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Here's how bad things have become re journalism in Berkshire: A four-year-old boy is found dead with multiple stab wounds. A woman is charged with his murder.
In the magistrates court, zero journalists attend. District Judge (wrongly) orders boy cannot be named.
The next day...
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Doctors DON’T have a final salary pension
Doctors DON’T get their exams paid for
Doctors DON’T get overtime
Doctors DON’T get their equipment paid for
Doctors DO pay for their own training
Doctors DO pay for their own stationary
Doctors DO earn less now than 2008 in real terms
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It is one of the major scandals of the last 15 years. A systemic Frankenstein of austerity and the collapse of social housing delivery. One of the greatest transfers of public funds into private hands for nothing but a policy failure.
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Just a memory from 2022 when the Tories wasted £200 million....... but Rachel Reeves LinkedIn profile
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I cannot emphasize how much of a disaster this portion of Meta's announcement is for safety engineering that's going to guarantee a disaster.
Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications ift.tt/7t0gm6T
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We really, really need to stop building trains which have interior lighting like an operating theatre. Objectively unpleasant and a real ambience killer. Try these instead:
ALT The beige-lit interior of a GNER HST First Open carriage
Twenty user groups have participated in testing as part of a programme to design HS2's new high-speed trains.
The groups, including those with reduced mobility, cyclists and young families, have been invited to experience life-sized wooden mock-ups of the trains - helping engineers understand the levels of ease, accessibility and comfort.
Find out more: gloo.to/F5FL
@HitachiRailENG @Alstom
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Many reasons, but this one should not be overlooked. Huge cuts to, e.g., council funding since 2010 is not without consequences.
If Starmer and Reeves want to change the direction of travel, need to shift from “we can’t afford it” to “we will fix it”.
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This is the classic "vibes over analysis" problem with many pundits - they go off appearance and background, rather than behaviour and outcomes. Therefore Sunak is a "centrist technocrat" because he sounds like a posh nerd, rather than right wing (policies he pursues) and lacking in competence (outcomes he achieves)
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Investing in skills without infrastructure just accelerates the 'brain drain'.
People finish their training and find there aren't any jobs where they live and simply move.
Investing in infrastructure enables the agglomeration that *actually* drives economic performance.
Southern cities are higher skilled than northern ones 🧭
Skills are the driver of economic performance. High-skilled businesses invest where they can recruit the workforce needed to help them grow.
See our 12 charts to inform the election debate 📊👇
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