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Tea and biscuits totally ruined by imperfect chocolate coverage on the biccies

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic. So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Two genuinely irritating phrases: "Nobody voted to leave the single market" And its cousin, "We should never have left the single market". A 🧵

In July, I FOI'd the Home Office for the full breakdown of spending on the Rwanda scheme I was refused because the government planned to publish the data in future, and today is the day. These numbers are in millions www.gov.uk/government/p...

At this time of year, dads throughout the culturally Christian world give their thanks to technology. Specifically, the reliability of LED lights

If you bring central London to a halt to campaign against catastrophic climate change you're treated as a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. But if you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