Disability benefit cuts that are expected to affect more than 450,000 people by 2029 will only lead to 15,400 more people finding paid work, according to official forecasts

That's about three percent of the number of people affected.

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Coming up next month, we've a stellar line up of speakers at our event on AI and Elections, please do join. Thanks to Giulia Sandri, @giuliasandri.bsky.social for putting together such a top notch event!

Sad to hear of the passing of CJ Sansom. Although my first degree was in History, I don't think I'd ever read self-consciously 'historical fiction' before I read his stuff. If you've never tried it but fancy giving it a try, I can heartily recommend his first:

Me, heading into another week.

If you fancy helping a desperate textbook author to update this simplistic table (“What the media provide at elections”) for a country you know about (yes, it’ll be Czechia now), do hit reply. 😳

Even the US distribution is not as bipolar as the attitudes of the parties' public representatives in Congress would suggest.

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We spoke to the leader of Eastbourne council. He told us half of his council tax revenue is being spent on accommodation.

Half. Temp accomm crisis, where councils have to pay for hotels etc, an important driver of local govt insolvency.

Absolutely fascinating (not least the gender difference). Source: nuffieldfoundation.org/wp-content/upl…

This is quite possibly the most misleading bar chart I’ve ever seen.

Back in blue for a change!

Another useful reminder from Bobby Duffy that #BritainIsNotAmerica - or not yet anyway 😨

A rare photo of a Greggs staff member collecting the steak bake filling (1983)

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PIP was introduced in 2014.

The Government said it was redesigning the PIP process to move away from a 'one size fits all' approach..

.. in 2015.

Perhaps Mel Stride should spend less time tweeting and more on understanding why things went wrong.

Morten Morland on the troubles of #RishiSunak and the #Tories #GeneralElectionNow – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon

When I was a young boy I shat myself quite spectacularly in the middle of assembly. Went back to my old village last night; as I walked in the pub a bloke shouted out 'oi Shitter!'. I'm 63 and haven't been there for over 45 years.

Interestingly, Dan Poulter's critique of the government goes wider than the NHS: it's also about (what he sees anyway) as the Conservatives' right-wing drift.

Good piece on the differences between three of Europe's populist radical right parties by Tony Barber, which cites an article by Toby Greene on their attitudes to Russia and the US (see next post for deets) 1/2 ft.com/content/8b88f8… via @ft

'Cones hotline' but with added 'mean to scroungers' vibes