observations and a footnote for history. And as Churchill said, "democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others".

#BigTechBros & the 10% that appease also… history shows us that tyrants & even #SelfOrbitingSpitBots eventually get overthrown… like when Farage doesn’t deliver change just as The Conservatives, Liberals & Labour have failed to do for the past >40 years… just my 13/

specialist statistical analysis machine, & not a Turing Machine, who was cut off when he should have been allowed to finish his comment… why cut off, well, those in positions of wealth & power don’t want the workers to revolt against their masters, especially the 1% /12

Regional Mayors, MPs, journalists, etc., spout this nonsense that AI will do all the jobs in coding, ie., software engineering, etc. On this week’s Any Answers, Saturday 16th August 2025, the penultimate caller who understands that AI is mostly hot air for the moment, just a /11

science, teaches people critical thinking, with logic & scientific methodology, in problem solving, & sideways too, ie., how to solve all sorts of real world problems they will come across in their lifetime. It is disappointing, but not surprising*, to constantly listen to UK /10

“digital skills”… Every Child, and Adult in the UK & Europe, should be learning Computer Science (along with Ai & robotics components of software & hardware engineering), to at least BTEc/T/A’Level, and most to a HND and/or Degree level… as learning computing, ie., computer /9

skilled, with digital skills, with the ability to work with AI, to understand the differences that AI makes in the work place, which is why with our industrial strategy, along side the industrial strategy we had a package of skills training related to digital skills…” Define /8

asking, which is why one of the first things in Government was to setup Skills England, so that we’re able to get a much better analysis of where the skills gaps are now and where the’ll be in the future… and AI is an interesting area, we certainly need to have more people 7/

would be an obvious winner, but now we hear in the United States, that it’s useless as the machines can code. What you say, what is the Government (UK), what lines are you thinking along now?” @Jacqui_Smith1 “Well the first thing is, that’s exactly the right question to be /6

correspondent there about AI and it’s a conservation we’ve had quiet a lot about recently on the programme (@BBCr4today) with a kind of sense that actually that the sands are shifting so fast. So for instance, people use to say we’ll get a degree in Computer Science, that /5

money and putting it into the banking system, making working people poorer), & Torys did the same with #Trussonomics so they have no room to talk neither}… interview questioning, so far so good… but then, “what other skills we’ll need in the future? We heard from our /4

Minister @Jacqui_Smith1 {who replies with “fix the foundations” and other hot-air like statements, yet under Blair/Brown @LabourUK their ignore own trashing the UK economy, selling of lots of UK Gold & creating inflation with QE (Quantitive Easing, i.e., printing Monopoly /3

has, in make that choice, and it was a choice you could have put back the national insurance cut on employees, instead you decided to put it on employers and it has had a really devastating effect particularly on the jobs market for young people…” to Government Skills /2