I'm sorry you're going through this. On an intellectual level, you may find this paper interesting Stroebe, M. and Schut, H. (2010) ‘The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement: A Decade on’, OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 61(4), pp. 273–289. Available at: doi.org/10.2190/OM.6....

Remember, amputate responsibly!

Better hope no-one's passing with a baseball ...

New Labour did enact the Child Poverty Act 2010, before the Tories Swiss-cheesed it. And Stamp Duty was introduced by New Labour through the Finance Act 2003. Probably such a long time since we've had a Labour Govt., people have forgotten what their budgets looked like.

Yeah, fundamentally I agree. However, the widespread assumption that you can increase efficiency by imposing cost restrictions is also not well founded. It produces unintended impacts that take years (decades) to work through the system. HO/MOJ are looking for 'quick wins' that prob. won't work, IMO

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.

If only there were a word for such a party.

The problem, as I'm sure you're aware, is cost. And more specifically, the voting public's unwillingness to meet that cost. Scrapping jury trials will lead to injustice, but so do the huge delays and perpetual bureaucratic c*ck-ups in the current system. @barristersecret.bsky.social is good on this.

As more people require adult social care, & as needs become more complex, Directors are projecting an overspend of £623mn this year. This will affect how much care people can receive & how quickly they can access it.

Read the report: adass.org.uk/documents/ad...

Not all of us ...

This is where I am with Green Party policy. For a long time they've effectively been a pressure group/think tank at the national level, so it didn't matter too much that their policies didn't fit together coherently. Now they're being pressure-tested. Who knows, maybe in 3 years time ...

Perhaps dis-aggregating ourselves from our previous trading partners with no actual plan for what would follow was a bad idea?

And for good measure
www.vice.com/en/article/a...

I actually don't know who should be questioned first. The former PM or the wannabe PM?

Sodomite, apostate and critical theorist. That's going straight on my Linkedin page!

Before Brexit I didn't know what cakeism was. Every cloud, I suppose ...