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Among the G7, IMF forecasts UK to have second lowest debt and deficit by 2030 www.ft.com/content/c2de...

Every now and then Twitter makes it worth holding on.

In a time of great upheaval, when all our old certainties are crumbling, it’s of enormous comfort to be able to rely on the fact that England will learn absolutely nothing from their appalling batting performance. #MAshes

Jim will do well to see any action there.

Something the new housing secretary may wish to bring to the top of his inbox today: the simmering scandal of the Building Safety Regulator – whose backlog has not only brought a near halt to new housing in London, but is also blocking cladding removal. Amazingly underreported story, so far…

If this had happened at the BBC the Telegraph would be openly wanking over the whole thing for the next 3 months. As it happened at the Telegraph it will be NEVER SPOKEN OF AGAIN.

You truly could not make it up. You could not.

Among other things, Johns Hopkins is one of the world's leading centres for research into Motor Neurone Disease and associated degenerative conditions. I presume much of that funding is now threatened. Because, er, medical advances are woke or something.

It's not a 'narrative'. The lack of certainty about what Downing Street wants is a matter of observable fact - frankly even if you don't talk to Cabinet ministers and ministers you can see that just by looking at "timestamps on the Guardian liveblog".

I do think it says a lot about both countries that the Netherlands and the UK both have these horrendous “scan a receipt to exit” gates in supermarkets, *and* that the UK ones don’t work.

The poorest half of Britain are now getting more of their income from work and less from benefits than three decades ago. Read the full report https://buff.ly/4gE0beF

Absolutely agree with all of this thread. But that is also sort of the point of working with LLM’s. You need to interrogate what comes back and you need critical reasoning skills.

ICYMI - Professor @robfordmancs.bsky.social points out that many people voted tactically in the GE to get the Tories out They might lose those voters if Labour keeps chasing Reform votes And most (4 out of 10) will vote for Lib Dem, Green, SNP, etc - not Reform (3 out of 10)

“Sovereignty matters. Except when it doesn’t. And it doesn’t when another people’s sovereignty gets in the way of your nation’s needs.” My Observer column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Home Park is bouncing. People are crying in the stands! Plymouth Argyle have beaten Liverpool!