There is no solution and the development that marks one conference year from a later one is, well ... epochal; it's AI itself. It has arrived seemingly suddenly and at it its most basic runs on innumerable, energy guzzling searches.

Emmet, Are you entirely happy with the survey methodology here? At a glance it looks like one of those where the invitation to reply dictates the answer by attracting the aggrieved.

Jo, Brilliant. I hope you don't mind that I posted this to my FB page. I credited you.

I heard this interview and had two thoughts. The targeting of specific areas of the body is a new depth of evil. Moreover, it demands extraordinary marksmanship. Could it be that programmed weapons or even AI is involved?

If you’re going to join some hateful ideology, that’s the time. It’s the extremes.” (pg.93)

Here’s the thing: The professor, a psychologist, does have an age limit in mind. It’s not 16 or 18, or even 21, but 25!

“The most interesting thing about adolescence is that it’s ... the time of life when you’re most likely to become a murderer … If you’re going to form a new religion, that’s the time. If you’re going to stupidly horrify your parents by giving away all your savings to a charity, that’s the time. /..

“Corrupting Youth”.
He argues that on the way to building mass support for or at least mass acquiescence to barbarism Hitler and co. found an enthusiastic audience among the young.

Rees quotes from his interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky: -

that if there is some competence linked to age, then it should be identified and used to ensure competence before registration of voters of all ages.

As it happens, I’m reading Laurence Rees, The Nazi Mind; 12 Warnings From History (Penguin/Viking, 2025). At warning no. 4 he has “Corrupting Youth”.

Most can sing, "Shovin connie around the fields."

Re band names, Unlike "Elbow", "Kneecap" is a verb.

When I was teaching, my students from other countries left me with a strong sense of proportion.

Joanne, There was a time when "political violence" referred to rhetorical violence, and this was the very definition of terrorism, i.e. victims being no more than a message. I'll now pay more att. to "violence as politics" All the best with your webcast.

There's quite a deep philosophical problem here. The entire push to install devices is based on individual motivation, i.e. it can happen only if customers see a financial return in a short period. However, there is a public good in mass installation and this forms no part of the discussion.

Have you a link to the survey giving 96% for special schools? I've failed to locate it.