Stuart Wilks-Heeg
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The very non-league football team at the end of my road,
@MarineAFC
, has somehow made it to the third round of the FA Cup and their goalkeeper has just returned to the ground from the local Coop with drinks to celebrate.
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Re-watching the BBC election night coverage (because ... why not?) and I feel that this magnificent graphic of the all-time records for seats lost in a general election, shown at 06:15am, has been a bit under-appreciated.
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Daily Express says 150 new EU laws are 'ruining Britain'. Here's their top 8. I'll let you judge their likely damage
http://t.co/fYYXgzlZP4
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My daughter was asked to do a survey on extremism and radicalisation at Sixth Form College today, as part of her studies. It seems to be linked to Prevent. This is one of the questions. 😕
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Sure. He’s hopeless. But any Cabinet reshuffle will be standardised to bring the distribution of competence in line with the average for the last 3 years. And that means SOMEONE has to be Chris Grayling.
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Boris Johnson making his rambling announcement over the top of protestors chanting “stop the coup” is just incredible stuff. Imagine how this will look on international TV tonight and tomorrow.
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Just realised what the 7pm “twitterstorm“ directed at the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party reminded me of. It’s the Two Minute Hate in Orwell’s 1984. Still, I guess Orwell was a Blairite too. I mean, his actual name was literally Eric Blair.
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Hi
@GoodwinMJ
, I think it’s perfectly valid to explain your own academic interests and perspectives with reference to your own upbringing. But why did you add this about the rest of us, which you know isn’t remotely true? Not even a tiny bit true.
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The UK opted not to stay in Erasmus? Why on earth? That’s mad.
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I think it’s fairly safe to assume that John Curtice has indeed heard of tactical voting.
Has John Curtice not heard of tactical voting? If you were a Labour voter in a seat that Labour couldn't possibly win it would be very tempting to vote LibDem knowing it would reduce the Tories' Commons majority to one.
#r4today
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Failing Grayling is on
@BBCr4today
blaming the French, in advance, if the M26 becomes a giant lorry park and there is massive congestion at ports after Brexit. What an idiot.
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Merseyrail would like to be absolutely clear that it will absolutely not be entering the 21st century at this time.
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Report on
@BBCNews
just now indicated that members of the public are being urged to help provide food parcels for the huge number of Northumbria students who are now self-isolating. Mutual aid is great. But how on earth has it come to this?
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Right, decision made, going to replace my module on ‘UK Elections Since 1945’ with ‘UK Politics 3rd-4th September 2019’.
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A common denominator in so many policy challenges facing the current government, from sewage in rivers to energy prices, rail strikes to university fees/admissions, is that market forces + weak regulation is now so clearly running into deep trouble as a policy formula.
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This 4 part BBC series from 1995 is absolutely excellent on what happened in the decade after Labour “won the argument” in the 1983 General Election. It remains one of the best political documentaries ever made. Essential watching in late 2019
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No chilled foods in the Crosby Co-op for several days now. Soon won’t be any fruit and veg either. Desperate stuff.
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It’s a shame that the Boris Johnson/Jennifer Arcuri story in the Sunday Times is behind a paywall, because the details are absolutely astonishing. Here’s a selection.
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Prof Matt Goodwin has now defined the characteristics of the new elite who are apparently controlling what we are allowed to say and think. My 7-point summary below. I don't make the cut, only scoring a meagre 3/7 (and that's if L23 counts as a new elite postcode). How about you?
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Excellent
@FT
film on the impacts of Brexit so far. The trade data is genuinely troubling but the stories told in the film by UK exporters really capture how dire the situation is. Thanks
@jamesgraham
for sharing.
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This is a genuine dilemma for constitutional reform advocates. The design of the Lords is indefensible on almost any democratic measure, but it does actually work very well overall including, ironically, as a protector of democratic standards in our political
system as a whole.
Exclusive | Labour is preparing to shelve its pledge to abolish the House of Lords entirely after concluding that the second chamber is operating well,
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I’m getting a bit worried by all the latest Sir Keir revelations because, at various points, I made timetabling requests for lecture rooms for 200+ students in the semester ahead, and I only switched to online teaching when lockdown rules were then introduced. Will I get a fine?
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Decades of pretending that we can have Nordic-style public services in return for US levels of taxation has left us with the worst of both worlds in the UK. But, no political party really wants to admit it, especially at election time.
