Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Tim Bale
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On the one hand, pretty embarrassing for KPMG.
On the other hand, they must be delighted someone actually took the time
to read a think piece from a professional services firm rather than just the executive summary.
This is how they talk in private.
Quite rare to see it in public.
But also: wtf?
Can't help but wonder whether Labour members are about to discover that St Andy is not the messiah but is, in fact, just as much of a naughty boy as Sir Keir.
Instead we've got a government that still uses a site run by a foreign inciter of pogroms as its main communication channel.
"Politicians generally want to be seen offering immediate solutions where issues arise. But here they risk playing into profoundly damaging narratives for societal cohesion, while upending arrangements that thousands rely upon on a daily basis."
This, by @siennarodgers.bsky.social, is characteristically excellent. A highly recommended read.
This is such a complex + rushed set of reforms that I think many people are simply unaware of just how many problems that implementing it could have for the government over the next 2-3 years - particularly on its lack of attention to the lessons of the Windrush scandal
ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...
Oh, FFS @theguardian.com 'Hard Right' AGAIN? Why can't you just call a spade a spade?
This is outrageous.
When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
Almost all the stories about the making of Escape To Victory are contested, but one I like is that when they were shooting the amazing Pele bicycle kick goal, Sivell messed up... by saving it.
Violence continued in Belfast after a man from Sudan was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack.
Andy Burnham supporters are increasingly optimistic about Makerfield. Sienna Rodgers explores what comes after the by-election
www.politicshome.com
Sunder Katwala looks at the government's proposed reforms to the settlement rules in the UK as part of its immigration overhaul and asks whether they could meet the fairness challenge.
It is not enough to revile them both. Understanding the personal and ideological divergence is essential to taking back the ground they now occupy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett
The report made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including UBS, claiming the Swiss bank 'integrates AI agents across investment advisory, risk management and compliance monitoring'. ft.trib.al/clkVSb6
Dmitry Grozoubinski
Robert Hutton
"Allies of Shabana Mahmood are confident that she would be kept as Home Secretary by a Burnham premiership and her reforms would hardly be watered down, if at all" - PoliticsHome
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI ft.trib.al/Ef8zdYs
Morning.
Since John Healey mentioned the Strategic Review: It is worth repeating that this study warned that the post-war order was desintegrating, &that Britain needed a “whole-of-society approach to defence”. In a normal world this would have triggered a national debate led by the PM. But Starmer didn’t.
