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Master of Physics, Doctor of Philosophy. A Tory, a conservative, and a unionist. Technically a citizen of London. Tweets are mine and not my employer's.
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FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT THIS IS *NOT* ME.
(Though, I would like to know who it is because this one made me laugh)
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Haven't done it for a while so here goes.
Hi, I'm Dr. Lewis, PhD in theoretical astronomy, magnetohydrodynamics expert and someone who knows an unhealthy amount about the formation of ~1 solar mass stars.
Am I 'intellectually challenged'? Or are you just rude?
If you’re still supporting Brexit after all that’s emerged about its dire and damaging effects, illegality, Russian interference and funding of Leave campaign via Aaron Banks, tax evasion, role of IDOX etc then you must be intellectually challenged. There’s no other explanation.
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It is quite something to behold how "flattening the curve" has morphed into "totally eliminate the virus, even if we flatten everything else on the way".
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Clarkson is interesting, as an example of how quickly one becomes anti-NIMBY, and quite forcefully, as soon as impacted by them
Its not an age thing at all, it's just an impact thing. The issue is that younger people are impacted a lot more so he stands out.
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Why are we so stupid that nuclear isn't 80%?
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Why? There's entirely legitimate reasons (parties, group events, personal liberty) to buy a very large pizza.
I generally support this kind of measure. The Domino Large pizza amounts to over 2,500 calories. The food companies need to be reined in.
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If 163 patients with one condition can totally cripple an hospital, it has bigger issues than Coronavirus.
Heart-breaking news.
Queen Elizabeth Hospital B’ham has just cancelled all planned ops for 2 days - including life-or-death liver transplants.
They have 163 Covid inpatients, 26 in ICU.
We TOLD you,
@BorisJohnson
.
We told you.
You couldn’t care less.
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Hard not to feel that the "impartial" Home Civil Service isn't now showing it's true colours.
On behalf of everyone at
@ukhomeoffice
, a warm welcome to
@YvetteCooperMP
as our new Home Secretary. We look forward to working in partnership with her on the Government’s priorities.
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I regret to inform everyone that Simon Jenkins is being wrong again.
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Oh, this is beautiful.
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The most perfect plug design ever conceived.
Britons will look you straight in the eye and say "ueah that's a normal power outlet wdym?"
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Here's a radical idea: the Foreign Office establishes a fund, the UK International Development Charity, and everyone who wants to spend more on international development can donate to it.
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NIMBYs: tough on a high tech future, tough on the causes of high tech futures.
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OK, we are absolutely not calling it the National Rail Service.
It pains me to say it, but we polled this on a nationally representative sample and... Rail Britannia is the least popular option with the British public 😢
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New opinion: we need a monument at least this spectacular for Her late Majesty.
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It was abolished not to give the Crown an advantage (the judge could and can, if he thinks the evidence is finely poised and needs it, insist on a majority) but to reduce the number of retrials when juries were hopelessly divided 11-1.
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They say the United Kingdom doesn't have a constitution; they are wrong, this is it.
But this is what also annoys them - it's just here, complete, and would be as wholly identifiable to Cardinal Wolsey as it is to me.
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I see people who are supposedly smart are seeing that the Russian government have said something about the Foreign Secretary, and are concluding that that is her fault.
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I am actually incapable of having any sympathy for the tourist here.
A London tourist has vowed never to return to the capital after his step-mum was shouted at by a member of the Queen's guard for touching his horse. 👀
He posted the video to TikTok with the caption "Queens Guard Verbally Attacks My Step Mum". 🤨
🎥 TikTok
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One thing (I've pointed this out in a few comments elsewhere but it deserves more mention) to note here: the Corporation of London does this entirely off it's own back.
This isn't funded by council tax or rates, but out of the Corporation's literal millennium of investments
At 10am today the Common Cryer read out the Royal Proclamation dissolving Parliament and the summoning of a new Parliament at the Royal Exchange.
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I love this arrangement, and it should have been given more life. But it is widely noted that Her late Majesty hated it and She was quite the authority on such matters.
Reminder that in 1981 Britain added a descant to the national anthem, turned it into the best national anthem in the world, and then just… forgot about the arrangement never to use it again
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I mean, as a military officer, that is the signal you dream of sending back to London, isn't it?
April 25th 1982: The White Ensign and Union Jack are run up as the Argentine flag is taken down. Major Guy Sheridan sends a now famous message to London: "Be pleased to inform Her Majesty that the White Ensign flies alongside the Union Jack in South Georgia. God save the Queen."
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"intelligence-led policing operation"
This, and a few other recent arrests, makes me thing the Met have (rightly!) infiltrated JSO, and probably quite deeply.
Ten Just Stop Oil activists who were arrested near Heathrow Airport yesterday have appeared in court charged with conspiring to interfere with key national infrastructure.
Eight were remanded in custody with two released on bail.
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Right. Important constitutional point: when Parliament is dissolved it *ceases to exist*.
That means that, post election, a *new* Parliament convenes. Not the old one, with new members.
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This is a Schengen competency so the PM of Spain has no ability or capacity to implement this.
