Circuit Breaker Benefits Overstated Following the leak of the SPI-M model to the media, a number of people have focussed on the claim that is could save "up to" 107,000 lives This is a flawed conclusion. The most obvious and major flaw is that the model stops at 31/12/2020....

Have a break... have a drug.

How much do you think the benefits in kind advantages, the duty advantages, the employers national insurance advantages and the VAT advantages are a factor?

EU Graduates Dodge £360m in Student Loan Repayments 43,700 EU graduates earning above the threshold paid nothing last year. They took the degrees and went home. The Student Loans Company relies on them to declare their own earnings, and ministers call themselves "resolute". The arrears stand at £360m. The taxpayer is still waiting. A Telegraph FOI request earlier put the debt of overseas graduates who can repay but don't at £1.3bn, and that covers every country, not only the EU. The SLC was trying to trace 42,000 of them. British graduates repay through payroll. Those abroad are trusted to fill in a form. Education minister Josh MacAlister says the public expects these debts to be paid, "and so do we". Expecting is all the Government has done so far. telegraph.co.uk/money/jobs/s…

Why is the government in control of my energy bills.

Nothing breeds corruption like lack of oversight. Devolved Government in the UK has been an absolute boondoogle for dodgy deals from Scottish trams and ferries to Sadiq's climate advisers. But the motherlode lies in Manchester if we still have journalists with a nose for a story.

The withdrawal of the personal allowance for people who earn more than £100k was introduced in 2010. Because the £100k has not been indexed it is the equivalent to the personal allowance having been withdrawn at £62.5k in 2010 pounds. Further, because the personal allowance has doubled the effective 60% band has doubled. You can only conclude want everyone to have the same net income whether on benefits or as a high earner.

The Evidence Wasn't Deleted. So Publish It For months, the government's answer to who shaped its new definition of anti-Muslim hostility was simple: the evidence was gone. It never was. Will Garton, director general at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, has confirmed in writing that more extensive searches, including technical work by departmental IT specialists, found that "the underlying Call for Evidence response dataset is still held on Departmental systems." Nick Timothy was first told the material wasn't held. He kept pushing. The department eventually discovered that it was. This isn't some incidental pile of correspondence. The government's own published account calls the working group's evidence gathering "significant" and says the Call for Evidence "forms the basis of the definition that the government is now adopting." If this evidence underpins a definition ministers want organisations across Britain to use, the public has an obvious interest in knowing who submitted it and how it shaped the outcome, personal data protected where the law requires. Questions about the process predate the dataset reappearing. Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition. Akeela Ahmed, a panel member, had publicly championed that same definition. Harder to find among the five members is any voice for the free-speech or secularist case. Sir John Jenkins, a former ambassador the group approached, refused to take part, believing its direction already appeared predetermined. There's also a question ministers haven't properly answered. In June, James Cleverly asked specifically whether MEND, CAGE, the Muslim Association of Britain or the Muslim Council of Britain had submitted written evidence. The government replied that the consultation was open to everyone, that the department hadn't engaged with those groups, and that the working group hadn't met them. Cleverly hadn't asked who they'd met. He asked who had submitted evidence. That distinction matters. An organisation doesn't need to sit across a table from Grieve to shape an open consultation. It only needs to send a submission. That alone doesn't prove the process was captured, even though it might look that way. It does mean transparency matters more, not less, and the records now survive to provide it. Publish the submissions, redact what the law requires, and let the public see who tried to shape this definition. The deeper problem goes beyond Islamophobia. A department built national policy on what it calls a substantial evidence exercise. When an opposition MP sought the material, officials said it wasn't held. Only further pressure and a forensic search found it was. Garton's letter says ministers weren't involved in handling or retention decisions, so there's no evidence yet that ministers ordered anything concealed. There's every reason to ask how an official FOI process missed evidence important enough to justify government policy. The government can no longer claim disclosure is impossible because the evidence vanished. Its own director general confirms it survives. If the process was as rigorous as ministers maintain, publishing it should only prove that. If it wasn't, the public deserves to know that too. The question was never really where the evidence went. It's why, now the government admits it still has it, the country still isn't allowed to see it. "Rayner appointed Dominic Grieve to chair the supposedly independent group despite Grieve having written the foreword to the 2018 APPG report proposing the earlier Islamophobia definition."

