Exactly this- a million virtual chimps tapping away in a room might eventually reproduce The Art of the Deal, but to come up with writing that consciously challenges and changes what we believe about ourselves as humans takes genius, not a next-logical-word LLM.

Note that for 1) he could apologise for the hurt caused and say he has changed- he doesn’t, so we must assume he hasn’t,
2) it was either a joke the victim didn’t get, or it was racial bullying, not ok-and
3) too many others have corroborated for this to be a lie, a smart man would stop smearing.

You should actually watch Carry On Cleo (1964) the camp comedy classic filmed a year later, using several of the leftover sets, but a far cheaper production (and I’m just talking about the gags).

This man is scared. Look at where his parting is..

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.

Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.

My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

Ah yes… our whisky club takes a few days’ recovery afterwards, but it’s worth it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃

Farage has only attended 95/250 Parliament sittings, so drags his arse into the chamber 38% of the time.

That’s not even enough for the staff at the strangers bar to remember who he is.

This is the kind of Good News follow up we so rarely get. 👏📢♥️

I know it’s little consolation right now, but that probably says more about Winchester than about your work.

To be clear, this is not condoning anti-semitic views, merely the absurd hypocrisy of shutting down public debate for political expediency.

As acts of national self-sabotage go, it would be quicker to plant mines off the coast of Dover.

And the fact is that numerous prominent Republicans specifically pinned it on Democrats before he was even caught, when no motive or affiliation could be known.

Notable that Republicans or media weren’t censured for misleading the public with these wild accusations.