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Marking AI generated essays leads me down some weird rabbit holes. After reading some questionable interpretations I went to the ‘source’ expecting that to also be AI-generated. However … (see next post)

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If you are working class and in the lower sets for English you have no access to books, novels, poetry, or plays but rather a daily grind of basic literacy worksheets”, as one teacher reports in our latest blog post Diane Reay #LSEInequalitiesBlog blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

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Yep. Had this battle with Dan Hodges on Twitter for five years. He was right, I was wrong.

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No 1 issue and No 2 issue largely in tension with each other. Governing, eh?

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This gives credence to Labour’s ‘Macron vs Le Pen’ strategy.

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on.ft.com/4dxFWzn Europe’s far right is hammering at the door of power

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Whatever the economic news is, Rachel Reeves and Mel Stride each put out the same statement time and time again. "I’m determined that we go further and faster to put more money in people’s pockets.” “Families are paying the price for the Labour chancellor’s choices,” www.ft.com/content/3aac...

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And they are going to focus on that 6% so hard the other 94% goes elsewhere … and they won’t move the dial on the 6 either.

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The Tories governed for the most part by looking after their electoral coalition: Old people, homeowners, rural voters & later voters in towns. It’s when they blew up the homeowner part they ended up in big trouble. Lab thinks punching its electoral coalition in the face is how to win an election.

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Great stuff from @stephenkb.bsky.social. If Labour’s recent social media outputs are anything to by, then it seems the party is going to be stuck in the TV age for some time. It’s strange as their election social media was quite slick. on.ft.com/45jOFDc

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I’m jaded enough to expect the both sides approach from our national broadcaster underpinned by a tabloid-led narrative. Was embarrassing listening to Chris Mason’s question earlier compared to the European media’s questions on details.’

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I’m old fashioned enough to think the BBC should be leading on what the deal is and what it means. Rather than the political claims from both sides.

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Starting to view typos as a mark of quality in a student’s work as it means that particular sentence was less likely to have been produced by AI.

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Some great points here. My instinct is, given the deft political nous of Farage, he won’t spend the next few years ‘banging on about Brexit’.

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Just one university - UCL - employs almost twice as many people as there are working in fishing boats.

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This has stayed with me and shaped my perspective on AI in the university. It needs to be actively discouraged so we can develop cognitive abilities. Its later use as a tool in the workplace will produce far greater outputs because graduates will have better abilities having done the heavy lifting.

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Morgan McSweeney must have no understanding of the online ecosystem currently driving Reform support. Speak to supporters, and read their online posts, they despise Starmer. They (wrongly) accuse him of letting criminals out of prison to imprison protestors (rioters) in Aug. They’ll never vote Lab.

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Extremely this ⬇️

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Not yet a year into Lab’s huge majority & it’s feeling like it’s blown it. The best hope for centre-left voters is new leadership from outside the PLP. As a former ambitious mayor who became PM once said "If the ball came loose from the back of the scrum” I’m sure Andy Burnham would be up for it.

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In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

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Very happy to pay for good quality local journalism. Thanks for joining up www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-warm-welco...

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Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

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30 minute tantrum from my nearly two-year old was not how I envisaged this evening going (he’s only ever had a couple of short ones before this). On the plus side, it was because I said no to another book as it was well past his bedtime. So at least it was over something meaningful haha.

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Labour's immigration announcement today is a reflection of the paucity of honest debate by BOTH political parties over the last decade on this issue. Labour has never made a counter-argument, or been honest about economic cost of immigration curbs, so it's stuck making Tory/Reform arguments 1/n

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Call the raised taxes to significantly increase the pay of social care workers the ‘cut immigration tax’. We then might finally be able to have a rational discussion about immigration including all the benefits it brings to our lives.

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Great article setting out how finance, tech, military and trade policy are all mingling in ways not seen during the neoliberal era. Absolute gains are out, relative gains are back in. on.ft.com/451VZTP

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One of the many flaws in Labour’s strategy was to overestimate the impact political chaos had on the economy and underestimate austerity and Brexit. The ‘grown ups being in charge’ has had no discernible impact. It suggests you could remove Starmer and Reeves and be successful with new policies.

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