[Youngian]

What's Reeves supposed to be doing to stop this alledged blatant profiteering?
Weldon's right, blame Netanyahu and Trump. As they are to blame.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is where we are now. Difference of opinion between the PM and one advisor is now "misleading Parliament". Absolutely ridiculous stuff.

Q: [Rigby’s second question] Last week we learned that Jonathan Powell, your national security adviser, thought the Mandelson appointment was rushed. But you told MPs due process was followed. Did you mislead parliament?

Starmer replied: “No.” He said Sir Laurie Magnus, his ethics adviser, looked at this question last week (in response to a complaint from the Tories) and concluded that the proper process was followed.

[davidjay]

It's all very similar to the Mail and Express front page leads screaming "STARMER BLASTED OVER....." and the story is about Badenoch disagreeing with government policy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

There’s not even an obvious contradiction in terms of opinion there. Powell thought it a bit rushed. Starmer said proper process followed. It’s not like Powell said “you didn’t follow the proper process”.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Youngian]

Latest from the neoliberal chancellor. Blasting the white heat of technology through the corridors of power.

Chancellor also touts investment in “northern growth corridor” alongside the Oxford to Cambridge region

The chancellor has set out plans to spend £1 billion on commercial-scale quantum computers by the early 2030s, and investment in a “northern growth corridor”.

At a speech on 17 March, Rachel Reeves (pictured) said the government is “using procurement to give us a head start on quantum computing”.

“We have pledged to procure up to £1bn of quantum computers from the first UK companies to successfully make them at commercial scale, firing the starting gun on a global race and making sure that the UK is at the front of the pack,” Reeves said.

In an announcement ahead of the speech, the government said the UK would be “the first country in the world to commit to an advanced procurement to build large-scale quantum computers on our shores by the early 2030s”. https://www.researchprofessionalnews.co ... computers/

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've noticed that some of the "clever" critics of the Government don't like Lisa Nandy. Maybe this will change their opinion. Might persuade some in the BBC to be nicer to the Government, who knows?

Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference
Minister says the change is needed to protect the corporation from repeated ‘culture war’ attacks

The government is to put the BBC’s charter on a permanent footing for the first time, after the corporation said the change was needed to protect it from political interference.

In a significant change to the governance of the BBC, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, said she wanted to grant the corporation’s demand for a permanent charter. She said she wanted to protect it from repeated “culture war” attacks.

[Killer Whale]

Will be about as permanent as, for example, the Fixed Parliaments Act. In a State without a written and protected constitution, everything is up for grabs.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Killer Whale]

A mere week after this:

On Tuesday it emerged Sir Keir Starmer told members of his cabinet in December to be prepared to take decisions and spend cash across the UK's nations even if it was against the wishes of devolved governments.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62dq902yyyo

Some devolutions are more equal than others.