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Assistant Editor @ConHome Tory Leninist and Meiji Restoration fan 'A total Tory BNOC' - @Tatlermagazine Living on a thin line
Wimbledon
Joined August 2020
Imagine surviving Rorke's Drift only to be confronted by Southern Rail.
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On my first day at Oxford, three different PPE-ists came up to tell me that they were going to be PM. Since then, I've always found something faintly terrifying about young people enthusiastic about going into politics. They lack the self-awareness to see how awful it is.
I recently watched an entire youth parliament "debate" and it was just several hours of this carry on.
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"Thousands and thousands of hours of centrist dad porn, each more climactic than the last! Constant, dizzying, twenty-four-hour, yearlong, endless agreement that people like us should be in power!" Watch it all, all here, all the time, forever, it will never stop!"
Channel 4 has announced that The Rest is Politics is going to be shown on television, with six episodes between now and election day. First episode airs Wednesday 29th May.
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Isn't a Fixed Penalty Notice the equivalent of a parking fine? So before the internet starts banging on about unprecedented criminality in Downing Street, can someone find out how many previous PMs and ministers have been done for leaving their Jags on some double yellows?.
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A century ago, Ramsey McDonald was the leader of Labour, and David Lloyd-George leader of the Liberals. Imagine explaining this to them.
🚨 NEW: Ed Davey has challenged Keir Starmer to a charity FIFA match in his latest TikTok video
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My faith in politics and in the romantic England that I grew up loving - Spitfires, rolling fields, country churches, and all the rest - never really recovered after I learnt about the horrors of the grooming gangs. It all seems so hollow.
The rape gangs are probably the most horrific set of crimes in post war British history, aided by the level of denial witnessed in the post below.
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Brace for the Long March From Chipping Norton. The revolution will be televised.
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A splendid idea, but I do fear that if we did this in England we would end up with Stormzy, Stephen Fry, and some Lionesses rather than Churchill, Nelson, and Elizabeth I.
In 2066, England will have navigated 1000 years without invasion. In Bavaria, Ludwig I built the Walhalla as a Hall of Fame of great Germans to celebrate 2000 years of heritage; could you imagine something similar in this country? A pantheon of 1000 years of great Britons?
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"You signed up to reparations out of social embarrassment? I sometimes buy The Big Issue out of social embarrassment, I don't pay F*CKING REPARATIONS!
Whitehall source suggests Starmer could sign up to a Commonwealth summit communique that 'references' slavery reparations but says this would 'not necessarily mean there is a change of policy'.
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It's funny how Sandbrook has been the big winner from UK coverage of the election, and Stewart the big loser. For me, it crystalises the value of TRIH over TRIP, and is a triumph for modal fans of the former (sensitive young men) over those of the latter (angry centrist dads).
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What a disgraceful decision. Hundreds of former terrorists and sympathisers could qualify for payouts unless this inexplicable measure is dropped.
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Post the same actor in two roles that show their range
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The major benefit of drinking alcohol is to make living in a world with people like this vaguely tolerable.
There’s no single benefit of drinking alcohol, not even one.
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1/ It is deeply disappointing that Petroineos have confirmed their previous decision to close Grangemouth oil refinery.
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The local elections are fascinating. Once a year, we stage a giant national opinion poll, with the prize of temporarily managing bin collections for whoever does best.
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It's Cameron I feel most sorry for. Lured back from the Cotswolds with a promise of free jet travel and an unlimited stash of Ferrero Rocher, after six months he finds himself back pulling pints in Macclesfield and shilling for the Triple Lock. What was the point?.
Conservative Governments are always best for pensioners. Great reception in the North West of England today for our income tax cut for pensioners with the new Triple Lock Plus. @SarBritcliffeMP @JamesDalyMP @ArnoldSaunders5 @DavidRutley
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I find it remarkable that Badenoch is leaning into the "I spent the election in a Twitter spat with Doctor Who" angle. A common concern MPs have about her is that she will spend the next five years rowing with people more popular than herself, to no obvious political benefit.
Tomorrow, I launch my @renewal2030 campaign to be the next leader of our great Conservative Party. Join me at 11.00am, here on X!
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"Let's send Barry Keoghan to Bulgaria"
So many questions. Why is David Lammy in Bulgaria with Barry Keoghan?.Why isn't the children and families minister, Janet Daby, doing it?.The press release keeps calling him "ambassador Barry Keoghan" but never says what he's ambassador of or to. Is he our man in Sofia?.