Arguing about which small tax rises politicians may or may not make is an unforgivable failure to deal with the real questions: How come taxes are so high, when public services are often so poor? And what can be done about it?
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Liverpool is a spectacular city on any day of the week but I’ve never seen it look this good. It wears
#Eurovision
like it was built for it.
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It’s been so long since we had high inflation that a lot of people who should know better seem to have forgotten how it works. So much current discussion of prices seems to assume that, at some point soon, they will go back down to where they were before high inflation kicked in.
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Um, can anyone point me to the British suburbs where we are currently building concrete tower blocks in the style of the GDR? I appear to have wholly overlooked this aspect of contemporary UK housing policy.
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Meg has always been incredibly measured and careful in her expert analysis of UK constitutional affairs. She doesn’t use language like “extraordinary” and “rapidly becoming a constitutional crisis” lightly. In truth, I’ve never heard her say things like that before.
“We have a Prime Minister who has faced precisely one day of Parliamentary scrutiny so far…and at the centre of our democracy is that the government is accountable to Parliament."
Meg Russell, Director of the
@ConUnit_UCL
tells
@BBCWorldatOne
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I think we have now reached the stage where my British Politics lectures this academic year will go out of date while I deliver them.
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Danish newspaper poll finds huge support for an independent Scotland joining Nordic Council
http://t.co/YV2DjhgGA2
http://t.co/wC3lASFgwA
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Just been told that up to 150,000 students could now change their choice of university. So that’s going to be great fun. Does UCAS have a factory reset button?
#ALevelsResults
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@TomHulme79
@nigelfletcher
It’s good, but when it comes to Dutch parodies of the English, I think this is simply unbeatable. Jiskefet - English Sports
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@Nisaccom
Wow. Obviously a big chunk of the definition is chopped out in the question, which makes a difference. But even so! Why is 'British Values' in there?
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Just got mass GDPR email from a mailing list I didn’t even know I was on and which has every recipient’s email address visible. Now getting reply all messages from other recipients.
a) What fresh hell is this?
b) Maybe do the GDPR training before you send out the GDPR emails?
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Pivotal moment in every academic career - the September when the people with the leaflets for student club nights glance at you and opt not to hand you a leaflet.
STUDENTS: remember that academics genuinely like it when you try and give us leaflets for freshers’ club nights as we walk through campus. Obviously we’re not going to go clubbing until 3am, but it’s nice that you think we still could.
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I’m at my parents’ house. They have a dog that barks quite a lot. Judging by the names of the WiFi networks my phone is picking up, one of their neighbours is not entirely happy about this.
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The Daily Mail predicted far bigger fallout from 5p carrier bag charge than it did from UK leaving EU
#Brexit
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After this, can we maybe just agree it’s best if we delay the election until the UK-wide political parties manage to find leaders that are at least half as good as Nicola Sturgeon?
#bbcqt
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Recall when we were told that 20k Covid deaths would be a good outcome? The total reported so far in Jan 2021 is 22,469. That's 23% of all UK Covid deaths so far and there's a week of January left. This is truly grim. It would have shocked us to the core a year ago.
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What is this weird English thing where everyone says that laws restricting personal freedoms for a wider public benefit won’t be obeyed, but then the law is passed and everyone obeys it? Seat belts, smoking ban, lockdown ... and face masks next?
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You don’t have to disagree with Kemi Badenoch’s politics to know that this is bad politics.
Quite the clash at the Women and Equalities Committee where Kemi Badenoch accused Carolyn Harris of "speaking from a left wing perspective" after calling for a pilot on menopause leave
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Just got completely pranked by my 7 year old.
“Dad, dad, quick, there‘s a leak in the bathroom! Quick!”
*Rushes upstairs immediately*
*Discovers the leek on the bathroom floor*
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I’ve really had enough of this nonsense. How about some actually serious analysis of whether online teaching is inferior to socially distant, masked, ‘Covid-secure’ f2f teaching? How about actually talking to the people doing the teaching and who care deeply about what works?
I have written to vice-chancellors outlining what the new national restrictions will mean for universities. Their priority must be ensuring minimal disruption to students’ education and protecting their wellbeing.
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Right, it’s Friday, 6pm. Let’s get this work event started.
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Meet Mary, who works full-time on the minimum wage, and meet Mark, who is in the top 20% of income earners.
Mary now takes home an extra £128. Mark takes home an extra £754.
Meet Michael, an average earner in the UK.
