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4 min: A fairly shapeless start, actually. “The best pints are Thursday night.” Hello Ian McCourt, formerly of this parish. “Or about 1.30pm on a Friday.”
2 min: A mid-octane start to the game. No real shape yet, though it’s obvious that Palmer is prowling the left wing today, opposite to his usual beat.
Continue reading...Isaiah Martin’s videos have gone viral – he thinks his party should follow his lead and stand up to Republican excess
Dynamism, courage, and wit are words that few are likely to associate with the mainstream Democratic party, particularly after its capitulation to Republicans’ budget demands last year.
Polls show that majorities of Democratic voters think their party is weak and ineffective. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate leader, is even more unpopular than Donald Trump. People are crying out for a bold voice, someone to take the fight to an increasingly authoritarian Republican party.
Continue reading...Trump calls Anthropic a ‘Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about’
The US military reportedly used Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, to inform its attack on Iran despite Donald Trump’s decision, announced hours earlier, to sever all ties with the company and its artificial intelligence tools.
The use of Claude during the massive joint US-Israel bombardment of Iran that began on Saturday was reported by the Wall Street Journal and Axios. It underlines the complexity of the US military withdrawing powerful AI tools from its missions when the technology is already intricately embedded in operations.
Continue reading...Thinktank’s board distances itself from Josh Simons’ decision in 2023 to hire lobbying firm to investigate journalists
A Labour thinkthank that helped Keir Starmer win No 10 has said it is making a “clean break” from the past after its former director, Josh Simons, resigned as a minister over a report falsely linking journalists to a “pro-Kremlin” network.
The board of Labour Together distanced itself from Simons’ decision in 2023 to hire a lobbying firm to investigate Sunday Times, Guardian and independent reporters who were looking into its failure to declare more than £700,000 in donations.
Continue reading...Singer and songwriter of such pop canon hits as Oh! Carol, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and (Is This the Way to) Amarillo
“Prolific” hardly does justice to Neil Sedaka’s songwriting output, which ran to more than 1,000 compositions over seven decades.
If he had been willing to stay behind the scenes, turning out tunes for other singers, he would have still merited a place in pop history thanks to the number of those songs that became part of the pop canon, including Where the Boys Are, Love Will Keep Us Together and (Is This the Way to) Amarillo. However, Sedaka, who has died aged 86, had a constitutional need to see his own name in lights.
Continue reading...Senators Tom Cotton and Lindsey Graham defend attack, Democrats say administration must answer vital questions
Donald Trump administration allies reinforced on Sunday the administration’s messaging on the Israel-US strikes on Iran, while Democratsdecried it as a “war of choice” that required congressional approval.
On Sunday talk shows, Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, who serves on the Armed Services Committee, and South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham defended the strikes, while Virginia senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the Committee on Intelligence, and other Democrats welcomed the elimination of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but said the administration must now answer vital questions.
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Steeds meer festivalgangers willen liever een luxe glamping dan met een simpel tentje op een groot veld. Dat blijkt uit een grote rondgang onder festivals. Een festival in Brabant biedt daarom vanaf nu op de glamping ook villa’s met zwembad, oprijlaan en helikopterlandplaats aan.
“Ja, het is mijn manier van festival vieren ook niet. Maar je springt in op wat mensen willen, hè”, zegt een woordvoerder van het festival. “Daarom hebben we nu grote villa’s, die wel van tentdoek zijn, maar voorzien zijn van alle luxe. Denk aan een zwembad, sauna, een oprijlaan, maar ook een helikopterstandplaats. Daarnaast heeft elke slaapcabine ook zijn eigen bioscoop en is er een fitness beneden.”
Het is een bijzondere trend, omdat er ook klachten zijn over de stijgende prijzen van festivaltickets. Dat ziet ook festivalexpert Bert Bokhoven: “Maar blijkbaar kiezen mensen er nu gewoon voor om er even een keer goed uit te gaan met een groepje vrienden. Waar je vroeger nog naar twee of drie weekenders ging, gaan ze nu luxer en naar één.”
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HEERENVEEN (ANP) - Schaatser Janno Botman heeft zich als nationaal kampioen geplaatst voor het WK sprint van volgende week in Heerenveen. Hij hield na vier afstanden Tim Prins en Kayo Vos achter zich.
Botman zette op de afsluitende 1000 meter van het NK sprint de tweede tijd neer met 1.08,39. Prins won de 1000 meter in 1.07,80.
De winnaar van het NK sprint plaatst zich voor het WK sprint. Dat vindt op 5 en 6 maart plaats in Thialf. De KNSB gaf eerder al aanwijsplekken aan Jenning de Boo en Joep Wennemars.