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Stephen McKay retweeted
The Blair Archive@TheBlairArchive19h
Tony Blair, wife Cherie Blair and Political Advisor Alastair Campbell on board a private jet on the night Tony Blair's Labour Party won a landslide victory. (May 1997)
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Thursday 6:30. Cambridge Faculty of Education remains a secret society.
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Perhaps prescient ... “A Lie Cannot Live”: How Research Misconduct Allegations Could Become Weaponised in Academia | Minerva | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10…

“A Lie Cannot Live”: How Research Misconduct Allegations Could Become Weaponised in Academia

Minerva - In this article, we discuss the emerging prominence of ‘strategic lawsuits against public participation’ (SLAPPs) across Europe and the United Kingdom as mechanisms for...

link.springer.com
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Sian Griffiths@SianGriffiths6Jul 31
Jason Arday: I am not a liar, says star academic accused of plagiarism thetimes.com/article/fdd5c74…

Latest news & breaking headlines

The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.

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Never forget, AIs are American!
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Sorry BBC, but I think you'll find it is still a downhill challenge.
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Not a fan of the hawkish poster but this is very true. Years ago I met the exec director of B'Tselem (very good human rights group) and she had four kids under six, while doing a hard job. The society encourages and enables this. Others could learn from it.
Mark Dubowitz
@mdubowitzFeb 20
Israel is the only Western country not facing a fertility crisis. And it’s not only the religious who are having many children; it’s secular Israelis as well.
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10 degrees C at 10pm? what sorcery is this?
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And Puma and Adidas are from the same family, but that's another interesting story!
Ipp@IppOnXJan 6
Replying to @MintSauceSarnie @admcollingwood @GoodwinMJ
The detail that I mentioned an ill of the one system, does not mean I support the other. I passed that stage when I learned that both brands of sports shoes we wrangled over as children, were actually manufactured by the same group of corporations.
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Part of the workout programme specified by a state of the art AI. Not sure that picture is quite right ...
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Must be record spending... though they did sell that other Bellingham guy.
Dan Norseman
@dan_norseman14 Dec 2025
Replying to @CFC_Janty
Has any team been promoted and spent more money in the summer window (not a snipe a genuine Q)?
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"From April 2027, a 2 percentage point increase to the basic, higher and additional rates of saving income tax, increasing them to 22, 42 and 47 per cent respectively.". Hmm, looks a bit like higher income tax?
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"Salary-sacrificed pension contributions above an annual £2,000 threshold will no longer be exempt from NICs from April 2029." If correct, a strong example of getting the tax rises later whilst spending rises now.
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BBC news might consider some further checks.
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Disability benefits exempt you from the benefit cap but not the 2 child limit policy, to be clear.
Callipygian@Callipygian01 Oct 2025
Replying to @cjsnowdon
Someone should do an foi because I doubt there are many families with >2 children who claim UC but don’t have a kid with ADHD/autism who are already exempt from the cap…
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Have to hope that the best candidates get around to applying.
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DWP projecting extra 150,000 in poverty after welfare reform bill. assets.publishing.service.go…
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we have about 12.6m pensioners. About 1.8m complete a tax return [2022]. If winter fuel allowance is going to 9m people, that means (I assume) that numbers completing tax returns need to increase to 3.6m, or double the recent figure.
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sources: DWP benefits statistics: August 2023 - GOV.UK ; From pensioners to teenagers, HMRC reveals who files a tax return - GOV.UK
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