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That's a pretty great publication record to have at the end of a PhD!

My only regret about doing my MSc and PhD in Edinburgh is that you don't get to wear a silly hat! Instead they bonk you on the head with a bonnet (supposedly) made out of John Knox's trousers.

Excellent!

Personally I insist on mixed-race bilingual participants so as to ensure balance at the individual level.

Plaid is miles ahead of everyone else in younger age groups. In fact in every group below age 55, Plaid are the largest party.

Young people love Plaid and hate Reform

There has been a lot of talk about Reform being really effective at reaching young people.

However this polling suggests that just 5% of those aged 18 - 24 would vote for them.

Of people switching from Labour to Plaid, 40.3% cite Rhun ap Iorwerth’s party as better at “standing up for Wales” as their primary motivation.

Labour have got to get it into their heads that far and away their biggest threat in Wales is coming from the left.

Over 50% of their 2024 voters have gone to Plaid/Greens. Just 10% are going to Reform.

Being tough on immigration is hurting, not helping them.

And as a final point, there is a plausible scenario where by the 2030s the Conservative Party voter base largely dies out and Labour starts succumbing to the same fate as a 20th century legacy party with a rapidly ageing voter base

If this sentiment spreads to England and Greens or LibDems become seen as the more viable force against Reform instead then Labour will not survive in its current form into the 2030s

She's right though. She does get to *say it*.

(I suppose I should emphasise that these are all inferences I've made based on anecdotal impressions. I've never used AI to write a review myself!)

I also suspect, unfortunately, that there are some academics who have come to use AI quite a lot for quite a lot of things and don't see any problem with using it for this.

My impression is that a lot of AI use of this kind results (at least initially) from people agreeing to do something for good reasons but misjudging how much time they have and then taking an easy way out when they come up against the deadline. Later of course AI use can become a habit.

We did watch this! I'm afraid I don't think it really did the job I was looking for—as in I don't think my kids came out of it with a good idea of the Nativity story—but I was pleasantly surprised by how much they all seemed to enjoy it, in spite of its age. It also triggered some nostalgia for me:)