Close-up of an extract of the infographic of MPs outside earnings, which seems to show Dan Norris on ยฃ73,499, having a smaller circle than Yuan Yang with ยฃ69,468.
Something seems wrong here
Ah yes, "free speech" bsky.app/profile/mrro...
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
(If I were the Reform lot, I'd be committed to keeping the OBR for no other reason than to avoid Truss trying to join.)
I thought Truss had been saying it *wasn't* that the mini-budget hadn't been tested by the OBR that brought about the financial crisis/her fall, but something the BoE had done? So why *is* she so intent on revenge on the OBR? ๐ค
The money and the SA are all part of the same thing. Epstein and Maxwell built a network of favours and secrets of which the SA was simply the dirtiest but most powerful part. Money crimes are easier to prove, though. Like Capone and his tax returns, sometimes that way in is what you need.
If there is still a monarchy in the decades to come, I have a feeling the title of Duke of York - previously commonly given to the second son of the monarch - may be rested at least for a generation or two.
Or pull the less reliable (reliably corruptible) extremists off Reform's back so that it can remerge by (reverse takeover) with the Tories as happened in Canada with their Reform Party. Musk is a bit of a loose cannon among the new media barons, however, and may simply not know what he is doing./2
Maybe. I long held the view that Reform was promoted by the media barons (who want to run the world) as a way of pulling the Tories to the Right, away from Europe. It's worked *too well*, such that the Tories are now in existential crisis. Restore may be the means by which they pull Reform apart? /1
The problems with using betting markets as a substitute for scientific polling are obvious. This has nothing to do with how the electorate are thinking of voting but how punters - not all of whom are voters - gamble their money. If you have money you could easily manipulate this to your advantage.
Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either
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r/analytics โข IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
You can make a good case for attacking criminal people traffickers for abandoning people mid-channel to be rescued by the lifeboats; but attacking a charity that they are exploiting for keeping to its core beliefs of saving lives regardless of who they are? Un-British and absolutely non-Christian.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. Itโs dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Historian Simon Schama:
"America is no longer an ally of Europe. Trump has set his marks on enfeebling NATO and destroying the European Union. He said many times that the EU was founded to screw the USA; he always hated it.
In the nuclear age, power is an immense, ferociously dangerous thing."
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has said the govt should start selling war bonds as there is a need to "move far faster" on UK defence spending members of the public cd loan the govt money in the form of a bond which would run over a two-to-three year period+pay out the same interest as standard govt bonds.
Here's the thing. Where Russia is concerned, sooner or later all our skins are in the game. There is no safe place.
Gary Lineker for DG
Are things like this, all happening on social media, mostly under the radar, the reason I hear ordinary people talk about Keir Starmer with such vitriol like I've never heard before? @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @restispolitics.bsky.social
@markpackuk.bsky.social - you've been the one pushing the UK Government on its continued use of X. Here's a case for further pushing them to address this increasingly poisonous influence on our public life.
Isn't it interesting? There's no indication on what grounds the soon-to-be Mr Mountbatten Windsor is to be evicted from what appears to be a legal lease on his home. Does that make it a S.21 eviction - a process the Gov't has just passed a law to abolish?*
(*Law not yet in force).
#DoctorWho fans will breathe a sigh of relief that the Disney hiatus is over, whatever the longer term future may be.
If something can be worked out, perhaps the 2026 special will see Ncuti return (saved by Bad Wolf herself) and lead us into a proper new series (or is that new new new series?
Lots of communities use "aunt" or "uncle" as a generic term for a non-immediate family member, as a mark of respect.
Itโs impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.
Well, of course not. Because the news sources they are following are deliberately ignoring any issues, just moving on with the next Farage press conference.
There is no objective source of truth that is trusted by them that will actually tell them. If they do know about it, it becomes a conspiracy.
The point is there wasn't any serious alternative to short term belt-tightening, if you remember the global situation in 2010. But there was one in 2015, but people didn't vote for it then.
But then it depends when the damage was done. Was it done during the period of coalition, during which Labour had been committed to similar cuts, or during the deeper, permanent austerity implemented by the Tories when they were in government alone?
I would if I had said that, but I didn't. Strawman.
On the contrary, it was a much simpler system to sell than STV. And the one that Labour had supposedly committed to under the Jenkins commission. But Ed Miliband refused to properly campaign on it.
People voted Tory. Or voted Labour in seats they couldn't win. The majority Cameron won in 2015 was almost entirely seats switching from Lib Dem to Tory.
BTW, Labour under Gordon Brown was committed to halving the deficit -they even passed a law about it- which is about what the coalition did.
