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I remember it well. So pleased for you both that it’s gone well 😊

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Also well done you. I’m sure it’s been… a lot. Although thankfully less with the magic pill hiding pockets

National holiday in her honour!

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Even more so if you then try to sit in the pram yourself

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You obviously have a trustworthy face And a trade to fall back on if hard times hit

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Trapped between the housing crisis and the social care crisis and getting punished for it A government talking about securinomics should let people who become disabled put any LISA savings into a pension rather than penalising them when they spend it on care costs

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Everything will be fine until it suddenly isn’t and then someone will get blamed and wonder why

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Badenoch never lets the truth get in the way of a story she has decided is good

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Safe space 😂 Tell me you haven’t used Bluesky without telling me you haven’t used Bluesky Also so funny how X is somehow presented as the great open and representative place given all the experience and research which shows otherwise

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like they’re getting little for them. Or are just feeling costs rising everywhere I understand the pushback at cakeism politics that doesn’t deal with tradeoffs. But think you’re right to pushback at the false options about what those tradeoffs are presented by some

And I think a lot of people would go along with more taxes if they could see things getting better People expected Labour to raise taxes. Raising them isn’t what made Labour unpopular It’s now a topic from the usual suspects and people do respond negatively to taxes if they feel

Is it a catbus? No it’s a trainbus! Maybe one for the Burnham campaign?

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Source Starbucks Korea fired its head following a controversial marketing campaign

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Source UK unemployment rose to 5 percent

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Source Toxic forever chemicals were detected in the Solent

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Maybe I’m not up to speed on what’s happening

My concern is definitely that he doesn’t have good policy to back it up or yeah, that people think he’ll switch to whatever they want later

Yeah, I don’t disagree. I’m thinking about this in the context of his arguments and framing earlier in the year I suppose. And people think things are broken. Using this story is I think a better route to good policy than telling them it’s the fault of immigrants Let’s see what he does with it

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Definitely some tricky questions, things I wasn’t sure on the wording of But tbh just going through and not thinking too much, this and the other put me as social democrat which seems broadly right Surprised you didn’t just set us all to secret Tory in denial ;)

Is i maybe a general BBC thing of trying too hard to follow stories from local newspapers (and facebook) just like the national BBC news tries too hard to follow certain national newspapers (and twitter)?

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Most stories are. What matters is if you can persuade people and then what you do with the power that gives you All successful politicians need to tell a story and persuade and bring people along. Starmer failed to I think Burnham has a good story. I don’t know if he has a good plan though

I’m less sure. He seems to be tying together a persuasive narrative which Starmer has failed to do. It depends what Burnham then does with it But this is his story, that Britain was broken by the four horsemen of right wing economics: Deregulation, privatisation, austerity and Brexit

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I found this dealing with a bank recently. Needing to replace a card which used to be click a button or send a message, but now involved a chatbot which asked lots of questions, looked like it may have worked, but didn’t Eventually sorted it via a human but even then the system was cumbersome

That’s the one I was thinking of :)

Wow I absolutely garbled my words there didn’t I. Oh well. Brain fog doing it’s thing

Fantastic news! A big thank you to all involved in securing this. And I am so pleased that the government is putting money into this after the disappointment of it not securing funding in earlier attempts with the MRC/NIHR Better late than never!

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There’s stuff we can and should do like using the laws we have against social and traditional media or dodgy financing. And improving laws where needed There’s already a bill on changes around age and ID for voting in the King’s Speech Lots can be done but no magic wands

Changing the rules ‘to keep Reform out’ is the wrong motivation A proper change to voting will involve constituency boundary changes, that’s many years of work Nothing really significant will happen with the EU until they are sure it is lasting and we won’t play in/out ping pong

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I support the idea of electoral reform just as I support a closer relationship with the EU. But replies here again so people who think these are magic solutions or that they can be done before the next general election The next GE may be fought on these issues but they cannot happen beforehand

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The 2010-2024 Tory vintage was definitely corked Or something that rhymes with it

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Source The Supreme Court has preserved access to the abortion drug mifepristone

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Source Malta will provide citizens free access to ChatGPT Plus and Microsoft Copilot

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Source California reports the largest mushroom poisoning outbreak in U.S. history

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Elon Musk as Gollum then?

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Legal/financial woo Crystals with acronyms

It gave them loads of data. The problem was they couldn’t interpret it wasn’t it? But if you pretend it’s important then lots of advertisers will give you money 😁

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There’s basic google syndication and that’s about it as far as tracking. This is hosted via github. Maybe because it is just setup by a kid interested in something I agree data protection and privacy is important. Maybe reach out and help the lad address or improve that rather than berating people?

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Jokes on him, I got his email address and signed him up to your newsletter so he can learn more about your opinions 😉

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Cautiously “Slightly moderate” 😉 Apparently me, Mandela, MLK and Jacinda Arden are organising dinner

Are you seriously using this to have a go at a 17 year old who is interested in topic, makes something to explore it and it went viral? We should be encouraging this in people not berating them for it!