Matilda Martin
Reporter at PoliticsHome
Reporter @politicshome (she/her) | prev senior reporter @tes Email me: [email protected]
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2 days ago |
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Simon Rockman
6 min read It was billed as the solution to poor or absent mobile coverage, but in five years the £1bn Shared Rural Network has built just one tower in a total not-spot. Simon Rockman argues it should be abandoned: there is a better solution available. Illustration by Tracy Worrall The UK has the worst mobile coverage in Europe. And with the closure of 2G and 3G, and replacement of Chinese equipment with inferior Scandinavian apparatus, the problem is getting worse.
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2 weeks ago |
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin
Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council yesterday (TUES) proudly represented the regulated betting and gaming sector at a shadow DCMS roundtable. The roundtable, titled: Future of the Gambling Industry in the United Kingdom, drew industry leaders together to explore key issues including responsible gambling, regulatory developments, and the future of the sector.
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2 weeks ago |
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin
4 min read Record Store Day, taking place this Saturday, brings the high street to life and shows us that connected and buzzing community spaces can be synonymous with growth. The Small Business Strategy should focus on supporting these community-retail spaces to shift “growth” from a buzzword to a feeling. “Unlocking growth” and “fiscal rules” tend not to be phrases that flood my inbox, but emails about loneliness and lack of community spaces certainly do.
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2 weeks ago |
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Tali Fraser
11 min read The United Kingdom has the largest stockpile of plutonium in the world, so why are we getting rid of it? Tali Fraser explores behind the scenes of the controversial decision A 140-tonne store of plutonium has become the centre of an obscure but important Whitehall policy row over how to pursue nuclear power and treat national assets.
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2 weeks ago |
politicshome.com | Matilda Martin |Adam Payne
2 min read Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned that Britain is in a "changing and completely new world" after Donald Trump's tariffs on countries including the UK sparked global economic panic. Speaking in the West Midlands on Monday, Starmer said the country was now "an era where old assumptions which we've long taken for granted simply don't apply any longer".
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You can catch me on BBC Radio5Live at the very early time of 06:18 this morning talking about a new push from the Children's Commissioner for a potential Australia-style social media ban for under-16s Am also asked by Ayshah Tull about my own screentime😬 https://t.co/blWpeSghp6
A report is expected to warn that some universities will need more money to deliver efficiencies the govt wants & Sir Nigel Carrington tells @politicshome the sector “clearly cannot continue to survive” without an increase to tuition fees https://t.co/i0SVHNLnYu
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