Andy Burnham has pledged ‘the biggest council house building programme since the post-war period’.
But our research shows that housing subsidies in England already total £79bn a year, and the UK has the 4th highest share of social homes in the OECD, double the EU average.🧵
Why are the police worrying about "equality of outcomes" when their job is to make sure every criminal is brought to justice, irrespective of their race?
Having already written her own job description ('steward... and guardian of the constitution'), Dame Antonia Romeo, the unelected Cabinet Secretary and ultimate boss of the 550,000 civil servants who make up the government of Britain, has now set herself the task of leading a 'fundamental review into the constitution, organisation and performance of the permanent Civil Service'. On recent form, she and her senior colleagues will attempt to elevate the Civil Service into a quasi-independent, constitutionally untouchable agency above the grubby business of democratic politics. Reform UK is planning a transformation too - starting with scrapping the role of Cabinet Secretary and restoring meaningful power and responsibility to ministers accountable to Parliament. https://t.co/PTe8lUHmbM
I’m starting to worry he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. And has no time to learn. The price of water and electricity is already controlled by the state.
Because Brazil is a developing country with a low trust/low obligation culture. Where face or 'respect' matter because your operating assumption is that everyone else is out to get you. It is key sociological difference between rich & poor countries. Trust.
Bit of a mea culpa here - this is a tad unfair to @InstituteGC. All the compression was basically under the Tories in the last fifteen years. Largely due to the National Living Wage (2016) and the mad dash to a 2/3 of median minimum wage in a zero productivity growth environment.
A third of the nation's children show up to reception year unready for school - teeth not brushed, still in nappies, never having handled a physical book. A basic generational social contract has been badly broken. My latest for the @spectator https://t.co/b0fyEkYbTC