Michael now earns an extra £450 take home pay as a result of today's tax cuts.
Want to find out how much YOU could save?
Click below 👇
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The year is 2035. The BBC has cut its staffing by 60% over a decade. Only 8 universities still teach humanities. Most London museums and galleries have closed after foreign tourists gave up on travel to the UK. On GB News, someone is blaming the New Elite for being out of touch.
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What’s something that was abolished over half a century ago that you’d like to see a political party promise to bring back in their
#GE2024
manifesto?
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Part of the Merseyside metropolitan area, with a population of about 100,000, has been more or less without mains water all weekend, poorly located and inadequately stocked water stations keep running out, and the response is basically a lot of shoulder-shrugging.
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I honestly can’t think of an organisation that has impressed me more than
@instituteforgov
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Gavin Williamson just responded to a Commons question from the MP for Loughborough by saying that “the excellent work being undertaken by the University of Loughborough ... is testament to the fantastic work being undertaken by Loughborough University”.
#universities
#COVID19
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I’ve just read that Toby Young thread and I honestly think we can all just ignore him now. It’s so totally deranged, there’s really no need to respond. The echo chamber for that kind of stuff is tiny. Leave them to it.
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Chairman of JD Sports actually asks out loud whether the UK’s exit from the EU maybe, in reflection, wasn’t all that well thought through and carefully planned after all.
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Anyone who has ever been in any BBC studio, anywhere, while the outcome of any election was being reported on, by any BBC outlet, will confirm that this story is absolutely not believable.
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I'm sure I speak for all of my colleagues
@LivUniPol
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@guardian
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@JonTonge
a fantastic new nickname.
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Starting to fear that students on my British Politics module this semester will be able to claim almost anything in the exam about the UK political system and they won’t necessarily be wrong ...
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For lovers of the detail (and who wouldn’t be?) here’s the Crosby Co-op.
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Sorry everyone but I’m here again and I just can’t help myself.
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When I am King, I will nationalise Tupperware and all similar products, decree that only 3 sizes of box and lid are permitted, and ban any future variation or “innovation” in these products.
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I know that not everyone will agree, but I think that this, from
@RoryStewartUK
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‘It’s the same mistake made in France and Italy. They went too left wing and ended up as small parties for intellectuals in cities and lost their base.’
@RoryStewartUK
explains how Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour party to their biggest electoral defeat since 1935.
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Busy (and expensive) times at the Corrections and Clarifications department of the Daily Telegraph. Wonder if they’ve considered the alternative route of re-embracing high journalistic standards and trying to be a serious and credible newspaper again?
The Telegraph and I have today published an apology to Laura Murray over false allegations in an article I wrote shortly before Christmas. Please see link below.
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The claim that the UK’s EU withdrawal agreement is 95% complete is every PhD student ever talking to their supervisor as the immovable submission deadline looms.
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I think we are now perilously close to the moment when real UK politics leapfrogs almost anything you might ever have seen or could imagine seeing in a fictional portrayal of UK politics.
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On the
@MarineAFC
team coach back from Macclesfield. And it’s a party bus! National League North here we come!
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This is
@GoodwinMJ
writing in 2012 about the drivers of extreme and violent far-right radicalisation
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Video messages instead of personal statements on UCAS forms? Now, that is a truly terrible idea.
I can accept personal statements are bad and should go, but the idea of doing a video message seems so much worse to me personally. Not sure if it's a generational thing or the fact I'm more of a text than a video person.
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This sort of thing isn’t unusual in schools now. From a recent open evening I was at: “Your child will be taught to underline the title at a specific distance from the words. And, parents, you will know that this is what businesses want from their employees. Consistency.”
Chilling speech from the head at a local academy open evening tonight: ‘In year 7 they’ll get a detention for turning round & looking at the clock, & in year 11 they’ll get a detention for turning round & looking at the clock. But by year 11 they’ll no longer think it’s unfair’
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Theresa May announced her departure 5 minutes into my
#POLI102
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Citizens of Liverpool! 700 political scientists are in town for
#PSA23
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The thing we all knew was going to happen to the English university sector is happening now and is happening fast. Does any sector-wide body have any kind of mitigation strategy or are we just going to let this play out chaotically, with massive consequences for all of us?
