Indy

Sunak particularly disappointing as he has nothing to lose politically by speaking out.

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Brain the size of a planet?

oh yes, I remember having to do one of those in the past for things. It's really just insult after insult on top of the injury 😞

Agree. It’s an underrated negative of privatising the water companies, in that “water rates” really did make a huge difference. (It’s funny that this is forgotten, given it was such a big reason why MT did it to begin with!)

A US tax notice? 😞

Unless you move in those circles, or study the tourist patterns, it's quite surprising how many people go there for holidays - and how much the demographics match some particular slices of the Thatcher coalition.

Surely the catchphrase is MOAR matrices?

It's actually amazing to me how strongly this is the case.

I just find it amazing that we've entered an era of public discourse where someone can say "being concerned that the people on the bus are not white enough is not racist" - like what else would it be?

A good start might be them realising that immigration is a losing topic for the Tory party.

Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the theatre?

What's odd is that we knew the answer to this in 1945 (spoiler - answer is yes) but somehow in the 80s we let centre-right think-tanks convince us that healthcare was all costs and no benefits.

I see a lot of parallels between the UK now and various "global south" countries in the 80s. You can mess around with the interest levers all you like, while the internal market is in flatline and there are no useful export agreements, companies will just keep investing elsewhere.

5 assists and 3 goals? Amorim laughs at such figure, don't you know the power of 3-4-3 is beyond such puny statistical measures?

You could even - and hear me out here, I know it's a radical proposal - sack the ideologically radical placemen the previous government inserted at the top of the existing neutral media org.

The FarageBorg is going to assimilate the Torty Party.
(Not sure where that typo came from, Tory + Tonty = Torty?)

The cringing will continue until morale improves/someone puts the party out of its (and our) misery.

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I was very confused there for a minute.

Nigel Farage has some proposals for you, I fear.

Sclerotic Europe

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

I feel like I'm going mad.
What is going on?
How is this not getting any serious pushback?

I think you'll find that the Ghost of Shipman, along with the Ghost of Genghis Khan is fully booked out by the Moral Maze. No time for these other appointments.

Yes, Mel Stride is on the second page.

The real shadow chancellor - Bobson Dugnutt

I've done other kinds of curation, so I really appreciate what a big job it is to do.

An amazing feat of curation.