Alexis Conran

Lammy has said Vance's book "reduced me to tears"

Is this what international relations experts mean by ‘strategic ambiguity’?

I saw this after yesterday's show and it seemed very apt in relation to the first hour's topic...

fact check: correct (at the moment): constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

for the actual text, see for instance: www.americanbar.org/groups/publi...

Another big issue is it has driven thousands of people to use unsafe 3rd party VPNs which are just Christmas come early for scammers and bad state actors. This was warned about but government ignored it.

Almost half of Britons (47%) mistakenly believe that migration to the UK is primarily illegal rather than legal.

This view is held by 72% of those who support requiring large numbers of migrants to leave

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47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

A great search engine made better …

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

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I think I'd probably find the whole notion of banning kids from social media easier to swallow if adults accepted that it is also obviously driving them mad.

Great to see @listentotimesradio.bsky.social be the fastest growing speech radio station.

If you haven’t yet, have a listen … especially Sat and Sun 1-4pm 😜

Motherfucking wind farms…

When did Britain start to go wrong? In @NewStatesman @georgeeaton looks at our polling of when the public think our turn for the worst was. Brexit tops the list, but different voters disagree. Reform voters most likely to pick Blair’s election as putting Britain on wrong track

Not to mention how much harder it will be for our security services to find and monitor genuine national threats.

And for what exactly …?

It is hard to ignore the absolute shambles this Government have created with the age verification issue.

Scammers and rogue nations have been given a massive gift with people flooding to unverified, cheap and dodgy VPN services that they will be providing.

Dear God this presser …
Word salad meets stream of consciousness.

Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't.

Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:

For the love of God, Radio 4, the EU will NOT pay a 15% tax. US consumers will.

No Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say Israel has long restricted or completely blocked aid to Gaza on the argument that Hamas steals it to use as a weapon of control over the population.

Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza.

The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check.

That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year.

If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.

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Householders with heat pumps more satisfied than those with gas boilers – study — ITV News Homeowners with heat pumps are more satisfied with their home heating system than those with gas boilers or any other technology, research suggests.

You wouldn’t think so from many news outlets but a recent study of 3k householders with heat pumps indicate they are more satisfied than those with gas boilers

94% satisfied or extremely satisfied v 85% for gas.

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PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

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This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.

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Both useful and terrifying.

It is astonishing to think that Trump is likely to navigate his way out of what looked like an impossible situation.