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Imagine Lord Salisbury announcing a victory over the Boers as a LadBible exclusive.
Rishi Sunak with an important message about the banning of disposable vapes 👇
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There is no way past it. God Save the King is a terrible national anthem.
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The youth yearn for the return of Sue Gray.
🚨 NEW: A report has found that one in five Britons aged 18-45 prefer unelected leaders to democracy. [@guardian].
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Over the next few years, Clarkson's Farm will be far more valuable for the centre-right cause - and reach an almost infinitely wider audience - than any party political broadcast CCHQ could think up.
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I’m reaching out to all the sensitive young men who need to hear this: Happy international men’s day @WTMAtkinson and @93vintagejones.
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The high political equivalent of calling your teacher "Mummy".
This is just embarrassing. After 3 months, Keir Starmer calls Rishi “prime minister”. Subconsciously, Starmer must know that he isn’t fit to be PM. #PMQs
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Once the trains are nationalised, none of them will ever break down ever again. No train will ever be late, the toilets will never be blocked, and the buffet cars will never run out of the sandwich you want. And we'll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.
After a long day in Parliament, no surprise that Avanti train to Manchester has broken down at Nuneaton. Sooner we nationalise the better.
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A situation where 40+ per cent of the electorate vote for right-wing parties and end up with a Labour uber-landslide and the Lib Dems as the opposition is going to do very, very bad things to the already abysmal levels of trust in SW1. It'll be Christmas for Farage.
NEW: @BloombergUK Saturday read. — the Tory campaign now expects to lose dozens of seats previously considered completely safe to the LibDems. — it sees large numbers of people in the south of England voting tactically to get their local Tory MP out.
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I would love to open a window into the soul of any Labour MP who got into politics and Parliament to campaign against 'Tory austerity' only to find themselves implementing Osborne-esque spending cuts at the behest of the bond markets.
NEW: Rachel Reeves will give a ‘growth speech’ soon to reassure bond investors and businesses about the economy. All the more important after current market rout. She’ll favour spending cuts over more tax rises if rising borrowing costs wipe out headroom.
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You think the Tory record on migration couldn't get any more embarrassing. Then you discover we were simultaneously committed to eliminating HIV by 2030 and to importing as many people as possible from countries where it was highly prevalent. Insanity.
My joint article with NHS consultant @drcarolinej looks at how changing migration is taking us away from our target to eliminate HIV in the UK by 2030. We argue for a new HIV strategy, including making testing a visa requirement for people from high prevalence countries.
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In a moment, he did more for this country's self-confidence than a quarter century's worth of handwringing technocrats and declinist Keynesians.
April 2nd 1982: Admiral Sir Henry Leach goes to Parliament in full dress, straight from a function and tells Margaret Thatcher that she absolutely must respond to the Argentine invasion. She asks why. (continues)
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Rory Stewart suits modern Oxford quite well. High Tory trappings for bland centrist politics, a general sense of entitled underachievement, and a habit of living off its reputation rather than contributing anything useful to public life. Liz Truss would still be funnier though.
NEW: Rory Stewart has emerged as a contender to be Oxford’s next chancellor. With @DominicPenna
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We are governed by morons.
NEW: UK govt has offered to frontload a tranche of payments to Mauritius in a bid to finalise Chagos islands deal, acc to people familiar with talks. Proposal is seen as compromise between Mauritians' demand for more cash, and UK refusal to increase overall cost of 99-year lease.
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Terrible news. Even if the Marbles go - not 'returned', since modern Greece is not the descendant of ancient Athens - only temporarily, a terminal blow will be dealt to the British Museum's universal purpose. Politicking will have won over principle.
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Why does she bother to respond to this? Especially with a five Tweet thread? Just makes her look rattled and gives Reform publicity. Farage wants her to talk about it, so don't. Remove the fuel of his gains by outflanking him on immigration, not doing "ackshually" posts.
Manipulating your own supporters at Xmas eh, Nigel?.It’s not real. It’s a fake ⏰ coded to tick up automatically. We’ve been watching the back end for days and can also see they’ve just changed the code to link to a different site as people point this out. Farage doesn’t.
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🚨 NEW: Gen Z MPs are calling for a three-day week in Parliament and a looser dress code, such as not wearing a tie . [@SophiaSleigh].
