'It's a lawyerly tactic James, we all do it...'
'He effectively let Rishi Sunak hang himself with it.'
Caller Philo, a retired lawyer, explains to
@mrjamesob
the motivation behind Keir Starmer's reaction to the PM's '£2000 tax attack'.
just to reiterate: about 10 percent of world trade has been at a standstill for 2 days because a cargo ship drew a giant dick in the Red Sea then wedged itself sideways in the Suez Canal
to put it into perspective, the £22 million the government is providing to support businesses in Greater Manchester during an actual pandemic is £30 million less than Boris Johnson spent on a bridge that doesn't exist in London
powerful moment as the BBC first reports that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is on her way home after 6 years. a lot of people have been waiting a long time to be able to say that
Extraordinary clip
Dad of sick child: "The NHS is being destroyed, and now you come here for a press opportunity."
Boris Johnson: "Actually there's no press here."
Dad: [Gestures to TV cameras] "Who are these people?"
had to listen back a few times to check Dominic Raab really said this
"On this taking the knee thing, I don't know maybe it's got a broader history, it seems to be taken from the Game of Thrones, feels to me like a symbol of subjugation and subordination"
Jon Snow on the pro-Brexit protests outside Parliament, "I have never seen so many white people in one place... it's an extraordinary story, there are people everywhere"
just an extraordinary exchange between the government minister responsible for welfare and a Premier League footballer campaigning for kids not to go hungry this summer
Coming up on
#BBCBreakfast
🔶100 mph winds and thousands left without power as Storm Dudley hits the UK -
@carolkirkwood
with the latest
🔶Doubt over Russia's claim it's moving troops away from the Ukraine border
🔶Tom Daley starts the final leg of his epic
#RedNoseDay
challenge
imagine telling your 2012 self that in 10 years Nigel Farage will tweet a picture of him standing between Donald Trump and Holly Valance - with a picture of Kim Jong Un in the background - and nobody will bat an eyelid
I've given it some serious thought, and concluded that this is the greatest political video of all time
"Thank you. What’s this? Oop oop oop."
"No… disposable… cups."
No kid should go hungry. We're supporting
@MarcusRashford
and providing pupils in the borough with free school meals over half term.
Almost 3,300 youngsters will receive £15 vouchers to cover the cost of meals.
More:
#ENDCHILDFOODPOVERTY
Trump, asked if he has a transcript or notes from his meeting with Kim Jong Un: "I don't need to verify as I have one of the great memories of all time."
Corbyn: “I ask our media, as good journalists, to just report what we say.”
this is a line obviously designed to appeal to the room and not Twitter, but... that is not what good journalists do
this is somehow a real quote
Jeff Bezos: "I want to thank every Amazon employee, and every Amazon customer, because you guys paid for all this ... thank you from the bottom of my heart very much."
the Captain Tom Foundation spent more than £125,000 on fundraising consultancy fees between May 2020 and May 2021, or around one tenth of all money raised
Coleen Rooney has just claimed these stories, published by the Sun, are fake, and that she seeded them on to her personal Instagram to find out who was leaking her posts
somewhat unbelievably, there really is a hidden message congratulating Trump just about visible underneath the graphic Boris Johnson tweeted congratulating Biden on his win. I have no idea why Downing Street just didn't start a new image, or why they are so bad at Photoshop
Coming soon to BBC Four: "Corbyn" - a no-nonsense veteran detective who breaks the rules is paired with a rookie centrist partner who plays it strictly by the book
exclusive: Russian-made cluster munitions were used in an attack upon civilians in Azerbaijan. it's the first time their suspected use by Armenian forces use has been recorded since the current fighting began (via
@VICEWorldNews
)
according to the most recent census (2013) there are 46,000 Muslims in New Zealand. while we don't know the identities of the 49 people killed in the Christchurch attack let this sink in: New Zealand has lost 1 in 1,000 people from it's entire Muslim community. truly devastating