risk of racist, violent hooliganism #r4today
The informal economy where undocumented migrants & asylum seekers find work despite idiotic restrictions is larger in France than the UK. It is larger in every other European country that also have ID than the UK. The idea you can work more easily in the UK is a lie. #r4today
Mandatory digital ID was a useful dogwhistle against migrants trying to survive despite moronic work bans, but it was never going to impact that. It was about authoritarianism, control, repression & shovelling more money to private surveillance tech companies. #r4today
The informal economy where undocumented migrants & asylum seekers find work despite idiotic restrictions is larger in France than the UK. It is larger in every other European country that also have ID than the UK. The idea you can work more easily in the UK is a lie. #r4today
Mandatory digital ID was a useful dogwhistle against migrants trying to survive despite moronic work bans, but it was never going to impact that. It was about authoritarianism, control, repression & shovelling more money to private surveillance tech companies. #r4today
The informal economy where undocumented migrants & asylum seekers find work despite idiotic restrictions is larger in France than the UK. It is larger in every other European country that also have ID than the UK. The idea you can work more easily in the UK is a lie. #r4today
The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration… But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
The brutal & horrific repression of protest in Iran is just the latest illustration why immigration may be falling, numbers of asylum seekers are not falling at all.
People need to escape danger - Iran has long been a key country of origin of refugees reaching the uk #r4today
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kd7mfwtwhhb3josozp4zp4pi/post/3mcd23ifuds2w
The folks at More In Common found 2/3 of Brits are WRONG about immigration… But are we really? Or do we just mean 2 different things when we talk about immigration?
The brutal & horrific repression of protest in Iran is just the latest illustration why immigration may be falling, numbers of asylum seekers are not falling at all.
People need to escape danger - Iran has long been a key country of origin of refugees reaching the uk #r4today
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kd7mfwtwhhb3josozp4zp4pi/post/3mcd23ifuds2w
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
…There’s no doubt that anthropogenic carbon emissions are very much in the positive and this is very much a negative.
The car industry is utterly insane, and it’s doubling down on that with the help of people who want to add conspicuously wearing the look of a dead animal to that mix
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jv1vd571wo
…News just in via #r4Today: “when a serious car crash happens it’s usually because a human has made a mistake”
Anyway, if you want to understand more about citizenship stripping, instead of falling for authoritarian knee-jerk responses
I recommend a recent report from @runnymedetrust.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy & @reprievehq.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy that argues powerfully against this racist trend #r4today
reprieve.org/uk/2025/12/1...
New research exposes racist re...
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials. No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged. Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
Anyway, if you want to understand more about citizenship stripping, instead of falling for authoritarian knee-jerk responses
I recommend a recent report from @runnymedetrust.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy & @reprievehq.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy that argues powerfully against this racist trend #r4today
reprieve.org/uk/2025/12/1...
New research exposes racist re...
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials. No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged. Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials. No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged. Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
Fk me #r4today, you’ve decided that the Australian we most need to hear from is Tony Abbott?
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I listened fleetingly to Lucy Powell interviewed on #r4today and as I was drowned by her BS I found myself reflecting on what it was like for me to listen to Labour MPs the last time they were in power and before they took us to war in Iraq.
Back then, I was in my mid to late 30s and naive, and often enthused by what I heard.
I’ve learned a lot since then. But political parties don’t. They’re mostly stuck in time. And then we’re invited to invest in them for change 🤷♂️
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…I said “It’s not about whether paper exams have a higher carbon footprint or not” above for reasons of wanting to fit what followed into a single post.
When it comes to decarbonisation it *is* of course about which mode of examination has lower impact.
But at *this juncture*, it’s kind of not because what we have is a culture that is making essentially no effort at all, that doesn’t take it seriously, that doesn’t want to *examine* any of it.
And we need to fkn *start*
I stopped listening to #R4Today years ago because the bias and innuendo routinely pissed me off before the sun came up.
Totally agree that changing habits to reduce environmental impacts is entirely sensible, although in this and every other case I suspect that it's all about the data and the environmental aspects are a convenient justification....not least when driving 'millions of exam papers across the country' is unnecessary because of the same technology that digital exams use.
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Everything we do that is founded in modern tech is to do with the decarbonisation challenge.
Except when in some people’s minds who should know better it’s conveniently ‘not’.
It’s ‘not’ when the kneejerk reaction of journalists is to pour scorn on any valiant attempt to make it an everything problem.
Which is exactly what Emma Barnett did this morning on #r4Today.
She was interviewing two people about the drive towards students taking exams online rather than on paper in an exam room…
I realise this is my confirmation bias at work but…
the CEO of the Vegetarian Society was very good on #r4today a few minutes ago on the pending EU legislation that food manufacturers may only call a sausage a sausage or a burger a burger if it has meat in it.
“A solution to a problem that doesn’t exist”