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The Yanks have a billionaire inventor who wants to terraform Mars. We have a bloke who presided over a series of public sector overspends, including sitting on the board of HS2. "Greece to their Rome".
Americans get a Department of Government Efficiency led by two successful entrepreneurs who are fanatical about slashing red tape. Meanwhile, we’re stuck with the Office for Value for Money, run by a lifelong bureaucrat who has never worked on an efficient project in his life.
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You don't know what you've got until it's gone.
🚨 NEW: Boris Johnson planned for the British military to 'invade' Holland and seize 5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine 'kidnapped' by the EU during Covid. [@DailyMailUK].
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Brexit has disappointed Remainers and Leavers, by being neither a disaster nor changing very much. Our sluggishness is long-standing, and COVID was a much bigger hit. The virtue of leaving is that SW1 can no longer blame Brussels for its failures, especially on migration.
FT won’t draw conclusion from this graph that UK securing its independence from EU has had a positive effect on its productivity…but we can be certain that if it showed the UK lagging behind Brussels, they’d loudly make that point. When you stake your reputation on the UK
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If Starmer was a Tory, we would already be seeing pieces on how and when he should be removed.
🚨 Starmer suffers biggest fall in popularity for new PM. Approval rating plunges from high of plus 11 after landslide election win to -38 – a net drop of 49 – ahead of Budget. Read more ⬇️.
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Sunak was always happier failing conventionally than succeeding unconventionally. Dealt a bad hand, he played it very badly. But he is also vastly more impressive than most MPs, and, personally, always kind. I will never regret backing him over Truss, and wish him well.
Tories overtake Labour in Sunak’s final poll. ✍️ Steerpike.
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A "Portillo Moment" has been so devalued. Portillo in 1997 was genuinely shocking - the heir apparent unexpectedly losing. Cabinet ministers who have been expected to do so for months lack the same value. The only real shock would be Sunak being turfed out.
Will the 'Michael Portillo moment' be renamed 'The Jeremy Hunt moment'? . Fingers crossed.
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Very, very early days, but my assumption from the morning after the election that Labour are cooked still stands. My bigger worry is that we are too.
Westminster Voting Intention:. LAB: 33% (-2).CON: 24% (=).RFM: 18% (+3).LDM: 12% (-1).GRN: 8% (+1).SNP: 2% (-1). Via @BMGResearch, 5-7 Aug. Changes w/ GE2024.
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It is quite remarkable how a generation of hacks currently posting tributes along the lines of "Eh, poor Alex, I might not be a Nat, but he was great for a lunch" are all studiously ignoring the very large elephant in the room.
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Right now, I just feel really sad. Not only because I'm losing my summer holiday, or because I'll soon be living under a Labour government, but because of what a hopeless let-down these last 14 years have been. Total feeling of ennui. What a mess.
The view of most MPs and ministers I have spoken to today.
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It's a sign of how screwed up the priorities of the political/media class can be in this country that there's almost instinctive agreement that Braverman's speeding fine is more pressing to ask about than, say, Ukraine, China, AI, supply chains, etc etc.
NEW: Sunak very terse at press conference over Braverman. Gave one answer and then didn’t elaborate when asked follow-ups. Said he doesn’t “have the full details” & hasn’t spoken to her: Said he understands she’s expressed regret for speeding & accepted the penalty” 1/
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Visited a winery in Albania. The proprietor was very fond of Britain, but did bring up the subject of David Cameron's curtailed visit. Turns out it's very difficult to use Google Translate to explain the concept of "James Forsyth".
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I can't imagine Keir Starmer suggesting God has sent him to colonise Mars, but I can't stop myself from wishing we had a Prime Minister who would.
Trump declares himself a ‘peacemaker’ before 2 minutes later appearing to declare war on Panama.
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They're welcome to him. Amongst all the current and former Tory MPs that I have had to deal with in the last three years, Longhi was one of, if not the, most tedious, self-important, and uninspiring.
Former Tory MP Marco Longhi defects to Reform UK.
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A scheme by which teenagers learn 'skills' through a combination of volunteering and an 'exploration trip'? Great idea! I'm surprised nobody has done it already. But we can do better than 'Great British National Service'. Maybe name it after a late member of the Royal Family?
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Keir Starmer will put up your taxes. Bookmark this tweet.
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With the greatest respect to a few of the recently bestowed that I admire, we need a total and complete shutdown on politicians receiving knighthoods until we have a political class worthy of honouring.
