Former Labour minister and crossbench peer Frank Field has died aged 81, his family has announced - PA Media

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thetimes.co.uk/article/d07408… Writing this is a pretty shabby way to advertise your new 'coaching' business?

IMO the very last thing our country needs is greater political influence over the choice of judges. The situation in the US should serve as a warning, not an example to follow

statistic of the day:

“the FTSE-100 is just 16% above its 1999 dotcom-era high, while the S&P has more than trebled in value in the same period”

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Mounting pressure on the £6.5 trillion private equity industry raises the risk of a crunch that could cause big losses for banks and a crisis that spills over into the real economy, the Bank of England has warned thetimes.co.uk/article/bank-o…

Same for the UK

I’ve taken a closer look at Truss’s chapter on her time at the Ministry of Justice for ConservativeHome and, in particular, her plans to politicise the judiciary. Proper British conservatives should have nothing to do with them. conservativehome.com/2024/04/22/dav…

What #WASPI solution do you support?

Good to hear Sathnam Sanghera on BBC Radio 3 praising Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale, the inspiration for his novel Marriage Material (it's about 45 mins in)
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New polling evidence from Tax Policy Associates and WeThink shows that half the public doesn’t understand a basic principle of income tax: the way that tax rates apply to income above a threshold.

Thread!

thetimes.co.uk/article/405651… Of course not all pensioners are well off. This means help should be targeted at the poorest through Pension Credit, not given to everyone through the ridiculous triple-lock. By Rachel Mortimer

thetimes.co.uk/article/83b1c1… by Patrick Hosking The Pension Protection Fund 'plan' isn't even half-baked, designed the fund managers now running the Pension Protection Fund . It shouldn't happen & won't happen.

Spot-on, thank you David!

⁦Lewis Goodall⁩ is wrong.

There’s nothing to take seriously in Liz Truss’ book.

Real question is why she’s getting such an easy ride from journalists for such a lazy, unevidenced, and paranoid rant of a book

The New Statesman⁩ newstatesman.com/comment/2024/0…

Fascinating thread, thanks Tyler McBrien

.Andrew G. Biggs: 'Social Security benefits are more generous than people think.' 'A typical couple can expect an income more than twice the elderly poverty threshold before they touch a penny of their own savings.'

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