This tweet sounds like someone slipped [you] something 😉.

For info., I believe QALYs are NICE mandated (they’ve also declined by ~47% in 20 years). But point taken.

Labour’s Darren Jones was at the Treasury while it drove through cuts to housing benefit and disability benefits

He claimed £39,428 in rent expenses in 2024/25. If he claims £3,750 a month for the whole year, his annual total will be more than his constituents are paid each year on average

Plenty of Drs, too!

Our (NICE’s) efficacy/price framework is regressive and incentivises higher costs for worse drugs, vs independent assessment of drug efficacy followed by lobbying on cost. Sticking plaster would be a bit more autonomy for doctors on-off label use.

Uh… this Keir Starmer? Don’t need to quit the ECHR if you neuter it, I guess.

I’m neither advocating nor criticising the idea.

I assume Modern Monetary Theory, i.e. the idea a govt. with sovereign currency can create money to spend rather than borrowing it, and is only constrained by labour and physical resources,

Let me know what you think of it. Trying to decide how urgently to watch it!

Huh. I have exactly the same taskbar issues. Deeply frustrating. Started a couple of weeks ago after last update. Have you found a solution?

I believe they were streaming Kneecap, who followed Bob Vylan.

Parts of the UK left significantly over-emphasise "comms", "messaging" etc at the expense of policy substance. No doubt those things are very important. But if you look closely at e.g. AOC & Mamdani they have a serious grasp of the relevant subject areas, without which their messaging wouldn't work

What kind of amateur hour screenshotting is this?

Living in the burbs is the antithesis of what it is to be human and the food culture in rural areas is awful. Cities are why all this is even worth it.

cities fucking rule, actually

To be fair, she was pro Remain during the referendum. I believe she subsequently argued that since we had voted to leave, the left should make a progressive argument for the approach towards doing so. Which seems… very reasonable?