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Evidence led.
Evidence led.
Since the BMA and Government are arguing over pay, this suggestion from The Royal Statistical Society published in FT Letters page is worth considering.
In essence, it suggests to BMA to replace its use of RPI as a basis for wage demands and instead use a new method.
Interesting. #r4today
In essence, it suggests to BMA to replace its use of RPI as a basis for wage demands and instead use a new method.
Interesting. #r4today
December 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Since the BMA and Government are arguing over pay, this suggestion from The Royal Statistical Society published in FT Letters page is worth considering.
In essence, it suggests to BMA to replace its use of RPI as a basis for wage demands and instead use a new method.
Interesting. #r4today
In essence, it suggests to BMA to replace its use of RPI as a basis for wage demands and instead use a new method.
Interesting. #r4today
It’s difficult on first impression - when I first saw Damien Hurst’s Mother and Child Divided, I just couldn’t take it in as art.
Yet now it’s kind of iconic, albeit still weird (to me).
So maybe we should judge them in a decade’s time? #r4today
www.singulart.com/blog/wp-cont...
Yet now it’s kind of iconic, albeit still weird (to me).
So maybe we should judge them in a decade’s time? #r4today
www.singulart.com/blog/wp-cont...
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s difficult on first impression - when I first saw Damien Hurst’s Mother and Child Divided, I just couldn’t take it in as art.
Yet now it’s kind of iconic, albeit still weird (to me).
So maybe we should judge them in a decade’s time? #r4today
www.singulart.com/blog/wp-cont...
Yet now it’s kind of iconic, albeit still weird (to me).
So maybe we should judge them in a decade’s time? #r4today
www.singulart.com/blog/wp-cont...
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
By 2030, a full-time salary on the minimum wage would almost reach the student loan repayment threshold.
For those on living wage, it will exceed it.
#r4today
For those on living wage, it will exceed it.
#r4today
December 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
By 2030, a full-time salary on the minimum wage would almost reach the student loan repayment threshold.
For those on living wage, it will exceed it.
#r4today
For those on living wage, it will exceed it.
#r4today
As a regular visitor to Switzerland, the flag is everywhere - outside homes and allotments(?), on ferries and trains, on mountains (yes!) and maps - it is a symbol of pride.
I cannot see anything wrong with that. 🇨🇭
#r4today
I cannot see anything wrong with that. 🇨🇭
#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
As a regular visitor to Switzerland, the flag is everywhere - outside homes and allotments(?), on ferries and trains, on mountains (yes!) and maps - it is a symbol of pride.
I cannot see anything wrong with that. 🇨🇭
#r4today
I cannot see anything wrong with that. 🇨🇭
#r4today
This is a long read on the need for pension reform from the IFS.
But it needs reading by Government.
Too much of the current system is unsustainable, and we cannot go on burying our heads in the sand forever.
#wato
ifs.org.uk/publications...
But it needs reading by Government.
Too much of the current system is unsustainable, and we cannot go on burying our heads in the sand forever.
#wato
ifs.org.uk/publications...
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is a long read on the need for pension reform from the IFS.
But it needs reading by Government.
Too much of the current system is unsustainable, and we cannot go on burying our heads in the sand forever.
#wato
ifs.org.uk/publications...
But it needs reading by Government.
Too much of the current system is unsustainable, and we cannot go on burying our heads in the sand forever.
#wato
ifs.org.uk/publications...
I’m at a Bloomberg event this morning for a breakdown of the Budget. It’s packed.
Will be interesting to hear the different perspectives. #r4today
Will be interesting to hear the different perspectives. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I’m at a Bloomberg event this morning for a breakdown of the Budget. It’s packed.
Will be interesting to hear the different perspectives. #r4today
Will be interesting to hear the different perspectives. #r4today
This is a fascinating read. It describes in detail how children’s literature is a modern idea, with so many of the fairy story classics we know today originally written for adults, often with macabre deaths and triumphs for baddies (long since sanitised).
Eg Cindrilla - it didn’t end well for her! 😮
Eg Cindrilla - it didn’t end well for her! 😮
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is a fascinating read. It describes in detail how children’s literature is a modern idea, with so many of the fairy story classics we know today originally written for adults, often with macabre deaths and triumphs for baddies (long since sanitised).
Eg Cindrilla - it didn’t end well for her! 😮
Eg Cindrilla - it didn’t end well for her! 😮
Typical of you to only care about if PLP will be happy with the spending plan, Rachel.
