[The Weeping Angel]

Out Reforming Reform.

[Killer Whale]

Showtowt to Wales where all primary age pupils are already entitled to free school dinners thanks to Plaid bending Labour's arm when then were in a hurry to get a budget through.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Out Reforming Reform.

Also known as "tinkering at the edges".

There's some pretty hard rain heading for new sickness benefit claimants, but the policy towards children seems pretty good.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Latest "who can we find to slag of the Government article" from our friends here.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... osses-told

Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told
Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids

What does a health justice charity look like? Pages on the various issues of health inequality in the UK? Pages on general world wide health issues, vaccination, access to drugs, that sort of thing?

https://www.medact.org/our-work/

First two items- nuclear weapons and Palestine. They also want divestment from the arms industry- who else do they think should supply Ukraine?

The fourth one is "Abolitionist Approach to Health", which is 'to challenge policing, criminalisation and securitisation practices within and beyond sites of healthcare'. A particular target is Prevent, and they talk of healthworkers themselves as being "enactors of violent practices". Or you know, the victims of violent practices from patients.

This is so obviously a bunch of Trots who've stuck "health" on to their pet subjects. What do you reckon they know about health IT? The logic seems to be "don't join anything up, continue wasting a load of money, because Nigel Farage".

But send a report into the Guardian, goes straight in.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some of the BTL brains trust were gleefully putting together a conspiracy whereby the government was being directed by Maurice Glasman, who supports the EDL, via Labour Together and Shabana Mahmood. I didn't follow the links to Declassified, funnily enough. They seem to be very bad at this Machiavelli stuff, if that's the case.

New anti-Muslim hate definition announced by government
A special representative will also be appointed to help facilitate the understanding and implementation of the definition.

https://news.sky.com/story/government-a ... y-13517508

This is, in fairness, overdue. But clearly they've worked on this for a while, and credit for it arriving. I'm sure Kemi will rise to the issue.

This is the sort of stuff she'll be happy to reduce to the worst party politics.

Zubir Ahmed, a health minister, tries not to read the comments under his social media feeds, but sometimes curiosity gets the better of him.

After performing a transplant on Christmas Day, the vascular surgeon scanned a post about the operation.

He recalled: “It went viral on the internet, but I have also never seen anything like the abuse. There was one comment that stuck out for me that just said: ‘Thanks for the transplant, now go home.’”

Dr Zubir Ahmed is strongly supportive of the government on this issue, you may not be surprised to hear.

(I generally laugh at people who make up what politicians have said and then ridicule them, like I've done with Kemi there. I am though very confident she'll be appalling).