Lewis Goodall

We’ve all been there

Nice bracing start to the day with a Tsunami warning

Net result of this ossification of what should be an economically dynamic part of the UK is an economic and long term intergenerational disaster. And Britain with feeble, second tier infrastructure.

…sometimes allied with bourgeois conservationists (I love nature, not every scrap of field is the Lake District).

Same problem with new towns and housing development in a part of the country many want/need to live in.

Britain *can* build things. Crossrail, Docklands, massive regeneration of some of our cities (Manchester in particular), the Olympics. HS2 has suffered (partly though not exclusively) because it covered the powerful, aged, wealthy, posh parts and people of southern England…

Which bit isn’t true? And we had near zero interest rates for a decade.

This is Britain, after all!

Still, I for one am glad we’ve probably robbed future generations of a transformation to our economic geography. Well worth it largely through govt incompetence, saving some unremarkable wildlife and giving very, moneyed, very propertied people endless power to alter the route unnecessarily.

The bullet train in 🇯🇵-as glorious as everyone says. A reminder the Japanese built their first high speed train for the 1964 Olympics and it became national by the 80s. They’re now building Maglevs (floating trains).

Meanwhile in 🇬🇧 we can’t be sure we’ll connect HS2 to Euston. Pathetic.

On Wednesday the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said a “large proportion” of Gaza’s population was starving. “I don’t know what you would call it other than mass-starvation – and it’s man-made."

The journalists’ union at AFP said on Monday that for the first time in the news agency’s history it risks losing a colleague to starvation.

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”

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To be clear, the US Speaker has adjourned the lower house of Congress early, to avoid votes relating to the publication of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Even by Trump standards, this whole saga is astounding.

We’re through the looking glass now

The Israeli government continues to deny there is starvation at their hand in Gaza. This is nonsense. The evidence is there for all to see.

“I'm only asking for a piece of bread... that's all," a 17-year-old boy at al-Shifa hospital tells the BBC, as food security body the IPC warns more than 1.5 million Gazans are at risk of severe malnutrition/ starvation.

Nearly 500,000 are considered to be facing “catastrophe.”

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😂 no problem my fault for (mainly) losing the accent

Btw- travel tips welcome

No. She’s from Birmingham, like me

Going to Japan tomorrow. My Mother’s take

‘I think that pay increase is outrageous.’
‘But you’re proposing to do nothing to stop it.’

@lewisgoodall.com can’t understand why Environment Sec Steve Reed refuses to ban pay increases for water bosses, despite banning bonuses.

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SUNDAY WITH LEWIS GOODALL @LBC ON AIR RIGHT NOW

A must-watch/listen

This re the ISC of Parliament whose members have top security clearance in order to view classified files isc.independent.gov.uk

4) Why were the conclusions of the defence assessment he relied to justify the super so wildly different to the review John Healey has relied on to discharge it?

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3) We keep hearing this false binary (including from Mr Shapps) of safety vs secrecy. What about those whose safety was put at risk *because* of the injunction? See thread from yday.

What good reason could there be for not involving security cleared MPs? This was brought up by successive judges. Did the Speaker ask for their involvement?

So many questions left unanswered in the Shapps interview

1) No satisfactory answer on ISC involvement. It wasn't the courts who decided, it was ministers. Hundreds of officials were across Whitehall were aware of the leak. This would have been Parliament's only means of scrutiny.