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Government steps in with millions of taxpayer cash to prop up Bulb Energy

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What is energy firm special administration and what does it mean? 

Energy supply company administration is essentially a contingency measure to deal with a low probability, but high impact event in the UK’s energy market.

It allows the company to continue trading normally, potentially with financial assistance from the Government, if the company is unable to secure funding from commercial sources. 

This lasts until the firm is either rescued, sold or its customers transferred to other suppliers.

Bulb is the

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Government ramps up programme to keep winter wave at bay

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Britain’s Covid booster vaccine programme is being expanded to under-50s to safeguard against a winter wave, it was confirmed today.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation has recommended third doses be given to an extra 8million Britons in their forties.

Eligible people can pre-book their vaccine five months after their second dose, but they will only get their booster after six months have passed.

The UK’s medical regulator said Britons can come forward for their booster ‘with the confidence

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Covid Plan B is needed now to stop NHS ‘winter meltdown’, say Government scientists

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Social distancing and masks need to be reimposed now to avoid a ‘meltdown in the middle of winter’ and save Christmas, several Government scientists warned today.

Experts warned the current infection rate was ‘unacceptable’ and claimed that vaccines alone were not enough to control Covid and protect the NHS during the colder months.

It comes despite growing optimism among No10’s modellers who say daily cases could plummet to just 5,000 next month without any restrictions due to growing natural immunity

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The Liberal Attack on Government

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“Let the public service be a proud and lively career,” President John F. Kennedy proclaimed in his January 1961 message to Congress. “Let every man and woman who works in any area of our national government,” he continued, “say with pride and with honor in future years: ‘I served the United States government in that hour of our nation’s need.’”

Kennedy’s message succeeded: Young Democrats, heeding his call, filled the offices of the nation’s executive agencies. And yet just 20 … Read more

Lina Hidalgo’s Political Rise | The New Yorker

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On a recent Wednesday morning, Lina Hidalgo, the chief executive of Harris County, Texas, visited the Greater Pure Light Church, in northeast Houston. In front of the church—a sand-colored building with colonnades and a white steeple—a half-dozen people awaited Hidalgo, who arrived in a Chevy Tahoe with a pair of security guards. A petite woman of thirty, with an orb of black curls and a no-nonsense demeanor, Hidalgo rose to fame in 2018, after narrowly defeating Ed Emmett, an eleven-year

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