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I agree with everything Dylan says here. Would also add that, even more so than usual, it is just far too early to talk about 2029 and geopolitical positioning. There is so much we know we don't know!

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Trump can’t win his trade war with China. #TrumpTradeWar

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I'm not saying that Vance has angered God, but if he offers to pray for you, it might be best to politely decline

submitted 23 hours ago • 98 comments

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

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SpaMedica, which it alleged had delivered more than a quarter of all cataract operations and coded the majority of its patients “at higher complexity, resulting in the cost per procedure being 8 per cent more expensive than [at] an NHS hospital”.

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Not knocking Luke & MoreInCommon work here, but I am going to be a broken record on all MRPs from here to 2028: They are IMHO pretty useless as guide to potential results because how voters behave will depend hugely on which parties are competitive in their area & what they think of those parties

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Happy Easter! (From me and @newscientist.com)

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Farage is talking bollocks again. But now @ed-miliband.bsky.social is calling him out. There is no politician more geekishly knowledgeable about our energy system than Ed. We need geeks like him to keep the lights on, not Trumpist blowhards like Farage www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

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Starmer bashing is popular… nice to see him on Time 100 list, and I don’t know exactly how it works but interesting person they’ve got to write about him 👀 time.com/collections/...

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Had an interesting chat with Rachel Reeves ahead of Washington trip next week: 🚨 UK will walk away from US trade deal if red lines crossed 🚨 Donald Trump not acting like a bully 🚨 No rush to get deal done 🚨 No commitment to Commons vote www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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The UK is ready to walk away empty handed from make-or-break trade talks with the US rather than accept a bad deal, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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This next month could end up defining our place in the world. There's everything to play for. But pro-Europeans have to exert pressure in an achievable way, rather than stomping off the pitch iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

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Wow. I don’t care what ‘side’ you’re on, if you don’t think a hugely powerful figure posting this on social media, & amplified on the front page of a national newspaper, smacks of an extremely unpleasant triumphalism, you might want to think about what ‘side’ of extremely unpleasant you are on.

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Watching obscenely rich people and their friends blast off into (not quite) space for a jolly is bizarre when there’s so much to fix here on earth. This song by Gil Scot Heron song does a good job of summing it up…

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Choose wisely...

submitted 6 days ago • 53 comments

This thread’s exactly right. Labour ruled out council tax revaluation in the election campaign, because politics, and Reeves’s HMT is deeply sceptical about fiscal devolution - but current system has broken the link between what you pay and what you get, leaving the door wide open for populism.

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Critical thing this locals will be the assumption that Labour losses and Reform gains = Lab to Reform switching when most of it will be Con > Reform switching. Especially comparing these locals to 2021 when Cons did well and Reform now starting from effectively zero.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Striking illustration from Ed of the graduate/non graduate divide in voting intention. Obviously age driving this too but combined Conservative/Reform vote among non-graduates is 55% among graduates it is over 20 points lower at 34%

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Agree people don’t know what councils do etc. But I also think the public is reasonable enough to question why the local area looks dirty/declining etc while council tax bills have gone up and up and up and up and up. Politically it’s therefore currently ripe for undeliverable promises

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Parliament, not the Supreme Court should have decided today. I've written about why that's so problematic and why I fear today's judgment will be used to further delegitimise trans people, even though that is not what the Court intends. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/why-i-worr...

submitted 5 days ago • 95 comments

Ouch

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What Farage says about where his votes are coming from is also horseshit, of course. Latest YouGov poll shows Tories have leaked 20% of the 2024 support to Reform, but Labour just 6%. Though that still matters, it’s just a third of what Labour’s losing to Lib Dems and Greens…

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🚨🚨 WOW: UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the EU and accept #CJEU supervision over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods & agricultural products- in a significant a move on the promised EU-UK #reset five years after #Brexit.🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments

Aside from the dreadful, wasteful act of just popping into space for 11 minutes, the framing of this is driving me insane. If it was men it would be a big scientific breakthrough or something but because it’s women it has to be soft and fluffy and about “hope”. Honestly fuck off with it all.

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Enjoying Today prog’s feature on rats as big as cats in Birmingham, featuring two people both insisting they haven’t seen any rats and Nick Robinson sounding very annoyed

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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future. Here's what he got wrong... 🧵

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Bloomberg now reporting as I did last month that the UK government is ready to sign up for dynamic alignment on food and drink regulations. Though detailed negotiations will be rather challenging. And EU doesn't yet have a mandate. (repost - wrong link 1st time) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Wildly popular decision taken by Labour government..... for all those catastrophizing on here today about Labour 😘

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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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More positive reporting by the @financialtimes.com on the outlook of an EU-UK Security and Defence PArtnership at the summit in May. Still significant details to work out (and, of course, fisheries) but chances of agreement certainly rising.

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An arresting headline and a very carefully written post which serves to mislead. Assura doesn't own any NHS hospitals, and the NHS never owned any of the GP surgery buildings Assura owns. The implication here is that the NHS should become the landlord for these GPs - but using what money?

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I thought Shaun was exaggerating, but this is a truly abysmal piece. No understanding of what net zero is. No explanation of how it has supposedly impacted the steel industry. No alternative proposal for what to do about climate change. No recognition of other countries’ net zero plans.

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