Enjoyed seeing and hearing them on the north Cornish coast during a brief trip earlier this week. They still seem slightly exotic to me..
Explaining in a pancake restaurant in northern France a few years ago that a family member was a vegan caused a serious meltdown: incredulous, “where do the vitamins come from?”
Not provoking listeners to throw their radio out of the window within five minutes of turning it on would be a good, if modest, start, if I may suggest.
Heard her speak at an event last month and she was very emphatic and persuasive on this point.
what is the actual point of having Ofcom?
He is amazing - think of him as the best impressionist I have ever heard.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
This week's column: the Green surge is in part because Labour consciously decided they didn't want the votes they got in 2024:
It would have been very easy - and surely essential before running this story- to check what his card fees were, or those of another pub.
Listening to Darren Jones floundering on Today, I think the govt needs to talk more candidly about its differences with the US.
That can still be respectful - this isn't "Love Actually" - but when a US President is phoning the UK press to attack the PM, there's no point rolling out the usual script
The definition of “working class” seems quite selective, based on a man who worked in manufacturing or an extractive industry. Certainly wouldn’t include, say, a non-white, female office cleaner on the minimum wage. Being taken seriously as the basis for government policy is bizarre..
A family member is an Arsenal supporter. He found injury time very hard going with the classy save, disallowed goal, Gary Neville’s hopeless assessment of offside all contributing to the stress. Resilient maybe but also need to focus on game management..
"You cannot bring democracy by aerial bombardment. The sort of regime change that includes no preparation before, no help during, and no plan for after, is basically just rolling a dice, hoping for sixes."
Yup. Bumrah has been fantastic. Some of the fielding not so much..
Quite. Hetmeyer was looking good but some decent strikers of the ball to come..
There’s something deeply odd about how “the Greens are just the same as Reform” is treated as obviously true by so many within Labour when no one else believes this - and evidence no one believes this is not hard to find
Yes. I listened for decades. Some excellent presenters over the years although although not a fan of John Humphreys. Find it impossible to listen to now.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
I would worry about the political judgment of any Labour MP who found this anything other than completely embarrassing and amateurish. Motivated perhaps to think about replacing Starmer..
Listening to her I thought that in a different world she would be an enormous asset to the Labour Party. Painting her as an extremist feels counter-productive and desperate. So much for “learning lessons” from the result.
Can't get a posh job - blame the "woke" establishment.
Can't get a shag - blame the "unregulated sexual economy".
Lose a by-election - blame cheating.
Anything else - blame immigrants.
Reform really is the party of excuses for mediocre white men.
Sorry to hear about this. Have enjoyed Doom Bar over the years and had a very distinctive taste.
One of the numerous ways in which the Starmer government has alienated natural supporters has been to dismiss or mock environmental concerns asserting that they harm economic growth. A foolish policy on numerous levels. I suspect it will take more than a few golden eagles to get these people back.
There is a specific legal regime that governs airline refunds, which I think is “no fault”. Not aware of anything similar for universities.
Reading the article a lot of the complaints are about how difficult it was for students during the pandemic. No one would dispute this. But a big leap from there to saying that the decisions universities took at the time should give rise to a claim for damages.
I agree in spite of being the parent of a child whose first two years of university were badly disrupted by Covid. I don’t think the university got everything right but wouldn’t support this litigation. And without knowing more about the claim think it may not be straightforward legally.
In some respects the Starmer government has been quite “left wing”, for example on renters’ and employee rights. But also quite illiberal. Little scope to go further to the left on the economy but perhaps it might ditch some of the Reform-lite stuff that alienates progressive voters and members?
I have never fully understood its rejection by some historians. Aware of in relation to interpretations of politically significant histories: e.g EH Carr’s writing about the Russian Revolution dismissive of counter factual. Possibly also re some writing about
Nazi regime.
I always thought that the elder Miliband’s political skills were quite poor. Have a lot of time for Ed but don’t think either of them are PM material. I hope Ed is true to his word and doesn’t try again.
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It seems to say that raising trade barriers actually increases trade? On the prosperity point suggests a crossover with “socialism in one country” type economics that perhaps an ardent Lexit supporter might sign up to. One for Seamus Milne maybe?
