#Adequacy

Charles Grant

CER_Grant

Having spoken to senior people in Brussels on #Brexit, a short thread. They expect the crunch in late Sep or Oct. For now they think @DavidGHFrost lacks a mandate to

Rebecca McDonald

R_McDonald_

Yes I think the £20 uplift to #UniversalCredit should be permanent (important for adequacy of social security system), but here's a thread just focusing on the year ahead. Extending the

Martin Smith

martinrsmith

Fantastic news over Christmas that the Brexit deal secures UK participation in Horizon Europe @millie_dearman and I have been digging through the detail of the agreement text to find out

CAPL

USACAPL

Did you receive an invitation to complete the Center for the Army Profession and Leadership Annual Survey of Army Leadership (aka CASAL) in your email this week? Not sure what

Jim Killock

jimkillock

A few coincidences to note today. Here is one unrelated event: Elizabeth Denham of @ICOnews is appearing before @CommonsDCMS next Tuesday, being questions about a range of concerns about their

Amberite's Eschatological Cabaret 🌈⛥✡⛧they/them

outliersgeorg

The proportion of COVID deaths that's older folks and folks with underlying conditions does Not, in any way, make it OK that people are dying, but it IS probably a

Tom Hayes

BEERG

So, this is Michael Gove's letter to the EU over the NI Protocol. Now, I have to say this reads like something written by a newspaper columnist, rather than a

Duke of Qin

qin_duke

Like I've said before, system dysfunction doesn't exist in a vacuum, if the rot is visible in one area of government, it certainly exists elsewhere. The Pentagon is in the

David Baskin

DavidBaskinBWM

In 1982 I worked in the bad loans department of $BMO.CA. This was in the wake of the ultra-high interest rate war on inflation, when prime got up to 22.5%.

Peter Ricketts

LordRickettsP

Initial take on the security/justice parts of deal, based on summaries. May be useful when studying the full text. Overall, better than I had feared. Will reduce gap in capability

Dr. Lynora Saxinger 🇨🇦

AntibioticDoc

For those who are interested in ecologic observations, two Our World In Data graphs with case numbers colour coded by testing adequacy (https://ourworldindata.org/epi-curve-covid-19)One graph, (with Colombia and Argentina at the

Máiréad Enright

maireadenright

Reading the ECHR symphysiotomy judgments in detail now. They are hardly a vindication of govt policy. Two points caught my eye: 1) The court largely adopts the state's line

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

The first working day of the new UK-EU relationship. We're going to hear a lot this year from all sides (remain and Brexit in UK, EU, etc) using any possible

Conor O'Mahony

ConorUCCLaw

My thoughts on today's ECtHR rulings in the #symphysiotomy cases: the Court took a narrow, formalistic approach, that allowed technical and procedural considerations to obscure egregious rights violations, and expected

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

The UK 'debate' around the treatment of transgender children - dominated by hobbyists and the politically motivated - increasingly resembles anti-vaxism.https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/political-minds/202007/jk-rowling-and-the-

Sahaj Kohli

SahajKohli

As a child of immigrants, you may struggle with creating a strong sense of self because you may not fully align with all of the values & norms you're expected

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