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Tubby Isaacs wrote:I had to look that up. Sounds very interesting.

Spain seems to be the strongest "hit the UK harder". They've spotted a chance to replace us at the top table in the EU.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well, this "Tory version of Momentum" seems to be off to a good start doesn't it?

Revealed: how gambling industry targets poor people and ex-gamblers

Third-party companies harvest data, giving online casinos a cheaper way to lure people, the Guardian can reveal

[Carolyn Harris, the Labour MP for Swansea East who has campaigned on gambling reform, said,] "If we were to offer free cocaine to an addict, they’d find it very difficult to decline. The betting industry knows this and they are by token doing exactly the same thing.” (Guardian)

Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator.... In his opening remarks he said:

"The UK decided to leave the European Union.
The UK government decided to leave the single market and the customs union."

Davis/Barnier press conference - Guardian blog

NHS to spend £100m bringing in up to 3,000 GPs from abroad

Recruiters will earn about £20,000 for each new GP as part of the NHS England initiative to alleviate cripping[sic] shortages

NHS England hopes that many of the extra GPs will come from Europe. (Guardian)

HindleA wrote:https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/ ... tatistics/

Disclosure of Home Office migration statistics
Sir David Norgrove to Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary.

31 August 2017

Dear Home Secretary

I am concerned about the disclosure of Home Office migration statistics to members of the media ahead of their publication on 24 August 2017. The main leak was to the Daily Telegraph. Whoever spoke to the journalist seems only to have half understood the data, or inadequately communicated them. The result was seriously misleading, creating confusion where clarity was important. But a more accurate leak would still necessarily have been misleading, because it would have been partial (in all senses), and left the journalist and the public lacking context. The leak was the more damaging in view of the sensitivity of migration data. Statisticians within the Home Office are now preparing a report on this breach of the statutory Code of Practice for Official Statistics. I understand some 50 people (excluding the analysts themselves) were given access to the figures ahead of publication. I am sure you share my concerns. You may be aware that the Office for National Statistics recently ended pre-release access to its own official statistics in order to strengthen public trust. I hope you will agree that it would now be right for you and your officials to review the Home Office’s practices on pre-release access to its statistics. I am copying this letter to the Minister for the Constitution, who is leading a review of pre-release access, and to Sir Jeremy Heywood.

Yours sincerely

Sir David Norgrove

HindleA wrote:http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/loc ... ice-405447


Staffordshire County Council opposes police plans to take over fire brigade