Arnold de Groot
@arnolddegroot.bsky.social
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Alexander von Humboldt taught us to try to understand the world both by looking at the data, and by going out, looking carefully and trusting our own senses.
With this in mind, I wonder what he'd have made of our debate about immigration?
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
[FREE TO READ] It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
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It surprises me that no top Labour figure has said: don't ask what you can do to undermine the prime minister, ask what you can do to help him succeed in delivering
"I know the price of a pint in the various pubs around King's Cross and Euston that were thronged with protesters on their way home, and no one necking that many of them is experiencing economic distress." Stephen Bush over de grote demonstratie van afgelopen zaterdag www.ft.com/content/fbbd...
Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong
A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model
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'Discussions' zijn 'ongoing', meldt Corbyn vandaag. Wordt vervolgd dus.
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Of niet? Sunday Times-journalist meldt dat Corbyn en Sultana niet op een lijn zitten: bsky.app/profile/rost...
Jeremy Corbyn en Zarah Sultana, beiden nu ex-Labour, richten een nieuwe linkse partij op. Die zou gelijk met misschien wel zes of meer zetels in het Lagerhuis vertegenwoordigd kunnen zijn
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

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Jeremy Corbyn en Zarah Sultana, beiden nu ex-Labour, richten een nieuwe linkse partij op. Die zou gelijk met misschien wel zes of meer zetels in het Lagerhuis vertegenwoordigd kunnen zijn
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.

Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.

Join us. The time is now.

Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Een steeds snellere doorstroom van bewoners, groeiende polarisatie en oplopende drukte. Voor wie is Amsterdam nog 'thuis'? Ik schreef er een opiniestuk over en @nrc.nl zette er een scherpe kop boven: Amsterdam wordt een hotel.

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Opinie | Amsterdam wordt een hotel
Stadspolitiek: Een steeds kleinere groep inwoners blijft langere tijd in Amsterdam wonen, ziet Marcel van Engelen. Wat doet dat met de betrokkenheid bij de stad?
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Goed stuk (longread) voor wie de Britse politieke situatie wil begrijpen, en de premier
www.newstatesman.com/politics/202... 💥 EXC: For my first edition of the New Statesman as editor, I went on the road with Keir Starmer, discovering a man far more emotional than I expected, struggling to articulate his deepest feelings — and those of the country he leads👇
What Keir Starmer can’t say
The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words?
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Political volatility has been taking us by surprise for a while now. Here’s little exercise to illustrate. Rewind two years and take a look at where the polls were, what people expected, and what they failed to anticipate. You have to go back a while before politics is predictable even 2 yrs out 1/
A reminder of how volatile politics is now: Reform UK, who lead the current polls, won the most recent by-election and swept the board in the recent local elections, failed to retain their deposit or finish above third in any by-election from Old Bexley (Dec 21) to Tamworth (Oct 23)
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Everything you need to know about the British voting public
Sport en politiek… activisme in Noord-Londen #arsenal #tottenham
Boeven - goed draadje:
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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