Ms Lesley Smith

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

But defined by husband and kids so that’s alright.

Hear hear (her, her)

I’m away or I’d offer to go with her. But perhaps we all should. You shouldn’t be doing this alone week after week.

If you live in Queen’s Park or Kilburn in Brent a diary day for you. Our free community skips are back. Saturday 26 October (Sorry no paint, oil, pianos or fridges or builders waste.) @brentlabour.bsky.social

If you live in Queen’s Park or Kilburn in Brent a diary day for you. Our free community skips are back. Saturday 26 October (Sorry no paint, oil, pianos or fridges or builders waste.) @brentlabour.bsky.social

Robin Cook, Gordon Brown, John Smith, Donald Dewar. All great, moving, funny and wry speakers as required .

One ironic thing here is that I know of several cases where asylum seekers were punished for volunteering because that was too close to "work" and the Home Office wasn't having it.

And Eric Heffer slowly and solemnly walking off. Was a great moment.

Hague’s first conference (in Blackpool) tried to signal trendy/modern with Thatcher and Heath in Ikea arm chairs. Heath scowled at her throughout and she looked irritated. It wasn’t repeated. (They played theme from Twin Peaks, then current, to the wild joy of hacks and confusion of everyone else.)

Worked though

If Labour List is on the side of the government, even slightly, why are they involved in commissioning a divisive poll like this?

This doesn’t really make sense because it was only weeks ago when we met in Battersea At Centre when they were hunting for dreams in jam jars (and mine’s already gone to uni 😥)

I never say this sort of thing but I'm saying it now: can you imagine what the coverage in the UK would be like if this had been a Labour politician?

Annoyingly they let him go

Dead of Winter. That’s what you need to see.

Because he is a bad person?

She does have a point. Though I’m not sure I’d necessarily put the same people in the same sections if the Venn diagram that she does.

Yes!

When was it that the men consistently last won stuff? Crisis of masculinity you say? … 🙄

Yes!

That’s what terror laws are for

Dead of Winter with Emma Thompson. Really brilliant. Tho I wouldn’t go driving in the snow in Minnesota any time soon.

Radical left cabal? When I joined (back in the Stone Age) it was to meet like minded people who weren’t in radical left cabals

I fear you may hear more clumsiness in the next few days

I wouldn’t get any unpacking done for reading…

How brilliant! I wonder when the Times switched from ‘gaoled’ to ‘jailed’

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Loads of them. Runners, rowers (well a cox) and a bobsleigher

It doesn’t show Reform at 311 even hypothetically as there’s no election. It simply shows those who think they fancy a punt on the outsider now, when they’re safely three years from an election. It’s utterly meaningless. They are not on the brink of anything.

And benefit for immigrants with right to work who otherwise have a lot of bureaucracy to prove their status