Rosie Denham

Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.

The Ban

This New Yorker documentary about the 1988 UK government ban on broadcasting the voices of Sinn Féin and I.R.A. leaders is pretty good but they show *that clip from The Day Today with no explanation and no indicator that it is satire.

www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...

How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.

My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.

The fact that one of the two men arrested has now been cleared and released is a pretty huge "STOP" sign to everyone who's spent the last 24 hours rushing to interpret the attack. Facts, like trains, are sometimes slower to arrive than we'd like. But you just have to wait for them.

Quite a lot of premature (& often casually/overtly racist) commentary like this two Black "British" men from ex-academic Matthew Goodwin, or comments of Advance leader Ben Habib inferred the existence of 2 suspects/perpetrators must mean police were covering something up about terrorist motives

Train attack update:

- The police have one single suspect under arrest. (The second 35 year old man arrested was not involved in the attack).

- A single person train staff member remains in critical condition, having intervened to save lives

The sheer thirst for hate, violence and chaos displayed by many of the Vastly Online is terrifying.

Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"

The HPV vaccine has been a public health triumph. Very depressing to see this potentially unravel while we're on the verge of essentially eradicating cervical cancer.

As the article says, the problem is as much about the service as it is about parental attitudes.

National populism rests on exclusive ideas of who can belong to the nation, but it frames its appeal much more widely than that.
nationstateandpolitics.substack.com/p/national-p...

We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and try to start a civil war here". X breaks our laws by actively protecting racial hatred & harassment, while Musk promotes extremism and socialises violence

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

Just as an aside: tell EVERYONE you know about this.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

I’ve joined with civic and faith leaders from across #Exeter to reaffirm our aspirations for our city - where everyone lives in peace, free from intimidation and discrimination, and where we continue to prosper by working together.

Unity over division, hope over fear.

Over the next 3 months, I am hoping to get somewhere on the questions of
- how do end the impunity for racist harassment?
- what are the mechanisms for X operating its legal duties, under the 2010 Equality Act, as well as new online laws
- what kind of coalition of pressure is needed for action

Sunder is a consistent, measured voice of reason and he shows admirable calm in dealing with appalling attacks like this - this is more than “worrying”, it is shocking and outrageous

One reason why the government is in a mess is that “is that true tho?” doesn’t get anywhere near enough weight against “what do the public think?”

A policy this expansive would certainly mean mass stripping of permanent residence status from people with ILR (including pensioners and parents of British children) on a scale far beyond anything any democracy has ever done before. There is no public support for such an extreme policy.

Here Lam explicitly sets out her proposal - which is official Conservative Party policy - to deport long-standing legal permanent residents who have *ever* claimed any benefit, including the state pension or child benefit (even if the child is British), or who earn less than £39K.

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

The chronic, systemic, morbidity of many European nation states is the background to the rise of sovereigntism and national populism eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences

At nearly 7 she now regularly cycles 10+ km. The sense of independence it has given her is incredible, and hopefully a lifelong habit.

A side effect I hadn’t anticipated, though seems obvious now, is how much it’s normalised travelling by bike for my kids. It is their norm and my 6 year old has insisted (despite my own anxiety) on riding her own bike on the road this year.

Really the only downside to having an electric cargo bike is inevitably becoming boringly evangelical about how good they are 😅 If you’re thinking about it, do it. Zero regrets.

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Anti vaxxers and new world order people will latch onto any other conspiracy theory going except an actual, known conspiracy by massive global corporations 😭

An example of the government not having a project: only yesterday the government was trumpeting new measures to make it easier to build things. We'll work out who actually builds stuff later on.

Can guarantee you these same people will criticise the council for not doing more to tackle homelessness with absolutely zero self awareness

I… what? 🤦‍♀️😩