This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
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This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.
Out of interest - What did you move from heating oil to?
We will continue to support the First Past the Post system of voting, as it allows voters to kick out politicians who don't deliver, both locally and nationally.
There was a sort of line in the manifesto but it was vague. cdn.prod.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7e...
What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
I'd be very interested to see the numbers on this, but have no idea where to find the data.
How many women athletes must now take this test x £185 = How much money drained from women's sport funding? In order to stigmatise and exclude how many on ideological grounds?
And she’s gone. Noem that is...
C’mon, people. Look at your Kremlin style guide. The phrase is “special military operation.” Not all of you are getting this right.
🤑 Bogus self-employment costs the UK about £8.5bn every year, I told the BBC.
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If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Asif Aziz evictions story is going mainstream. Telegraph and Independent have covered in recent days. Now the FT has done a brilliant piece - including finding another property affected, where a Ukrainian refugee and their disabled son are being evicted by Aziz. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
While I suspect there may be an element of a post by-election bump here, it should be a warning sign for Labour that their hostile policies towards asylum seekers, migrants in general, trans and non-binary individuals, disabled people etc aren't winning them any votes.
news.sky.com/story/greens...
Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.
Absolutely baffling to watch Newsnight try to discuss a complex regional conflict in half an hour.
Whoever cut the programme back was an idiot. Channel 4’s bulletin at 7PM was far superior. Largely for not just relying on talking heads and doing some actual journalism.
Anyone working in "news" or "politics" needs to finally wrap their minds around the idea that X isn't reaching anyone that matters. You're wasting your time pitching no one. You're wasting your money pitching no one.
Remember all the involved debates about a "just war" ahead of the Iraq War? Well, this is just war.
No law, no responsibility, just small men with their fingers on war machines.
War is hell, mash meme
This is partly the result of a media culture that has a) tended to treat migration policy as though there is one button marked ‘get tough’ and the only question is how hard a government will press it and b) failed to understand how far immigrants and Brits are not always discrete groups.
It does feel like Starmer and Mahmoud have seen Labour rejected by its own *actual* core vote (instead of its imagined one) in its heartland and decided that the answer is just to reject those core voters right back.
Suicidal politics.
Eg. bsky.app/profile/maik...
People in this government have got themselves so convinced they’re right they can’t even read (slightly questionable) polling properly.
"I’d promised the tenants that we would not let up on this story, especially when many of them got in touch to ask us, in the absence of any clear communication from their landlord, whether they still had a place to live."
Journalism is a public good.
it's a pretty typical european nation with an outdated electoral system
Allister heath headline generator: Allister Heath The catastrophic reality of manchester losing another plumber is finally dawning on the British public
John Curtis doubling down on Conservative vote going to Reform. Some of it will, but there were Conservative voters in G&D who told me they wanted nothing to do with Reform.
PM: You get those migration numbers down?
Home Sec: Sure did boss, real fuckin damaging to public services and increasing the one voters hate most, just like you asked
PM: what
The question isn’t if you do some food waste collection - it’s if you do it for all households. And I don’t think Brent has met that yet. The fact there aren’t officers in place with time to answer or clear data on progress does not inspire confidence.
And yet we had a note in a newsletter from the council at the start of the year saying they were all set for it to happen.
Meanwhile household recycling rates haven’t changed London-wide since about 2012. Which as it happens is also when the current fudge on London wide arrangements for strategy had taken effect. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A map of boroughs in and around london. 11 of the London boroughs are grey (no response), four are red (No), one is pink (no but with a transitional agreement), the rest (19) are blue.
BBC couldn’t even get an answer from a third of councils in London on if they were on target to collect food waste by end of March. Little wonder strategic targets to reduce waste and increase proportion recycled are missed year after year. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...