Craig
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Craig
@CraigBatemanUK
Parliamentary Researcher. @Durham_Uni and @LSENews Alumnus. Researching #careethics in digital age at @OfficialUOM.
Salford, England Katılım Aralık 2012
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The Chancellor’s recently floated "milkshake tax" is health theatre, not policy.
It's punishing SMEs, pushing families toward worse food choices and taxing naturally occurring lactose as if it were added sugar.
This is what happens when govts chase headlines instead of evidence. Milk is not Coca-Cola.
Read more - linkedin.com/pulse/milkshak…
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I have one FREE signed copy of Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton to gifted to someone. If you are interested in receiving the book, please repost this post and I will chose someone at random.
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One of the greatest stage productions this year that everyone should see:
thelastlaughplay.co.uk
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Enjoying a night with three comedy greats at @PalaceAndOpera - Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse! 🎭
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A speech that Bede would have admired x.com/danny__kruger/…
Danny Kruger@danny__kruger
I gave a speech today in an empty chamber. It’s about the need for a Christian restoration.
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Inspiring message from environment secretary Steve Reed at UK Water Reception today "We need water for economic growth." Er yes we also need it to live
gov.uk/government/spe…
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We’ve written to the PM about the stark reality of tax increases on hospitality. Last month’s survey showed the effect on business with a third operating at a loss and this is the reality for workers with hours and jobs slashed - we are being #TaxedOut thetimes.com/business-money…
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Standards in higher education have seriously slipped. What fools we are to have allowed university to become a nihilistic, fruitless party after school
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
1902 Oxford scholarship exam: tell me, 17-year-old-lad, how and why do nations decline through decadence?
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@IanM65 @DCMS Notting Hill Carnival was offered as an example of ‘living traditions’ in April. I wonder if those that make the inventory will have access to future DCMS funding: gov.uk/government/new…
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If @DCMS agrees to fund this, can every carnival up and down the land have funding as well? Just asking BBC News - Future of Notting Hill Carnival 'in jeopardy'
bbc.com/news/articles/…
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🔴 Starmer’s deal with Trump spells disaster for farmers, leaked memo warns
Read more below ⬇️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
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Not sure what happened there... Rachel Reeves used the old "from X to Y" rhetoric, but chose "from Swansea to Bridgend"... which is about a 20 minute drive.
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Cuts to nature friendly farming budget confirmed: Defra claims the fund will "skyrocket" from £800m in 23/24 to £2bn in 28/29. However, the entire farming payments budget including the EU acreage payments which were being phased out was £2.4bn, so looks like £400m a year cut.
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NHS funding boost is “equivalent of the GDP of Portugal…”
Shaun Lintern@ShaunLintern
NHS Chief Jim Mackey says Govt has "done us a good turn" in NHS spending review saying: "We are always going to be in a world where we want more money but we have got what the country can afford to give us...it is the equivalent of the GDP of Portugal." #NHSconfedexpo
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🚨 NEW: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is reportedly on “resignation watch” after Keir Starmer forced the Home Office to accept the Treasury offer for Wednesday’s Spending Review
[@Telegraph]
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