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Someone who lives on my road has put up a fully decorated Christmas tree in their window. And all I can say is, whatever gets you through the lockdown, it’s alright. Merry Christmas! 🎄
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I do hope we get to have European Parliament elections in the UK in May because they provide me with a rare opportunity to explain the D’Hondt method of allocating seats under list-PR to people who generally wished they’d never asked.
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Honestly, the post-match analysis on ITV discussing whether
#Eng
will see it as a “missed opportunity” given that they’d have faced
#Mar
next. Stop this arrogant s**t! Look who
#Mar
beat so far!
#WorldCup2022
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Looking forward to conformation of a “triple lock” for REF2021 grades. UoAs to get whichever is the highest of a) the REF panel’s scores, b) institutional mock REFs, or c) internal grading by colleagues.
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This is definitely one of my top moments of 2020.
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Sunak: “we reduced child poverty”. That’s going to be one for the fact-checkers then.
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The ball is in France’s court apparently. It’s for them to sort it out, or the port of Calais will suffer badly, Failing Grayling tells us. Yeah, I’m sure that will do the trick.
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Did I miss the stages through which the case for Brexit changed from “we will be a great, export-driven global trading nation” to “doesn’t matter about tariffs, we don’t export much anyway”?
Dairy farmers won’t be affected by a possible 35% tariff if there is no trade deal with the EU because "we would be applying our own tariffs on imported EU goods," says Environment Secretary George Eustice
#Marr
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Look, I’m no pessimist, I’m really not. But once we’ve sorted this universities admissions chaos, this is what potentially awaits us on UK campuses. Could we maybe, just maybe, not sleepwalk into that as well, please?
"Some universities are already battling Covid outbreaks, including the UNC at Chapel Hill — where 4 viral clusters have emerged one week after in-person classes started — and Oklahoma State University, where a single sorority house has 23 confirmed cases"
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@DrCathyElliott
Actually, true. I should have added that. And, of course, the reason is usually that someone earlier that day had failed to deal with everything I listed before starting their lecture on time and so the chain reaction starts ...
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British Politics essay question, 2024/25:
“What did the Leicester lockdown in 2020 reveal about the politics of central-local relations in the UK state?”
Standard answer: “Before answering this question, it is important to recognise the disputed meaning of ‘Leicester’ ...”
Government lawyers have spent 24 pages of A4 defining “Leicester” which is amazing.
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@GoodwinMJ
Can you tell us more about the “we” part of the first sentence, Matt? Who else is involved in issuing these invitations? Just so WE all know.
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The FT’s election model is forecasting a Labour majority of 41% in Sefton Central. You might need to join my psephological tour of the constituency, with its villas, golf courses and tennis clubs, to grasp how astonishing this is.
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New nameplate on my office door. However, the statement of my teaching and learning strategy is not being updated at this time. 😉
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Life takes some interesting turns sometimes. Not gonna lie, I am VERY excited about this!
Great to welcome two new additions to
@MarineAFC
media team -
@StuartWilksHeeg
on the PA and
@ajyates33
match day media
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Universities as “visa mills”? If universities shrinking or closing triggers local economic decline, then just let it happen? I would say I’ve heard it all now, but am certain this is just the start of a new genre of “why universities collapsing is actually a really great thing”.
Replacing cotton mills with visa mills is not a solution to deindustrialisation.
Towns like Huddersfield grew in the 19th century due to industrialisation. The state shouldn't subsidise them to remain at their current size forever. Find new industries, or shrink gracefully.
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One of my kids is walking around the house singing “exit poll” to the tune of Enter Sandman by Metallica, so I think my work is done here.
#ge24
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Given that this approach has been so absolutely central to Conservative Party thinking for decades, and was a core part of the case for Brexit, this is a real moment of existential crisis for the Tories. But you wouldn’t know it yet from the leadership campaign.
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Tory Party before forcing Johnson's resignation: "we can't have a leadership contest because of the war in Ukraine and the cost of living crisis".
Tory Party after Johnson resigns: "Tax cuts NOW! Slash the state! War on Woke! No gender-neutral toilets! Set the truth free!"
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Did you know that Gary Lineker and his celebrity TV presenter mates actually run the country? All against the wishes of the Great British Public! Crazy, right? Here’s how it works
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@politicalhackuk
Not sure. Feel like we need a definitive list of elite postcodes. Some residents of L8 expressing surprise about their new status.
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For decades, Crosby Village was one of those sad, dreary pedestrianised shopping areas in terminal decline that nobody knew what to do with. It took Covid-19 to provide the answer.
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