Here’s proof you can’t trust AI.
Musing on Easter and the start of the cricket season, I asked Google AI who said: ‘I can never walk down the nave of Westminster Abbey without wondering whether it would take spin.’
First of all, it said Sarah Ferguson and gave me a lot of guff about her wedding to the Windsor formerly known as Prince.
I pointed out that taking spin was a cricketing term so it offered me Shane Warne (a spin bowler). When I doubted that, it said Ted Dexter (not a spin bowler). I again demurred so it swore the answer was Richie Benaud (a spin bowler).
If artificial intelligence is this stupid, what hope is there? And does anyone know the answer or what the precise quote actually is?
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Saturday, March 14, 2026
Today Worcestershire, tomorrow the country?
Nigel Farage’s Reform party took over Worcestershire County Council promising to ‘reduce waste and cut taxes’.
Now they are increasing council tax by nine per cent, Mr Farage wishes they hadn’t won control of the county because it was already bankrupt and the massive increase isn’t his party’s fault.
Today Worcestershire… tomorrow the whole country? In a few years’ time Prime Minister Farage may be revealing record tax rises for the whole of Britain and accusing other people for his failure:
‘Don’t blame me for the financial crisis. We just inherited it from those terrible Tories and that awful Labour lot.’
This week, he said: ‘Worcestershire, I have to say, we took minority control of a virtually bankrupt council, I wish we hadn't bothered.’
I do hope we don’t hear him saying much the same thing on the steps of 10 Downing Street in due course.
Now they are increasing council tax by nine per cent, Mr Farage wishes they hadn’t won control of the county because it was already bankrupt and the massive increase isn’t his party’s fault.
Today Worcestershire… tomorrow the whole country? In a few years’ time Prime Minister Farage may be revealing record tax rises for the whole of Britain and accusing other people for his failure:
‘Don’t blame me for the financial crisis. We just inherited it from those terrible Tories and that awful Labour lot.’
This week, he said: ‘Worcestershire, I have to say, we took minority control of a virtually bankrupt council, I wish we hadn't bothered.’
I do hope we don’t hear him saying much the same thing on the steps of 10 Downing Street in due course.
Thursday, March 05, 2026
Regime change - does it actually work?
It’s all very well swooping in and arresting Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela or bombing the life out of Persia’s Ayatollah Khamenei but what next?
We might all want to see Vlad Putin dead and buried but someone worse could quite easily succeed him.
While no-one would wish to see Sir Keir Starmer extinguished completely, the growing likelihood that he will be replaced is not something to imagine with equanimity.
Without a General Election – and why should we have one given the Tories’ unattractive record of regicide? – if Starmer goes, we’re bound to get someone even worse.
The only solution his party can come up with to restore its popularity is a new leader and a wealth tax which would merely hasten the flight of Britain’s wealth-creators for foreign shores.
My own nightmare scenario is Angela Rayner as PM and Ed Miliband as Chancellor but others can doubtless envisage something equally catastrophic.
Sir Keir’s days are numbered. Soon enough they will get rid of him. But taking out the leader is not the answer unless there’s a clear plan for a better the future. In Britain, as in Venezuela and Persia, there isn’t.
We might all want to see Vlad Putin dead and buried but someone worse could quite easily succeed him.
While no-one would wish to see Sir Keir Starmer extinguished completely, the growing likelihood that he will be replaced is not something to imagine with equanimity.
Without a General Election – and why should we have one given the Tories’ unattractive record of regicide? – if Starmer goes, we’re bound to get someone even worse.
The only solution his party can come up with to restore its popularity is a new leader and a wealth tax which would merely hasten the flight of Britain’s wealth-creators for foreign shores.
My own nightmare scenario is Angela Rayner as PM and Ed Miliband as Chancellor but others can doubtless envisage something equally catastrophic.
Sir Keir’s days are numbered. Soon enough they will get rid of him. But taking out the leader is not the answer unless there’s a clear plan for a better the future. In Britain, as in Venezuela and Persia, there isn’t.
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