David Brennan

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If you don't measure things you can't have meaningful government policy to change them.

Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report for 2024

Govt publishes England water companies' league of sewage dumping and pollution .

Worst since 2011. 9 companies collectively received 19 out of possible 36 stars.

Thames Water the lowest rating of 1. Seven firms score only 2.

No fines on execs. No exec prosecuted. Dividends paid. Customers fleeced

Government No 10 communications on this have also been inappropriate
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We don't have to push children into poverty.

We don't have to make life harder for the sick and disabled.

We don't have to aid and abet genocide.

For too long, people have been denied a real political choice. Not anymore.

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Government quietly releases multiple disability research reports on the same day… eight days too late for MPs The government has quietly published 12 detailed research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just eight days afte…

The government has quietly published 12 research reports, nearly all related to disability employment, disability poverty and the benefits system, all on the same day, just 8 days after MPs voted to impose £2 billion-a-year cuts to disability benefits.
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1. New data shows employers investing 36% less in training per employee than in 2005 in real terms. This is both a cause and consequence of low economic growth & policy instability. It comes alongside a £1bn (20%) real terms cut in Government investment in adult skills in England compared to 2010.

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Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname.

Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP.

Labour accused of still not engaging with ‘hierarchy of racism’ claims Author of report into party’s culture voices concern antisemitism is taken more seriously than other forms of racism

2023: Forde told @aljazeera.com “Anti-black racism and Islamophobia is not taken as seriously as antisemitism within the Labour Party…”

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She withdrew her draft letter almost immediately on it being published. She was clear in her recent interview that she did not regret doing that. And, in that interview, she argued that black people's experience of racism was different to others. What don't you understand?

I am mixed race Indian/Anglo-Irish. I have experienced racism from those who know my heritage and racists with special "paki radar".

I have no doubt that had my skin been darker my experience of racism would have been worse. I cannot fathom why it would be controversial to make this point.

Yes. That's an interesting perspective. But where do you stand on the racist mass murder of tens of thousands of Palestinian children by the state of Israel?

Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households Chancellor to announce raft of deregulation changes as City regulators move to pare back transparency rules

Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households.

Don't do it.

Most post-2008 regs repealed. Regulators now requiredd to promote growth of City. Capital requirements diluted.

Will end in tears.

Boost manufacturing. Redistribute wealth to rebuild economy.

CCTV appeal after man hurled racist abuse at family outside Wirral mosque A man had reportedly verbally abused members of the public near the Wirral Deen Centre in Birkenead on May 30

CCTV appeal after man hurled racist abuse at family outside Wirral mosque

The welfare bill still threatens even deeper cuts and is morally indefensible 'This creates a two-tier welfare state: those lucky enough to qualify before the changes will receive support to live, though not necessarily with dignity'

"This Bill will, even now, strip £2 billion from future claimants of Universal Credit health payments.

Around 750,000 people stand to lose an average of £3k a year.

And we know ¾ of those are living in material deprivation."

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We have lost all contact with our UNRWA colleagues in Gaza, communications have been cut off.

This morning, for the first time in months, we did not receive their morning messages to say, "good morning" and "we are fine/alive".

We anxiously await to hear from our colleagues.

Spending on benefits

Surprisingly the UK spends less on pensions, incapacity, unemployment and social care than peers nations

Rushdi Abualouf reports that following its attack on the European hospital in Gaza, Israel is now preventing people from rescuing survivors.

Arctic ice is vanishing – our bold experiment is trying to protect it Scientists are pumping seawater onto existing ice to make it thicker and more resilient

We know the only real fix for the climate crisis is to cut emissions.

But in the Arctic, scientists are also trialling three surprising ways that might buy us time.

Read what they’re doing – and why.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

This is bullshit. You can say there are costs, you can even claim the costs outweigh the benefits. But to say that immigration has caused incalculable damage is not just hugely offensive to millions of people and their families, but simply empirically demonstrably wrong

One again, this is simply not true.

Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.

The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data.

Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...

Chart showing share of newly constructed homes per year, by heating source: England and Wales chart shows just 13 per cent of homes built in England and Wales in 2024 had heat pumps installed (58 per cent had gas boilers), just 3 percentage points higher than in 2010 despite a wider push for low carbon heating

Just 13% of homes built in England and Wales in 2024 had heat pumps installed (58% had gas boilers).

New homes are by far the easiest part of the home heating puzzle to solve; regulations that prevent the installation of high-carbon heating in new homes should be a Government priority.

Latest ONS social trends data has some shocking stats on the experience of single parents of cost of living increases, including:

> Around 1 in 5 (20%) adults living alone with at least one dependent child had run out of food in the last two weeks

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Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose Beijing has escalation dominance in the U.S.-Chinese tariff fight.

Interesting article
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Devolution is an opportunity to unleash the power of colleges for… A new report published today (Friday 4 April), shows that with modest changes to the devolution system, colleges can be unleashed to deliver so much more…

Pleased to see that this report, which I co-authored with Think, has been endorsed by the AOC, city-region Mayors, sector bodies like the CITB, and the BCC. Let's hope ministers listen to the call to replace our market-led skills system with a local plan-led one.
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So, it turns out the 'change' people voted for in July of last year was to increase the number in poverty by a quarter of a million (on the Government's own figures).

Since Israel broke the ceasefire last Tuesday they've murdered 730 Palestinians.

Civil Service told by government to slash running costs by 15% The target is said to be administrative costs - but unions have challenged ministers to be upfront about what areas of work they are prepared to sacrifice as a result.

UK Civil Service told to slash running costs by 15%, £2bn.

What would that be - cuts in airport safety, minimum wage inspections, health and safety, child welfare, flood defences, river cleanliness, benefit assessment?

Policy on the hoof pays no attention to human cost.