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Jimmy Wales<\/p>\n
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A history of New Labour written by AI would be a wild ride. Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, says that large language models have curious ideas about the Blair government, something he discovered by asking them about his wife Kate Garvey, once Tony Blair\u2019s diary secretary. When AI is asked \u201cWho is Kate Garvey\u2019s husband?\u201d, Wales is replaced by anyone connected to the New Labour project, which reveals gaps in the computer\u2019s Blairite knowledge. Wales told The Rest is Politics: Leading: \u201cIt recently said she was married to Peter Mandelson.\u201d There is a fairly obvious problem with this: such an eventuality would be unwelcome for Wales, his wife and, perhaps most of all, Mandelson. Not to mention his husband.<\/p>\n
There has been much teasing of Keir Starmer for missing a penalty in his Sunday football game, but that is one area where the PM can claim a glorious premiership. Starmer boasts that, under his tenure, the England men\u2019s football team has never missed a penalty. With this being a World Cup year, prime ministerial hopefuls may be best advised to delay any leadership challenge until mid-July.<\/p>\n
Behind closed doors<\/p>\n
Parliament\u2019s doorkeepers are Westminster\u2019s eyes and ears but, after nearly 50 years on the job, senior doorkeeper Paul Kehoe has started sharing his tales. For instance, he tells The House magazine that during the fight to replace Margaret Thatcher he witnessed a contretemps between the John Major and Michael Heseltine<\/a> teams. \u201cOne secretary in the Heseltine camp picked up a dog\u2019s bowl of water and threw it over the other young lady,\u201d Kehoe said. He and colleagues rushed to the lady\u2019s aid, only for her assailant to return a few minutes later asking for contributions toward a leaving present. The doorkeepers poured cold water on that one.<\/p>\n Perhaps Kehoe\u2019s favourite MP was the Labour minister Mo Mowlam, who once kissed him in central lobby. \u201cYou can\u2019t be doing that!\u201d he told her. \u201cThe sarjeant at arms is over there!\u201d Mowlam replied: \u201cSod him, kiss me again.\u201d<\/p>\n Parliament\u2019s dirty secret<\/p>\n In Westminster, no one is squeaky clean \u2014 not even the cleaners. A Labour MP has turned their fire on parliament\u2019s janitorial supplies and is demanding that the Commons abandon cleaning products that were animal tested. Alex Mayer\u2019s parliamentary questions revealed that a grand total of five products out of 40 used on the estate do not fit her criteria and said \u201cI believe parliament should set an example by going cruelty free.\u201d That just isn\u2019t possible. Inhumane though it may be to see something trapped and subjected to nasty treatment, we still have to have prime minister\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n News that Lego is to introduce a smart brick<\/a> has been greeted with cautious interest by the former culture secretary Sir Jeremy Wright, who uses the Danish bricks as a means of relaxation after work. However, the real question about the new Lego will be whether they are any less painful to tread on. \u201cIt\u2019s worse to kneel on them,\u201d Wright told Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve tried both and neither are recommended.\u201d Some Lego fans have come up with a way around this. In 2014, a man called Nick Harvey used the bricks to build some slippers. \u201cNext time I step on Lego,\u201d he said, \u201cI shall simply get taller.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Wales CHRIS RATCLIFFE\/BLOOMBERG\/GETTY IMAGES A history of New Labour written by AI would be a wild ride.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-356871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}