Mark Farrar

Ben Jennings on Labour and Brexit – cartoon Rachel Reeves says the economic damage caused by Brexit is forcing her to take action in the budget

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Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact Chancellor also blames austerity and ‘ongoing impact of Liz Truss mini-budget’ for growing shortfall in public finances * UK politics live – latest updates Rachel Reeves has said tax rises and spending cuts are on the table for this autumn’s budget, as the government aims to tackle a growing shortfall in the public finances which she said was partly due to the lingering impact of Brexit. Speaking to Sky News, the chancellor said: “Of course, we’re looking at tax and spending” as she prepared for her 26 November statement. “But the numbers will always add up with me as chancellor, because we saw just three years ago what happens when … the Conservatives lost control of the public finances, inflation and interest rates went through the roof.” Continue reading...

Rachel Reeves says tax rises and spending cuts on budget agenda, citing Brexit impact

Tom Gauld on where writers really get their ideas – cartoon Hurry, while stocks last …

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UK political class ‘poisoned by wealth’, says Zack Polanski as he sets out plan to tax assets of richest 1% – UK politics live Polanski earlier called for patriotism debate to go beyond beyond ‘waving flags’

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Incredibly, the Mail is currently madder & more dishonest than it was in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

LIMERICK

It was the Medical Council’s belief,
That as a form of effective relief,
Paracetamol would
Be next to no good
From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

And if your head explodes: Pink Floyd’s 20 best songs – ranked! Fifty years after the release of Wish You Were Here, we count down the best of the band’s Syd Barrett years, their difficult recovery and later reunion

Very difficult to choose just 20 songs from Pink Floyd. I need to also include: Julia Dream; Arnold Layne; On The Run Careful With That Axe Eugene; (and of course) Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

Johnson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon
#Trump #Putin #Ukraine

Sorry, but if you call my password weak I'm not going to tell you where the traffic lights are

What a match!
What a series!
What drama!
Bloody well love you, Test Cricket.
Brave Woakes

What a match!
What a series!
What drama!
Bloody well love you, Test Cricket.
Brave Woakes
#TheCricket #ENGvIND

A classic from the @newyorker.com

UK to recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution, Starmer says – UK politics live Downing Street has issues its readout of today’s cabinet meeting on Gaza.

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Sadly, the volunteers in Dover still receive abuse from followers of ReformUK and are advised to hide their RNLI branded clothing.

Donations to RNLI rise 3,000% after Farage’s migrant criticism UK lifeboat charity raises £200,000 in single day after CEO hits out at Nigel Farage’s ‘taxi service’ claim

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has raised more than £200,000 in a single day after... its chief executive hit out at Nigel Farage’s claim that it was running a “migrant taxi service”.

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#r4today

Day 204 of #365DaysOfSmiles
Is there anything lovelier than a laughing baby?

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

I’ve always found Sainsbury’s bags to be rather brash.

Rayner says Farage’s Brexit promises haven’t come true

Knowing Brexit is a deeply dishonest project should be good enough reason to bin it, along with the liars who flogged it to the country.

Instead, we stay stuck in this Brexit dead-end because no one quite has the courage to admit what an epic fuck-up it is.
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Trump = ‘releasing a fragrance’

Morning.

Comedy Gold

Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles Amazon founder reportedly forced to change venue for his wedding celebrations in Italian city

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Headline of the year, so far 😁

Daniel Hannan celebrates his chronicle of Brexit idiocy foretold | John Crace Back in 2016, Dan prophesied about what the post-EU sunlit uplands would be like on this very day – no spoiler alert needed

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 24 June always strikes a miserable chord for me

Looks like you have got enough material there for episode 3 as well.

How much were the audience paid to attend? I wonder 🙄

Steadily increasing

Something the BBC should take note of, perhaps?

“Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” SpaceX posted on X – a familiar euphemism for failure. "Going a little bit off nominal" is even better.