From Sir. Gavin Williamson to Sir Sadiq Khan I wonder if the political class has any idea of how much the public despises this incestuous honouring of themselves.
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Any Conservative MP who votes to remove bishops from the House of Lords should have the whip removed immediately. They are an affront to the fundamental tenets of Toryism.
Sir Gavin Williamson is trying to amend Labour’s reform bill to remove the right of the Archbishop of Canterbury and his colleagues to sit in the upper house ⬇️
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Sorry if I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but for how long has Taylor Swift been dating Graham Gooch?
Sorry, Taylor Swift – friendships that cross political lines never work
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Fascinating. Both Brexit and 2019 have been memory-holed in favour of political paradigms two decades out of date. If this a genuine reflection of the 'thinking' of Number 10, Labour should be terrified.
“The people who will be most pleased about this result is No 10 Downing Street.”. With Cleverly out of the Tory leadership race, the Labour Party now has certainty it will face an opposition 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘭𝘺 on the right. @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewisgoodall
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We laugh now, but if Kemi stumbles, this is what the 2026 Tory leadership election is going to look like.
🚨 NEW: Boris Johnson offered to arm wrestle Rishi Sunak to decide who should be Prime Minister after Liz Truss' resignation. [@ShippersUnbound].
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The Great Repeal Act of 2029, simultaneously closing the Scottish and Welsh 'Parliaments', taking us out of the ECHR, bringing back the Law Lords, and allowing smoking in pubs.
I often think that repealing the smoking ban would be essential for a modernising government, to prove the tides can be turned back and the bells can unrung.
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For someone like myself - who was a nerdy, unsporty, history and science obsessed lad, for whom the Doctor was my greatest hero - the idea that Doctor Who was "never" for us is not only ludicrous, but profoundly sad.
I not sure the critical theorists appreciate how much resentment this kind of spiteful, triumphalist goading stirs up among people who've had a liberal, live-and-let-live attitude practically all their lives.
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Private Eye's problem is that it's too po-faced to realise it has long since become a tribune and disciple of the establishment worldview, rather than a critic or satirist of it. Hislop has been there since 1986. Spare us the tired gags about Murdoch and stick to the cartoons.
Ian Hislop is 64. Francis Wheen and Craig Brown 67. An equivalent magazine when the Eye started would have been edited and written by those born in the Edwardian era and likely its main target. Macmillan, for instance, was then 67.
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One of the most depressing - if liberating - moments in any Oxonian's life is the point at which they admit C*mbridge is a much nicer city.
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Seems quaint now to remember that these two men ruled the British right together for over a decade, across government and popular culture, like Chipping Norton's answer to Antony and Octavian.
Quite enjoying Lord Cameron juxtaposing jet-setting with the most middle-class dad settings imaginable. One day the Middle East; the next smashing pints with Clarkson at the Six Nations
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Such a blatant breach of regulations would obviously be a resigning matter. But I'm not sure a 10 minute meeting at which cake was had amongst people who were already working together is necessarily the smoking gun the PM and Chancellor's critics are hoping for or hyping it as.
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Starmer is a conservative PM, if one means he wants to preserve Britain's post-1997 political, cultural, and economic order. He is a pillar of orthodoxy. But to suggest he's a closet Tory veers into the ludicrous. Just look at what Phillipson is doing to education, and weep.
'As morning breaks on 1 January, sleepy Spectator readers can look forward to a new year in which Britain is led by a tough, patriotic, pro-business Prime Minister. In short what until recently most people called a conservative.'. ✍️ Nick Boles.
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The basic standard which any Jaguar must reach is simple: "Would John Thaw look good in this driving around Oxfordshire romancing recent widows and drinking proper beer?". This does not reach that standard, to say the least.
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I dream of the day that British politics is free from the horrors of America-brain
NEW: Scottish Lib Dem leader to campaign for Kamala Harris in pivotal US swing state. Alex Cole-Hamilton says the election is the "most important" in global history. .
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Bored by the confected outrage about this. A lot of NatCon stuff is just an excuse to flog books. But have we really got to the stage where it is beyond the pale to point out that children raised by mothers and fathers are the norm, or that divorce is a tragedy one should avoid?.
The normative family, the mother and father sticking together for the sake of the children, is the only basis for a safe and functioning society. Marriage is not only about you, it's a public act to live for the sake of someone else. -MP @danny__kruger at #NatConUK
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Who needs parliamentary democracy when you can have a quango?.
