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What was said, and which frame it usedEvery item the dashboard counts, newest first. The marked words are the phrases that made it count; the tags say whether it used an opposing frame, an MMT-consistent idea, or named MMT. These are keyword matches: whether an item endorses or attacks an idea is shown once our classifier's accuracy is published.
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Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England
Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children Councils are paying more than £125m a year of taxpayers’ money to place vulnerable children in illegal care homes across England, an investigation has found. The Guardian and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) have uncovered a booming industry of businesses profiting from a shortage of beds for the most at-risk children in Ofsted-inspected homes. Local authority payment records show that more than 480 private companies have been paid £250m for 1,800 unlawful placements of children over…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Another Australian found safe after Nepal-Tibet floods – as it happened
…or governments to be able to deliver commitments. Independent MP Kate Chaney says reporting of an “invite-only” community infrastructure grants program by Labor shows “governments from both sides use taxpayer-funded grants to buy votes”. The ABC has reported the Major and Local Community Infrastructure Program committed tens of thousands of dollars to key seats, but 45 seats around the county (almost a third) were not invited to apply for this fund. Chaney says: This is pork barrelling, and we’ve seen it before. The Coalition had Sports Rorts, and now Labor is ‘park’ barrelling – money for p…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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John Healey backs growth but says Labour must be honest on spending
…eceipts by 2029-30. With the public finances under pressure from soaring long-term bond yields, which hit an 18-year high last week, Healey argued that stronger growth was the most sustainable way to balance the books. However, he also signalled that his budget would require Labour “being honest about the need to control government spending”. Economists have warned the chancellor could be forced to increase taxes or cut spending in response to rising spending pressures and the economic fallout from the war in Iran triggering turmoil in global bond markets. The UK’s 10-year borrowing costs ro…
- Opposing frame: Fiscal black hole
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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No bailouts for Jaguar Land Rover amid reports of thousands of job cuts, says minister
Carmaker, which is battling Trump tariffs and Chinese competitors, faces talks with union leaders and government The government has signalled that it will not invest taxpayers’ money to limit job losses at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), after it emerged that the UK’s biggest carmaker is planning up to 4,000 redundancies. Before crunch talks on Tuesday between JLR, union leaders and government officials, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said it was not his job to “intervene and run businesses”. JLR, owned by the Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, told staff on Friday to expect a voluntary re…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Premier League paradox: midfielders are more and more expensive, yet more and more mediocre
…e league, who have been there, done that and taken the tactical yellow card. Manchester United have added Andrey Santos, Carlos Baleba and Youri Tielemans in an otherwise quiet summer. Tottenham have maxed out the credit card to bring in Sandro Tonali (£92.5m,) and Mateus Fernandes (£85m). In which context Arsenal’s purchase of Bruno Guimarães for £75m feels like a kind of weird bargain, the £4.50 pack of special offer supermarket butter. Nevertheless, these are sums that in almost any other Premier League summer would have drawn audible gasps, that would at the very least have been attached…
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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There is clearly trouble ahead for Harry and Meghan on their return to the UK. Here are five ways to avert it
…ere are many questions but very few answers: not just “why return now?” and “why so suddenly?”, but also questions of security: who pays if not themselves, given that they are not working royals? And where will the money come from to keep them in the style to which they are accustomed? The bills are mounting: not just the Daily Mail’s legal costs incurred by Harry’s ill-fated court action, but even the upkeep of their nine-bedroom Montecito mansion, which, with property taxes, mortgage and upkeep (including looking after their chickens), could cost about $80,000 (£60,000) a month. That’s to…
- Opposing frame: How will you pay for it?
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Trump administration reportedly considering ‘new round of sweeping tariffs on semiconductors’ – as it happened
…to move back into learning or earning. He added that the review by former government minister Alan Milburn on youth unemployment must be a “turning point” for the support offered to young people. The jobs guarantee scheme is a new government programme which has promised to create 90,000 fully funded jobs by 2029, a key part of the government’s £2.5bn drive to tackle high youth unemployment. The first young people have started their jobs under the initiative. It offers a direct route into work for all 18– 24-year-olds who have been claiming universal credit and looking for work for 18 months.…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Russia says it could hit UK military targets over supply of missile technology to Ukraine – as it happened
…ing Ukraine to work with France to produce its own version. Hello, and welcome to our UK politics blog. It’s all work, work, work this morning, with the government sounding a triumphant note over its jobs guarantee scheme to get young people into work, while the prime minister is due to visit Wales to speak to workers and apprentices. The work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, declared “work is good for you” during a trip to Boots’s headquarters in Nottingham yesterday, where he met some of the first cohort of 18- to 21-year-olds recruited under the scheme. “It’s bad for your mental heal…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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‘Work is good for you’: how UK scheme could help tackle youth mental health crisis
Paid employment can boost confidence and wellbeing, says Pat McFadden as jobs guarantee scheme gets under way Work must be “part of the answer” to the mental health crisis among young people, the work and pensions secretary, Pat McFadden, has said as he met some of the first beneficiaries of Labour’s youth jobs guarantee scheme. He was speaking on a visit to Boots’s headquarters in Nottingham on Wednesday, where several 18- to 21-year-olds were taken on under the job guarantee – with their wages paid by the taxpayer for six months. Some of the recruits were packing and labelling boxes of pro…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Premier League 2026-27 preview No 17: Newcastle
