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22 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Bed occupancy with covid still going up - 2036 today. But still no increase in numbers on ventilators, in fact a small drop in recent days.
2097 beds occupied today but still no sign of any increase in numbers on ventilators.
A visual representation of this.
Numbers in hospital in London with covid now up to 2,260. Slight uptick in numbers on ventilators but no higher than a week ago (208 a week ago and 207 now).

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23 Dec
Would be grateful for twitter's help with some tentative market research....

*If* I were to start a paid for substack in the New Year which of the following options would be of most interest (appreciating most people will have no interest...)
1) a low cost weekly newsletter (say £3 a month) that had one longer piece on policy/politics and some nibs highlighting some other interesting things I'd spotted.
2) a more freewheeling blogging approach - say two pieces a week on average about a wider variety of things - policy/politics/culture/books etc... for say £5 a month.
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21 Dec
It is not and has never been true that Boris Johnson is somehow outside normal politics. He is unusually charismatic and has high name recognition but he's still a politician and seen as one. He's deeply unpopular now but he has never been a popular PM.
Every other PM since Thatcher - including Major, Brown, and May - who are deeply conventional politicians - all had a period as PM when they were more popular than Boris has ever been while in No 10.
This really emphasises the point - Johnson at the end of the 2019 campaign was less well liked than Corbyn at the end of the 2017 campaign.
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24 Nov
Not only is the latest episode of Succession brilliant but is also named after one of my very favourite US politics books "What It Takes" by Richard Ben Cramer about the 1988 election.
Tom's description of a private conference of Republicans as a "safe space where you don't have to pretend to like Hamilton" is just perfect.
Also if Matthew Macfayden doesn't win all the awards for his portrayal of Tom in this season there is no justice.
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23 Nov
So many tweets that Johnson's speech yesterday was a deliberate "dead cat" act yesterday to distract from something or another. It's just not how politics works you can't control narratives like that, you don't know what the press will choose to run with.
(Even assuming he wasn't just being typically incompetent and buffoonish. Which he was.) Surely the Paterson thing should have made people realise politicians don't self-immolate deliberately to distract from other things?
The only genuine dead cats are daft opposition attacks - like the drunk Gibraltar MPs the other week.
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22 Nov
Boris hasn't suddenly become bad at PM he was always terrible at it, just for some reason people now feel much more comfortable pointing it out.
His speeches have always been rambling incoherent nonsense with weird asides about random shit. He's never had a functioning No. 10 operation. He's never been interested in detail or policy.
A man twice fired for lying. Warned in a different job for threatening violence. Investigated for corrupt behaviour in every office he's held. Who repeatedly cheated on and then left his wife. On what conceivable planet was he going to be good at running the country?
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22 Nov
I've written about the crisis in social care - which goes well beyond today's unhappiness with changes to the cap on costs. tortoisemedia.com/2021/11/22/soc…
I started to research the social care sector after the charging announcement in September and became increasingly disturbed at how broken it is and how little has been done to fix it over many years.
One thing I hadn't clocked was quite how poorly paid social care workers are. I knew it was a low paid sector but not that the average salary was well below supermarkets. And that there's almost no premium for experience. No wonder there are 150k vacancies - and rising.
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