Listening to Luke Pollard on #r4today was like listening to an LLM that has dug itself into a deep semantic hole on migration.
Except, to be fair, an LLM would sound more intelligent and pivot its way out of it
Jim Killock
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All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration.
Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back a media obsession?
Personally, I’m sick to death of this one issue crowding out everything else going on in the world. Repost if you agree.
All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration.
Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back a media obsession?
Personally, I’m sick to death of this one issue crowding out everything else going on in the world. Repost if you agree.
Good on Ed Davey for boycotting Trump’s visit to see King Charles, and for creating an opportunity to speak plainly on #r4Today about how Tory/UKIP/Brexit/Reform fetishes have made the ‘small boats’ predicament very much more acute.
But that clarity is unlikely to reach the people it needs to.
And Davey stopped short of being honest about the bigger picture – the global north syphoning $2 trillion annually from the global south – because to do so would undermine LibDem ideas about economics
Some bullshit merchant on #r4today this morning peddling Sustainable Aviation Fuel as a “fuel of the future”.
As per usual, completely unchallenged by the business as usual desk of Sean Farrington.
SAF thinking is the fuel of no future https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/111487018049697087
Incredible interview with an incredible man. Veterans of major wars often have such a different attitude to conflict than politicians and armchair generals.
Anaemic growth figures are out. Questions that #r4today have not asked and I presume no other mainstream channel will either:
What is the minimum level of growth that the current system needs to remain viable on its own narrow terms?
What happens when we consistently fail to meet it?
Why are we not restructuring to something that can last longer?
…As the saying goes, there are lies, damned lies, and Robert Jenrick.
You can get to the data view that I took a screenshot of above, by
1. going to ‘Monthly Crime Data’ by Metropolitan Police Service at https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/metropolitan.police.service/viz/MonthlyCrimeDataNewCats/Coversheet
2. Clicking on ‘Overview of crimes’
3. Choosing the crime category of ‘Sexual offences’
…If you are a sucker for punishment, you can listen to Jenrick inciting hatred on #r4Today in a 7m:40s segment that begins at 1h:34m:10s at https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gqfh
Today, #r4Today platformed the detestable Robert Jenrick in whipping up hatred based on spurious stats which weren’t challenged.
As he is obsessed with the incidence of sexual offences he might like to look at Westminster, where it’s highest per 1,000 London people
Token pushback against the relentless boosting of AI on #r4today’s Thought for the Day, but studiously ignoring most of the deterministically deleterious affects of AI
Caught a bit of #r4today where Dr Madeleine Sumption from the Oxford Migration Observatory at COMPAS did a good job of saying, as diplomatically as possible, that, as with the last government’s obsession with Rwanda, today’s slew of ‘stop the boats’ tactics might shift immigration “at the margins”, but not appreciably.
Diplomatic because, in about half an hour, David Lammy is going to be on the show bloviating about it all, no doubt diligently avoiding reality