UK ministers are weighing whether to exit Palantir’s £330m NHS data deal — but the real question is what comes next for the NHS’s data strategy.
#NHS #Palantir #UKPolitics #DataPrivacy #HealthPolicy #PublicServices #TechPolicy
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/21/p...
10 years since Brexit, and another stop on my journey up and down the East Coast visting towns where Reform won, and those they hope to win in future.
#Brexit #reformuk #Farage #skegness
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/18/s...
Yes, rogue spell check
If only I could persuade a newspaper to pay me to go and live in a picturesque Italian village to research this in more depth
The will, apparently, believe any old nonsense about Muslims that they read on Facebook.
We are going through our own version of the America "great sort" where a chunk of our population live lives completely seperated from the rest of us
Everyone’s worrying about Britain, but the real danger to the global economy is the US.
#GlobalDebtCrisis, #USEconomy, #UKEconomy, #FiscalPolicy, #Economics, #IMF
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/17/g...
No, it originated with local authorities. It is aimed at wealthy Brits and similar nationalities who have read "A year in provenance" and have bucolic fantasies about rural life in a foreign country
they are exactly a scheme; to repopulate empty parts of Italy with white people
False claims of “family voting” in the Gorton by-election spread fast, collapsed under scrutiny but still did the damage they were meant to.
#UKPolitics #Gorton #Misinformation #Elections #VoterFraud #MediaNarratives
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/14/f...
Brexit made exporting harder for small UK businesses. In Felixstowe, millions were spent managing the consequences—on a system that will never be used.
#Brexit #UKPolitics #Trade #Exports #SmallBusiness #Felixstowe #CoastalTowns
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/11/b...
From Vietnam to the Strait of Hormuz, American military power wins battles — and loses wars.
#Trump #Geopolitics #USPolitics #iran #MilitaryStrategy #ForeignPolicy
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/09/d...
Trump’s crypto empire isn’t just about money—it’s about power. When politics, finance and global capital start to overlap, it becomes hard to see where one ends and the other begins
#Trump #Cryptocurrency #Crypto #Binance #Stablecoins #USPolitics #GlobalFinance
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/07/t...
Final round of music questions from 1966, some will be sad to say goodbye, some will breathe a sigh of relief
#quiz #PopQuiz
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/06/e...
Day Four, the final round, you know the format by now
#quiz
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/06/e...
In Great Yarmouth, migrant workers keep the economy running while many locals are out of the labour market. That imbalance says a lot about why Reform/Restore thrive
#GreatYarmouth #ReformUK #Brexit #UKPolitics #Migration #LabourMarket #CoastalTowns
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/04/g...
Easter Quiz, Day Two
#quiz
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/04/e...
The NHS doesn’t just have a workforce shortage—it has a system that can’t use the doctors it already has.
#NHS #UKPolitics #Healthcare #WorkforceCrisis #DoctorShortage #MedicalTraining #PublicPolicy #Immigration #HealthPolicy #Reform
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/02/n...
Online polls shape headlines—but how reliable are they? Bots, incentives and bias may be distorting what we think we know.
#UKPolitics #Polling #PublicOpinion #Media #Data #Politics
jon-chadwick.com/2026/04/01/o...
Probably a factor. Disparities in house prices make it hard for people to move to parts of the country with more jobs, and from the 2010s onwards making families more responsible for social support made people less mobile
Syd Barrett’s story is usually told as a tragedy of drugs and decline. The reality is more complicated—and says a lot about the media.
#SydBarrett, #PinkFloyd, #Psychedelia, #1960sMusic, #MentalHealth, #MusicHistory, #BritishMusic, #Media, #DailyMail
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I don't think Reforms current poll leads convince me they will win at the next GE. He is currently behind where Milliband and Kinnock were
But their biggest problem is their on-line supporters. They are so obnoxious that it puts off ordinary voters and helps encourage tactical voting
Clacton, Farage and Brexit
10 years on from the Brexit vote where are the places that voted for Reform, and will more of the country follow them? First in a series
#reformUK #nigelfarage #clacton #brexit #localelections
jon-chadwick.com/2026/03/28/c...
March #quiz
jon-chadwick.com/2026/03/28/q...
After writing this I travelled to some of the places were pubs are closing. In all of them I found they all had a giant Wetherspoons which was rammed, selling beer £s lower than other pubs could afford.
It looks like pubs are becoming like coffee - a small number of chains owning the market
Foreign influence in UK politics is no longer theoretical. A new report suggests it’s happening at scale—and that the law is only just catching up.
#UKPolitics #ForeignInfluence #Democracy #PoliticalFunding #ReformUK #Disinformation #SocialMedia #Brexit
jon-chadwick.com/2026/03/27/f...
Debt is rising in Trump’s second term, and the “big beautiful bill” will add to it—but the real story is how interest payments are quietly eating the U.S. budget.
#Trump #USPolitics #USEconomy #FiscalPolicy #Deficit #TaxCuts #InterestRates #Economics
jon-chadwick.com/2026/03/25/t...
People don’t just misunderstand history—they imagine themselves inside it, and that’s how myths about the past end up shaping today’s culture wars.
#History #CultureWars #BritishPolitics #GreatManTheory #NationalIdentity #Politics #Society
jon-chadwick.com/2026/03/24/g...
