Benjamin Lynch

this quote is basically as close as I'll ever get to a religious text, I always reread it in the way I assume some read the bible

Hi Alex. I wasn’t over that way today, but can you DM me?

Congratulations. Your work is superb

On this special day, may all your wishes seem momentarily achievable x

going to keep posting about this piece because I really think that everyone online should read it: www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

That’s a good one. Knife edge stuff

What if Andy Burnham had won the Labour leadership?

Or if Theresa May got her Brexit deal through?

I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations

Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat

Agreed. This is a very interesting development. Suggests something happening in the soul of British conservatism, rather than simply the brain.

it's never a particularly good barometer for what's actually going on. It's just a show for both leaders to try and look stronger in the eyes of their own party.

Big improvement from KB, but didn't really land a blow.

Seem to remember Jeremy Corbyn doing the same thing. It doesn't hold any power until there is a major scandal.

You have to choose carefully when to use it

Best #pmqs for a while this. Starmer and Badenoch both on good form

i refuse to use the terms “skeet”, “reskeet”, “repost”, “quoteskeet” or any such woke nonsense. nothing less than the full afc wimbledon treatment is demanded here. everyone knows it’s a tweet. stop lying to yourselves. musk has relocated the IP to milton keynes. I’m taking his 1988 fa cup

Spot on. Comprehensive pedestrianisation should be far higher up the agenda in our cities than it is. Nearly wherever cars go, cities get worse. Nearly wherever they’re removed, those urban spaces flourish.

I just don't have the time or the energy for Elon Musk discovering UK parliamentary petitions.

100% agree with this. It’s disingenuous for anyone to pretend otherwise.

Government press office, sharing literally the most anodyne information imaginable, which is also already in the public domain: ‼️ PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS STRICTLY ON BACKGROUND AND NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION ‼️

Easy block

Can’t imagine a more dogbrained use of this website than importing every tweet you’ve ever made. Extremely sad shit. We do not need your 500,000 tweets that are all variations of “LIKE and RETWEET if ‘PR*SID*NT’ RUMP is a TRAITOROUS ORANGE CHEETO”

Agree with this analysis from Sam. The assisted dying bill has quickly become one of the most politically problematic issues for the new government, all stemming from Keir Starmer’s promise of a vote on ITV News in March.

London Centric story on Friday.

vs

Transport for London press release this morning that you'll belatedly read elsewhere in the media.

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could we maybe do a protest of people who are currently renting and can't afford to buy property and who also won't inherit enough to ever buy a place

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This a big story which hasn’t had as much pick up as it should. Nissan and other UK car manufacturers urgently lobbying govt to change policy on EVs…say production is at risk with current regime which increasingly penalises them for non-EV manufacture.

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