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The government didn’t really spend £8 billion on ‘woke projects’, as you may have heard this week. That figure is the total annual budget for UK Research and Innovation. About £10.4 million was awarded to projects the TaxPayers’ Alliance has called “woke”.

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A donated placenta has been used to help save a man's eye after an acid attack. Paul Laskey had 2 corneal transplants & 3 amnion grafts. This tissue from the inner lining of a placenta is rich in protein growth factors, which can stimulate the healing process. 🧪👁️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me? It did.... i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

Elon Musk has usurped Donald Trump as the far-right's leader of choice www.wired.com/story/far-ri...

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Senator Rips Into RFK Jr. — And Gets Him To Admit He Spread A Conspiracy Theory www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

submitted 24 days ago • 15 comments

A good time to remind ourselves why joining Russia and Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR is a very bad idea youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...

submitted 24 days ago • 20 comments

Three takes on Trump, climate, and solar geoengineering from @JesseLReynolds, Jane Long, and me: srm360.org/perspecti... 1/2

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🔴Twenty Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

We’ve updated our Government Tracker to reflect the latest information on two of Labour’s manifesto pledges on defence—to conduct a Strategic Defence Review within a year, and the promise to “set out the path” to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence. More here 👇

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

submitted 30 days ago • 226 comments

The Sun has deleted an article reporting a 550% “surge” in grooming cases, after Full Fact queried the claim. The 550% figure may have been affected by a broader classification of grooming since 2017, as well as changing rates of reporting.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

KB: "Labour haven't had real jobs!" Angela Rayner: Care worker Rachel Reeves: Economist Jess Phillips: Ran women's refuge Peter Kyle: Aid worker Ian Murray: Founded an events business Shabana Mahmood: Barrister Steve Reed: Publishing Anneliese Dodds: Lecturer Lisa Nandy: Charity researcher

submitted 37 days ago • 65 comments

So cringe! 🤦 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/trump-t...

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

This is actually brilliant from Keir Starmer 😂 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/kei...

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

submitted 44 days ago • 267 comments

'Did you ever call for a national public inquiry before Elon Musk got involved?' www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/jen...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

This gang of sex abusers preyed on young children in Walsall, and got away with it for years. What could possibly explain the failure by Nigel Farage, Elon Musk and the Tories to call for a public inquiry about it?

submitted 45 days ago • 86 comments

If you, or someone you know, is likely to be struggling this Christmas, this link has a load of useful contacts. www.mind.org.uk/information-...

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

"If you stop doing something bad for the environment, but it has a warming effect on the climate, are you geoengineering?" Read @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on what happens when cleaning up pollution means more warming, feat. @danvisioni.bsky.social and @hausfath.bsky.social:

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments