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Cursed right wing media forcing him to make a series of obvious mistakes one after the other...

Recognising good public services as a driver of economic growth and not just a beneficiary of growth is a welcome change in direction from previous governments

Without selling off a proportion of the world cup to private investors, how else would we be able to attract money into *checks notes* football

In Glasgow for the Commonwealth Games where I have mistakenly only brought summer clothing

Horrors of climate change aside, if you started letting people in this country take an hour nap through the workday, these guys would be apoplectic

This is true, and it's remarkable how the conversation about poor health is immediately one of suspicion rather than reflecting on the impact of public health spending cuts, the proliferation of poor health behaviours, often rooted in social conditions, or the pandemic we endured

Britain gearing up to have a healthy, normal debate about the options available to fund social care obligations in an ageing society...

In the UK they don't call it tax, they call it compulsory social insurance

A good example of how the benefit system can be reformed in a way which expands entitlements and supports your wider policy goals

Inner Mark Corrigan voice: AI certainly could automate train production

Philp mistakenly believing the French see him as a prominent figure because whenever his name gets mentioned in French political circles everyone starts saying "key"

The Doctor Who episode where music was removed from the world failed to consider what if that had unexpected benefits

I'd be curious to see how Christopher Nolan would tackle Tennyson's Ulysses

You do have to assume a "manufacturing" course in schools would just be a revamped business studies course, and not actually making kids do any real manufacturing work which might look bad on parent teacher night when the teacher explains little Jimmy is behind his phone production quota...

Gov seems to be vastly overestimating how much the curriculum influences the UK labour market The decline in manufacturing was a consequence of 40 years of policies embraced by successive governments, such as trade liberalisation, not because we don't have schools teaching "manufacturing"

When will Emily Wilson review the best Hollywood interpretation of the Odyssey aka The Spongebob Squarepants Movie...

Think it's fine to focus on improving the labour market to reduce welfare spend, but not sure it's an issue with schools We have fewer entry jobs and they're more expensive to employers, both of which are sort of a consequence of gov policy (pushing AI automation, increasing NICs)

I liked this ending

Another problem (there are many here) that I don't think gov has recognised, is the danger of setting a precedent of changing rules for people already here It will transform expectations and decisions of current and future migrants, which the gov are conceding we need

Saw the Odyssey last night and really enjoyed it, but was curious why Nolan did not choose to have Odysseus turn to the camera and start going off on right wing talking points uniquely relevant to the United States in the 2020s, the way Homer intended