📺Be sure to tune in to Live with(out) Littlewood at 18:00!
Guest presenter, @ajcdeane, will be discussing:
💰Inflation
🚄Rail Strikes
🖥️Online Safety Bill
📺Be sure to tune in to Live with(out) Littlewood at 18:00!
Guest presenter, @ajcdeane, will be discussing:
💰Inflation
🚄Rail Strikes
🖥️Online Safety Bill
@CarverEmily very good on Politics Live this morning. Quite refreshing that the whole panel were well behaved and civil to one another. It should be like that more often.
On today's #PoliticsLive
Kevin Hollinrake MP, Conservative
Daisy Cooper MP, Liberal Democrat
Harry Lambert, New Statesman
Emily Carver, ConservativeHome
On @BBCTwo at 10:15 due to Wimbledon bbc.in/3I0reRW
Dissertation on the NHS, submitted not to the Department of Medicine or Health Economics, but to the Department of Theology & Religious Studies.
Seems appropriate.
IEA's paper on the Online Harms Bill, essential reading, points out that in just one year the government's own cost estimation for the dreadful legislation has ballooned from £2.1 billion to £2.5 billion. This is still a nonsense underestimation.
I have commented on the excellent report "An Unsafe Bill" by @iealondon@MissVHewson@matthewlesh.
The Government's Online Safety Bill is fundamentally flawed. The Govt should slim it down, move fast with the uncontroversial aspects, & junk the rest.
iea.org.uk/publications/an-u…
Online Safety Bill raises significant issues for freedom of expression, privacy and innovation, says new IEA research 👇
🗣️ Ofcom will have unprecedented powers to define & limit speech
💬 Definition of harmful speech can be easily expanded
💷 Bill could cost businesses £2.5 bn
Operations and GP appointments cancelled because of strikes would not be experienced as they were pre-pandemic: they would be happening within a post-pandemic landscape where 6.4 million people in England sit on the NHS waiting list.
telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
🔌"What could possibly go wrong when you cut off a large chunk of your own energy resources while at the same time increase your dependence on a foreign nation?"
Read Rosanna Weber's piece for @1828uk on Germany, nuclear energy & Nord Stream 2 below👇
1828.org.uk/2022/06/24/germa…