…enue and Newcastle’s income is around half of that of some key rivals. They are now in a three-year “settlement agreement” with Uefa after breaching European cost control regulations and, in a bid to balance the books, have not merely sold Gordon, Tonali and Guimarães but implemented a policy of broadly signing players under 25 priced between £20m and £40m. “We were living beyond our means but at some point you have got to pay the credit card bill,” said Hopkinson. Meanwhile, the seemingly interminable wait for confirmation that a new training ground will be built near the airport at Woolsin…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- Opposing frame: Maxed-out credit card
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Cooling UK labour market ‘questions need’ for Bank of England rate hikes; grocery inflation slows to two-year low – as it happened
…No young person benefits from a race to the bottom – they deserve good, secure employment like anyone else. It’s time for the government to double down on its plans to make work pay, expand the youth jobs guarantee, and stamp out exploitative zero-hours contracts once and for all. The data showed UK wage growth, excluding bonuses, in the private sector slowed to 2.8% – the weakest growth rate since October 2020. Pay growth in the public sector accelerated to 6.1%, reflecting the payment of NHS staff pay rises earlier in 2026 compared to 2025, which distorts the figure. Jake Finney, a senior…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Progressives back substitute teacher over Wasserman Schultz in Florida
…ell, a rapper best known for his role in 2 Live Crew. Manley, who is Black, grew up homeless in Fort Lauderdale’s historic Sistrunk neighbourhood. He is campaigning on universal healthcare, a federal jobs guarantee and a pledge to build “an economy where workers have rights, working families can thrive, and the wealthy pay their fair share”. Stephanie Taylor, a co-founder of the PCCC, said: “Elijah Manley isn’t just talking about the fight for working people – he’s lived it. He’s running a campaign built on Medicare for All, good jobs, and an economy that finally works for the people, not ju…
- MMT-consistent idea: Job guarantee
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Andrew Bragg stands by proposed migration limits – even as Liberal colleagues decline to back him in
…also acknowledged the role he played in former Coalition governments, including the Morrison government’s inability to get the federal budget into a promised surplus. “As someone who was a backbencher in the Morrison government, I am sorry I didn’t do more to stop the madness,” he said. “I believe the new liberalism Australia needs isn’t socialism and it isn’t conservatism seeking to turn back the clock. “The madness started when Canberra gave up on the budget … whenever a politician announces more spending, they are stealing from tomorrow because there is no intention to balance the books.”
- Opposing frame: Household budget
- MMT-consistent idea: Deficit myth
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Tuesday briefing: To drill or not to drill – Burnham’s first big climate test
…the oil and gas industry’s own estimates, the Rosebank and Jackdaw tax take would pale in comparison. And given the scale of tax subsidies available, campaigners suggest Rosebank could actually cost taxpayers money. That means underwriting the very businesses who help to cause the climate crisis we’re experiencing. This, of course, would be exacerbated by any fossil fuels extracted by Jackdaw and Rosebank. Burning just Rosebank’s oil and gas would produce about 250m tonnes of CO2 over its lifetime. As Areeba Hamid, co-executive director of Greenpeace UK, put it to me: “Sections of the media…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Amnesty International says Farage putting ‘hate and inhumanity’ over leadership with El Salvador prison plan – as it happened
A spokesperson for the human rights group likened the proposal to ‘financial brutality with British taxpayers’ money’ Andy Burnham has been warned that changing the terms of the prisoners’ early release scheme so PC Andrew Harper’s killers are kept behind bars would force another spate of early releases before the next general election. A dinghy carrying a record 230 people has arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the early hours of Monday. Amnesty International UK has condemned Reform UK’s proposal to send foreign prisoners to serve the rest of their sentences in El Salvador, sayi…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Three Banksy artworks in London have cost taxpayers nearly £150,000
Costs of security and removal efforts have reignited debate over whether work is vandalism or valuable public art Three Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in removal efforts, security and other costs, with the bill expected to rise. The largest bill relates to a mural painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in London in September 2025, where efforts to remove it and provide security have so far cost more than £85,000, according to the BBC. The mural depicted a judge in a wig beating a protester with his gavel. Banksy confirmed the work was his by posting an image on his websit…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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Millions in England face longer waits for mental health care as NHS providers plan cuts
…f funding for staff and services is being cut, meaningful improvements to the mental health system will be impossible.” Sharon Graham, the general secretary of the trade union Unite, said: “We cannot balance the books on the backs of the most vulnerable in society and by underfunding mental health provision you simply kick the can down the road and it costs more in the long term. “Our members at health trusts across the country are outraged at attempts to cut jobs and services and will be fighting back with the full support of their union.” A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson…
- Opposing frame: Household budget
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Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups Ministers will scrap the requirement for companies to prove their green and progressive values before they are awarded government contracts, and instead ask firms to prove they will help young people back into work. As part of a government push to reduce the number of people not in education, employment or training (Neets) in the UK and boost regional growth, public sector buyers will double the consideration they give to whether companies will get more people into jobs, rather than if they…
- Opposing frame: Taxpayers' money
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NHS mental health trust plans £25m in cuts to jobs and services
…ist of cuts was accurate as at 7 May. No cuts “will move to implementation without passing through quality impact assessment”, a spokesperson said. “Like all NHS providers we have a responsibility to live within our means so that we can continue to provide high-quality care to the communities we service, now and in the future. Our approach is clinically led and focused on meeting the needs of our service users. We are working closely with our trade unions, colleagues and partners to identify the most effective and sustainable way to deliver the efficiencies required of us, while protecting t…
- Opposing frame: Household budget