Curious Robin

Reposting here for London-based friends.

Inside private members' club bash where guests laugh at Hitler jokes and sing 'we're all racist now' The dinner was attended by Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss, Robert Jenrick and Lee Anderson among other high-profile political figures.

Now’s a good time to remind you Farage attended a Private Dinner at The Carlton club where he & guests laughed at Hitler jokes & sung ‘we’re all racist now’👇🏼👇🏼

Comic Dominic Frisby sang: “we should have let the Nazis win”

Claims he’s not a racist but loves Nazi jokes & enjoys singing he’s a racist😉

Review launched into mental health, autism and ADHD services Government launches new independent review to look at rising demand for mental health, ADHD, and autism services and what is driving it.

Mental health, ADHD and autism

The government has launched an independent review to examine how the health system currently delivers mental health, autism and ADHD services in order to help ensure children and adults can get the right support; & build up a clinical evidence base.

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It's slop

Look at the glass spawning from the back of the telly

It's AI

Saltaire art centre plan moves forward with land transfer - BBC News Officials sign off the handover of a Saltaire car park where the new centre will be built.

Always interesting to read what reasons NIMBYs are convoluting to prevent change...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"An arts centre would spoil our view of the carpark"

Evening back

*2008

If you read their releases, listen to their speeches, or watch their interviews, they do

If you read articles about what they said, you're reading what the editor is trying to convey

Perhaps, but there are multiple types of bubble

When the dotcom bubble burst, we'd recovered after 18 months and the trajectory from that point was the same as before

'Carspreading’ is on the rise - not everyone is happy - BBC News In the UK and across Europe, cars are becoming longer, wider and heavier.

You can put a family of five in a MK1 fiesta

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cars need to be taxed by weight

Rachel Reeves hit by Labour rural rebellion over inheritance tax on farmers A number of Labour MPs in rural seats declined to back the government's move to impose inheritance tax on farmers, but just one voted against.

A rebellion of...

news.sky.com/story/rachel...

One!

Coming soon:

"Why this could be bad news for Reeves", by Chris Mason...?

"And Starmer" by Laura Kuenssberg...?

Putin warns Europe: if you want war, then Russia will defeat you President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there ...

Even Russian gaslighting is weak

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

It's not clear how it'll change alignment, but at the moment we're expecting zero tariff access to the two largest pharma markets

We're not about to avoid deals that reduce tariffs just to keep it favourable to join the EU.

Did you previously turn a pay rise down?

People who weren't ready to hear it

Politics is about momentum. You don't just decide to make changes and expect everyone to agree. And it doesn't matter if you're right. That's not how a democracy works.

It's not odd. It's diplomacy. You're not the only person he serves

US and UK agree zero tariffs on pharmaceuticals In return, the UK government has agreed to increase the baseline threshold used to assess if medicines are cost-effective.

A win for UK trade. A win for NHS users...

news.sky.com/story/us-and...

...and a win for people who enjoy a good eye roll at a childish and unprofessional US government response!

News and communications Find news and communications from government

It's definitely worth checking this regularly

www.gov.uk/search/news-...

It's dry, and not terribly in depth, but it's eye opening to see how much doesn't make it into the press

I most certainly did not

They are

The news sources you read are not

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you what part of that would need to be negotiated

Can't join either unless regulations are aligned, and that alignment is legally guaranteed

That's the process we're currently going through

Yes

It's not a switch

Most food and animal border checks have been cancelled. It'll take about a year more to fully implement, but that's how far apart major rounds of negotiation are (that's formalised). So you can wait until then for what's next.

It's a huge effort. You can just impose us rejoining on the EU

Genuine question?

Who told you we're not doing anything about it?

The first step is alignment. Can't join the bloc until regulations are legally bound to one another.

You want access to something somebody else has, but you don't think you need to negotiate?