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1/10 An aberration. Night Mail (for Sean Bonney) after WH Auden.

This is the Night Mail crossing the border,
Bringing the chaos and the civil disorder,
Packages for the rich, letters for the poor,
The Amazon Prime held for the woman next door.
2/10 Pulling up Lives, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her, but her UC’s declined.
Past abandoned shops and moorland boulder
Neglected towns are left to moulder,
Snorting speedballs as she passes
Silent miles of skunky grasses.
3/10 Birds turn their heads as she approaches,
Glazed over citizens sleep with cockroaches.
Sheep-dogs abandoned upon the hills;
Animals force fed with pre-death pills.
In the farm the beasts stand unaware,
As there’s no-one left to really care .
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LEVELLING UP
It might be a space to do ’take downs’ on Laura K but I’m not going to do that. Let’s have some facts and journalism instead. If you’re interested in ‘levelling up’
or think it’s just another empty bluster mantra then read on...#levellingup #ToryBritain - DB5 dash.
GENERATIONAL
Property wealth is held by Boomers. They mostly protect their wealth, vote Conservative & pass on to their children. There is no indicator through taxation that @conservatives will level this up. Younger people 30-40 still live with their parents.
REGULATORY
UK streets have been decimated by giants like Amazon. Plenty of flim flam about new (low) paid jobs though. BBC source: Amazon pays £492m in UK tax on sales of £20.6bn. There is no levelling up framework assessing fair competition for UK shops in relation to Amazon.
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1/10 This is the story of The Machine Stops by EM Forster, written in 1909. It's also the story of #AI #Brexit & #China. You could be a theatre director looking for a gig, an academic researching the future of #AI or a citizen of #China ...read on...
2/10 The Machine Stops tells the story of Vashti and Kuno (her son) who live in standard rooms with The Machine providing everything through screens that deal in 'second hand' information. Vashti does not like the idea of travelling & trusts the omnipotent machine for everything.
3/10 Kuno is more rebellious; he has heard of people living above ground on the earth. He persuades Vashti to visit him IRL & she does. He tells her he doesn't like the confines of The Machine & that he has visited the surface. The Machine disapproves of 'unmechanical' behaviour.
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