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The interesting subtext of this is that Cummings has presumably failed to get any funding for his start up party if 'take over the Tories' is back on the cards.

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Important thread. Just in case you missed it: These trials show a 96–100% reduction in HIV infection with Lenacapavir, compared to the background incidence. They also show a 9x reduction compared to Tenofovir, the daily oral PrEP pill. Lenacapavir, meanwhile, is injected once every 6 months.

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Some of the leftish response to Starmer's NHS reform speech strikes me as small-c conservative, especially re digitisation. Obviously good things like electronic health records and being able to do more on the NHS app decried as a boon to 'American tech companies'.

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Re the Winter Fuel Payment: • cutting it saves £1.3bn • average Pension Credit claim is £3900 • if the 880,000 who are missing out on Pension Credit claimed it (as Labour say they want) it would cost an extra ~£3.5bn. Reeves is banking on Pension Credit still going unclaimed.

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🗣️ 'We live in one of the world's most competitive consumer economies, and we do not give children or adults [money] training. And we wonder why we have 880,000 people not claiming Pension Credit.' Martin Lewis punchy and eloquent speaking to MPs about financial education 👨‍🏫

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✍️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NEW: We've received questions about the Council Tax Reduction rules for those in receipt of the State Pension but not Pension Credit. I've rewritten part of the page to make things clearer. #welfarerights

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Trying to write more about movies so if you're on Letterboxd give me a follow and drop your @. #filmsky

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Renewable energy will be as important as oil and gas was. The energy transition could make Scottish islands very wealthy and fundamentally reshape their relationship with the mainland. @carbonbrief.org

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Thinking of easy anti-rip-off wins for a cost-of-living policy blitz: Leasehold reform. A total racket. Transparent pricing for mortgages/airlines/postage and packing/printer cartridges.

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"The citizen is no longer free to decide which heating system he wants." @politico.eu The German far-right was so successful at fermenting backlash against banning gas boilers in favour of heat pumps that the UK Labour Government has taken notice.

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✍️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 NEW: More people with no recourse to public funds can now qualify for Best Start Foods in Scotland, even if your child is not a British citizen or if you have no immigration status.

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Despite the mood music Labour themselves are putting out I still find myself thinking (hoping?) the 'painful' October Budget mostly refers to tax rises. They've made hay of state renewal, 'fixing the foundations' etc. Not sure that can be realistically tied to more cuts, practically or politically.

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💯. I'm really impressed that the British Medical Association is taking a stand with its own evaluation of the Cass Review. Unions can and should act on more than just pay and conditions.

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I'm visiting family in Uist and, you guessed it, faced with yet more Calmac issues on my way back to Glasgow. I've noticed a lot of confusion here about consumer rights when the ferry is cancelled. I might publish a summary on the CAS website. Might have to do Orkney/Shetland ferries too.

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This is a welcome, long overdue change of tone, but I'm apprehensive given the noises Rachel Reeves has been making about the welfare bill.

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Monday's front pages: wall-to-wall screeching about Labour's 'union paymasters' from the Murdoch and right-wing press

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"In his memoir on the 2010-15 government, former Lib Dem minister David Laws recounted a now-famous tongue-in-cheek conversation with the Cabinet Office Minster Oliver Letwin, who noted drily that 'our great United Kingdom is actually entirely run by a lady called Sue Gray'." | @politico.eu

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📝 Just published information on the new rules for XL Bully dogs in Scotland

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"When you think about the key announcements that have really hit the ground running [GB Energy, lifting the ban on onshore wind, announcing three giant solar farms] — they’re Ed’s." www.politico.eu/article/ed-m...

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Arguably the most insightful and digestible political news now comes from email newsletters. I think this is because they usually have a mix of verified reporting (which is key) alongside analysis and commentary. On websites these things are more siloed or just less succinct.

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26 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

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But I'm probably going to keep the header because it's colourful 🟥🟨🟩

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Always felt the UN Sustainable Development Goals were laudable for their scope, a kind of 'first manifesto' for the whole human species and what we want to achieve. Best Things First makes a decent case for junking them and focusing more resources on the easiest wins / highest rewards. Recommend.

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Whisper it, but I'm increasingly ID card-curious. EU Settlement Scheme showed 3 million more EU migrants than UK Govt thought. How can you plan/deliver public services with info so partial? Unconvinced by 'papers please' opposition. You already need two forms of ID to access anything at all.

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The thing about Elon is he's always banging on about Twitter being the 'global town square'. He was right and that was the most valuable thing about it. He trashed it anyway.

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Recently joined Citizens Advice Scotland as a content researcher/writer. As an adviser I would always gripe about certain information not being on the website. Now I can add it myself 👀

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Signed up to Bluesky about an hour ago and it's got the feel of early Twitter – interesting, informative, diverse etc, but also feels like it's possible to make connections in a way that hasn't been true over there for a long time.

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Oh hello Britain 😳 That blue line is activity in the UK spiking past all of the other countries on Bluesky right now. Welcome, and invite a friend to join us! bsky.app/download

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"Labour government has a swath of ministers — from Rachel Reeves to ministers of state like Stephen Timms — who partly owe their jobs in Starmer’s administration to their previous stints as select committee chairs."

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