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Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits - these days mainly for the Observer, Big Issue and Politics Home. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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sounds healthy! (from today's New Statesman Morning Call newsletter)

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Tomorrow is the big day: Rachel Reeves announces how much gov departments have to spend over the next 3 years. This is a critical moment for public services like the NHS, police & schools. But what's the *starting point* for services? Team IfG takes a look at performance and it's not pretty: 🧵

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

real contender for the defining quote of american christianity here

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

really every journalist or "commentator" who claimed during the election that Trump wouldn't do Project 2025 should resign or be fired.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

So am I allowed to call these people Nazis yet or do I need to wait for Charlie to be able to grow a hitlerstache

submitted 11 hours ago • 251 comments

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

The thing about the campaign is that Harris regularly said what people wanted her to say. She wasn't a perfect campaigner, and she was operating under considerable constraints. But she did the thing.

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Impressively this may well end up costing more than the original policy due to increase take up of the pension credit after the original announcement (H/T @stevewebb1.bsky.social)

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

I think my main takeaway from the winter fuel farrago is that the Treasury is not good at magicking up policy outside its remit

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Oh good, someone is doing a story on trigger warnings in UK HE and is FOIAing departments...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Can make a reasonable political argument that of the £110bn extra in infrastructure spending, there's no political benefit even in London from DLR or Bakerloo extension. Can make a policy argument that Met needs reform not money. But struggle to conceive of an argument against a tourist levy.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Let's bring it all back, Nigel. Rivers that run black, lung diseases, landslips, slag heaps, the works.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

1. tube extensions 2. local tax powers 3. police funding HMT is within its rights to refuse 1 and 3 on the grounds of "fund them yourself" - but to then refuse 2 at the same time is nonsensical

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Uriah Rennie, first black referee in Premier League, dies aged 65

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Everyone who argued Trump was not a fascist was badly wrong.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

10-2 in the tie-break? sounds pretty one-sided, glad I didn't fork out money to watch that

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments