For something like building a bridge (and I appreciate you will know far more than I about doing so) as the likely ask is relatively well defined and so data rich, it should be a relatively simple task. Initially it will require a QC but as trust is built up (which shouldn’t take too long) you can imagine it could be magnitudes safer than asking a person to do it. With AI/computing power there is just that much more considerations/disciplines that can be brought to bare in one go that it may be (eventually) vastly more efficient and safe. It you add onto that robotics, then it could be even more efficient.
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If you have heard of agentification, or agentic workflows, that is essentially what this is.
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I can see the potential, especially for the design calculation side. But there’s a few areas that I still can’t get my head around. There’s probably an opportunity for AI there too, I just can’t see it.
Is it worth moving this to the Tech thread?
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Popcorn time. Labour have had to unroll Rayner, who says what is important now is we deliver on what what was promised the electorate is the most important thing. 
They only promised to take down the Tories 
and came to power without a manifesto 
Utter verbiage from the fiction Party.
Not very inspiring is it?
Streeting, who is Starmer mk2 fattened up by bungs from private health companies (HUUUUGE RED FLAG) and Rayner, who you’d hope would take them back to what you’d expect a Labour party to be, has been embroiled (now cleared) of scandal that made her an easy target.
Just saw that Josh Simon has stood down for Burnham to contest the seat and then the leadership.
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Bond market not liking the prospect of Starmer being replaced by someone from Labour who doesn’t see the real state of public finances in the UK. Streeting not opening up a leadership challenge is causing some backing away from the brink (5% yield), but I think the lettuce is on the cusp of a political comeback.
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Its properly entering the pantomime season, but then in all honesty, all of UK politics are all but destroyed, its as if…someone wants us rudderless.
Burnham better win it. It’s going to look a right mess if Labour fail to hold that seat and the accompanying Mayoral election (assuming there has to be one if Burnham steps down).
Ironic also that its Josh Simon stepping down to make way, wasn’t he the one who recently had to resign his ministerial post because of previous conduct?
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It’s a fucking tall order !
On the PM programme, John Curtice, the BBC’s election expert, also said that winning Makerfield would be tough for Burnham. He explained:
If we look at what happened in the constituency back in 2024, Labour at 45% while only 13 points ahead of Reform.
If you compare that with the majority that Labour had in the Runcorn constituency in 2024, which of course, Reform won from Labour in the byelection last year, there Labour’s lead in 2024 was 35%.
[Makerfield] a constituency where two thirds of people voted leave, and that is a very strong signifier of the kind of place that is likely to vote Reform.
And of course, this is part of Wigan. And Reform did well in the local elections in Wigan.
In short, if Mr. Burnham stands and he wins, he will certainly be demonstrating an ability to reach parts of the electorate most Labour politicians seem to struggle to reach.
But there must be a serious risk that even he will not be able to withstand the tide of Nigel Farage’s Reform.
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Well your point was dumb as shit, so it didn´t merit much more.
We already do.
The BMJ already reports that many qualified doctors trained here can´t find work.
No big mystery for you to fret about.
From Wiki
In early 2026 it was reported that Simons had been responsible for investigating the private affairs of journalists who had published an article unfavourable to Labour Together, a thinktank he ran. Simons was accused of naming them to British intelligence, and falsely linking them to pro-Russian propaganda.
It’s time UK has Proportional Representation, or something of that sort.
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Why?
The conspiracy theorists will have a field day when/if we have an Everton season ticket holder in No 10 … 
And a member of friends of israel.
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It’s a massive gamble for him, but one he has to take.
As Custice says, if he can fend off Reform in Makerfield, then it puts him in a really good place to take the fight to Reform nationally.
And also a member of Labour Friends of Palestine , and has been far more critical of Israel than the current Labour leadership.
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And if he doesn’t win the seat? I can see that party tearing itself apart…
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