Guess who? as.ft.com/r/2f67f3cc-4...
Can't believe nobody has said Midge Ure
it took just over a year to get from "I'll lower costs on day one" to "I'm raising prices and it's good, actually"
The easiest way to do this would be to revive the Florence Nightingale £10 note
The Beatles
Can I nominate myself?
Robin Asquith
For tradition’s sake
Charles Fox
Francis Drake
Lady Caroline Lamb
Edward Gibbon
Jack Russell, legendary England wicketkeeper
Alan Partridge
also hearing Adrian Mole from @annasophiegross.bsky.social
Maybe replace Cat Stevens with Cat Deeley as he changed his name and can no longer claim animal status.
How about Jan Raven too?
my comrade @georgewparker.bsky.social has suggested Michael Fish and Miranda Hart
Already done - Florence Nightingale on the tenner
speak for yourself
nonsense
Ruth Badger off The Apprentice. Alex Salmond.
Bob Crow
maybe we could compromise by having historic figures with animal-adjacent names on our bank notes:
Liam Fox, Nicola Sturgeon, Virginia Wolf, Christopher Wren, Cat Stevens, Jessica Rabbit
I emailed Mandelson’s lawyers yesterday to ask if he was contesting the £547,000 severance point and….didn’t hear back from them
genius
Donald Trump at an election campaign stop in Pennsylvania in August 2024:
“Energy costs, all of it, air conditioning, heating, all of it, including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months”
“Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half,” he said the next month in North Carolina. “Mark it down, you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it.”
Donald Trump at an election campaign stop in Pennsylvania in August 2024:
“Energy costs, all of it, air conditioning, heating, all of it, including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months”
patience mon brave
another excoriating column via Janan Ganesh in the FT
www.ft.com/content/d975...
Mandelson's outrageous claim for over half a million quid might just cushion the blow to Starmer a little.
Files show that Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s national security adviser, “was particularly cautious about the appointment” of Mandelson as ambassador in December 2024 and that Powell believed the process had been “weirdly rushed”.
www.ft.com/content/2fcc...
