The BBC News coverage of the eclipse is ‘The Day Today’ incarnate. Will Nathan Barley crop up as a talking head?
Andy Cowper
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'Posh' George Cottrell and his mum, once again engaging in finl transactions with Reform UK that look needlessly circuitous, and appear undeclared. www.ft.com/content/4abf...
“I saw it written and I saw it say, A pink moon is on its way”
“Among the adorable things about this piece briefed to The Sunday Times’ Harry Yorke is the touching faith of Young Master Wesley - sorry, ‘a source close to Young Master Wesley’ - that “there are 250 members of the PLP in our camp.
New: A business that made a six-figure donation to Reform UK received interest-free loans of £67m from unnamed “related companies” in the months before, raising questions about the possible origin of the funds. observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform given six-figure donation by firm that received £6...
Nigel Farage’s party is facing questions about the lack of transparency over £100,000 in funds donated by a management consultancy
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Under The Burnham Government, talking about the importance of eventual though unspecified adult social care reform is up by 173%.
The problem with that is that it's technically already there, it just never gets enforced for oh so many reasons. The Fit & Proper Person test especially if enforced adequately would disqualify quite a few folk. But... it doesn't.
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Cowper’s Cut 440: “And would you like cuttings of long grass with your adult social care reform?”
Adult social care’s Bank of England 1997 independence moment, that was not. PM and Mascara Kid Andy Burnham’s speech on social care reform turned out to be a heavily-trailed nothingburger. You couldn...
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I remember a guy at Tower Hamlets who simultaneously had full time jobs there and at Camden Council. Very senior, and on the few times I met him, always seemed in a hurry to be somewhere (else).
He was offered a COO job without anybody actualy knowing who he was or checking out his actual record? Quite remarkable to be given senior jobs without any due dillignce and says a lot about NHS recruitment. Anyway going to ask him to do some interview coaching with me....
Perhaps my takeaway from this is wrong: " I must be doing something wrong with my CV." 😉
Glad he’s been nicked but how did he get the jobs in the first place?
Andy Cowper@hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 3w agoPerfect: “A scammer who lied to secure 13 NHS management & admin jobs, including at NHS England and NHS Digital, has been jailed for 4 years. Amran Hussain, 40, was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday, having pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation in August 2025.
The NHS not having a single employment record is such a simple fix yet it causes so many problems. It allows folk with awful records to just change jobs and leave it behind them. The stories...
Well, that’s social care reform into the medium-term grass.
Perfect: “A scammer who lied to secure 13 NHS management & admin jobs, including at NHS England and NHS Digital, has been jailed for 4 years. Amran Hussain, 40, was sentenced at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday, having pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud by false representation in August 2025.
Yes. Public procurement is not the technocratic exercise in transactions cost economics that it would be in a rational polity. Instead, it's the product of lobbying, ideology & the prospect of good jobs post-politics.
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
‘You are what you eat’ is such a sad threat.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4w agoin this week's newsletter! an essay that maybe won't be wholly popular with everyone, on feeling increasingly alienated from a world which seems to mostly fetishise "having a perfect body" and "eating interesting food": youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/hearts-sta...
Astonishing how palatable dreadful art becomes when the gallery has great air conditioning.
Starmer's departure leaves Nigel Farage as by far the most unpopular leader (or senior politician). 56% "very unfavourable" is major problem for Reform - Reform can only win if their opponents divide & people with strong negative views of Farage will be more motivated by anti-Reform tactical voting
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 4w agoLatest major party leader net favourability ratings, July 2026 Andy Burnham: +3 Ed Davey: -8 Kemi Badenoch: -11 Zack Polanski: -26 Nigel Farage: -46 yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
