This #RMT strike issues vignette from @BBCRosAtkins is really fact packed.

Excellent.

Well worth 6 minutes of your time.
And I shan’t be taking lessons on belt tightening from the Party that just hosted its summer ball selling tables of 10 for £20k.

That’s £2k per person. (And people spent more on top).

Nearly 8% of an annual increase for the average rail worker involved in the strike.
However we should debunk and debunk the notion that the Government are trying to sell that it has nought to do with them.

This is what the DoT contract with the rail operators say.

And they can’t finalise a deal without the Sec of State sign off either.
So the Government is orchestrating this, lying about its place in all of this…. and then trying to use it as a wedge.

Throw it back in their faces.

Make it backfire.
And who owns Network Rail?

The Government

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What is the current state pension & how much it will increase under the triple lock

Do remember, when you see 10% rises mentioned that for most pensioners their current state pension is £7,400 pa

Only post 2016 pensioners get £9600 pa & if FULLY paid up apple.news/AhgIpKuzbRTeQ_…
Those in the 2016 onwards scheme have to pay in for more years and that affects a lot of women who took career breaks to have and look after children and care for elderly relatives.

They would not get the full state pension unless they continued to pay NI stamps. Image
For the majority of pensioners the 10% increase means an additional £740 pa. Very welcome.

But it brings their annual income (assuming they were fully paid up) to £8,140 pa. £156.50 pw.
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While the UK is now outside the EU and sets its own rules, Andrea Coscelli said that in practice companies were already investing to adapt to the laws set by Brussels, making it harder for the UK to diverge later because of the “undue cost” on corporates Image
This is yet another area where the costs of Brexit were seriously underestimated.

The department has grown by half as many staff again, from 600 to 900 as work previously shared with other EU countries now are our sole responsibility. Image
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“any suggestion that the Bill maintains the same level of protection as the HRA is ultimately doomed to failure because, for reasons hinted at above & developed below, the Bill significantly diminishes the level and forms of domestic protection afforded to the Convention rights.”
If…this results in more applications to (& UK losses in) the Strasbourg Court, the Gov will then face a stark choice between accepting the Court’s judgments-exploding the myth that the Bill magically enabled the UK to loosen its international obligations via domestic legislation
— or defying them & finding itself in breach of international law.”
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Politicians and commentators in Berlin have reacted with dismay to remarks by Olaf Scholz’s foreign policy adviser, Jens Plötner, who said the media should focus more on Germany’s future relationship with Russia than on supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons ft.com/content/e1deaa…
Speaking at a debate at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), he said the discussion about helping Ukraine was driven by a “feverishness that misses the big issues”.

I’d say being bombed to smithereens is a pretty damn big issue.

More of a Plönker than a Plötner Image
He then cast doubt on Ukraine’s membership of the EU

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Given your Twitter poll @ArisKatzourakis you might be interested in this

Also @Kit_Yates_Maths @chrischirp @dgurdasani1 and @SGriffin_Lab

⚠️ I haven’t dug into the underlying data

But the subject seems topical.
Large 🇺🇸 Veteran Affairs study.
Over a Quarter of a million with at least one infection.

Nearly 40k with two or more infections.

Over five mill with no record of infection. Image
Increased risk of all cause mortality for those reinfected.

Increased risk of sequelae in certain measures eg Pulmonary, cardiovascular, hematologic, fatigue, gastrointestinal, kidney, mental health, diabetes, musculoskeletal and neurological

See adjustments for vax status Image
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“It’s a fact that ought to be so obvious as to be banal: the most effective way to help people who don’t have enough money is to give them more of it.”

It’s efficient and they will spend it (going back into the economy) not hard it like the rich.

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Studies show that they give better life outcomes, improve mental health, alleviate stunted growth among children and increase the number of women and girls in education.

And that’s just if we restrict our analysis of cash transfers to those given by rich states to poorer ones.
If we widen our gaze to include working people in the rich world transferring cash to their relatives in middle and lower-income countries (the highest source of external financing in those nations before the pandemic) then their impact is stronger still
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