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You can either 'grow the economy' or impose economic sanctions on yourself. I wonder how long it will take Tories to realise that you can't do both.
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Just in case you thought I was exaggerating when I said Truss was alienating *everybody*. Imagine the reaction to a Labour government doing this… twitter.com/breeallegretti…
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The peerless @BBCFarmingToday reported on social care workers (current vacancies in the sector: 105,000) quitting in rural areas because fuel costs have pushed them well below the minimum wage. Think of them every time a Tory tells you our system has been too ‘redistributive’.
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Frost, Hannan & Lilico competing to come up with the most batshit take. Again.
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Someone needs to take Lindsay Hoyle to one side and tell him that he's really not funny.
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This is a masterful cross-examination & illustrative of so many dangers: the danger of having big business in bed with a government, of having a government riddled with bullying, of 'free market' ideologies that give employers *all* the power in the workplace etc. So refreshing. twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK…
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As we possibly prepare to start the clock on the next Boris Johnson scandal, here's one you may have missed... twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrun…
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And if you *really* can't pull a programme together without platforming secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as 'think tanks', then at least point out the opacity of their finances. Failing to does such a grave disservice to genuine, transparent & responsible think tanks.
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Nutshell. twitter.com/bbcquestiontim…
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Illiterate & libellous. Someone's had a drink. Paul, seriously, stay at home tonight. Let's make sure this doesn't turn in to yet another drink driving conviction. You could use the time to double check with your 'sources' that they're prepared to back up these claims in public. twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/st…
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I’m still surprised to find that I can be shocked by the naked duplicity of this ghoul. twitter.com/nealerichmond/…
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It's Miller's stillness that always strikes me most, the concentration on Powell's words that presages his evisceration of the hideous bigot. It's more drive-by than debate. The racists who pose as 'intellectuals' remain much more insidious than their more 'honest' counterparts. twitter.com/EddieBurfi/sta…
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Somebody very high up at the BBC should be asking very serious questions about why this simple statement of facts would have been impossible for @maitlis to make if she was still on their staff. Everyone still there should stop dancing around reality. The country deserves better. twitter.com/maitlis/status…
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Funny how stating the bleedin’ obvious about Brexit is newsworthy when it’s a billionaire Tory banker doing it on @BBCr4today. Max Hastings was shut straight down for saying the same last week. Better late than never, I suppose.
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Funny how the people explaining that Susan Hussey had no idea she was being offensive are *exactly the same people* who insist that unconscious bias training is a ridiculous 'woke' conspiracy. Hard to see how they can have it both ways...
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Good to see Boris Johnson at Cop27 desperately trying to save h̶i̶s̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶e̶e̶r̶ the planet...
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Superb & shocking journalism. Helpfully encapsulated in this thread. And it hasn’t happened by accident. The media & political machinery dedicated to delivering this inequality (NB in countries where Rupert Murdoch concentrates his power) is immense. twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/s…
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Truss resigned while still talking about 'the freedoms of Brexit'. That will entertain historians in years to come.
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And there it is. They're not even hiding it any more. twitter.com/montie/status/…
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Very impressed by Tom Bradby. If William is watching, I don't think he could find much fault with how this interview has been conducted. And similarly, I think Harry will feel he's been treated fairly but robustly. That's quite an achievement for an interviewer in this situation.
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Two important things to note about Lord Pannick’s lucrative (for him) intervention: it’s not a ‘legal opinion’ in any meaningful sense & it would not have been commissioned at all if Johnson wasn’t certain he could rely on the Daily Mail to embellish, inflate & misrepresent it.
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If you speak too much truth to right-wing power, right-wing power won’t come on your TV & radio shows any more. It’s a major problem in this country & it won’t disappear with Boris Johnson.
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If I’d been secretly funding the psychopathic imbeciles at @iealondon I’d be checking their refund policy right now. Literally days since they were boasting about having taken over Downing Street. Maybe other producers & presenters will finally stop booking them to spout bilge.
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