It’s all there in Britannia Unchained, co-authored by Liz Truss and Kwarteng: the pound can collapse, borrowing and mortgages can soar, pensioners can freeze, kids can go hungry, as long as the economy is ripe for venture capitalists freed from regulation and, ideally, tax.

'Normally in a war when soldiers are expected to fight at the frontline, everyone knows that you can't do that all the time.' As the NHS turns 75, St Bartholomew's Chief Executive Charles Knight tells Henry Riley why its morale has dropped to an all-time low. Charles Knight OBE

Thurrock council bankrupted by solar farm project that cost it £200m and is now in administration

Chris Pincher’s sexual harassment revelations over a year ago caused Johnson’s downfall. Since then he has been in hiding, being paid, but doing nothing. The Conservatives have repeatedly delayed his disciplinary proceedings to keep his seat. We need a by-election, NOW

All the while such stupidity persists it has to countered. Toss a coin once and you won’t know if it’ll be heads or tails (weather: will it rain next week?) but after 1000 tosses you know half will be heads (climate: longer range average trend).

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Govt does its bit to keep inflation high with the biggest rise in alcohol duty for years bit.ly/3KrVYgT

There’s a crisis of funding in England’s elderly care homes. A lack of long-term investment in social care means local authorities can't pay the true cost to providers. That's left a gaping shortfall as Ciaran Jenkins explains.

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Ciaran Jenkins analyses the funding crisis for care homes: there's a £1.5 billion funding gap. £40 billion - Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng £21 billion - fraud since covid £100 billion a year - Brexit If this Conservative government didn't waste money, we could care for our elderly?

Every accusation was a prediction.

Today Trump was indicted by federal prosecutors for trying to overturn the 2020 election. It’s about damn time — let’s break it down.

66 years ago Plass did some of the first accurate radiative transfer calculations showing that global warming estimates were quantitatively sound 👇🏼

Ben Selby(Assistant GS, Fire Brigades Union) doesn't hold back when talking about the Bibby Stockholm. "We feel like we're looking down the barrel of another possible disaster. We believe it to be a death trap & it's an accident waiting to happen.." #KayBurley

As the PM tells LBC listeners the doctors strikes are causing the waiting lists, always worth a trip to John Burn-Murdoch

Can we talk about the fact that our Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak , just got fact-checked by Twitter? How's it feel Rishi Sunak

'You're the Prime Minister. Your staff aren’t happy.' Rishi Sunak defends his NHS record in a testy exchange with a junior doctor caller. Nick Ferrari

'We're asking for our pay to be restored back to what we were worth in 2008, and that's fair and reasonable.' The BMA's Dr Robert Laurenson, tells Shelagh Fogarty his 'jaw dropped' when he heard Rishi Sunak discussing the NHS with Nick Ferrari this morning.

Pence: Let’s be clear on this point. It wasn't that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives

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