Overdue 🧵on social care charging reform. It's been more than 2 weeks since the govt announced delay, but I wanted to let my anger and frustration settle. I’ve spent much time & energy working on this issue so here are my thoughts. 1/22

On this most important of statistics, some consistency and care is needed. The headline is v striking and being echoed across media.

Concern about NHS high in the latest Issues index. But it's been quite a lot higher - to bring some context to the current discussion

One of the great parts of the business IpsosUK. The challenges and choices facing govt and society require careful consideration, and bringing the public into this, with skill, improves decision making. The potential opportunity for use in the health sector alone are massive

🚨NEW from IpsosUK: Labour lead at 25 points 🚨 Labour 51% (+2 from Dec) Cons 26% (+3) Lib Dem 9% (-4) Green 5% (+2) Other 10% (-1) But let's look deeper ... THREAD/

This is the sort of news I’m here for…. James Webb telescope detects evidence of ancient ‘universe breaker’ galaxies theguardian.com/science/2023/f…

🚨NEW from IpsosUK / Standard News: Labour lead at 16 🚨 Labour 44% (-5 from March) Con 28% (+2) Lib Dem 13% (+2) Green 5% (nc) Other 8% (nc) F/W 10-16 May (changes from March) 🧵on leader ratings, hung parliament, Lab readiness and more below...

This is just brilliant. Explaining current events through historical analysis is very appealing

Discovered this amazing poem via an Adam Tooze retweet. Know nothing of the poet. Twitter very good at this connecting thing

Looks like it’s time to reread some of his masterpieces, including the road - “Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.”

Against a long-term trend of rising hospital admissions, policymakers have had an enduring aim of slowing their growth. So it’s remarkable that between 2019 & 2022 admissions fell by 800k (12%). A thread. 1/16

In the middle of a house move Ben, so this resonates!

This seems your sort of thing Robert Macfarlane Cc. @Benris84

Starting to think one of the big stories of the next election - other than the result obviously - will be a significant drop in turnout

Agree. Very glad this was in gcse curriculum at John Payne school 25 years ago

Just returned from a 5 day pilgrimage, walking from London to Canterbury with no money, tent, phone, or much of a plan other than to keep walking until I got there. It was a hard but peaceful & rich experience, through layers of history & miles of exquisitely beautiful nature…