🚨 BREAKING: Home Secretary James Cleverly appears to call Stockton North a "sh*t hole" after Sunak is asked why child poverty in the area is at 34%
"Because it's a sh*t hole" https://t.co/btxDTqCNIg
The more I hear from the Covid enquiry, the more I think that the PM and the majority of ministers did not have the intellectual tools necessary to understand scientific advice and therefore to be able to weigh it successfully alongside economics, social science etc. In my view this can be traced to educational failure - they weren’t taught or didn’t learn the basics of science alongside their chosen disciplines. This also applies the other way round to scientists of course. Breadth of knowledge is key, as well as specialisation / expertise, and I don’t think our system delivered that in the 80s and 90s when I (and they) went to University - whether it does that today is an open question. I think we need to be producing more polymaths.
@MartinSLewis@bbc5live@MartinSLewis I have saved over £12k in a H2B ISA over a long period, is there any possible benefit to keeping it all there or should I transfer the excess to a different savings account for more % interest??
Full of apologies… full of deference… full of self deprecation and emojis so they don’t hate us. When will women in some of the most senior positions in the land be able to stop writing emails like this?
I’m not saying I don’t love North London. I’m very fond of North London. But the juxtaposition of a pub “staying true to its roots” with its menu, in this review, is like something from that Private Eye cartoon strip. Ah yes, good old-fashioned pub grub.
feel like the slip from “if you’re a member you can get some really good deals sometimes” to “the ‘deals’ are now ‘paying normal prices’” should be very illegal but obviously it is not
I was so convinced I’d be annoyed by the Barbie film. I’m a dick. It’s brilliant. Two steps ahead of everything I thought they’d get wrong.
As a noted intellectual, I will of course also be going to see Oppenheimer, as soon as my doctor reveals I have 400 years to live.
Public investment is desperately needed into the Mid Cheshire Line. We need two trains per hour, shorter journey times, "temporary" speed limits removed, electrification, double-tracking, a new station at Middlewich...