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So much for Number 10 North – top government roles dominated by southerners

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So much for Number 10 North – top government roles dominated by southerners

With evidence mounting daily that Andy Burham’s regime will be absolute continuity nonsense with a mild northern accent, research shows just how thin the veneer of north-ness might be. Ahead of Burnham creating Number 10 North, the Sutton Trust has released analysis of its Elitist Britain 2025 report. It shows that people who grew up in London and the South East dominate the key roles making decisions that affect all our lives. Half of all top government officials got their education in London and the South East. Almost a third went to private schools in those regions. This includes 50% of…

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Met police suggest Number 10 lied about Mandelson emails

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Met police suggest Number 10 lied about Mandelson emails

The latest batch of Peter Mandelson’s emails proved to be less explosive than expected. While they certainly told us more about what we already knew, they didn’t tell us much else. This is why the real controversy ended up being what wasn’t there. Downing Street would later claim the Met asked the government to hold back certain messages. Now, the Met have disputed this claim. Starmer and McSweeney's project is a governance nightmare addicted to dishonesty. The glaring, unmitigated conflicts of interest re: Palantir are scandalous. As I wrote in the preface to The Fraud: this is a lawless and reckless project…

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Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Britain is the number one warmonger of all’ and driving escalation with Russia

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Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Britain is the number one warmonger of all’ and driving escalation with Russia

Commentator Jeffrey Sachs said in an interview on Wednesday that he would advise Britain to focus on keeping the National Health Service (NHS) from collapsing rather than going to war with Russia. Sachs added that Britain is the ‘number one warmonger’ driving dangerous escalation between Ukraine and Russia. He was pointing to Britain’s role in arming Ukraine and providing it with intelligence. He said: Britain, of course, is the number one warmonger of all. Britain still lives in the dreamland of the British Empire. And it wants to escalate at all times. Sachs was condemning the escalation by Ukraine, which struck…

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How Palmer and Foden lost Tuchel’s battle for the England number 10s

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How Palmer and Foden lost Tuchel’s battle for the England number 10s

Two years can feel like a lifetime in football, and none more so than for Cole Palmer and Phil Foden who were firmly at the top of the England pecking order after Euro 2024.  They were winners of major individual awards, fixtures in Gareth Southgate’s big-game plans, and widely tipped to be central to England’s future. Fast forward to the present and both are conspicuously absent from Thomas Tuchel’s World Cup squad. The shift is stark, and it’s driven by one brutal truth: form matters more than pedigree under Tuchel. Palmer and Foden’s trajectories were once parallel. Both came through Manchester…

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