🚨 NEW | Seat estimate for London local elections:
🟢 Grn: 548 (+530)
🔵 Con: 481 (+77)
🔴 Lab: 415 (-741)
🟠 Lib: 252 (+72)
➡️ Ref: 132 (+132)
Greens would win a majority on 9 councils 👀
Source: Bombe data published in @Guardian
"Today’s OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up – while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They can’t have it both ways".
OBR forecast published published at 13:05 13:05 Breaking The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)'s forecast of the state of the UK's economy has just been published. We're poring over the document now, external - and will bring you the key lines here. The OBR is the unaccountable watchdog that analyses the state of the country's finances to ensure austerity persists.
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Nominal weekly wage growth is forecast to slow to around 3½ per cent in 2026 and then average 2¼ per cent a year, broadly in line with the November forecast. This reflects the expected continued loosening in labour market conditions, lower inflation, and the gradual pass-through of more of last year’s rise in employer National Insurance contributions. In real terms, weekly pay growth has slowed from 2.5 per cent in 2024 to below 1 per cent in late 2025. In the medium term, we assume real hourly earnings growth will be below productivity growth at around ½ a per cent a year as firms rebuild their rate of return on capital, which has been relatively low in recent years. A key uncertainty for the outlook is the extent to which firms manage cost pressures – including from minimum wage increases and tax and regulatory changes.
Plenty of infuriating things in any OBR forecast, but why are we jumping from fractions to decimals in the same paragraph?
399 constituencies would switch Labour > Green on this vote swing if repeated in a general election. (John Curtice on BBC)
I can only speak for my local party (Haringey) but FWIW it's a growing group of very impressive and well-intentioned people
more specifically, there was a school for troubled teens which had to close because kids died, then suddenly Utah Prep appeared on the same premises, and then suddenly they had the top basketball recruit in the country
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond...
especially recruiting AJ Dybantsa to play for Utah Prep, which seems to be an institution which barely exists
Jen I'd be really interested in you applying your hard news brand to looking at the injection of LDS money into Utah sports in the last few years
Tired: Ban sports gambling
Wired: Nationalize DraftKings
Just grabbing some people and transporting them against their will via Dakar. Nothing significant about that. Probably not worth reflecting on.
Chromosome testing will take sports back to the dark ages: defector.com/chromosome-t...
Correct answer: Chris Hadfield
Remember-some-guys answer: Mike Vanderjagt
"How are you going to pay for it?" is always tiring, but especially in the case of debt forgiveness for a generation of younger people with barely any disposable income. That money is immediately going back into growing the economy. That's how this works.
Clara Mattei brings incisive analysis along with an infectious energy for real solutions. I think all educators and organisers can learn from that.
To be fair summer has swimming, swimming far, swimming very far, swimming backwards, swimming like a butterfly, swimming 4 ways
Help us make hope normal again.
Join the Green Party now.
Full solidarity with this Year 6 kid
oh boy
This is my blood I marvel at the design of our weapons. So sophisticated that they can transform any man woman or child into a terrorist. Writing in their flight between launch and concussion an entire alternate history of a life. Just as the cop’s bullet convicts you of a crime. Its presence in your body evidence enough that it always belonged there. A violent transubstantiation.
This is my blood
I trust that you're doing it respectfully haha
In general I find that phone camera etiquette is even worse than pit etiquette
I don't get the Geese hype at all and idk if I've ever felt more out of touch with music critics
everyone at a concert should be allowed to take exactly two videos on their phone. the third time the phone camera comes out, they should be immediately removed from the crowd
At some point in 2024, my friend and I were talking about live shows that were on our bucket lists. Three that immediately came to mind for me were Capn Jazz, Sunny Day Real Estate and My Bloody Valentine. I somehow saw all three of them in 2025 and they all somehow lived up to expectation
"A large language model...is the material expression of a particular world."
This rips
www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
I look forward to Pop-Tarts Bowl 4's perspective on toxic masculinity
I'm also interested in whether BYU brought funeral potatoes
slightly in awe of everyone going for a casual afternoon run in snow and -12 wind chill
"Some of the authors conduct research at a company that invests in generative AI and develops technology using generative AI models as a core component."
lol
