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Latest threads on NHS performance data for all four UK countries: NHS England In Progress -
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NHS England Complete -
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Simon Wren-Lewis
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New post: Should the government compensate consumers for cost of living shocks?
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/04/shou...
Any government subsidy today has to be paid for by raising taxes or borrowing. Why should the government do either to shield consumers who can afford to pay higher prices?
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Should the government compensate consumers for cost of living shocks?
G overnments around the world are cutting taxes on petrol or fuel, including in Germany, Italy, Spain and Canada. The UK government has c...
https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/04/should-government-compensate-consumers.html
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Nicolas Fulghum
about 7 hours ago
NEW | Clean power met ALL the growth in global electricity demand in 2025 Solar generation alone met THREE QUARTERS of the demand rise and grew by 30%. Fossil generation stagnated (-0.2%). đ§” A thread on changes in the global power system in 2025...
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Nicolas Fulghum
about 4 hours ago
In 2025, renewables overtook coal in global electricity generation for the first time in over 100 years. Renewables: 33.8% Coal: 33.0% Coal fell below a third of global electricity generation for the first time in history.
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steve the skeptic
about 4 hours ago
The latest proposals to fix NHS corridor care are an unfocussed clusterfuck of bad ideas that manage to ignore the biggest cause of the problem:
www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...
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The mythbuster: Policy-based evidence is deadly
NHS England has once again made the wrong call on improving emergency care
https://www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insight/the-mythbuster-policy-based-evidence-is-deadly/7041517.article
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David Henig
about 4 hours ago
In my view fair summary of where the last two days leave us. And how even to make judgements in the absence of a clear political approach to government.
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Trump Action Tracker
about 4 hours ago
More than 2,500 troops remain in the nationâs capital, Washington DC, eight months after President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency, in a deployment that has grown increasingly routine with no clear end in sight.
TAT
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National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment
Even with pivotal elections looming this year, their lingering presence is barely mentioned
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/national-guard-washington-dc-deployment-no-end-in-sight-b2961086.html
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Trump Action Tracker
about 4 hours ago
A small conservative legal group used direct access to the Federal Communications Commission chairmanâs office last September to accelerate a complaint targeting Jimmy Kimmel and his employer, ABC
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The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trumpâs Media Critics
Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carrâs office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fcc-has-a-fast-lane-for-complaints-about-trumps-media-critics/
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Nicolas Fulghum
about 3 hours ago
Today, we published the @ember_energy Global Electricity Review 2026. That also means 2025 electricity generation data for over 100 countries and regions is now LIVE on our data explorer, data downloads and API. Open electricity data for everyone!
ember-energy.org/data/electri...
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Jonathan Portes
about 7 hours ago
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
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James OâBrien
about 2 hours ago
Good. Itâs easy to forget that climate change denial & shilling for fossil fuel companies provided a template for Tufton Street, Brexit & pretty much every egregious example of persuading populations to vote against their own interests. The story of Don Pearlman should be taught in kindergartensâŠ
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PoliticsHome
about 2 hours ago
Ed Miliband has said he'll âdouble down, not back downâ on governmentâs clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change course The Energy Sec said "solar panels, heat pumps and EVs are not woke, or a left-wing conspiracy, or even a Marxist plot. They're actually common sense"
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Ed Miliband Says He Will âDouble Down, Not Back Downâ On Clean Energy
Ed Miliband has said he will âdouble down, not back downâ on the governmentâs clean energy mission in the face of critics calling on him to change ...
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/ed-miliband-vows-double-down-back-down-clean-energy
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Simon Marks
about 4 hours ago
Crackers.
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Karl Flinders
about 1 hour ago
Post Office GLO Redress Scheme Closing â But "Platitudes" Hide the Struggle, The government has announced end of the Group Litigation Order (GLO) redress scheme
#PostOfficeScandal
www.computerweekly.com/news/3666417...
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âPlatitudesâ hide struggle as Post Office scandal redress scheme closing date announced | Computer Weekly
Scheme for group that took the Post Office to court and exposed the widest miscarriage of justice in history to be completed by the yearâs end.
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366641747/Platitudes-hide-struggle-as-Post-Office-scandal-redress-scheme-closing-date-announced
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John Springford
about 8 hours ago
Resolution has applied my model to data up to 2025. As the chart shows, we can be less confident as time goes on. But firm-level evidence from Bloom et al shows a 6% loss. I think it's time to retire the OBR's 4%, which was a simple average of pre-Brexit forecasts.
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Henry Mance
about 8 hours ago
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
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David Henig
about 8 hours ago
I haven't commented on Palantir specifically but their actions are clearly in line with the rise of corporate giants as significant actors in the world order which is routinely under-discussed by pieces that only focus on what national governments do.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Palantir manifesto described as âramblings of a supervillainâ amid UK contract fears
Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firmâs CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/21/palantir-manifesto-uk-contract-fears-mps
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Sarah O'Connor
26 days ago
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift
www.ft.com/content/7325...
