Alan Scowcroft

It is indeed a new low - I have supported Labour for 50 years but this is the final straw :(

Me neither 😞

Half way through this - an absolute must read !
Oborne's clinical disection of Sunak/Starmer/etc. the UK media, his genuine outrage at the lies makes this hard to put down.

...in which I pull together all the most noteworthy aspects of Sir Robbie Gibb's tangled life at the intersection of politics and journalism.

Beetlejuice principle 😂

Interesting comparison. Brexit was the raising of non tariff barriers, leaving the EU's Single Market and Customs Union, and, to a first approximation, unchanged terms with the rest of the world. It was done in a relatively orderly, legalised fashion.

Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?

Great trespass along the River Dart today to kick off @righttoroam.bsky.social's 9 river trespasses in November - protesting the inadequacy & unworkability of the Govt's 9 river walks pledge

We trespassed in an estate owned in the Cayman Islands & later met up with kayakers from Friends of the Dart

Amazing team work. Over 117 volunteers from multiple teams work together to get three overdue cavers out of Dowber Gill passage.

Always follow the money .....

The salary example is fairly good.

Nobody's saying that your income can never go up. But it will always be worse than it would otherwise have been.

That's not such a tricky concept, though it still seems beyond the wit of some.

Why do people keep saying that Brexit has left us poorer by £40 billion?

It's not a one-time thing. The loss is every year.

It's like if your salary is permanently £500 lower than it otherwise would have been.

After a year you're down £500, after 2 years £1,000, etc., on where you should be.

Indefensible policy and Reeves is incapable of defending it.

After the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to making favourable statements about Russia in exchange for money, worth reupping the FIVE QUESTIONS Nigel Farage is never asked about his fondness for Putin @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Politicians must confront lies used by populists, Starmer tells London summit In speech to Global Progress Action summit, PM criticises rhetoric describing London as ‘decaying and lawless’

Agree. I hope he confronts his own populist lies about migration, Brexit and Trump's US. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Great thread 👇

Likewise, I agree with all the above but have a French ID card. Then again I am a white male and unlikely to be harrassed ?

You should make it clear that you are sharing a link to the daily fail :(

Spot on - nail - head - boom !!

The truth about immigration Ageing societies seeking to preserve living standards will continue to rely on new arrivals — but governments can be clearer about the trade-offs

"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration"

@stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty.

www.ft.com/content/43da...

The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain. One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism. The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way. The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness. The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.

NEW

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?

A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Breaking News!
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Global 2-meter temperatures once again broke the Paris limit on Sept. 14 and Sept. 15, reaching 1.52°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline both days, marking the 2nd hottest temperatures for the date on record, and possibly in the last 120,000 years.

So just how did epstein make his millions ???

It's shocking how much consensus there is amongst tax policy wonks and economists of Left and Right on the tax reforms the UK needs to boost growth & make the tax system fairer

More shocking: they're reforms that are never mentioned by any politicians

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Pretty much spot on !

As always Banksy is spot on...

We were staying at Jackson Hole and discovered you could visit in a Hilux 4x4 converted to run on tracks. The other option is snow-mobile groups. Fun if you are up for it but they all looked miserably cold !!

Oh, good. Starmer woke up and decided to be a bit more racist. We were due...