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[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

When it comes to big business and millions of dollars in arms sales human rights mean absolutely nothing. Trump and the Saudis are pretty much on par and think the same on human rights and freedoms of your citizens.

I emphatically agree there.

[Raj]

15 minutes ago, 123 said:

No.

Great input!

[fox_up_north]

23 hours ago, MaidstoneFox said:

Yep, it used to be manual jobs with industrial revolutions, but this will be a purge of white collar jobs. We've been exploring the range of tasks AI can do at work, but already it's not a big jump to imagine an AI bot delivering lessons and a non-qualified teacher just assisting across a couple of classrooms and checking behaviour, safeguarding etc. Similarly, I can see quite a near future where most marking and examining is done by AI. I'm going to push my kids towards hairdressing as a career I think!

I work in education. The big factor missing from this assumption is teenage behaviour and costs. Absolutely no chance you have one person "across a couple of classrooms".  Technically, you're not even allowed to leave the room these days. 

[st albans fox]

49 minutes ago, Raj said:

Great input!

Could do with that level of clarity at the club !

[Lionator]

2 hours ago, foxy boxing said:

When it comes to big business and millions of dollars in arms sales human rights mean absolutely nothing. Trump and the Saudis are pretty much on par and think the same on human rights and freedoms of your citizens.

While we’re participating in the abhorrence of what’s happening in Gaza, we can not take the moral high ground on anything. As Trump says, how can we lecture people on what’s morally right?

[Dr The Singh]

3 hours ago, st albans fox said:

Could do with that level of clarity at the club !

@Raj works for Rudkin btw. Fluffer i believe.

Edited 14 May 2025 by Dr The Singh

[st albans fox]

49 minutes ago, Dr The Singh said:

@Raj works for Rudkin btw. Fluffer i believe.

Explains a lot 

[BKLFox]

5 hours ago, fox_up_north said:

I work in education. The big factor missing from this assumption is teenage behaviour and costs. Absolutely no chance you have one person "across a couple of classrooms".  Technically, you're not even allowed to leave the room these days. 

agree whilst its obviosuly 'Charlie Brown' feasible it will never happen due to safe guarding 1st & foremost followed by interaction etc

[urban.spaceman]

I swear Badenoch has someone on her team that actively loathes her and feeds her utter nonsense for PMQs every week.

 

This is the store, Beales, that are having a “Rachel Reeves closing down sale” soon “because of the jobs tax”, going into administration in 2020, TWO MONTHS before the pandemic. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51176418

 

It also lost £6m in 2013 and closed 10 stores in 2016.

 

The CEO is also a Tory member.

[Trav Le Bleu]

4 hours ago, Dr The Singh said:

@Raj works for Rudkin btw. Fluffer i believe.

No wonder our squad is so lacking in motivation.

[Parafox]

On 10/05/2025 at 18:48, bovril said:

Yes there are lots of examples from history, some quite recent, of multi-ethnic polities falling apart because socioeconomic disparities and declining living standards create tensions between ethnic groups that spill over into violence. 

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[Parafox]

Newsnight tonight and the interview with the woman from Reform has confirmed my thoughts that they are an extension of MAGA.

 

Utterly blinkered, borderline racist, very unpleasant. And she admitted to being a magistrate. 

 

Well, Quelle surprise.

[Dr The Singh]

55 minutes ago, Parafox said:

Newsnight tonight and the interview with the woman from Reform has confirmed my thoughts that they are an extension of MAGA.

 

Utterly blinkered, borderline racist, very unpleasant. And she admitted to being a magistrate. 

 

Well, Quelle surprise.

I like her, future weekend shag piece.

[Greg2607]

generally good news right? 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxwre7d9ko

 

 

[Lionator]

10 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

generally good news right? 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxwre7d9ko

 

 

Flimsy numbers that don’t really indicate any long term trend. It’ll likely reduce in growth rate in the next quarter to closer to zero. 

[urban.spaceman]

40 minutes ago, Greg2607 said:

generally good news right? 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxwre7d9ko

No, it’s a disaster. It means people might have to start giving credit to “Rachel from accounts”.

[urban.spaceman]

I wonder if Kemi will try and take credit for it at next week’s PMQs?

 

”We left you with the fastest growing economy in the G7 for one quarter a year and a half ago or whatever so it’s our doing not yours”

[Md9]

Here we go again. Don’t let Vance any where near him 😂

[urban.spaceman]

49 minutes ago, Md9 said:

Here we go again. Don’t let Vance any where near him 😂

I’ll go and fetch the lettuce. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

At least this fox has had a positive outcome.

[Thefox81]

42 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

At least this fox has had a positive outcome.

Love stories like this.

[urban.spaceman]

Warra surprise

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/16/wealthy-britons-avoiding-more-tax-than-thought-spending-watchdog-says

[Super_horns]

Is this basically the same sort of ideas the Tories had but different countries ?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/15/starmer-trip-labelled-an-embarassment-as-albania-rules-out-asylum-seeker-deal

[Foxdiamond]

Grim news about the fire in Bicester

[Lionator]

Hilarious that Starmer and Macron think that Trump is going to do anything meaningful about Russia, when he’s simultaneously rage tweeting about Taylor Swift. 
 

Time to put up or shut up. No sanctions are going to work. We tell Ukraine to take a deal or we mobilise our societies and go to war with Russia to save Ukraine.