Where is the focus on the cost of living crisis, or expanding investment in renewable energy, on housing, or any of the most pressing economic and social concerns that materially affect people’s lives? This government has shown that they much prefer fighting meaningless culture wars than actually doing anything to help people with the multiple crises affecting the UK. It’s telling then that Oliver Dowden, one of the leading culture warriors in the Tory Party, has chosen this moment to resign. The most recent Winterwatch offered a wide variety of cameras, including the pier in Aberystwyth, the River Ness, and the New Forest. The River Ness provided the opportunity to view footage from cameras placed underwater and gave us the chance to try our system out on fish. We trained a new detection machine learning model for the underwater scene, which successfully detected salmon as they swam upstream. The demise of DeSantis and his woke-bashing crusade could and should provide valuable lessons for politicians in Britain, where a similar ‘war against woke’ has been gaining momentum. Economist Richard Murphy said today that “Where the Republicans go the Tories follow. We take the right to abortion, contraception, gay rights and same-sex marriage for granted now. We shouldn’t. Very soon Tory think tanks will have their sights on all of them. Fascism is on the march.”

Some good news at last, well kind of. Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor who has promised to ‘destroy leftism’ if he became president, is struggling. In fact, his popularity is nosediving, proving that basing a whole campaign around ‘anti-wokeism’ isn’t good for business. Perhaps then the self-styled ‘voice of Real Britain’ will start acting a bit more responsibly, i.e stop being a school for scoundrels to spout shit-stirring nonsense. Wakefield is very much part of the Northern Red Wall which was lost by Labour in 2019, while Tiverton and Honiton is part of a set of South Western seats which are prime targets for the Lib Dems. Tactical voting in both seats helped maximise both parties’ votes, though whether Labour and the Lib Dems can make this tactic work at a much wider scale in general elections is doubtful without some type of formal agreement on which seats the other party won’t contest. Both parties have been resistant to the idea of having any kind of formal voting pact in the past. Now who can remember Rishi Sunak in January promising to halve inflation by the end of the year? It was one of his five pledges.While they share stances on hardline anti-immigration and tax cuts, DeSantis and Trump aren’t clones. Trump’s hallmark leans towards a populist anti-globalisation crusade, and DeSantis’s is his ‘anti-woke’ agenda.

The anomaly detection showed significant potential in terms of selecting clips of interest, and this is an area that requires future research and development to improve the effectiveness of our tools. We will also continue to improve the accuracy of the analysis, especially the animal classification, and iterate and improve our tools' user experience and design. The survival of the patriotic right-wing network, despite its coarse partisan reporting and stream of controversies, including five separate Ofcom investigations and having been found to have breachedBroadcasting Code twice, is concerning, and makes you ask why and how? It also makes you wonder if the channel’s recent ‘brand love’ win tells the whole story? By-elections are not generally very good news for governing parties who are going through tough economic times. However, losing two MPs because one was convicted of sexual assaulting a child and the other admitted to looking at porn in the House of Commons probably didn’t help the final vote counts for the Tories in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, which were lost to Labour and the Lib Dems respectively. In case you missed it, June 13 marked GB News’ two-year anniversary. Beset with hitches and controversies from day one, the ‘news’ channel that brings Fox-style biased coverage offered by a range of pro-Brexit, right-wing, and, in some cases, Covid-conspiracist presenters, limped to its second birthday. BBC R&D - Cloud watching: moving Springwatch remote wildlife cameras into the cloud Infrastructure ImprovementsIn an attempt to offer an explanation about how GB News became Savanta’s most-loved news brand, Shaun Austin, Head of Media at Savanta, said the network also scored highly when it came to the most ‘hated’ brand. Of course, that particular metric didn’t make it into the right-wing media’s gushing reports on the poll. Why a New Zealander based in the Middle East would want to influence British politics by investing in a right-wing news channel might be hard to fathom, but if we dig a little deeper, it starts to make sense. The Legatum Institute (LI) is a right-wing, free market-promoting think-tank. It was foundedin 2007bythe Legatum Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Dubai-based investment firm Legatum. It is one of a string of right-wing think-tanks associated with secretive funding sources to influence the UK government. As well as pushing for a ‘hard Brexit,’ the ‘free trade’ loving think-tank became well-known for its access to Tory ministers. With the World Cup data there are people at the BBC’s data supplier working to ensure the accuracy of all the information but with our system the data is all being generated automatically. This means there is the potential for errors to get into the data and be presented to the audience. To avoid this we have built tools to monitor the data being generated and allow a human operator to override the automatic choices if there are any problems. This “human-in-the-loop” can make sure that the output remains of a high quality but the effort required from the operator should be as low as possible, ensuring they have time to also work on other aspects of their job.