Charles Tallack

Polio: Detection of virus in London is a major blow - but it has little chance of spreading widely news.sky.com/story/polio-de…

The @WHO recently reported 14.9 million excess deaths from the pandemic in 2020 and 2021. We have reviewed the calculations and while the global total is broadly consistent with other estimates, we have concerns over the figures for some countries. covidactuaries.org/2022/05/09/who…

NEW: Graduates are in for a rollercoaster ride on student loan interest rates in the coming years. Read our new briefing on what today's @ONS RPI figures mean for student loans, funded by @NuffieldFound> ifs.org.uk/publications/1…

@jackthurston The ride into St David's (from your Lost Lanes Wales book)? It's a city!

@BrineMP One thing I don't understand and perhaps you can explain. You say you oppose vaccine passports on the grounds that they don't stop you getting COVID or passing it on. But later on your speech you say you support mandatory vaccination for NHS and social care staff.

My short speech this afternoon outlining my view on Plan B and how I voted on each of the measures before us. Full details, including voting lists for all divisions, via : stevebrine.com/news/mp-votes-… : Watch - youtube.com/watch?v=1EquoT…

@Starcourse visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/upl… Looking at the longer term, US GDP as a share of world GDP has been in decline + Matthew has slightly cherrypicked 1980 in his comparison...

“In 1980 🇺🇸…25% global GDP. Today, after 4 decades of supposed decline…remains…25%. Over…same period…🇪🇺 presided over a drop from 35% to 21%…in 2019 the US accounted for 56% of global stock market capitalisation, up from 42% in 2010” thetimes.co.uk/article/life-c…

@JTilomass @BrineMP @HouseofCommons @SBGreenWinch To clarify: it WILL increase domestic flying (of course, because prices will be lower) but NOT emissions.

@JTilomass @BrineMP @HouseofCommons @SBGreenWinch Seemingly paradoxically, according to the IFS, it won't twitter.com/HelenMiller_IF…

A Budget for a stronger economy and a new age of optimism. My initial thoughts having just come out of the @HouseofCommons on today's Budget. Watch here👇 youtu.be/17mC128BFPA

@PickardJE The party is panicking. Identikit replies from two MPs - Winchester's and Witney's

there’s a lingering disquiet about Tory MPs voting last week against an amendment to stop private water companies dumping raw sewage into rivers and coastlines…not sure they’ve gauged the public mood on this

An Identikit explanation from Robert Courts MP for Witney. robertcourts.co.uk/news/explainer…

@BrineMP Robert Courts, Conservative MP for Witney, uses almost identical language in his explainer, including "I would be sympathetic to this point of view if we were talking about a simple, inexpensive endeavour." robertcourts.co.uk/news/explainer…

Vote explainer on Lords' Amendments to the Environment Bill re. Storm Overflows | Steve Brine MP stevebrine.com/news/vote-expl…

@uk_domain_names Just blame it on civil servants working from home... dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

It's weird. Given that HGV driver shortages are on the front pages of every newspaper (even the Tory shill ones) on an almost daily basis, you'd think the DVLA would process them on a triple-platinum-with-tinsel-and-sparklers expedited basis to get bang up to date. And yet...

The DVLA releases backlog data weekly. In their previous update, they'd got as far as processing vocational licence renewals submitted on or before 15 July 2021. Now they've reached 19 July 2021. That's only 4 days' worth in a week. Backlog is growing! gov.uk/guidance/dvla-…

I thought we'd taken back control.

@PetroNicolaides @jdportes @mosey19622 Whatever it's called, it's not going to feel any different to a family losing £20 a week.

@jdportes @mosey19622 As a leading, eminent economist, does it really a mere mortal like me to explain to you the difference between the "withdrawal of a grant" (a temporary uplift) and a "cut" (a reduction of the sum)? Or do you just want to keep digging?

@BrineMP @politicshome Interesting piece Steve. What is the evidence that electricity prices wouldn't also be volatile? Especially as electricity supply will increasingly depend on wind which shows extreme volatility. I support move away from fossil fuels but let's not create false expectations.

Decarbonising the heat sector will protect consumers from future energy cost spikes. Piece I have written for ⁦@politicshome⁩ today. politicshome.com/thehouse/artic…

@policysketch My research suggests that most NASA staff aren't astronauts

I'm not a subscriber so can't confirm, but I'm sure that in this article the Telegraph is going to tell us what the optimal management capacity and skill mix is for the NHS.

@topcatkeen Damn - I was hoping it was a Dino

@topcatkeen What an exciting find. Did you get an answer?

@DaveTheWorld Not just our experts... the foreign ones are at it too!