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If the headline makes your blood boil probably best not read the article. The more we hear about the private water industry the more it looks like racketeering rather than commerce
- on.ft.com/4d0MuWL via Financial Times

As Liz Truss floats the potential for a political comeback worth revisiting the February Ipsos UK Political Pulse

Liz Truss - 8% favourable / 68% unfavourable

Check out more trends at our beautiful polling microsite: ipsos.com/en-uk/uk-opini…

The Truss book sounds toe-curlingly awful but every extract that I've read has made me laugh out loud. Memo to bookshops: display it in the humour section, you'll sell a lot more that way

We are getting used to these kinds of numbers now, but the swing implied here is unprecedented. If repeated in the GE, it would mean an 18.5 point Con to Lab swing. Nearly twice as large as the swing Blair achieved in 1997 (10 points) or Attlee achieved in 1945 (10.7 points)

This is fascinating
John Burn-Murdoch - Forget boomers vs millennials, the next conflict is millennials vs each other - on.ft.com/3Q1tMUV via Financial Times

Most financial analysis assumes a decade of data is 'long-term' so kudos to Gillian Tett for foregrounding Rogoff et al's 8 centuries of global data on interest rates and inflation since 1311 on.ft.com/4av7svb via Financial Times

A valuable initiative - simple & easy to use website for migrants to check voting rights. A large part of Britain's migrant population has full voting rights - all Commonwealth citizens can vote in general elections - but I suspect awareness of this islow canivote.org.uk

Too many Tories seem to rely not on what research says about 'their' voters but on what their favourite news outlets tell them about those voters. Nothing new in that perhaps. But I'd suggest it's getting increasingly common - and increasingly problematic. #PartyInTheMedia

One of the encouraging aspects of a likely Labour election victory is that the party is taking seriously improving the machinery of government. After years of performative nonsense from the current lot this alone is going to be a big step forward
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Is there a German word for trying to take credit for solving a problem that you caused?

Please God, make any decision to drop charges against Assange dependent on him taking a vow of silence

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Hubris, let me introduce you to Nemesis
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It's not just European militaries that are unprepared for war, so too are our societies - and we need an honest public conversation about that
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Conservative-Reform 'cross-over' looking increasingly likely? Would take us into uncharted territory, to say the least

More evidence that Europe is in a 'pre-war' environment
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Britain is the 2nd most powerful country in the world? A bold thesis entirely lacking evidence or even a clear definition of 'power'.
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