The vast quangocracy is so much more malicious than just a few meaningless bodies which oversee newt preservation or tarmac thickness. These are the men and women running the country - unelected and entirely unaccountable to the taxpayer, and even the MP. Decisions outsourced to this committee or that body. Nobody takes responsibility, it’s always somebody else’s fault. Hiding behind nonsense jargon and acronyms. Hundreds of these agencies, panels, commissions, ombudsmans, boards, funds, authorities, offices. It is ENDLESS. Stuffed with politically correct apparatchiks who have one aim - to justify their existence. That means perpetuating the status quo - politically, culturally, socially. Anybody challenges the DEI shite, they will be excommunicated. Anybody genuinely fights for the taxpayer, they get the boot. So nobody does. And so it builds and builds, it evolves. It strengthens. Groupthink is everywhere. The answer is simple, in principle. Return power to the MPs, and therefore the people. Make the power accountable. But to do this means undoing decades of intricate and deliberate planning to build this parallel state power base. To think that can happen without resistance is naive, to say the least. The quangocracy cannot be reformed or conserved, it must be destroyed. Meddling will not work. Replacing it will fail. It must be ripped apart from limb from limb. Power must finally be restored to parliament. That is the only way to restore our democracy, and then restore our country.

When pregnant mice with B12 deficiency were given folic acid at doses that would induce unmetabolised folic acid in the blood, there were effects on the offspring, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

So now we have more information about how NESO is trying to close its capacity gap for the evening This morning I said I expected NESO to use SO-SO interconnector trades and to breach the intraday trading limits again Boy was I right, those limits have been obliterated Recap, the limits are 300 MW on any one interconnector and 1500 MW in total in any settlement period The chart shows the trades below with 4:30pm highlighted. We can see IFA: 1336 MW IFA2: 517 MW Eleclink: 497 MW Britned: 600 MW Nemo: 300 MW Viking: 50 MW France is providing 2,350 MW, way higher than the limit that covers ALL countries The limits are being breached from 4:30pm to 9pm with 9pm to 11:30pm so far at the limit We're getting to the point it's worth asking what these trading limits are achieving because we're breaching them so often. If the EU intends them to be real what would we do on a day like today? (image from Amira Technologies dashboard) @Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @ColinMoynihanUK @harrietc @drlukeevans @ashley7fox @TiceRichard @cmackinlay @DavidGHFrost @mattwridley @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @mattotele @jonathan_leake @julietsamuel @energygovuk

"CCGT fuel cost ~14.8% of total retail." ~1/7. It's not gas. Bob's lying. Bob knows he's lying, but its what Bob's paid to do, so it's what Bob does. He knows the cult useful idiots are too stupid to see through his lies. What Bob doesn't know is the justice thats coming to him.

It's a Labour pysop to talk about Thatcher. The failed state we are now living under is entirely a Blair/Brown creation. The Supreme Court, the unaccountable Bank of England, the Human Rights Act, Tax Credits, Equality Act, Climate Crisis etc - it's all them.

Not another one. These EMN's are becoming far too frequent. We can't rely on the weather to maintain grid stability and keep the lights on. What has happened to those independent reports into NESO?

So much interest in my recent reports at the @Conservatives conference I'm running out of copies! Luckily digital versions can be downloaded from my website... Refineries: watt-logic.com/wp-content/up… Gas markets: watt-logic.com/wp-content/up… #EnergySecurity @AndrewBowie_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @ClaireCoutinho @cmackinlay @HarrietCross_MP @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox

This rise began with voluntary fortification of breakfast cereals with folic acid. It has increased with the subsequent increases. Folic acid is a known bowel cancer risk which is why adding it to our flour was rejected as an idea for decades. Sign the petition.

The requirement to "show your papers" will only be effective if American websites agree to it. Americans can, and should, refuse these unconstitutional British orders. Congress can make it considerably easier for them to do so, by passing the GRANITE Act.

Age-based travel discounts and other age verification are a way of conditioning young people to routinely carry photo IDs to obtain goods and services. It's being normalised ready for the totalitarian digital identity system. bbc.com/news/articles/c9j345…

The UK wants to force every U.S. website to implement this Digital ID functionality. The U.S. Constitution protects Americans' right to refuse. Congress, if it wants to protect Americans from this foreign overreach, must step in by advancing the GRANITE Act without delay.

Just a few years ago, if anyone had suggested the entire British population would need to show a government ID to use the internet, they’d be laughed at and reminded that the UK is not a totalitarian state. Yet here we are….