David Kernohan

It’s a fair point - But you can take the policies seriously, dislike most of them (as I do), and still have the level headedness to understand that a Lab-Gre coalition at the next election is not going to abolish NATO or seek degrowth

I said “Greens” so no I’m well aware of that fact - The dynamics and policy platforms are not very different so I think the wider point stands - The overreaction to a still distant and remote possibility is very silly

It may have escaped your notice but Greens were in coalition in Scotland and none of those things happened - It just pulled the government a bit further left economically and socially which may not be a bad thing in the UK?

Check his hard drive

If ever a headline screamed "check his hard drive" it's this one

If you happen to know any journalists I would imagine having a dig around the communications between Cabinet Office and UK Vetting would be very interesting (assuming they’re not in scope of the current disclosure)

When do the bills start coming down?

It’s completely inappropriate to use the CS DV system to vet political appointees IMO - As Arthur says there is far too much political pressure to nod someone through which the relatively junior people involved in vetting cannot resist

Maybe they could just cut back on the lattes and avocado toast for a bit to help fund it?

Why is everything just so fucking stupid all the time now

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose

BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

Has anyone asked Macron about his sunglasses or are we all just going to ignore that?

It is by definition illiberal if you remove the choice not to have it - Whether it is useful or not and whether it is abused by the state are different matters

Why is it always the ones you most suspect?

The Badenaissance, surely?

I don't live there any more and was taken aback when I visited last year how different it was to when I left 10 years ago; definitely busier in central areas than I remembered - But different only means worse if you're a terrified home counties Facebook GBeebies racist

The Independent: Former London Zoo meerkat expert fined for glassing monkey-handler in row over llama-keeper.

We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.

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A highway that will cost billions, take 20 years and contribute to the destruc.....Approved!

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A bike lane that will cost almost nothing, reduce traffic and align with our climate emerg...Do you have approval from every living and deceased resident in the city?

Does anyone know if Richard Hughes is still in post as head of the OBR?

Might have been true in 1997 but there’s a vast orange ocean between them today

Whoopsie 😑

Someone inventing a decent HR portal could do a lot for UK productivity

Irony of ironies, the security firewall on my government laptop won't allow me to open this

Given my experience of central government IT and IT/HR systems I would say this is far from guaranteed

Still nothing that will convince the Project 2025 people that he's no use to them any more which feels like the most important tipping point - The wording of the request for the documents needs to be absolutely watertight or it's likely to be much ado about nothing again

There was a yellow taxi on the first zoom which was what clinched it for me

You'd think when they didn't come out with a figure that equalled 24 it would have raised some flags about their approach?

Go to Niagara

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