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Scott Horton
1 day ago
The fact that Jared Kushner derives nearly all his income from the Saudi government while he purports to be negotiating issues of acute interest to the Saudi government allegedly on behalf of the US is simply swept under the rug by US mainstream media.
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David Henig
about 9 hours ago
What is missing from this pretty accurate long assessment of UK-EU ties is the bigger picture vision from either side as to the future of Europe in the age of unreliable superpowers - and that is what will have to change for the relationship to move on fundamentally.
www.ft.com/content/2007...
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Too late to turn to Europe?
How Keir Starmerâs Brexit reset ran out of road
https://www.ft.com/content/20070b65-b8f1-4bf4-8b44-78b58ce21195?segmentId=bf7fa2fd-67ee-cdfa-8261-b2a3edbdf916&syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Dr Duncan Robertson
about 20 hours ago
I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all.
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Prof John O Brennan
about 22 hours ago
Trump today seems to be auditioning to lead an Orange parade on 12 July.
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Nicolas Fulghum
about 22 hours ago
For anyone wondering whether the fossil fuel crisis in the Middle East is driving interest in clean energy technologies: China's exports of batteries, EVs and solar products shot up in March to $21.9 billion! This is an all-time record and a 70% increase over March 2025.
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Digital Health
1 day ago
An AI triage tool has been integrated into the NHS App, allowing more than a million patients to directly book appointments with clinicians.
www.digitalhealth.net/2026/04/ai-t...
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AI tool allows a million patients to book appointments via NHS App
An AI triage tool has been integrated into the NHS App, allowing more than a million patients to book appointments directly with clinicians.
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/04/ai-tool-allows-a-million-patients-to-book-appointments-via-nhs-app/
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Prof Christina Pagel
1 day ago
when there's an enormous backlog of asylum claims, re-litigating all the previous 5 years seems like a really stupid way of slowing things down further. Quite apart from fact that most 'illegal' arrivals are from most repressive countries and have zero 'legal' routes!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform would review all asylum claims from the last five years
The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0rxd5wpyqwo
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Royal College of Emergency Medicine
1 day ago
"[More than] 800 loves ones and families have lost a person who probably didn't need to die" Dr Jayne McLaren told BBC Scotcast's NHS special about the dire state of Scotland's Emergency Departments ahead of next month's elections.
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Marc Veldhoen
2 days ago
A new round of talks between the US and Iran is starting. Last time, Washington sent negotiators with little nuclear expertise and never even addressed Iranâs legal right under the NPT to enrich uranium. That omission alone guaranteed failure.
www.npr.org/2026/04/...
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David Henig
1 day ago
This from trade guru Richard Baldwin on Trump's trade war conduct is great. And helps explain why in fact he is not remaking the world economic order or anything else. He's just going to leave a huge mess behind.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/trumps...
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Peter Walker
1 day ago
Reform are announcing today that they would review and retrospectively strip asylum status from hundreds of thousands of people who are making their lives in the UK. Notable that the Conservative response to the plan seem to effectively endorse it.
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Jonathan Portes
1 day ago
Obviously Reform's proposals is simultaneously racist, economically and socially damaging and impractical. But, yet again, instead of saying so, Labour/the government's response is tin-eared me-tooism.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Simon Evans
1 day ago
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10
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David Henig
1 day ago
The China balance according to the FT Editorial Board. A slowly dawning realisation that its rise cannot be stopped or ignored, and thus the world will never be the same again. Far more significant in the long term than a mad US President.
www.ft.com/content/d62f...
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Digital Health
1 day ago
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) has signed a contract with The Access Group to implement its electronic patient record (EPR) system.
www.digitalhealth.net/2026/04/tees...
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Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys signs contract to deploy Access EPR
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust has signed a contract with The Access Group to implement its Rio Evo EPR.
https://www.digitalhealth.net/2026/04/tees-esk-and-wear-valleys-signs-contract-to-deploy-access-epr/
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David Henig
1 day ago
While we're on the workings of the UK government today, a moment to reflect on the US pharmaceuticals deal which even if these numbers feel exaggerated is something that really needs parliamentary scrutiny that successive governments have denied for trade deals
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Starmer's disastrous 'ÂŁ1bn' US-UK pharma deal may actually end up costing ÂŁ64bn
Investigation finds that Starmer's estimates of the Trump NHS deal are way off - it won't cost ÂŁ1bn but could balloon to as much as ÂŁ64bn
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/04/16/starmer-pharma/
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David Henig
1 day ago
Second album syndrome for this UK government with regard to EU ties - after last year's summit common understanding based on several years policy work, now there's a bunch of disparate issues that it would like to address but hasn't really conceptualised.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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UK seeks EU deals on steel and EVs in push for closer economic ties
Agreements would aim to shield British industry from new steel tariffs and stricter rules on electric vehicles due in 2027
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/19/uk-seeks-eu-deals-on-steel-and-evs-in-push-for-closer-economic-ties
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
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Reform pledges to review the previous 5 years of asylum grants if got into power - deporting those granted refugee status if came without permission. Reform claim 400,000 people granted asylum would be "in scope" - and they would deport most of them
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Nigel Farage vows to deport small boat migrants who were granted asylum
Reform UK says it would review five years of claims, leaving up to 400,000 people potentially facing removal if the party wins power
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/nigel-farage-vows-to-deport-asylum-seekers-who-arrived-by-small-boat-tlqq58rfx
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Trump Action Tracker
2 days ago
Donald Trump again threatens to "knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran" if no deal is reached. Targeting civilian infrastructure is a violation of international law.
