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Yes, very clever tool. I would be interested to hear from @the_tpa why they didn't include pensions.
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The basis of Christian social thinking is Genesis & Matthew: we are all made in the image of God, we must love each other as God.
Not easy, not a requirement to do stupid things, but the message is clear: Christianity rejects racism. That is my final word on the matter!
France, 2025:
€482 billion on pensions, or 14.1% of GDP, 1/4 of public spending.
€199 billion on education, or 6.7% of GDP, 1/15 of public spending.
Culture warriors are making it all about immigration and integration. Clearly not.
BT have bought TalkTalk at a knockdown price because the company was knackered by a leveraged buyout that leveraged too far.
The same private equity folk are buying Spire Healthcare, which provides around 500m of services to the NHS p/a.
Nothing bad will happen.
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I feel the real reason this debate runs and runs is not because the answer to the question is complicated. It’s obvious Englishness is both a wider identity for those for whom the nation is home and a narrower description of lineage in different contexts. The fact this debate keeps running and running is because the country’s demographics are changing so profoundly the question has become unsettled in the public mind.
“If someone's going to call themselves English, I presume you've got an idea in mind?”
What does it mean to be ‘English’? Watch Reform UK’s Suella Braverman and Labour’s Miatta Fahnbulleh debate on #bbcqt
Watch now: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00328g…
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My 2p on electoral reform in the Times last month - be careful what you wish for
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2/3rds voters say that Labour needs to make rural communities & rural economies a higher priority - according to new research by the Labour Rural Research Group (LRRG).
We call on govt to close the investment and finance gap in our report at labourruralresearchgroup.com…
I'm having all sorts of thoughts now... we should get companies to sponsor elections - advertising on ballot papers etc etc. Unrealised, unleveraged assets all over the place!
Democracy is missing a trick.
No, please allow me... Or we could just raise money with a raffle?
"Within a year or two, our whole visual system will be utterly useless"
I read a lot--more than you might think--about AI. This article makes all the points, probing the whole question of what is human, what is "creation" (as in "content creation"), and what is our relation to God's creation.
nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai…
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew7…
This is deeply symbolic.
If 'the Judeo-Christian' tradition means anything, it is the commitment to the inherent value of every human being, made in the image of God.
Christianity spins this 180 - God becomes man, and so doubly dignifies human life 1/2
Smashing this statue is superficially a grossly offensive act because it seems to desecrate a sacred thing. But humans are sacred things. The Israeli government has put the man into military detention - the irony! There is no image that God cares about more than his image in us.
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That Christian Nationalism has been producing such egregious breaches of the second and third commandments should be a cause for reflection upon the true nature of the movement.
Far be it from me to disagree with AI, but this is nonsense.
EXCL: Senior Labour politicians across London warning govt not to take progressive voters for granted amid concerns they face “political earthquake” in May after surge for Greens.
They have been privately circulating new data that suggests Labour could drop from first to fourth place in London – losing control of all but two of their councils – with the Greens soaring into first place to take nine.
New modelling indicates Labour, which holds 21 boroughs, could lose flagship authorities like Hackney and Lambeth, although the Greens would struggle to field 1800 + candidates across capital.
Reform could take one: Barking and Dagenham. However, Nigel Farage’s party could win 132 seats and be largest party in Havering.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Very striking charts.
Remarkably consistent patterns in huge drops in fertility across quite different countries. And equally consistent failures to predict those drops.
Population forecasts have failed to capture the decline in births. With every new release since 2010, the UN has revised down its previous forecast. These revisions show that populations are not only ageing, but ageing at an accelerating rate, and faster than previously expected.
#ChartOfTheDay
