Tom Slater
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first heard Aug 2026
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bit being discussed about in the pre-internet age, there's only so many kind of phone lines you can tap.
It's a kind of physical exercise.
You then get into the digital age, Edward Snowden and the ability that say the NSA might have to be able to tap into a particular phone, but there's still you can't look at all of that data all the time.
You know, it's something that might be sat there ready to be accessible, but you're not going to be able to process it and look at it and
on a at scale, whereas AI presents that capability.
So th the the thing that I'm kind of um
It's the at least in the immediate term, the only thing that I think might pull us back from the brick is just whether or not this technology isn't quite as
isn't going to develop to the speed that its boosters or even the Doom Mongers suggest that it might do because otherwise it's just it just leaves so many big questions which without wanting to be on the fence about things, it's very difficult to see where the way through would be if these predictions could turned out to be true.
No, it's a remarkable story, this, and this is the tiny village of Piddington in Oxfordshire, population about three three hundred and fifty, which earlier this year was confronted by the fact that this military barracks in nearby Bister.
was going to receive north of one thousand two hundred illegal migrants.
The residents of Piddington did not take particularly kindly to this development and they've now held a vote to secede from the United Kingdom.
Um it passed overwhelmingly.
They've actually re dubbed themselves the Principality of Piddington.
They haven't quite got to the point where they're, you know, erecting border posts and seizing a post office, but it's probably only a matter of time.
Um and it's become the latest backlash to the n obviously the ongoing small boats crisis.
But I think in particular, Andy Burnham's attempt to try to just spread the problem around the country.
He said rightly that the migrant hotels and the HMOs were disproportionately in poor and working class areas because the accommodation is cheaper there.
And part of his solution seemingly has been to impose this issue on
More well-to-do middle class areas, of which Piddington certainly is one.
I think what this has shown is that whereas up till now, the more affluent sections of society haven't been as exercised by the issue of illegal migration, the only thing that required to change that was it actually affecting their lives directly.
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