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Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
It's estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP this financial year.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️ buff.ly/s5mz97u
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No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'.
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
November 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'.
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)
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On Wednesday the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a “large proportion” of Gaza’s population was starving. “I don’t know what you would call it other than mass-starvation – and it’s man-made."
July 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
On Wednesday the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a “large proportion” of Gaza’s population was starving. “I don’t know what you would call it other than mass-starvation – and it’s man-made."
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London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
Study also finds no change in number of casualties on roads just outside low-traffic neighbourhoods
Low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) cut road injuries and deaths by more than a third within their boundaries with no apparent negative safety effect on nearby roads, a study has shown in a boost to proponents of the measure.
Based on comparisons involving more than a decade of road casualty statistics between 113 LTNs created across London and other roads that did not have them, the report’s authors found that LTNs were associated with a 35% reduction in all injuries, rising to 37% for deaths and serious injuries. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
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Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians
The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...
Who cares that Britain is on course to be ‘minority white’?
As a study of migration, birth and death rates in the UK points to the white British population becoming a minority by 2063, Anand Menon says the only debate it ought to spark is not about immigration...
www.independent.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
‘If the problem that this country simply isn’t white enough, someone may as well just come out and say it. Because it’s clear the issue here isn’t Britishness.’ www.independent.co.uk/voices/immig...
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Quite a thing - as any student of judicial politics will tell you - for a letter to be signed both by former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption and by former appeal judge Stephen Sedley.
They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible.
lawyersletter.uk#signatories
They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible.
lawyersletter.uk#signatories
UK Judges’ and Lawyers’ Open Letter Concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory - May 2025 - UK lawyers’ open letter concerning Gaza
Download the full letter and Legal Memorandum | View signatories London26 May 2025 We are lawyers, legal academics and former judges who are UK-based or qualified. We write owing to our deep concern ...
lawyersletter.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Quite a thing - as any student of judicial politics will tell you - for a letter to be signed both by former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption and by former appeal judge Stephen Sedley.
They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible.
lawyersletter.uk#signatories
They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible.
lawyersletter.uk#signatories