This comes from a journal called Pulse, which is a weekly publication aimed at medics, and GPs in particular: Weight-loss drugs cannot be seen as
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Neoliberal education is failing around the world
The OECD has published a new report on the state of global teenage career preparation. As they say on their website: This report sets out
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Starmer and Reeves were going to be green: now they’re just trashing the planet
As the Greenpeace website notes: Back in 2021, Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she’d be Britain’s first “Green Chancellor”. Labour’s annual conference that year
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A spanner in Trump’s works
As The Guardian has noted this morning: A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers
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Ending the two-child benefit will pay for itself
The Labour government claims that it cannot afford to pay benefits for the elderly, children in poverty, and people with disabilities. That is nonsense. Simple
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New work flows, and Substack
A regular commentator on this blog, who posts using the name Ex-Teacher, but whose name is known to me, said this recently, in my response to
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Crumble surprise
Jon Harvey, who recently let me publish his poem entitled Ten Poets, has also submitted this to the blog. I share it because I like
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Why is Reeves objecting to benefits payments when the OBR thinks they raise GDP?
As The Guardian noted yesterday: Rachel Reeves should refine her fiscal rules to prevent the need for emergency spending cuts, the International Monetary Fund has suggested in
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The new book
I mentioned the possibility of a new book a month ago. As I said then, on 22 April I asked my wife and elder son
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