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Preparation for government by opposition parties or leadership challengers

Preparation for government by opposition parties or leadership challengers melissa.ittoo Fri, 19/06/2026 - 16:47 What is a transition of government? 10 Explainer Catherine Haddon Jack Worlidge Institute for Government Yes Civil service Ministers Civil servants Official opposition Cabinet Shadow cabinet Labour Conservative Prime minister Starmer government Sunak government Truss government Johnson government Number 10 No Whether it is changes of government following a general election, or chan...

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Burnham batters Reform - next stop Number 10?

Overnight in Makerfield, Andy Burnham showed how to win more than fifty percent of the vote on the Labour ticket. It was political smack for his party. A reminder that they still have the electoral chemistry to win decisively in tight races where Reform has stormed in the past. Keir Starmer is pretending nothing big has happened - and said Reform were already on the wane. He is refusing to make way for Burnham - who is rather hoping for a coronation rather than a bloody contest. So who will f...

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Culture

Are Tuchel's England the 'Entertainers' now? - The Sports Agents

England are used to a winning start in tournaments. but are we used to it being this. FUN? The 3 Lions beat Croatia 4-2 in their World Cup opener and Thomas Tuchel's 'entertainers' have seemingly already captured the nation. A now famous half-time team talk is said to have inspired the players. Is Tuchel's emotional and tactical management style what England need to get over the line? And on the players themselves, are we going to witness a tournament where Harry Kane has his name up with Mes...

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Technology

A startup claims it broke through a bottleneck that’s holding back LLMs

Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic came out of stealth mode last month with a huge claim. It announced that it had solved a mathematical bottleneck that had been holding back large language models for almost a decade. The details were thin, and many people were unconvinced. But Subquadratic has started to bring the receipts, sharing the…

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Society

The inevitable weakness of metrics

There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a lot…

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