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Matt Day retweeted
This is an excellent report from Big Brother Watch on the Online Safety Act — but this foreword from Nadine Dorries is a laughable attempt to rewrite history and deflect responsibility.
Everything that’s happened since the law’s passage was foreseeable and foreseen, the entirely predictable consequence of the underlying design. Dorries’ legislation was not ‘meticulously drafted’. It was always a complete mess that was going to undermine free expression.
It always required age gating for any content that could be considered psychically or psychologically harmful to children. It also always had an extremely long list of duties that would be impossible for smaller web forums to complete with. The amendments made it worse, but they are not to blame for the current mess.
The Online Safety Act has made hosting community forums so laborious that they're closing shop.
Hundreds of forums have shuttered due to piling paperwork and liability risks.
Ordinary speech from ordinary people, gone.
Read our report ⤵️
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campa…
Matt Day retweeted
We’re hosting our launch reception in November alongside the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
If you want to help shape tech policy for the next Conservative government, we’d love to see you there 👇
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We’re hosting a launch reception for @Conserva_Tech in November with the Shadow Cabinet, MPs and tech companies.
Do sign up if that sounds like you’re kind of evening 👇
luma.com/tk2zywws
Matt Day retweeted
As @NeilDotObrien suggests, this is a bad idea for many reasons - but one above all:
How can politicians look at the EU, its sluggish growth and sparse innovation and want to align our laws with it in any way?
It has been to Britain’s great advantage that we are not subject to the EU’s AI Act.
We have so much domestic policy change to get through if we want to genuinely compete in AI. Locking ourselves to a backwater would be a terrible start.
The EU’s new AI law is a bad idea.
Cutting European governments off from using the best AI is a bad idea - and Britain shouldn’t join in.
neilobrien.co.uk/p/the-eus-n…
Matt Day retweeted
How building data centres could cut Britain's sky-high electricity bills by billions:
- Failing electricity use has made electricity more expensive as a fixed costs of supplying power (grid, policy, balancing, etc.) are concentrated on a small share of demand.
- New demand from data centres helps dilute those fixed costs. This could save £2bn a year (£69 per year) if the Government's compute target is hit.
- Data centres are extremely profitable, even at high power prices. They care about speed, but the grid queue can create decade-long delays. Letting companies pay to jump the queue could raise billions.
- Britain could replicate the success of spectrum auctions and sell-off faster grid connections. Accelerating 3GW by 3 years is potentially worth £12bn to data centre builders!
- In the US, tech companies are making large investments in new generation (SMRs, gas, renewables) as states adopt 'bring your own power' policies. Doing the same here could accelerate clean power buildout and fund necessary gas plant renewals.
samdumitriu.com/p/build-the-…
This is a complete dereliction of duty when the security situation is so precarious.
There will be no welfare state in a world where Britain is defeated, crippled or subjugated by some war.
Cut it now to fund defence.
Labour has cut £2bn from front-line Army equipment as John Healey tries to fill a defence spending black hole in his first Budget.
The Ministry of Defence has dropped plans to develop three new battlefield vehicles, including one that would have been capable of recovering Britain’s Boxer armoured vehicles if they were damaged in combat.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
Matt Day retweeted
If we are serious about making the UK an AI superpower, we must resolve power supply delays, or we will see huge investments and world leading companies walk out the door. The @Conservatives are the only party with a real plan to fix this problem, we can't afford not to act.
'Microsoft has reportedly pulled out of a planned £2bn data centre in Loughton, Essex, after being told power won't arrive until the 2030s,' says shadow business minister @PeterTFortune, MP for Bromley and Biggin Hill
'If a project this big can't get plugged in, what does that tell firms hoping to expand in Britain?' standard.co.uk/news/london/m…
Britain was once a country that embraced extraordinary risks to build extraordinary things.
Today, we seem increasingly preoccupied with finding reasons why things can’t be done.
Kemi’s right - and we’re going to fix it.
Matt Day retweeted
There were 813,000 new arrivals to the UK in 2025 (the vast majority from outside the EU). The fact that there were 642,000 departures doesn’t point to success. It just tells us the make up of our society is changing exceptionally fast
Matt Day retweeted
Polska nie powtórzy błędów innych europejskich państw, nie będzie też za nie płacić. Twardo bronimy granicy przed nielegalną migracją, mamy własną politykę azylową (nie przyjmujemy wniosków), deportujemy tych, którzy łamią polskie prawo. W kwestii bezpieczeństwa będziemy bezwzględni. To usłyszeli ode mnie liderzy Europy w Brukseli.
I’m sad to hear this - not just for the investment and AI capability the UK is losing, but also for Essex.
It’s completely unacceptable that our grid capacity, high electricity prices and draconian planning system are holding back this country yet again.
Matt Day retweeted
Regarding Microsoft’s decision to cancel their data centre due to power supply delays, the @Conservatives are the only party to have set out a proper policy proposal to fix this problem. Read @ClaireCoutinho’s speech below 👇
clairecoutinho.com/news/chea…
France and England are ancient nations.
Rivals of course for many centuries, but between us we’ve built some of the greatest civilisations the world has ever known.
Our monuments, our cities, our art, literature, traditions and institutions are a thousand years of history and achievements that have shaped humanity.
I desperately hope France finds the courage to confront the challenges it faces, and that Britain does too.
We have inherited something extraordinary from those who came before us. I feel this deeply and it guides everything in my own politics.
Our generation has a responsibility to ensure that these great nations, their peoples, cultures and identities, survive and flourish for another thousand years.
All of that history cannot end with us.
Matt Day retweeted
Italy too now - government needs to be ready to respond decisively if people try to bring this to the UK
Matt Day retweeted
As Jensen said this week: If there’s a way to not do something in Britain, we always seem to find it.
De-growth mindset strikes again.
I’m true then let’s ban it @ShabanaMahmood. We know that @CPhilpOfficial would get it done.
🚨NEW: The Home Office identifies Muslim news outlet 5Pillars as an "Islamist extremist group", documents show
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Matt Day retweeted
Billions of pounds lost on a single project because we can’t connect it to the grid for half a decade and have destroyed our capacity to generate reliable electricity.
Exclusive: Microsoft cancels UK data centre deal with Nscale. Comes just as Nscale hopes to pull off a $35 billion IPO telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