The public need to see what the c.£20-30bn spending gap actually is first. You're promising not to add to borrowing, so let's see just how high the tax increases are going to be to close the gap. #bbcpm
The public need to see what the c.£20-30bn spending gap actually is first. You're promising not to add to borrowing, so let's see just how high the tax increases are going to be to close the gap. #bbcpm
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Typical of you to only care about if PLP will be happy with the spending plan, Rachel.
The public need to see what the c.£20-30bn spending gap actually is first. You're promising not to add to borrowing, so let's see just how high the tax increases are going to be to close the gap. #bbcpm
The public need to see what the c.£20-30bn spending gap actually is first. You're promising not to add to borrowing, so let's see just how high the tax increases are going to be to close the gap. #bbcpm
Another outstanding piece by Martin Wolf in the FT on European fractured politics.
“ The [competitive] fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the New World, a barrier to their remaining so.”
#wato
“ The [competitive] fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the New World, a barrier to their remaining so.”
#wato
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Another outstanding piece by Martin Wolf in the FT on European fractured politics.
“ The [competitive] fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the New World, a barrier to their remaining so.”
#wato
“ The [competitive] fragmentation that made its states powerful and rich is, in the New World, a barrier to their remaining so.”
#wato
A peloton of cyclists ignore the cycle path 10 yards away in order to grind out their own muddy track. 🤷🏻♂️
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A peloton of cyclists ignore the cycle path 10 yards away in order to grind out their own muddy track. 🤷🏻♂️
Thank you, Rachel Reeves for being honest with the people in your Downing St speech this week.
You didn’t fake it, you were authentic. You just trotted out your usual word salad, adding nothing to what we didn’t already know and not scaring the horses in the City by being inspiring or directional. 👏
You didn’t fake it, you were authentic. You just trotted out your usual word salad, adding nothing to what we didn’t already know and not scaring the horses in the City by being inspiring or directional. 👏
November 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you, Rachel Reeves for being honest with the people in your Downing St speech this week.
You didn’t fake it, you were authentic. You just trotted out your usual word salad, adding nothing to what we didn’t already know and not scaring the horses in the City by being inspiring or directional. 👏
You didn’t fake it, you were authentic. You just trotted out your usual word salad, adding nothing to what we didn’t already know and not scaring the horses in the City by being inspiring or directional. 👏
No AI or photoshopping involved in this. Just a simple photo from my mobile phone whilst walking along the river this afternoon. ❤️ 🍁
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
No AI or photoshopping involved in this. Just a simple photo from my mobile phone whilst walking along the river this afternoon. ❤️ 🍁
If Europe doesn’t get its act together on biotech soon, it’s going to end up the way their auto sector is headed - becoming a backwater and ripe for takeover by China. #wato
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
If Europe doesn’t get its act together on biotech soon, it’s going to end up the way their auto sector is headed - becoming a backwater and ripe for takeover by China. #wato
Oops - this is a bit awkward.
An hour ago, The Times has dug up that Reeves praised such landlord registration only ten days ago.
Yet she "wasn't aware'? #wato
An hour ago, The Times has dug up that Reeves praised such landlord registration only ten days ago.
Yet she "wasn't aware'? #wato
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Oops - this is a bit awkward.
An hour ago, The Times has dug up that Reeves praised such landlord registration only ten days ago.
Yet she "wasn't aware'? #wato
An hour ago, The Times has dug up that Reeves praised such landlord registration only ten days ago.
Yet she "wasn't aware'? #wato
Just a fabulous late afternoon for an Autumn walk. 🍁
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Just a fabulous late afternoon for an Autumn walk. 🍁
It turns out that the way to tackle peanut allergies is to feed them to children in early life.
Peanut allergy prevalence has dropped 43% in 10 years in US, since its national guidance began advising this early exposure.
Gotta love scientific research!
(Source: FT)
Peanut allergy prevalence has dropped 43% in 10 years in US, since its national guidance began advising this early exposure.
Gotta love scientific research!
(Source: FT)
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
It turns out that the way to tackle peanut allergies is to feed them to children in early life.
Peanut allergy prevalence has dropped 43% in 10 years in US, since its national guidance began advising this early exposure.
Gotta love scientific research!
(Source: FT)
Peanut allergy prevalence has dropped 43% in 10 years in US, since its national guidance began advising this early exposure.
Gotta love scientific research!
(Source: FT)