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Rejoice peasants, your new government procurement rules mean the creation of junk low value jobs to fill procurement quotas but on the up side you also can't swim with your kids in nearby rivers or seas without shit floating in them.

Haigh said the old procurement system included "a whole gamut of conditions around net zero, around the environment. There were things that I think a lot of businesses would have struggled to prove, like tackling domestic abuse and improving high streets. It became quite amorphous.

The result was that "certain players could really game the system" and small and medium-sized businesses were "crowded out", she said.

The new, simplified system will apply only to contracts above £1mn, allowing SMEs and civil society organisations to avoid red tape when making smaller bids.

Technical guidance will be published this autumn and the new model will come into effect from January next year.

as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes

The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'

The Times full page - ‘Brilliant, provocative, inimitable’
Rod Liddle, who has died aged 66, combined a serious intellect with razor-sharp wit, writes Alex Farber

TL;DR: When the British Medical Association's long-awaited review of the Cass Review was published, the media said it had "dropped its opposition" and "vindicated" Cass. But, according to doctors who were on the BMA's review team, that's not what actually happened.

Reporting about British Medical Association critique of Cass Review was 'factually wrong'

The mainstream media's reporting of vital information about trans healthcare was wrong. Again.

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My fave Rod Liddle story. A friend was launching an indie magazine in the 1980s. He wrote to every uk columnist asking if they would write for him. Rid Liddle wrote back. Dear James, my rate is 5 pounds per word. Rid Liddle. My friend wrote back- Dear Rod, thanks for the 11 free words.

Should be pinned to the top of every single intercommunity argument about tactics. In particular: the people doing the kind of direct action work that other people like to fantasise about online are ABSOLUTELY not talking about it online, are you high? Doing the work > masturbatory discourse

Astrid@astridsramblings.bsky.social · 2d ago

One final take: The people doing the hard yards of effective work, whether grassroots activism, legal work or lobbying, do not talk much on here about it. Because it’s difficult, exhausting interpretations are too bad faith, and the other side can see your posts. Bluesky is not the real world.