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@Simmons__ Britain is facing a quiet crisis — its data is breaking down, and the government’s numbers are increasingly unreliable. Watch in full
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Everyone knows we can’t go on admitting over 110,000 asylum seekers a year, with close to 38,000 arriving this year via small boats, in almost every case with no proof of their real identities. ✍️ David Shipley https://t.co/0qZ3Vq6pJA
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The Bell Hotel in Epping has hardly been out of the news since the summer. In July, Bell resident Hadush Kebatu’s sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl sparked weeks of protests. And if Epping was...
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If Reeves scraps the cap in a fortnight, the inevitable question is going to be: how are the public finances bad enough to justify income tax rises, but good enough to justify more benefit spending? ✍️ James Heale https://t.co/knGZWi3drL
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Rachel Reeves will not officially confirm any tax changes until 26 November, but two policy shifts in her second Budget now look inevitable. The first is that the basic rate of income tax is set to...
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At the ONS headquarters, morale is collapsing. The agency, long criticised for data blunders, has become a symbol of a deeper crisis. ✍️ Michael Simmons https://t.co/2VnTBlTdZk
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There were cheers in the Treasury in September when statisticians found an unexpected £2 billion ‘down the back of the sofa.’ The tax man had underreported VAT receipts to the Office for National...
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Are there really more trans people in Newham than Brighton? On this week's episode of Reality Check, Michael Simmons explains why some of Britain's census data may not be reliable. @Simmons__
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On today's Coffee House Shots: With threats from a resurgent Green party to the left and Reform to the right, is there an obvious path forward for Labour to win back voters? @JAHeale @Scarlett__Mag @Simmons__
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With two weeks until her Budget, Rachel Reeves has received more bad news: unemployment is now at its highest level since the pandemic. With the Chancellor hinting at income tax rises, could this be...
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'He told me: "these people are mad".' As outgoing BBC director general Tim Davie tells staff the broadcaster must "fight" for its journalism, Spectator associate editor Rod Liddle recalls a conversation with a former BBC director of editorial policy about anti-EU supporters.
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George Simm’s love affair isn’t actually over. He’s still fighting for the SAS and thank God he is. ✍️ Mary Wakefield https://t.co/PNzdXFrjKG
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Perhaps Starmer and Hermer are so befuddled by law-think that they can’t see what’s happening to the country they claim to love
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I’m not sure the BBC can still be saved. ✍️ Stephen Daisley https://t.co/TuHJOMXiZ7
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The BBC’s on-air talent is muttering darkly about political campaigns and the corporation being ‘under attack’.
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Reeves is determined to squeeze more tax revenue out of the economy. ✍️ Matthew Lynn https://t.co/0GyzTIFvFH
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The air passenger duty is already due to rise from £13 to £15 per traveller for a short-haul economy flight in April next year.
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'The BBC is completely in denial ... if you're reaching for David Yelland you know you're in a spot' Spectator associate editor Rod Liddle says the problem with the BBC is that it can't see the problem.
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The tunnel vision that has led some BBC shows and journalists down the wrong track on the Middle East and trans issues reminds me of our past reporting on immigration. ✍️ Danny Shaw https://t.co/mL4BP4aeUb
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August 29,1989 is a date that is burned into my memory. It’s the date that I first walked up Regents Street from Oxford Circus tube station and into the ornate lobby of Broadcasting House to begin my...
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Striking away from the proscribed ‘nice’ positions is a very hard path to take. ✍️ Gareth Roberts https://t.co/kOk1QJjKZI
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The BBC's problem is the same as everybody else’s: a critical mass of progressivism among the uni-educated middle class.
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Szalay’s victory last night furthers the sense that there is a new game in town. ✍️ Alexander Larman https://t.co/qe1wuWvtsw
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The judging panel gave the award – and its munificent cheque – to the Hungarian-British author David Szalay for his novel Flesh.
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'The BBC sees everything through the prism of gender and race' Spectator associate editor Rod Liddle says the BBC has bought into intersectional politics and become a parody of itself.
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