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Got to be the most urban elite greetings card ever designed

✂️ Scoop: The House of Commons will be asked to find 10% in savings or c. £54 million over the next three years, staff have been told. An internal email cited similar “external pressures” to those facing the civil service ahead of the spending review

🔥Has Labour got its strategy on Reform UK wrong? A deep dive raising big questions

This is such a good idea - with the excellent Deborah Haynes – definitely one for the playlist.

It appears we now have a shadow chancellor who is in fact the deputy Prime Minister.

That said, it’s a bit of a low budget thriller vibe

Happily for all, this works both ways

This was our final quiz question on podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pol…: Which country’s re-elected but early disaster prone p.m. could Starmer get advice from? Answer : 🇦🇺thanks to Stefan Boscia

As Sir Keir Starmer waves goodbye to the Chagos Islands and his planned cuts to the winter fuel allowance, Sam Coates Sky and @AnneMcElvoy assess what it all means. ➕ More Listen 👇🏼 podfollow.com/politics-at-sa…

My banking group has clearly got the hang of what services I need form the new app. "Features include high-value payments of up to £1 billion"

Thrilled to be at the #HayFestival panels BBC Radio 4 Moral Maze special recording on whether we should be optimistic or otherwise on the future of AI. Also a day off – and listening to Cat Stevens, who seems to be the official song accompaniment to Hay on Wye shopping.

As Keir hits Cabinet trouble, what can the ghosts of Prime Ministers and Cabinets past tell him that might help? Patrick Baker’s dive dive for our Westminster Insider Podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wes…

Got to cross question my old ⁦⁦Wadham College⁩ contemporary, ⁦⁦Marcus du Sautoy⁩ on AI optimism/pessimism@⁦Hay Festival⁩. So here we are - few decades on -with our respective spouses. Broadcast bbcr Moral Maze next week.

Deathless line on this v Greek malfunction which sounds familiar far beyond 🇬🇷 “After efforts to modernize OPEKEPE internally, which did not yield the expected results, the government, in cooperation with the European authorities … is proceeding with determination to address the

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From my well informed colleague Paul Ronzheimer : and answers a question at the back of my mind : why was there no explicit reference to Taurus delivery from Friedrich Merz ? It looks as if there is no plan to deliver long range weapons, just some opaque statement about it not being

My esteemed colleague Sascha O'Sullivan had a boozy farewell lunch with Politics Live’s Jo Coburn. And the podcast is full of brilliant detail on political broadcasting and insight behind behind-the-scenes so do you have a 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wes…

This is a brilliant take on why the narrative and the policies don’t feel aligned under Labour - and what needs to change

British taxpayer be like, “You’re so welcome!”.

Oh Melisa : I hear you! See also regional accents and broadcast trends, RP dominance at Beeb for decades (which influences the flattening of accents you note). But lo: broadcast bosses now want maximalism, to prove connection: Cheryl Cole -style NE, Coronation Street NW. Break