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Last week saw the inaugural meeting in Parliament of the working group on Progressive Economics.

Here is a rough transcript of what the group discussed.

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Inaugural meeting of the Working Group on Progressive Economics The expert panel with three of the MPs This is an approximate transcript of the inaugural meeting in Parliament on 20 […]
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October 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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That the incredible cognitive power of the human brain and body takes only 2000 calories a day to fuel, and occupies quite considerably less than the space of Manhattan, suggests there is something catastrophically wrong with the design of AI.
'Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dollars on developing artificial intelligence products in the near future and, to that end, construct a data center planned to be nearly the size of Manhattan.' 1/3
Zuckerberg says Meta will build data center the size of Manhattan in latest AI push
CEO says company plans to spend hundreds of billions on developing artificial intelligence products
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM