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Inside the HMO crisis The towns and villages of Wigan and Makerfield are the epicentre of Serco Britain, with multiple HMO hotspots. Wigan had some of the first asylum hotels, and now hundreds of HMOs. And the issue is coming up "all the time" for the Labour Party on the
How Britain lost control
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John Healey’s resignation letter revealed much about his time as defence secretary – and about him. A fundamentally decent man who believed in his mission, he was ultimately thwarted by external and internal actors who could not or would not be controlled. Al Carns, the armed
Why John Healey had to resign
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Children as young as 12 have been prescribed masculinising and feminising hormones on the NHS to help them medically transition to another gender. The findings were made by a year-long independent investigation into the activities of a Brighton-based GP surgery, WellBN. The
Brighton GP prescribed sex hormones to children as young as 12
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The crisis at the top of government deepened on Thursday night as a second minister resigned from the Ministry of Defence over Keir Starmer’s “inadequate” military spending plans. Al Carns, minister for the armed forces, followed John Healey, the defence secretary, out of the
Defence Secretary John Healey resigns over military spending
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“Starmer’s leadership isn’t sustainable” I wrote about how Labour MPs are reacting to John Healey’s resignation, the latest and perhaps the most damaging blow to Keir Starmer’s authority. @NewStatesman
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"I’ve always worked right across the full political spectrum in the parliamentary Labour Party. It’s one of the reasons that Jeremy Corbyn wanted me in his shadow cabinet." Revisit the New Statesman's profile of John Healey from March: By @PronouncedAlva
John Healey on Labour, loyalty and leadership speculation
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John Healey's resignation, announced early on Thursday afternoon, seemed to take the form of polite disagreement, with Healey telling Keir Starmer in a letter that he was stepping down “with great regret and reluctance”. And yet his resignation letter in fact constitutes a
Defence Secretary John Healey resigns over military spending
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Britain’s biggest federation of workers, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has called for the government to impose an “emergency social tariff” and massively redistribute wealth in the face of rising energy bills. In the week when Nigel Farage claimed that Reform UK was now “the
Unions tell Starmer to redistribute wealth via energy bills
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“That’s the nature of being an academic: you should be a thorn in the side.” Terrific profile here from @OliDugmore of a big, entertaining, influential thinker who really matters
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MARIANA MAZZUCATO, ROCKSTAR ECONOMIST by @OliDugmore Mariana Mazzucato's ideas now influence how millions of people are governed. She was directly consulted in the formulation of Joe Biden’s CHIPS Act, a stimulus package worth $280bn. The World Bank’s mission to connect 250
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This is a really fun, fascinating profile by @OliDugmore
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MARIANA MAZZUCATO, ROCKSTAR ECONOMIST by @OliDugmore Mariana Mazzucato's ideas now influence how millions of people are governed. She was directly consulted in the formulation of Joe Biden’s CHIPS Act, a stimulus package worth $280bn. The World Bank’s mission to connect 250
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Would we call that murder? @OliDugmore remembers Bernie Sanders asking him, “what do you call it when a pharmaceutical exec increases the price of insulin?” He talks to economist @MazzucatoM on The Exchange.
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Perhaps understandably given his own near-death experiences, Asbridge steered away from upsides or consequences, instead favouring devastation and catastrophe. And perhaps that is why his conclusion about what we can learn is a kind one, rather than one that draws on the
What did the Black Death ever do for us?
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Politicians and public figures need to do much more than say “not in our name”. They must take some of the blame for creating a toxic discourse around immigration which “others” asylum seekers and migrants. Mis-and disinformation about immigration take root in certain communities
The far right are stoking the violence in Belfast
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