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Day 4 heather

The private sector will always argue for their own interests. Why wouldn’t they?
Politicians should be looking after our interests. Why don’t they?

Who would replace him?

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Day 3 cornflower

Schools, get involved in Global Action Days 2026!

From 22 April – 6 May, join a global movement across 150+ countries tackling food security & climate change 🌱

Inspire learners to take action, big or small!

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Reform UK continually cry foul when accused of wanting to privatise the NHS.... You can't believe a word they say...

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Day 2 Purple Loosestrife

Love this recommendation:

“Government should embrace the inevitable patchwork of national and
devolved provision but have clear principles to help shape it, including in
any areas where it intends to continue taking a centralised approach”

Embrace devolution, evaluate, learn, spread best practice.

BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint!
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...

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Day 1 Early Purple Orchid

Boris Johnson was blocked from accessing state secrets as foreign secretary because Downing Street believed he was a security risk Theresa May allegedly tried to restrict Boris Johnson's access to secret intelligence when he was foreign secretary.

@thetimes.com @telegraph.co.uk @express.co.uk @thesun.co.uk o.uk www.dailymail.co.uk/#
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Day 7 #Llancillo

If you are in the UK Civil Service- a DD or aspiring DD - this is an opportunity to work with me, England’s Upland Communities and @DefraGovUK on system transformation - please share widely a fantastic opportunity for a brilliant candidate civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

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Day 6

Tim Farron warns ministers to drop plans which will stop mountain rescue teams providing first aid at local events Cumbrian MP Tim Farron has written to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Innovation and Safety, Dr Zubir Ahmed, asking him not to go ahead with plans which would prevent mountain rescue...

Tim Farron warns ministers to drop plans which will stop mountain rescue teams providing first aid at local events

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Day 5 #Birmingham UK’s 2nd city

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Day 4 Jesse tree
One of the finest medieval wooden sculptures in Europe
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Obvs

Oops

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Day 3 @pcfcic.bsky.social

Billionaire Britain 2025 - Equality Trust Introduction For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the ...

Rather than ‘welfare’ why not look at UK billionaires? Just 5% of their, mostly, extractive wealth would close the gap

equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

From new dawn to new dispensation: the rapid unravelling of the Government of Wales Act 1998, the Richard Commission and the road to the Government of Wales Act 2006 Devolution to Scotland and Wales was a central plank of the New Labour government’s constitutional reform agenda. Yet despite Welsh devolution only being narrowly won at the 1997 referendum by the ...

New article out today in Contemporary British History - looking at the constitutional & political forces that swiftly unravelled the Govt of Wales Act 98, the creation of the Richard Commission, & the internal negotiations within Labour on a response to Richard that led to the Govt of Wales Act 2006

Billionaire Britain 2025 - Equality Trust Introduction For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the ...

Other sources are available. Just 5% of UK billionaire’s wealth would plug the gap. They’re all patriots aren’t they?

equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

The latter

From vision to fission - via 14 years of Tory dither and delay.

How useful those 8 nuclear power stations planned by the last Labour Govt would have been since 2022 to ease the impact of fossil fuel price inflation.

5% of UK billionaire’s wealth - much of it extractive - would fill the gap

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‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide When the UN special rapporteur published her report Anatomy of a Genocide in March 2024, she was lionised by some and demonised by the Trump government. She describes what happened next

‘My life has become a rollercoaster’: Francesca Albanese on death threats, danger and dread after accusing Israel of genocide

Collaborative Doctoral Awards Learn more about our Collaborative Doctoral Partnership programme, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

We're currently recruiting for five (yes five!) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership awards at IWM See the full list of projects and partners here, with further details of how to apply: www.iwm.org.uk/research/doc...

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Day 2 WHSmith
High street, Newtown: notable for its 1927, restored, period-style appearance.
Now closed
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Figure 1 shows estimates of three types of labour market violation that we can assess using survey data, which suggest that hundreds of thousands of workers are not benefiting from the rights that they are owed. An estimated 445,000 jobs were paid less than the minimum wage in 2025 (22 per cent of those covered by it), up from 382,000 a year earlier. In addition, new analysis based on the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) suggests that as many as 2.2 million jobs do not come with any annual leave.

Even as employment rights are becoming stronger, non-compliance with existing rights remains a concern.

Hundreds of thousands of workers do not benefit from the basic rights they are owed.

Read more about how the new Fair Work Agency can address this👇 buff.ly/2cPqeAG