Imagine if we had an inspectorate to inspect the quality of the performance of government ministers in the way inspectorates assess schools, NHS trusts, police, prisons etc? From Sunak down they would be in special measures. Yet they sit in constant judgement of all of the above.
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The Tory Party's ongoing unwillingness to acknowledge that everything Vote Leave/Cummings have said about its uselessness is true is one of the (many) reasons why it persists in punching itself in the face.
Unbelievable that the Tories, which just 5 years ago was run by the Vote Leave team, are falling hook, line and sinker for the red bus argument tactic. STOP DEBATING THE NUMBER OF REFORM MEMBERS, YOU ARE GIVING THEM ATTENTION. Christ on a bike.
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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Trump is taking back the Panama Canal, I think it’s time we took back the Suez Canal?
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It's slightly depressing how impressed a generation of respected right-wing thinkers and politicians are by Badenoch having expressed an interest in Stowell, Scruton, and other sages that my generation of Tories had all seen on YouTube at the age of 17.
You get such a great sense of @KemiBadenoch's intellectual energy and personal authenticity from this @unherd conversation with @TomMcTague : Important acknowledgment of the influence of @ThomasSowell and @Scruton_Quotes.
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In case it's not obvious: from the moment Labour took office the . far right have been looking for street confrontations with minority communities and refugees -.It's clearly organised and it's likely manipulated by foreign powers.
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This is a rare example of PMQs being used well. 99 times out of 100 it is pointless and ignorable, so by pushing for positive change to a terrible bill, Badenoch has done something far more worthwhile than content-mining for those "Kemi OWNS Starmer" clips CCHQ puts out.
A lot of people who should know better spent yesterday outraged that Kemi focused on education at PMQs - and yet here we see the fruits. There is almost nothing the opposition to a landslide government can *do*, so forcing a retreat on a major bill is a huge win.
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Very pleased to say I'm leaving Oxford with a First in History. My greatest ever achievement, asides from the time I once cooked a roast chicken.
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Pitt the Younger was PM at 24 and didn't do too badly. Plenty of MPs elected in their 50s or 60s with far more "life experience" go on to be immemorable duffers. What matters is the quality, character, and outlook of the individual, not their age.
Is 25 too young to be an MP? . I think it's far too young. @tomhfh thinks it's great! . We'll be debating that, plus getting all the latest reaction to yesterday's by-election results. On Britain's Newsroom (9.30-12pm) on @GBNEWS. Join us!
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Girls of Britain! You too can grow up to invent a £22 billion black hole, pointlessly hike Capital Gains Tax, and be reshuffled out within eighteen months. Stunning and brave.
Tomorrow, my friend @RachelReevesMP will make history as the first woman to deliver a UK Budget. Regardless of the politics, this is a significant moment for our country.
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Tomorrow, Elon will discover that Boris needled Starmer for not prosecuting Savile at PMQs three years ago. For 27 minutes he will back the ex-PM to be Reform's next leader, until SmashTheWoke49 flags that he wore a pink cowboy hat as London Mayor.
Holy shit he's about to find out who was chief prosecutor at the time. I can't look away
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It's 3 AM, you're leaving the club, and your mate asks if you fancy a kebab.
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One doesn't have to think that Johnson was a victim of a witch-hunt to admit that Gray's appointment to Labour didn't pass the sniff test, and further undermined trust in Civil Service impartiality amongst Whitehall's right-wing critics.
🚨 NEW: Boris Johnson defends Partygate, saying the person who investigated it was Sue Gray . "Remind our viewers who Sue Gray is. what post does she currently hold?". Bradby: "We're not going down this road. this is unfair on Sue Gray who is not here to defend herself"
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The most jarring part was that Sunak had ended by saying he was proud to live in country where his ethnicity didn't matter, whilst Starmer started by suggesting it was the most important thing about him.
Doesn't matter now but odd that Sunak decided to open his speech by apologising to the public, seemingly accepting he'd done a bad job in office, while Starmer opened by congratulating Sunak on being Asian, then immediately implied he was self-serving.
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You can tell me Concorde was too expensive or noisy as many times as you like. But it won't stop us living in a country that once had a supersonic airliner, yet chose to retire it, and that makes the Anglo-Gaullist in me rather sad, and then quite angry.
Here’s the only picture of Concorde flying at supersonic speed. This extraordinary photo was taken by Adrian Meredith who was flying a Royal Air Force Tornado over the Irish Sea in April 1985. The curvature of the Earth is also seen on the horizon. Aviation as an art form.
