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While today’s CPI says inflation has flattened, its exclusion of key costs like interest payments means we're not seeing the full picture
Do look out for the next release of the Household Costs Indices which do look to capture different household experiences on 26 Feb 👀
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OK folks opinion please. I wrote in a draft paper "In view of the well-documented tendency of AI to make things up . . . ", and I'm under pressure to replace "make things up" with "hallucinate". Which do you prefer? #AI #euphemism #Lies
75%make things up
18%hallucinate
7%other (please specify)
208 votes • Final results Radical Statistics retweeted
He is correct but not for reasons @wesstreeting gives . Reform is needed to stop NHS money leaking out to equity investors, bankers and private profiteers through costly contracts and to stop service closures and reinstate NHS and duty on Sec of State to provide health care.
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Join us for a thought-provoking evening with Subhadra Das (@littlegaudy) for "Uncivilised: race science and other lies that made the West"!
📅 Thur, 7Sep at 19:30
📍 Location: @BRLSI (Bath, UK) & Zoom
🎟️ FREE tickets: genetics.org.uk/events/unciv…
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For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa & Europe – it is a cruel summer.
For the entire planet, it is a disaster.
We can still stop the worst. Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated #ClimateAction.
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The Guardian correction to end all Guardian corrections - via @duncan3ross
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New Report: The richest 50 families in the UK have more wealth than the bottom half of the UK population (33.5 million people)
@RafaelWildauer and I analysed UK wealth inequality using The Sunday Times Rich List (1989 to 2023)
Funded by @BritishAcademy_ & @LeverhulmeTrust) 1/7
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📒 Today we launch our new report with @AdaLovelaceInst into the findings of a nationally representative survey of over 4000 adults in Britain exploring public awareness, experience and attitudes towards different uses of AI.
➡️ bit.ly/3IXOdi4
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Literally, factually, mathematically and actually correct. Well done the BBC for teaching facts.
ALT BBC page for schoolchildren claims ‘every person in Britain is descended from immigrants’ BBC's Bitesize website, which offers online revision materials for UK exams, accused of teaching ‘politically correct cliches’
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In response to the @UCU MAB, the pay reduction threats have continued to roll in. We won’t be intimidated by this absurdity. Universities need to step up and offer better pay and conditions, or marking and degree awards will not happen. #ucuRISING
Here’s an updated list of unis’ pay cut threats, as reported by UCU members from these unis. Threats vary in terms and length. Regardless, this is absolutely vile. Shout out to London Met and Ulster for announcing that they will *NOT* be cutting salaries for MAB. #ucuRISING
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Good news from @USSpensions, as they announce that recent market movements have done little to change the likely outcome of the 2023 valuation, which looks like it will lead to benefits being restored (when taken in conjunction with @UniversitiesUK's recent statement). #ucuRISING
Dame Kate Barker, Chair of the USS Trustee Board, sent a note to sponsoring employers yesterday that, among other things, updated them on the outlook for the 2023 valuation. You can read it here: ddlnk.net/2PRX-1DK96-23FCED0…
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@RadicalStats national conference in #Sheffield this w/end promoting the positive use of #statistics as part of campaigns for social change #OrgreaveJustice honoured to be a guest speaker radstats.org.uk/about-radica…
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#PublicOrderBill write to your MP before 7th March to #DefendTheRightToProtest
📢TAKE ACTION
MPs are voting on the anti-protest #PublicOrderBill again next week
They're deciding whether to keep House of Lords changes that got rid of some of the Government's worst proposals
📧Email your MP now to help protect the right to protest action.libertyhumanrights.or…
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As junior doctors we make life and death decisions every day, under mounting NHS pressures. Yet our pay is down 26%.
Read @_snellenchart_ in @theipaper on why we're striking for #PayRestoration fal.cn/3w5aB
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France set for national strike on 7th March to protect pension/worker rights.
Brits need to unite too. Passivity has resulted in erosion of real wages, pensions, benefits, healthcare; hikes in pension age; loss of workers' rights.
Unite or be picked-off.
connexionfrance.com/article/…
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If you've been wondering why university staff (see Lecturers below) are going on strike...
... this is just one of the reasons, but an important one.
#ucuRISING @ucu
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The @ONS released new data on household incomes and inequality in 2021-22 today, giving us the first source of official data on incomes for the year when pandemic support was withdrawn and the cost of living crisis started. Some key points:
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So how about everyone in the UK puts this on T-Shirt and wears it until the Tories finally exit through shame?
OK, they have no shame, but you get the point...
And don't blame COVID. It's been 'almost parabolic' since 2012. This is policy.
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30m Brits, out of 68m, will be unable to afford a decent standard of living by 2024.
21m adults already live on annual income less than £12,570.
Neoliberalism has failed. Political parties cling to it to appease the 1%. Mass unrest will follow.
theguardian.com/business/202…
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This devastating report into causes of nursing workforce shortages and the systematic failure of governments to invest shows why the nurses strike has become absolutely necessary. rcn.org.uk/Professional-Deve…