Sorry but it's not a lottery: if it were the link between how hard things are for kids and where they live would be random. But it's not. True, there are some poorer places where things aren't too bad. But overall there's a significant correlation between living in a poorer area and poor provision.

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Ending the triple lock is one of the biggest gambles of Andy Burnham's career - but since then there's been barely a peep about it In fact, the only MP to mention it at PMQs was... Andy Burnham Why is his gamble proving so much less disastrous than the winter fuel cuts? My Substack post:

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Wrote this for @renewaljournal.bsky.social on the increasingly vocal band of ex-Starmer loyalists who believe their leader was hard done by and ungrateful progressives are to blame

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Peak gammon-brain is asking "why do lesbians need their own pub??" right below dozens of comments asking "what time will the lesbian sex show begin"

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Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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