This week Sir Keir Starmer welcomed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Chequers, where the two men reflected “on the progress made between the UK and Germany in recent months”.
Forget the second referendum, Starmer appears to be taking matters into his own hands – and deciding that Brits want to rejoin the trade bloc.
One organisation that will be very happy about this is Open Society Foundations (OSF), run by US billionaire George Soros (albeit his son Alexander is said to be the main driving force).
Soros appears particularly keen that the UK should rejoin the EU, judging by the numerous Remainer projects funded by the OFS.
Perhaps the most famous is Best for Britain, which has been busy monitoring Starmer’s movements:
A press release published in 2018 (and updated in August 2019) shows the OSF awarding Best for Britain £2,799,689 between 2017 and 2019.
Furthermore, from 2020 to 2023, OSF awarded Best for Britain $1,573,320 (roughly £1,267,326 – according to Grok) – leaving the total at £4,067,015 between 2017 and 2023:
Best for Britain, whose director is Lord Darroch, has some big supporters, such as Carol Vorderman…
… and Anna Soubry, who is known to tag…
…and retweet Best for Britain on X:
Best for Britain is one of a number of groups “working to support and debate engagement on the case for the UK staying in the European Union” (as the OSF put it in 2018) long after the Brexit vote.
Another is the European Movement (EuroMove), which received £200,000 from OSF between 2017 and 2018 and even has access to Parliament via sponsorship of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Europe:
Its Co-Presidents are Dominic Grieve and Caroline Lucas:
And its chair is Mike Galsworthy (above centre), who is a familiar face on the Remainer circuit (photographed with Steve Bray below):
Galsworthy is also founder of Bylines Network and Scientists for EU – the latter of which received £35,000 from Soros in 2017. Its X account mainly recirculates posts by EuroMove, Galsworthy and Dominic Grieve.
Recently Galsworthy posted about the EU youth mobility scheme…
…helpfully flagging a “handy interface” for lobbying purposes…
…as well as trying to convince others to leave X:
That’s when he’s not supporting the Bylines Network, which in September hosted militant Remainer Femi Oluwole at one of its meetings:
What a small world!
In recent months there has been lots of discussion about foreign interference, after there were rumours Elon Musk might fund Reform.
Best for Britain was very vocal on the subject, and even suggested the Electoral Commission should get involved.
How can it complain, given the millions Best for Britain has had from its own foreign benefactor, Soros? It’s outrageous hypocrisy.
But even more importantly, why is Soros – architect of ‘Black Wednesday‘ in which the British pound rapidly devalued – so desperate for the UK to rejoin the EU?
(I touched upon some of the issues in this article in a recent Daily Sceptic podcast.
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Even if you ask a deep question the answers tend to be rather cagey. The limits are the limits of analysis compared to inspiration. If you are impressed by AI then you probably have very limited knowledge of literature and culture. The whole spirit of literature is the rejection of AI. There is always a sense that the writing down involves a sacrifice and loss.
Unfortunately, being an extremely stupid dog with paws unsuited to touch screens I haven’t yet worked out what the real utility is of (misnamed) AI or indeed tiktok unless it is reduce the youth of western countries to utter imbecility, an objective it seems to be achieving satisfactorily well.
LLMs seem to be reasonably ok at digesting large volumes of information and summarising it accurately and coherently in response to questions. They are also ok at generating images though that’s not really my field.
It depends how you define “intelligence” but AI is perhaps an unfortunate term.
I am similarly uninterested in the (misnamed) AI.
I honestly don’t think we’re missing much, Jack the dog.
I speak as a professional in the IT field.
But please do not take my word for it. It could be amazing. In the meantime, I need to put another log on the fire.
Your enemies lie within. It is just stupid to pretend otherwise and that the Chinese are looking to attack you. For God’s sake you only have to have lived in a western country in the last thirty years. You destroyed yourself.
Never use touch screen technology. It is good to have a touch screen because it tends to be durable but please never actually touch anything on the screen.
Why?
It is stupd for many reasons. They wil easily beat you in maths and physics exams and will generally have more vitality. But they aren’t trying to destroy the West. Their very existence is predicated on trying to be a good emulation of the west in certain ways. If you go all over Asia they love American culture and the American people. It is assumed that the Iranians hate America. This is the opposite of the truth they are the most pro-American culture in the world. They assume that Iranians hate Jews when Iran gave refuge to the Jews for 2500 years and still the real capital of Jewish power is Tehran and Jewish culture is in large part Persian culture, You shouldn’t listen to the crap they pedal.
If deep seek is truly open source the sureky it should be possible to identify any malign intentions from analysis of the source code.
From a brief search there seems to be some dispute as to whether it’s truly open source. I don’t know enough about how LLMs work to have a view myself.
Ta!
They don’t want you. They don’t care. They have better things to do.
I am a lot less worried about DeepSeek (i.e. not at all, I don’t use it, I don’t know what it’s for) than I am worried about what Google, the NSA, CIA, MI6, GCHQ et al already think they know about me.
Who paid the developers is the unanswered question? It has to be the CCP!