Paul Barron

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Will he threaten to impose tariffs and then do a “great deal” to avoid them at the last minute?

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

Welsh election: UKIP's Farage backs 'terrific' Gill UKIP leader Nigel Farage backs the party's Welsh leader Nathan Gill as

"I have worked with Nathan Gill over a period of years and he's been terrific, he's never, ever, let me down. He's as honest as the day is long."
Nigel Farage
BBC News 2016

This Is Fascism

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

PPE Medpro must repay £122m for breach of contract | Good Law Project The company Michelle Mone landed on the Tories’ unlawful VIP lane has 14 days to repay £122m for gowns supplied during the pandemic and never used.

“I’m pleased to see that, after five years... some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/f2e9

That would require some semblance of courage, something this Labour govt seems to lack.

I still can't quite believe that the very first attacks from Labour on Farage's bonkers idea to kick millions of people with INDEFINITE right to remain out of the UK were to argue that it's infeasible and wouldn't save anything like the amount he claimed.

How about:
- It's WRONG
- It's IMMORAL
?

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

“I’m putting tariffs up on Australia by 1000% and they will pay us $950bn every rear, like the EU.”

Tim Walz: "I've been telling people since January it's going to get worse before it gets better, but it is going to come to an end. History is not going to be kind to these people. History is going to remember them for what they're trying to do. It's not what they're going to get done."

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.

You're welcome

Similarly the next General Election.

“How dare you” is his tell when he’s cornered.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Pie

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Is it possible Boris Johnson is not only a liar, but a greedy,venal liar as well?

We wait with bated breaths

You’ve blown his cover story?!

This was behind a pay wall but no longer is

Laura signing up this morning, I’d guess.

Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.

The latest Tory to defect to Reform is Chris Mason.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It should be but I’m not sure it will. It will be spun and normalised by Fox News and the rest of the privately owned media. We will still be disgusted and MAGA will rationalise it but Trump and his appointees have the power.

I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own.

Now, we continue fulfilling that promise.

Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.

The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

Just the Democrat section though, right?

If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it: