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BBC allow pundits to fly to US despite broadcasting in UK 400 miles away
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The BBC has confirmed that its pundits are free to undertake other media work
during this summer’s World Cup but will not subsidise the costs involved.
Licence fee payers’ money will not be used to fund travel and expenses for
pundits Alan Shearer and Micah Richards to appear on Gary Lineker’s The Rest Is
Football […]
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Embattled MN Gov. Makes ‘Yuge’ Announcement About Political Future, but What
He Leaves Out Is Pure Walz – RedState
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What can be said about Minnesota Governor Tim Walz that hasn’t already been
said? I mean, the guy was a walking and talking buffoon throughout his
miserable 2024 vice-presidential campaign, as the sidekick of the
equally-miserable Democrat presidential nominee, former Vice President Kamala
Harris. Now he says he wouldn’t […]
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AI and Constitutions, from My Hoover Institution Colleague Andy Hall

A very interesting post on his Free Systems substack; I’m not sure what to
think of the subject, but it struck me as much worth passing along. An excerpt:
I’m a political economy professor who studies constitutional design: how
societies create structures that constrain their most powerful actors, and what
happens when those structures fail. I’ve […]
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Fox News Dominates Cable News for 24th Straight Year
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Fox News Channel continued its unprecedented dominance of cable news in
January, marking 24 consecutive years as the top-rated network. The cable
channel’s ratings rivaled those of broadcast TV networks and beat CBS, even
though those channels are more widely available to a bigger audience. CBS
suffered its worst ratings this century across multiple programs, according to
Nielsen data […]
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Mark White blasts ‘fantasy’ UK-China deal as people smugglers ditch Chinese
engines
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Mark White has blasted the UK–China deal aimed at disrupting people smuggling
networks, branding it a “fantasy” and as evidence suggests smugglers are
already ditching Chinese-made engines. The GB News Home and Security Editor
said people smugglers have been moving away from cheap Chinese-manufactured
engines because of repeated reliability failures long before the Government’s
latest […]
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