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"Starmer accused of weakening Britain by pushing for UN Security Council reform. "Prime Minister looks to double the number of permanent members with representatives from Africa, Brazil and India".
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It's like reading Pravda's coverage of the fall of the Soviet Union.
BREAKING: A man has been arrested in connection with SNP party finance probe
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This is revenge for when Brown gave Obama a pen holder made out of the wood of an anti-slavery ship, and Obama gave him some unplayable Region 1 DVDs.
Starmer gifts Biden an Arsenal shirt with Biden 46 on the back. Biden returns the favour with a famed copy of the original Atlantic charter (that let to the formation of NATO) with Atlee’s amendments.
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"You all laughed at me. Well, I have to say, you’re not laughing now, are you?”
📊 Conservative lead at 1pt.Westminster voting intention. CON: 29% (+4).LAB: 28% (-2).REF: 17% (-3).LDEM: 13% (-).GRN: 8% (+1). via @BMGResearch, 30 - 31 Oct.
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A crucial point from @niall_gooch. Alongside the butchering of parliamentary procedure in recent decades, it is a simple and depressing truth that today's MPs lack the hinterland, debating ability, and basic intellect of previous generations. The decline is real and obvious.
"Even 30 years ago. the sophistication & rigour of parliamentary argument is quite remarkable, all the more so when you remember that MPs were speaking ex tempore, or with just a few notes." Me on the undeniable decline of the Commons, at the @spectator.
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Random old bloke in the pub currently lamenting the loss of hereditary peers from the House of Lords. I believe in England, and I believe we shall go forward.
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In Singapore a few months ago, a group of us asked our taxi driver what he thought of the UK. He described it as an awful hellhole, riddled by crime and drugs, and owned by Russians and Arabs. A tad dispiriting from our former colony.
One anecdotal takeaway from the RNC is the generational difference in how Americans perceive the UK - those online, on the right, aged under 50 were much more likely to bring up issues around immigration or integration.
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@93vintagejones All those wars that were won and lost don't seem to matter very much anymore.
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Eden's failure to take up Mollet's offer of a Franco-British Union under Elizabeth II as head of state was the greatest error of any post-war Prime Minister.
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The most interesting thing about post-PM Boris that commentators got wrong is how genuinely uninterested he seems to be in his legacy, or returning to power. He looks quite happy churning out mediocre columns, earning mega-bucks, and being a Dad to three young children.
Just Boris Johnson breaking yet another convention - sharing details of his private audience with our late Queen - for cash, because he’s been warned his tedious columns aren’t up to scratch.
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🚨Names NOT on the Epstein list 🚨. ⚠️ Stanley Baldwin. ⚠️ Benjamin Disraeli. ⚠️ Lord Salisbury. ⚠️ Sir Alec Douglas-Home. ⚠️ Anthony Eden. ⚠️ Andrew Bonar Law. ⚠️ Lord Derby. ⚠️ Henry Bolingbroke. ⚠️ The Earl of Strafford.
🚨 Names NOT on the Epstein list 🚨. ⚠️ Elon Musk. ⚠️ Donald Trump. ⚠️ Andrew Tate. ⚠️ Tristan Tate. ⚠️ Vivek Ramaswamy. ⚠️ Matt Gaetz. ⚠️ Alex Jones. ⚠️ Aaron Rodgers. ⚠️ Rand Paul
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Surprised and delighted to have been named as one of Britain's most eligible young men and women in 2023's edition of @Tatlermagazine's Little Black Book. Nobody was more taken aback than myself to see my inclusion. Except, perhaps, my girlfriend.
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As entertainingly baroque as the SNP's implosion is, unionists must be careful. Yousaf is palpably crap. But if he was replaced by someone compotent - like Kate Forbes - nationalist fortunes could quickly reverse. Unionists should want Humza leading the SNP into a election.
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I can't help but try and wonder what Thatcher, Salisbury, or Disraeli are thinking, looking down, of a Tory MP sending intimate photos of himself to a stranger, then handing over his colleagues' phone numbers to try and save himself, all without any public party rebuke.
William Wragg will not be stripped of the whip over involvement in honeytrap sexting scandal. Ministers and colleagues - including victims - are sympathetic. Wragg told @breeallegretti that he handed over personal phone numbers of colleagues to a man he met on Grindr after.
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