Longitudinal data instead of cross sectional suggests moves into worklessness is not driven by poor health after all. ifs.org.uk/articles/worse…

This is where politics is so different from anything else. Get fired for breaching confidential data and six days later rehired because she supported PM over BJ. It’s nothing to do with competency.

Mass spec is truly wonderful bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

👥 Who’s who in Team Sunak?

With just a few days to assemble a Number 10 team, the new prime minister has turned to his close aides from his time as chancellor to replace Liz Truss' Downing Street operation.

'It's almost a whole Treasury takeover'

ft.com/content/86e1df…

Agile

Instead of complaining about the paywall, just go and buy a Sunday Times tomorrow (easy for me to say as have a work sign in, but moving on...) Shipman's coverage is so good, so thorough, so well briefed that it's amazing any other tories bother to write>> thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the…

Here's my quick, slightly stunned take on the possibilities of what just happened to Hu Jintao.

foreignpolicy.com/2022/10/22/chi…

I was unconvinced until he showed me the paragraphs he’d written on what the public had gone through. I now think he’s right.

He’s right.

It’s fair to say, neither group has a brilliant track record of getting it right. Maybe time to let the public have a go?

Appreciating parliamentary system - and there comes a time when policy is so far removed from the manifesto government was elected on plus there were multiple chances to elect a PM capable of leading the country which failed, that a general election is the most democratic step.

One of the big ticket items that a progressive gov can do even at times of austerity. Allocative efficiency might be one guardrail of public service reform to make existing funding go further. ifs.org.uk/news/public-se…

He is yours, the UK deserves better.

Policy stasis since BJ left has been incredible (submissions not cleared, funding not allocated etc). And yet, intention of policy (& u-turns) in past weeks had an enormous fiscal impact on everyone in the country through higher prices. Few policies are ever as impactful.

👇great questions