What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.
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Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.
All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.
Nice timing that Tim Allan has been brought in as Director of Comms a week before this blows up given he was deputy comms director for Blair when Mandelson was getting into trouble the first time around.
As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up.
Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else.
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[The definition of madness]( )
The definition of madness
Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again
The definition of madness
Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again
My brief contribution to the bluesky discourse is that across all written social media there's been a tail off in use in the last few months because Trump's first few weeks caused a huge surge.
Looking at private school pupil numbers in the ISC census and they've fallen back to where they were in..... 2022. Not exactly the disaster many predicted....
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OK now that I've read the white paper recommendations I'd say closing the care system to overseas recruitment is the single most substantive system change.
That can only plausibly work if salaries go up significantly.
Pro-tip: Norway, Sweden and Denmark have education departments.
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*TRUMP SIGNS ACTION AIMED AT CLOSING EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
*TRUMP: WILL FIND ANOTHER POSITION FOR MCMAHON
*TRUMP: WANT EDUCATION AS GOOD AS NORWAY, ...