TAT
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Trump accuses Iran of violating ceasefire, announces Monday talks in Islamabad
President Trump on Sunday accused Iran of violating the two-week ceasefire by firing at ships in the Strait of Hormuz. âIran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz â A TotaâŠ
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5838330-trump-iran-ceasefire-islamabad-talks/
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Arthur Snell
2 days ago
Narrator: in fact, he had quite a lot of cards.
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Jonathan Portes
2 days ago
Obviously right thing to do for EU & UK (for its similar agreement with Israel). Absolutely no excuse for preferential trade agreements with a country that is deliberately defying international law to pursue systematic mass killings, war crimes & ethnic cleansing
www.politico.eu/article/spai...
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Spain pushes to end EU-Israel association agreement
Madrid will propose the measure at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, said Prime Minister Pedro SĂĄnchez.
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pushes-to-end-eu-israel-association-agreement-pedro-sanchez/
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#StupidSuez | ÙÙÙÙ
3 days ago
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun. And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene. And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics. And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly âquadruple tapâ
Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows âtotal disregardâ for international law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/israel-escalates-attacks-on-medics-in-lebanon-with-deadly-quadruple-tap?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other#img-1
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Ron Filipkowski
2 days ago
6 days after Trump made 13 celebratory posts in a hour claiming that Iran surrendered to all his demands and the war is over, heâs back threatening to blow up power plants and bridges.
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Jonathan Portes
2 days ago
This from
@dsmitheconomics.bsky.social
is a commendable exception to the astonishing parochialism of UK economic reporting. Tthe IMF downgrading UK growth by a few tenths of a % is not the story here, it is the damage done to the global economy by Trump's madness
www.thetimes.com/article/389a...
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https://www.thetimes.com/article/389a77a6-c040-4e23-a8c6-be12a44d731f?shareToken=000f0253812060d65873e8f514daebee
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 days ago
đą We've reached *3000* documented authoritarian-like actions of Trump's second term since Jan 2025... the two most recent are classic suppression of the press & using the justice system to attack political enemies
www.trumpactiontracker.info
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Carl T. Bergstrom
2 days ago
Hereâs the director of the NIH explicitly espousing populism over expertise as the means of determining priorities for federally science funding by leaning into the stupidest possible examples: ivermectin as cancer therapy .
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David Henig
2 days ago
Brexit. British Exit from the EU. But also stands in my mind for British Exceptionalism. That of being as a country so different to say France or Germany or any other that we couldn't really be happy members of a bloc. Which was always nonsense.
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Adam Bienkov
2 days ago
It doesn't take a forensic accountant to work out whose interests Nigel Farage really serves
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Ben Zaranko
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In this weekend's Observer, I ask: why always us? How come whenever there's a global economic shock, the UK always seems to find be particularly exposed?
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Andrew Rawnsley
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Pleading ignorance is a wretched alibi, but the best one that Keir Starmer has got.
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
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Starmer pleading ignorance over Mandelson wonât wash. Tho...
The prime ministerâs excuse for misleading parliament is that he was kept in the dark â an abject alibi, but itâs the best heâs got
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/keir-starmers-in-a-precarious-position-those-who-want-him-out-are-fired-up-again
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Dr Steve Taylor
2 days ago
There is no evidence that GP referrals are the cause of the waiting list issues Referrals were not up but hospital treatments are still a problem Advice & Guidance funding has now been âcappedâ by adding it to core rather than paid separately Cynical ploy to cut ÂŁ to GPs for work done
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David Smith
3 days ago
My Sunday Times piece: The big story of the IMFâs latest assessment was not its minor downgrade of UK growth but its fear of what could happen to the global economy if the Iran war persists: A UK growth downgrade is the least of our worries
www.thetimes.com/article/389a...
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A UK growth downgrade is the least of our worries
Whatever the IMF says, the UK economy is not exceptional in its vulnerability to the Iran war. Instead we should fear the possibility of global recession
https://www.thetimes.com/article/389a77a6-c040-4e23-a8c6-be12a44d731f?shareToken=000f0253812060d65873e8f514daebee
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Snigdha
3 days ago
James Bembridge, Reform Party election candidate, truly hates the NHS. If he and Nigel Farage get what they want, and win power, can you afford private healthcare?
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