@fazhakim.bsky.social
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If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me?
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
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It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
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February 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
If I told you that the Bank of England upgraded its growth forecasts yesterday, would you believe me?
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
It did....
i HAvE nOt gOne CRazY - honest
This is a hill I am prepared to die on - the BoE and others (all central banks, IMF, OECD etc etc) report their "forecasts" in a terrible way
🧵
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FFS.
In 2010 the Treasury/George Osborne ordered DWP/IDS to cut an arbitrary 20% from the cost of Disability Living Allowance, without any analysis of how.
Result: Personal Independence Payment and a multi-billion pound *increase* in costs.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3287759...
In 2010 the Treasury/George Osborne ordered DWP/IDS to cut an arbitrary 20% from the cost of Disability Living Allowance, without any analysis of how.
Result: Personal Independence Payment and a multi-billion pound *increase* in costs.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3287759...
No10 chiefs frustrated over how long Liz Kendall is taking to find benefit cuts
DOWNING Street chiefs are “pulling their hair out” over how long the Welfare Secretary is taking to find benefit cuts. Liz Kendall promised in October “radical” reforms would slash her department’s…
www.thesun.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
FFS.
In 2010 the Treasury/George Osborne ordered DWP/IDS to cut an arbitrary 20% from the cost of Disability Living Allowance, without any analysis of how.
Result: Personal Independence Payment and a multi-billion pound *increase* in costs.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3287759...
In 2010 the Treasury/George Osborne ordered DWP/IDS to cut an arbitrary 20% from the cost of Disability Living Allowance, without any analysis of how.
Result: Personal Independence Payment and a multi-billion pound *increase* in costs.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3287759...
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Starmer
"Those who are cheerleading Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice. They’re supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a gang grooming case. These are people trying to get some kind of vicarious thrill from street violence that people like Tommy Robinson promote."
January 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Starmer
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The BBC risks slipping into false equivalence with this sort of reporting. There is zero evidence to sustain the sickening smears being spread by trolls on Twitter/X and elsewhere. Eg, there’s no need for quote marks around that word, lies. www.bbc.com/news/article...
PM attacks those 'spreading lies' on grooming gangs as he hits back at Musk
The prime minister says those who spread misinformation about child sexual exploitation are "not interested in victims".
www.bbc.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The BBC risks slipping into false equivalence with this sort of reporting. There is zero evidence to sustain the sickening smears being spread by trolls on Twitter/X and elsewhere. Eg, there’s no need for quote marks around that word, lies. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Your reminder that neither the Conservative Party nor Reform UK called for a new inquiry into grooming gangs in their manifestos just six months ago. I won’t bother searching for editorials from the same period but I don’t imagine such calls were there either
January 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Your reminder that neither the Conservative Party nor Reform UK called for a new inquiry into grooming gangs in their manifestos just six months ago. I won’t bother searching for editorials from the same period but I don’t imagine such calls were there either
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper criticises the previous Tory government for failing to implement any of the 20 recommendations from a 458-page, 7-year independent report into child sexual abuse which interviewed 7,000 victims, considered 2 million pages of evidence and led to 61 reports/publications
January 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper criticises the previous Tory government for failing to implement any of the 20 recommendations from a 458-page, 7-year independent report into child sexual abuse which interviewed 7,000 victims, considered 2 million pages of evidence and led to 61 reports/publications
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We know Jenrick is both a shameless opportunist and an overt racist/ethnonationalist.
But the test is now for Badenoch.
Ted Heath, to his great credit, immediately sacked Enoch Powell.
Does she have the same moral courage?
But the test is now for Badenoch.
Ted Heath, to his great credit, immediately sacked Enoch Powell.
Does she have the same moral courage?
January 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We know Jenrick is both a shameless opportunist and an overt racist/ethnonationalist.
But the test is now for Badenoch.
Ted Heath, to his great credit, immediately sacked Enoch Powell.
Does she have the same moral courage?
But the test is now for Badenoch.
Ted Heath, to his great credit, immediately sacked Enoch Powell.
Does she have the same moral courage?
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I do not believe that political editors are qualified to judge whether we are at threat from ballistic missiles. Their aim is to generate a political crisis and their reporting might best be judged through that lens
January 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
I do not believe that political editors are qualified to judge whether we are at threat from ballistic missiles. Their aim is to generate a political crisis and their reporting might best be judged through that lens
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Oh sweet, sweet Gods of schadenfreude.
What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.
What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.
January 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Oh sweet, sweet Gods of schadenfreude.
What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.
What mighty gifts you have bestowed upon us.
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Hi Victoria, I’m a survivor of child trafficking & rape from the early 90s. I was part of the IICSA report.
