I get that but it's the job of the inquiry to get to the facts and the reports I've read make a lot of sense. In terms of science, that's fairly settled now as well e.g. open.substack.com/pub/christin... but the media isn't ever happy with that!
We are learning the wrong lesson from Covid school closures
A response to yesterday's News Agents podcast...
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Why not just fire her? Does she really have a power base in the PLP? Considering her awful stint at the Home Office, I'm really not clear what skills Mahmood is bringing to anything.
Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3w ago🚨 BREAKING: The FT reports Shabana Mahmood will become Andy Burnham’s Chancellor Ed Miliband is now set to become Foreign Secretary
Funnily enough I don't remember Andrew ever expressing these concerns the last four times a Conservative MP became Prime Minister outside of a general election.
“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”
Quiet Riot@quietriotpod.bsky.social · 4w ago📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 Join us and @jeevunsandher.bsky.social as we talk: 🤑 Has Farage misfired? 🤬 Why is he so brittle? ⚖️ Should the regulator do more? 🗑️ Binface’s brilliance 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/6Uuf...
I don't understand how the country can be taken seriously when people run their business into £1.5m of debt and then restart it under a new legal fiction. "The original company went into voluntary liquidation... taken over by a second company run by the pair." www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘I’m left with a year of nothing’: UK gap year students lose thousands of pounds as tour operator closes
GVI shut down without refunds for students booked on volunteer programmes with overseas conservation projects
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What does a wealth tax actually look like? We sent Brighty Buoy and his tiny balls to Wimbledon to chat to fans 🎾
The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL from his family’s flat - then was undone when he got hungry and bought a takeaway gift card. www.londoncentric.media/p/thalha-jub...
The teenage millionaire hacker from Tower Hamlets who took down TfL
Traced through his takeaway order • Began playing Roblox • Allegedly handled £200m in Crypto • Based in his family flat near Bow Road station • One of the county's leading hackers
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So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Councils too have found outsourcing expensive & inefficient. See both adults' & childrens' residential care if you want to see the worst outcomes imaginable of Thatcher's deliberate error.
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation
Plus: Is London’s iPhone theft era really coming to an end? • A £9.5m mansion next to Henry VIII's childhood home • Go underground for your phone coverage
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The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️
I’m very fortunate never to have had to go to hospital for anything substantive for 52 years. But two aged (one now very ill) parents, and now lying on an emergency trolley hooked up to drips, makes you think. And I HAVE VIEWS. (1/several)
Working through Tony Blair’s essay (on the TBI website) on the challenges facing UK/Labour, and the responses from Wes Streeting (Guardian) Keir Starmer (Substack) and Andy Burnham (Times), to produce a TLDR. Only one of these four mentions climate crisis and only in passing.
The paper in question: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence
Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...
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The_Lady_Red@theladyred.bsky.social · 2mo agoA PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I just don't understand how such an incoherent piece gets published. Out of the three people, two are financially stable and working to avoid boredom. The expert view highlights state pension age rising, but they all receive state pension already?
Over 70s working beyond retirement age over financial fears
People in their 70s say they cannot afford to quit their jobs, but others say work keeps them young.
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This isn’t change. This is chasing Reform voters - again - on a promise of continued scapegoating of immigrants. As with Brexit, it’s perpetuating a lie to the British people. And we all pay the price for that lie. In our economy, our social care, our NHS and our communities.
This would be a pointless and vindictive move which would shame those who propose it for the rest of their careers.
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3mo ago‘Trans women must be barred from female toilets, changing facilities and sports teams, new official guidance is to state’ www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Electric-only pay per mile and fuel duty cut. What a policy turd.
Things this Labour government have done that I like: 1. actually boosted NHS spending in a meaningful way that has genuinely helped with things like waiting times, 2. rail nationalisation, 3. made serious pushes on green energy, 4. been better than the Tories re relationship with unions. ...
Now i have your attention (and brilliant ideas), here are five, immediate policies I would focus on. They're not exhaustive but I think they do three key things: acknowledge where things are broken, prioritise fairness, and take the fight to Reform. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Britain’s politics is broken — but not beyond repair
The next Labour leader will have a tough inheritance, but also a chance to apply some fixes
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Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 3mo agoCan we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?
There is a battle in Britain to stop the future being built. And one Essex village encapsulates all that’s wrong about British NIMBYism ✏️ Lucy Reade
Theydon Bois and the fight against the young
There is a battle in Britain to stop the future being built. And one Essex village encapsulates all that’s wrong about British NIMBYism
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Quick question: how exactly did these “hero voters” “serve the party so well in 2024?” Only I seem to recall Labour underperformed their polling by 5 percent and only managed a “landslide” because the right wing vote split, so…
In Dunkirk we witnessed French police grab and hold an Eritrean woman's children to stop her boarding a small boat. She already had two children and a husband on board. Another woman was held by police while her 3-year-old was on board alone - the boat left with an unaccompanied toddler. Footage:
