The various cautionary interventions by leading AI developers in recent weeks were a true landmark moment, and these risks must be taken seriously. But they mustn’t be allowed to distract from the broader competition risks to consumers and businesses as AI is rapidly deployed across the economy.
We’ve just had the 50th anniversary of the IMF bailout to the UK, we should be proactive in addressing this debt crisis as a country; a serious debt crisis is brewing, which needs to be addressed by reducing the size of the state regardless of the political capital that needs to be spent.
Washington secured what it wanted in Greenland by permanently securing what it would otherwise have had to keep asking allies for. Britain can no longer draft treaties on those terms.
London is not a Labour city. It is a city that has been run by Labour for a decade, and Londoners can see the results. We have shown elsewhere what happens when Conservatives back a mayor with a plan and the will to deliver it. James can do that for London, and when London succeeds, the whole country benefits.
The Government still has time to change course. I urge it to do so before our most vulnerable residents bear the consequences of this disastrous policy. It will be up to Wandsworth Conservatives to rise to the challenge of restoring the Council’s finances and protecting residents, come what may.
The attacks on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport show that Saudi Arabia is not a passing regional story, and Britain’s relationship with the Kingdom cannot be managed through short-term reactions. Britain needs a long-term Gulf strategy and the political leadership to deliver it.
It is encouraging that Andrew Griffith is serious about addressing the NEETs Crisis and recognises the role played by Employers’ NI in creating it. The proposal demonstrates good instincts, yet will increase tax complexity while doing little to solve the crisis.
Andy Burnham and John Healey say they want ‘good growth in every postcode’. They should start wondering why, in Labour’s third year of power, the government has worked so energetically to stop growth happening… in any postcode.
But there is hope in the fact that this is not ultimately a problem belonging to the left or the right. If cancel culture grows from our tendency to see ourselves as morally righteous and our opponents as morally corrupt, then the corrective is available to everyone.
We welcome the Government’s aim of spotting needs sooner and building up support in mainstream schools, and the additional funding that comes with it. But more money for mainstream settings will not, on its own, meet the needs of children with the most complex conditions.
Israel’s small size, population density and probability of attack make an Iron Dome sensible. For Britain, the calculus is different. Instead, the Conservative proposal of a flexible, multilayered surface-to-air system designed to protect our airbases, navy dockyards and other strategic assets makes sense for us.
To assume that the Young Conservatives have a women problem is highly inaccurate. Come to a YC event, come to a hustings, come to a campaign day: us young women are everywhere, you just have to open your eyes.
For a party that eventually wants to do away with IHT, this is the wrong move. A far simpler option would be to cut the rate from 40 per cent towards 20 per cent, arguably a cheaper policy that treats every asset alike. The real fix is greater housing supply and a coherent tax base, one that offers families dignity after the death of a loved one without compromising free markets.
Giles Dilnot asks Chris Philp if immigration had been last year’s Conference issue and that now immigration was taking a back seat in party thinking to tackling the cost of living and the search for economic growth. The shadow Home Secretary was clear that was simply not the case.
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