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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Zahawi’s professed lack of care makes him unfit for government

Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi in the House of Commons, December 8, 2020.
The Conservative party chairman, Nadhim Zahawi, described his tax problem as ‘careless not deliberate’. Photograph: UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA

As a retired college inspector, I might think that Nadhim Zahawi’s description of his tax problem as “careless not deliberate” means that he has no right to be leading any aspect of government (Nadhim Zahawi claims error with his taxes ‘careless not deliberate’, 21 January). Careless is worse than deliberate.
Liz Thompson
Oxford

• Jeff Sparrow wonders whether AI-generated music could match that created by humans (Are AI-generated songs a ‘grotesque mockery’ of humanity or simply an opportunity to make a new kind of music?, 20 January). He needn’t worry. A vital aspect of creativity is choice, and it is hard to imagine a computer program making an aesthetic distinction among various possibilities. Mind you, some pop music sounds as if it is based on deliberately bad choices.
Michael Bulley
Chalon-sur-Saône, France

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