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This is very good. Grooming gangs show the folly of ‘openness’ thetimes.com/comment/column…

Safe haven. You think there are safe havens out there? Today? Hmmm

It should not be too much to expect the government to obey and implement the law. Yet nearly three months after For Women Scotland vs Scottish ministers, the civil service seems incapable of actually following the law. thetimes.com/article/941105…

£22m of taxpayers money already. £40m more on the way. Yes, a lot better.

Resigned in disgrace after unlawfully harassing rape crisis centre worker. Said rape victims who don't want male support workers should "reframe your trauma." Now chance of becoming MSP. Modern Scotland.

So for now, no Shell deal. But with BP shares more than 40% off an all-time high, it could be wise to keep your eyes peeled. Feels like something has to change.. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Our GP surgery still has a relentless repetitive recording when you call saying that they are "doing our best during this challenging time." At least it isn't "unprecedented" anymore. Small mercies.

This comes from a very nice piece by John Burn-Murdoch Changes in numbers on health related benefits have more to do with design and administration of those (and other) benefits than with changes in population health

It's pathetic really. Huge majority. Still can't shave a couple of billion off a welfare bill that we just can't sustain.

So we've had "free gear" and "two tier", I'm wondering if it's time to move onto "no here by the end of the year" Keir

Maybe we don't need the energy mix. We just need nukes. World Bank Group, IAEA Formalize Partnership to Collaborate on Nuclear Energy for Development worldbank.org/en/news/press-…

Ummm is the answer.. no?

80% overall acceptance rate for sickness benefit: doubled since 2010. A sixfold rise for the higher rate. The mystery isn't why so many claim: it's why so many still persist with low-paid work - or stay on standard unemployment.

UK has a moratorium on new O&G drilling, taxes existing extraction profits at 78%, and diverts domestic gas consumption to more carbon-intensive imported LNG. Meanwhile in China... a record May output of thermal coal..... 🧠

Who could have guessed

Why aren't net taxpayers more angry.

We used to say all activity is energy transformed. Today it's earth transformed. Why landowners will win in the AI economy. Plus the Bitcoin treasury boom, why defence doesn't mean what you think it does, and the cheapest city in which to look for love. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

If you are caught between a fiscal crisis and a political crisis do you end up with a gilts crisis? Seems like it's a possibility. Plus why to own a mine, worry about Bitcoin treasuries and take your date to Cairo. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Probs an underestimate

Not sustainable. So what ends it?