Claire Miller
@clairemiller.bsky.social
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Data journalist, maths geek, feminist, responsible for a lot of the ICO's FOI caseload. clairemiller.net
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aedwardslevy.bsky.social
poll:
is sponsored by company with a vested interest in results and which is clearly using survey as a promotional tool

writeup:
does not link to toplines
no info on question wording
no methods info
confuses "percentage" and "percentage point"
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stephenkb.bsky.social
Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!
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liamthorp.bsky.social
As a local government journalist of many years I could have easily told these plonkers that there is nowhere left to cut in local government. Actually anyone could have told them that.
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wearequeeraf.com
🆕️🚨 After painstaking research, dozens of FOIs and months of analysis we release the Gender Clinic Files which reveal waiting times for every GIC in the country.

They lay bare, how far off the mark the Health Secretary's estimation of the average wait is 👇

www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...
Some people in Scotland will never get gender clinic appointment on 224-year waitlist
Revealed waiting times of all GICs in UK: Most Trans+ people in the UK will wait more than a third of their adult life to get an appointment, and some will never receive care
www.wearequeeraf.com
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felicityhannah.bsky.social
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first 

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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foi.scot
📢 Have your say! The Scottish Parliament is scrutinising the FOI Reform Bill, and they need your views – should authorities pause deadlines for clarification? Should the First Minister have a veto?
Submit your views by 22 October 2025 👇 tinyurl.com/FOIReform
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
If scrapping indefinite leave to remain (ILR) entirely, as Reform would do, is racist, according to Labour, what is making ILR twice as difficult, expensive & humiliating to obtain, as Labour are doing?
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stephenkb.bsky.social
"Politics has not become more statist. You're just in denial about being older!" - is I think just a pretty accurate read on where the UK political class is, whether the 'you' is closer to home or the country as a whole.
samfr.bsky.social
And all of that extra has gone to the NHS. Where costs are increasing at the same rate as other developed countries due to better treatments and aging populations. It's just wrong.
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samfr.bsky.social
Welfare spending is 10.8% as a proportion of GDP and was 10% in 2001. (And the increase is nearly all pensions). Apparently it's now out of control. It's just absolutely bog standard right wing paper talking points.
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samfr.bsky.social
And all of that extra has gone to the NHS. Where costs are increasing at the same rate as other developed countries due to better treatments and aging populations. It's just wrong.
clairemiller.bsky.social
Interesting, as I would have thought earlier years were much lower (Craig’s 1 paddle hasn’t been seen in years)
clairemiller.bsky.social
Can’t have a Strictly journey if you’re getting 9s from week 3!
clairemiller.bsky.social
It’s only taken five years but someone’s finally found Anton a 3 paddle. #Strictly

(This seems a notably lower scoring opening show, which, as I’m not sure the standard is much lower than usual, might be an attempt to get the ever inflating scores back under control).