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Each department in government will now have its own delivery unit, led by a senior civil servant. And every Secretary of State and Minister of State will be given a new “delivery advisor” in their private office to support this work.
These new delivery functions will be accountable to both their Secretary of State and to my team.
This builds on my recent work setting up the new joint No10 and Cabinet Office Delivery Unit.
Read more: https://t.co/Y1KiM7kuvf
Listening again to Inbetweener by Sleeper, and I'm struck by how confusing the final line of the chorus must be for a lot of people. "What kind of A to Z would get you here?"
@hansmollman I thought my father in law, 85+, was getting dementia because every week he told us he'd watched a The Mummy film over the weekend. So I checked the TV guide, and nope, it was there. ITV2, ITV3. Should never have doubted him.
I'm teasing Amazon's AI assistant by discussing Lionel Messi not appearing in Messy by @TimHarford (which, by the way, is a great book and well worth a read).
@youngvulgarian I used to work in a pub in Sheffield which had different shapes of half pint glass for men and women, on request. "Pint and a half of Magnet please Dave, ladies' glass on the half"