People who are focusing on a small minority of perpetrators are making a mockery of all child abuse survivors. We’re not their political footballs. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
People who are focusing on a small minority of perpetrators are making a mockery of all child abuse survivors. We’re not their political footballs. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
Child and sexual abuse survivor hopes book about traumatic experiences inspires others to speak out
Richie Barlow, who runs The Dog Walker, has written a book about his traumatic childhood. It’s a story of inner strength against the odds and hope in dark times. Laura Reid reports.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
January 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hi Victoria, I’m a survivor of child trafficking & rape from the early 90s. I was part of the IICSA report.
People who are focusing on a small minority of perpetrators are making a mockery of all child abuse survivors. We’re not their political footballs. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
People who are focusing on a small minority of perpetrators are making a mockery of all child abuse survivors. We’re not their political footballs. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
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Feels like 'dishonest reporting' is an understatement here. It's downright misreporting to be so declarative about a view held by less than one in three respondents, especially when - I presume - it's not even the plurality response.
Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.
Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.
This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Feels like 'dishonest reporting' is an understatement here. It's downright misreporting to be so declarative about a view held by less than one in three respondents, especially when - I presume - it's not even the plurality response.
Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.
Similarly poor for the BBC to then credulously repeat it.
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Short thread on our post-election survey research on Reform UK members 🧵1/n
January 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Short thread on our post-election survey research on Reform UK members 🧵1/n
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Demographics: average age is 61: hardly any of them are aged 18 to 24; very nearly half of them are over 65 and a third of them are aged 50 to 64. Predominantly middle-class: 6/10 are ABC1s. And 6/10 members are men. 2/n
January 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Demographics: average age is 61: hardly any of them are aged 18 to 24; very nearly half of them are over 65 and a third of them are aged 50 to 64. Predominantly middle-class: 6/10 are ABC1s. And 6/10 members are men. 2/n
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The only thing worse for your brain than having hundreds of strangers publicly saying mean things about you is when that's combined with hundreds of other people publicly worshipping you.
Some of the people Twitter drove craziest were those with both many critics and utterly fanatical fan-bases.
Some of the people Twitter drove craziest were those with both many critics and utterly fanatical fan-bases.
Obviously social media hasn't been great for the population at large, but I think an underrated effect is how it's radicalized public figures. Getting hundreds of people saying mean or annoying things to you all day is basically Scarlet Rot for your brain.
December 30, 2024 at 5:09 PM
The only thing worse for your brain than having hundreds of strangers publicly saying mean things about you is when that's combined with hundreds of other people publicly worshipping you.
Some of the people Twitter drove craziest were those with both many critics and utterly fanatical fan-bases.
Some of the people Twitter drove craziest were those with both many critics and utterly fanatical fan-bases.
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The far-right is rising across Europe, but we're seeing early tentative signs that they can be frozen out of power. What's required is an absolute refusal from decent people on the centre-right to work with them inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
Nigel Farage is watching hungrily as the far right sweeps to power across Europe
In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a fight for its survival
inews.co.uk
December 23, 2024 at 10:01 AM
The far-right is rising across Europe, but we're seeing early tentative signs that they can be frozen out of power. What's required is an absolute refusal from decent people on the centre-right to work with them inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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£10bn is more than all of the cost to eradicate the NHS high and significant risk maintenance backlog (the 'will disrupt treatment if it doesn't just kill people' problems). Cost in 2023/24 was £7.6bn.
Which would be a better use of this money if it was just knocking about somewhere.
Which would be a better use of this money if it was just knocking about somewhere.
Nothing screams 'doing politics well' like spending *TEN BILLION POUNDS* to compensate a tiny fraction of people, many of whom simply don't need it, for a change with in most cases a 20 year run up.
The decision not to compensate WASPI women has infuriated many Labour MPs
One self-described Starmer "loyalist" said they had spoken to Whips about the Government being "in a bunker", not listening to its MPs and failing to "do politics" well
@nadinebh.bsky.social & @adampayne26.bsky.social report
One self-described Starmer "loyalist" said they had spoken to Whips about the Government being "in a bunker", not listening to its MPs and failing to "do politics" well
@nadinebh.bsky.social & @adampayne26.bsky.social report
December 18, 2024 at 5:14 PM
£10bn is more than all of the cost to eradicate the NHS high and significant risk maintenance backlog (the 'will disrupt treatment if it doesn't just kill people' problems). Cost in 2023/24 was £7.6bn.
Which would be a better use of this money if it was just knocking about somewhere.
Which would be a better use of this money if it was just knocking about somewhere.
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He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
December 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
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Time magazine may have named Trump Person of the Year, but we all know 2024 belongs to this incredible woman:
December 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Time magazine may have named Trump Person of the Year, but we all know 2024 belongs to this incredible woman:
Great thread
Went to the speech this morning. A few thoughts. TL;DR - I thought it was really good, but of course lots of tricky challenges to work through. 🧵
I know people will be irked by the word ‘start-up’ here but I do think this is a meaningful step in the right direction. The basic principles they’re gesturing to must be right. 1/n
December 9, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Great thread