QuoteDavid Lammy
@DavidLammy
Jun 20, 2020
Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.
The Government need to pull their finger out and acquire empty public buildings across the country to make sure these can happen in a way that is safe.
We will work with the government on sensible proposals to deal with the backlog - which started long before Covid-19 because of underfunding.
You don't fix the backlog with trials that are widely perceived as unfair.

Quote from: DGuller on November 25, 2025, 10:19:38 PMI didn't mean to imply self-evolution, or Darwinian evolution, or anything of the kind.I meant evolved as in "developed".
QuoteExplosive transcript of phone call between Trump administration envoy and Putin adviser leaks
The contents of a phone call involving Donald Trump's top negotiator and a close adviser to Vladimir Putin have been revealed to the public.
November 26, 2025 - 1:33PM
A leaked transcript has revealed the contents of a phone call between Steve Witkoff, the businessman who has been acting as Donald Trump's envoy negotiating with Ukraine and Russia, and Yuri Ushakov, a senior foreign policy adviser to Vladimir Putin.
In part of the transcript, obtained by Bloomberg, Mr Witkoff seems to be coaching the Russians on how Putin should flatter Mr Trump, during an upcoming conversation, to make him more amenable.
"I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the President on his achievement, that you supported it, that you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you're just, you're glad to have seen it happen," he tells Uskakov, alluding to the Israel-Hamas war.
"So I would say that. I think, from that, it's going to be a really good call. Because let me tell you what I told the President. I told the President that you, the Russian Federation, always wanted a peace deal. That is my belief. I told the President I believe that.
"I'm even thinking we that maybe we set out, like, a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together."
At another point, Mr Witkoff says he knows "what it's going to take to get a peace deal done" before specifying "Donetsk, and maybe a land swap somewhere".
"But I'm saying instead of talking like that, let's talk more hopefully, because I think we're going to get to a deal here. And I think, Yuri, the President will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal."
That call took place on October 14. Bloomberg also got the transcript from one on October 29, between Ushakov and Kirill Dimitriev, an economic advisor to Putin.
In it, the pair discuss creating a "paper" for Dimitriev to "pass along" to the Americans.
"I think we'll just make this paper from our position, and I'll informally pass it along, making it clear that it's all informal. And let them do, like, their own," Dimitriev says.
"But I don't think they'll take exactly our version. But at least it'll be as close to it as possible."
That conversation was a little under a month before the Trump administration offered up its 28-point plan for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia. The origins of that plan remain murky - officially, the Trump administration says America developed it with input from the Russians and Ukrainians, but reporting has suggested it blindsided the US State Department, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on November 25, 2025, 08:43:57 PMI didn't mean to imply self-evolution, or Darwinian evolution, or anything of the kind.Quote from: DGuller on November 25, 2025, 05:48:34 PMI don't see how everything you wrote from the second sentence on is connected to your first sentence. Yes, you accurately described how training and inference of any statistical or machine learning model works, but how is that description offering any insight as to why the bolded is impossible?
Because nothing in the mechanism I described has the capacity for self-evolution.
I meant evolved as in "developed".Quote from: DGuller on November 25, 2025, 05:48:34 PMI don't see how everything you wrote from the second sentence on is connected to your first sentence. Yes, you accurately described how training and inference of any statistical or machine learning model works, but how is that description offering any insight as to why the bolded is impossible?
Quote from: Josquius on November 25, 2025, 01:29:14 PMYes. Google are "better". But that's no defence.
A monopoly isn't necessarily created by anyrhing devious. The fact that they've been in the game so long that they've established an unassailably deep and wide position is enough.
A quick search shows those in the know do indeed suggest googles monopoly is allowing them to get away with high pricing.
And no. Meta does not have the same share as Google at all. As said Google has around 90%. Meta cut their losses when they couldn't make enough to even break even.
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