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1/ Scotland’s had it for years. Wales too. Now England’s mayors are finally getting a share of their own income tax — and it could reshape the whole UK’s fiscal map. Here’s the policy angle. 🧵👇

1/ Outsiders keep misreading Northern Ireland. They hear "border poll" and assume a united Ireland is on the horizon. This week's poll says the opposite: both the unionist and nationalist blocs are bleeding to voter apathy. Neither is going anywhere soon: an existential nettle, best grasped now.

6,700 private providers of children’s homes, that’s up 70% since 2022, and supported accommodation is booming. This is a market scaling up around vulnerable children, not a system built to serve them. More providers may not mean better care but more folks making money from kids in care. 👇

1/ The UK’s approach to social media misinformation isn’t working. @cjayanetti.bsky.social lays out why, and what would actually help. The catch: misinfo is the hardest online harm to regulate without trampling free speech. 🧵

1/ Rafael Behr in the Guardian, on Burnham’s arrival in No 10, gets at something important. Burnham, Badenoch, even Trump are all working the same issues: the loss of industry that gutted working communities and the anger it generated. The shared diagnosis is ground everyone agrees on.