Luca Tiratelli
@lucatiratelli.bsky.social
Research & policy @ The King's Fund
| Own views | Health, devolution, climate change | He/him | All this from a slice of gabagool?
| Own views | Health, devolution, climate change | He/him | All this from a slice of gabagool?
Policy is the least of it, at least they'll do that sometimes. Political theory, philosophy and ideas are the real no go areas.
We had around 5 years of journalists pretending (or maybe believing?) that neoliberalism was an insult made up by twitter leftists.
We had around 5 years of journalists pretending (or maybe believing?) that neoliberalism was an insult made up by twitter leftists.
Yep. So annoying when lobby journalists are like "So sorry, to explain this gossip about two cabinet ministers who hate each other we're going to have to talk about boring old policy. Uh-oh! Looks like these poindexters are going to use some numbers!"
I don't think it's all of it by any measure but I do absolutely believe that the political media's raging anti-intellectual streak has got worse with time and has ended up influencing the way MPs talk, and what they choose to talk/think about
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Policy is the least of it, at least they'll do that sometimes. Political theory, philosophy and ideas are the real no go areas.
We had around 5 years of journalists pretending (or maybe believing?) that neoliberalism was an insult made up by twitter leftists.
We had around 5 years of journalists pretending (or maybe believing?) that neoliberalism was an insult made up by twitter leftists.
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
Managers are 2% of the NHS workforce, vs nearly 10% in the rest of the economy.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
sounds like another thing downstream of management cuts - nobody overseeing this stuff properly
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Managers are 2% of the NHS workforce, vs nearly 10% in the rest of the economy.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
If it's increasingly the consensus that Britain has got all the big economic calls wrong since 2008... when might we consider platforming some new voices to reflect this?
It's certainly inconvenient that eg student protesters in 2011 called it better than the the pros, but we can still make amends!
It's certainly inconvenient that eg student protesters in 2011 called it better than the the pros, but we can still make amends!
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If it's increasingly the consensus that Britain has got all the big economic calls wrong since 2008... when might we consider platforming some new voices to reflect this?
It's certainly inconvenient that eg student protesters in 2011 called it better than the the pros, but we can still make amends!
It's certainly inconvenient that eg student protesters in 2011 called it better than the the pros, but we can still make amends!
People should be but i support legal gambling in the way i support drug legalisation.
It should be highly regulated, taxed to the gills, and constantly monitored as a public health concern.
It should be highly regulated, taxed to the gills, and constantly monitored as a public health concern.
"People should be allowed to have an innocent flutter."
Nope.
Get a better hobby.
Sorry.
Nope.
Get a better hobby.
Sorry.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
People should be but i support legal gambling in the way i support drug legalisation.
It should be highly regulated, taxed to the gills, and constantly monitored as a public health concern.
It should be highly regulated, taxed to the gills, and constantly monitored as a public health concern.
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
You pull yourself up by your boostraps. Me? I DESERVE free money from the government, and so do my rich friends bsky.app/profile/cwar...
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There will be plenty in this Budget to cause frustration, but if, as is expected, the Chancellor lifts the pernicious two-child benefit limit, it will be a transformational moment for hundreds of thousands of children and their families. There is much more to do but this should be celebrated.
Rachel Reeves' budget decision could help 40,000 Merseyside kids
As build up to the hugely anticipated budget continues, there is one big decision that could have an enormous impact here on Merseyside
www.liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
There will be plenty in this Budget to cause frustration, but if, as is expected, the Chancellor lifts the pernicious two-child benefit limit, it will be a transformational moment for hundreds of thousands of children and their families. There is much more to do but this should be celebrated.
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Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?
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We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We are not yet a year into Trump’s second term and already DOGE has been mothballed, MTG has bailed from Congress, the administration tried and failed to present a Russian plan to end the war, and the ‘Secretary of War’ is trying to court-martial a US Senator. Time for a reminder of this I think…
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“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
“Men are in trouble. Unchallenged private sphere domination over women and children is a solution.”
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Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
November 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Parliament & press are having the most basic seminar on ‘media bias’ after decades of denouncing Media Studies.
Think one of the BBCs problems the prevalence of an idea that impartiality is a personal quality, that some people have and some people dont.
As opposed to, you know, a journalistic ideal you could strive towards through process.
As opposed to, you know, a journalistic ideal you could strive towards through process.
BBC board member Robbie Gibb, whose previous jobs have included being Conservative communications director to Theresa May, and helping to set up GB News, tells MPs that he is "hugely impartial"
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Think one of the BBCs problems the prevalence of an idea that impartiality is a personal quality, that some people have and some people dont.
As opposed to, you know, a journalistic ideal you could strive towards through process.
As opposed to, you know, a journalistic ideal you could strive towards through process.
On any given day, more tweets are written about 'MMT proponents' than there are MMT proponents globally.
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On any given day, more tweets are written about 'MMT proponents' than there are MMT proponents globally.
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The second problem with this — after the fact that it will bankrupt a bunch of institutions — is that the government doesn’t seem to know if it wants to a) raise lots of money from intentional students or b) discourage universities from relying on international students. You can’t have both!!
These are HEPI estimates of the 20 institutions affected: I think this illustrates the impact if the tariff is absorbed in full by institutions.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
What share of the 6% tariff different universities may try to pass on to fees - or the impact might be on demand if they did - is not publicly known.
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The second problem with this — after the fact that it will bankrupt a bunch of institutions — is that the government doesn’t seem to know if it wants to a) raise lots of money from intentional students or b) discourage universities from relying on international students. You can’t have both!!
The scam is the defining art form of our era
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
The scam is the defining art form of our era
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"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
We have to be able to hold tech platforms accountable for fraud
Algorithms ensure that people who click on scams are likely to see more of them
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10 per cent of its overall annual revenue — or $16bn — from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show" - Reuters www.ft.com/content/4560...
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lmao, but aside from that: 👌
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
lmao, but aside from that: 👌
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a truly disgusting human being
RFK Jr. revealed that he personally ordered the CDC to change its website to push the widely debunked claim that vaccines and autism are linked
CDC’s Autism Website ‘Update’ Came Directly From Kennedy, He Says
Ex-CDC vaccines chief Dr. Demetre Daskalakis called the update a “national embarrassment.”
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a truly disgusting human being
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FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
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I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I am moving to Dubai because England is so dangerous. www.ft.com/content/9bf6...
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What still shocks is the sheer vindictiveness and distortion of the language. Here, asylum seekers are classed implicitly as illegal migrants who've been getting a "golden ticket" as if they were lottery winners, and will now be punished with a 20 year wait for settlement, if not evicted first.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
What still shocks is the sheer vindictiveness and distortion of the language. Here, asylum seekers are classed implicitly as illegal migrants who've been getting a "golden ticket" as if they were lottery winners, and will now be punished with a 20 year wait for settlement, if not evicted first.