(sucks being in a supranational union when you want to solve your youth unemployment issue by dumping them on others, doesn't it?)
🚨 NEW: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez has proposed a free movement deal for young people between the UK and Spain
Starmer said he would "take the idea away"
[
@benrileysmith
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The single most effective way to acquire a very harsh prison sentence is to be convicted of a crime, and then mere days later go out and commit it again.
Funny, that, isn't it?
🚨 BREAKING: HEATHROW AIRPORT PAINTED ORANGE
🧯 Phoebe and Jane have covered the departure boards in terminal five in orange paint, as part of the international uprising with
@_oilkills
.
🛢️ Demand our government Just Stop Oil by 2030 —
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No. Utterly no. Just no. And no again to be clear.
They have as much right to live in London-proper as you or I do. A good state provides for them, for you, for me, and for the Duke of Westminster at the same time
(notice I don't deny that Belgravia should exist)
Ok, I’ll raise you. There should be no social housing in this area.
This is the most expensive real estate in the country. It should be for people who have worked to afford it.
People living off the state should live in outer London or the Home Counties.
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Erm... Eh....
His Majesty very much is...
I mean, even our monarch isn’t above the law. It does feel like America hasn’t completely got the hang of its founding idea.
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I know the image of the King alone is the "official" official one, but this is going to be _the one_, isn't it?
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How many lives did this save?
(hint: none. And therefore it was pure cruelty)
A police van is going around peckham rye blaring “no sunbathing... exercise only”
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So, how do we detect lawful prorogations in the future? What's the test?
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One amazing shift over the past 18 months or so has been the way this (very correct) argument has taken hold among anyone under the age of about 40 on the right (and some of the left too!)
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Actually, the Parliament of the United Kingdom can do just that. It's one of its special features!
Is this how the law works now? You can just make laws saying any old nonsense is true?
How about one saying our national infrastructure isn't a mess anymore? Will that fix it?
#Rwanda
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Because even the most meagre sovereign Prince outranks the loftiest elected president.
This is even reflected in the Letters of Credence of Ambassadors, where the United States is on the same level as a tiny island republic, and Luxembourg a similar level as Japan.
Why is the President of the United States (and France) seated so far back (14th row in the south transept)? Far behind inbred European royalty no-one has heard of? These are slights they will not soon forget, and Truss is an idiot for allowing that to happen.
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Unpopular opinion: I like passport stamps, and for me this is actually a post-Brexit benefit.
(I really do, it's like a little travel scrapbook :-) )
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Seen here when the Lord Cameron (as he now is) invited Her late Majesty to Cabinet. He gave up his chair, the only one with arms to Her.
Additional fun protocol fact: whenever His Majesty is present at an event, no matter what it is, he takes the host's place at the table and the host sits to his side.
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We need to wait for him to vote on something, then bring an action under sec 5 of the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 to recover £500 from him
(that's actually a thing! It can be enforced by random people!)
The formula is ‘His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law’ (Promissory Oaths Act 1868). By omitting the clause ‘his heirs and successors’, presumably for Republican reasons, is his Oath of Allegiance valid?
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Both. The answer is both!
🚨BREAKING: mini nuclear plants to be built almost anywhere in UK.
Planning rules will be relaxed to allow this - but onshore wind will still have requirements not applied to any other infrastructure?
Would you rather have a wind turbine or a "modular reactor" in your backyard?
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I see Boles is doubling down on the idea that "we can't have democracy because Boris might win, and therefore Brexit might happen"
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This tedious sort of tweet is so infuriating.
Bloody hell, the King's seen some action hasn't he! I never knew.
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This is a totally moronic policy and whoever has decided it should be in our manifesto should be fired out of a cannon.
🪖 Tories will bring back National Service if they win election – with EVERY 18-year-old man and woman expected to serve
In armed forces or as a volunteer elsewhere —
@kateferguson4
reports
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Ah, the UK accession to the CPTPP has been signed. That should flush out a few more of those who purport to believe in free trade but object to every trade deal on this website :-)
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In Britain, they'd still be doing their snooker needs analysis or a newt survey, or something equally moronicm
Against the odds, Notre Dame cathedral will reopen this year Rebuilding with 13th century techniques means “no machinery noise, just the sound of the axe”
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I am wholly convinced that, adjoint to fixing the POL scandal, we need to import to English law the concept of punitive damages, and use them.
It should be normal that when a public sector entity causes harm it pays windfalls.
Former postmaster Peter Worsfold, 79, had to borrow money off his mother, Olive, 97, after being wrongly accused by the Post Office in the Horizon scandal.
He was forced to pay them £37k and is still paying Olive back.
“I never lost trust in him”, Olive tells
#newsnight
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I'm becoming more and more convinced that some experts find Parliamentary Sovereignty so jarring compared to other constitutional orders that they simply refuse to accept it. Not so much misunderstanding it as outright denial.
Which is actually quite fascinating!
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If I am PM we will immediately (well, after passing the Town and Country Planning Acts (Emergency Suspension) Act) commence work on a Charles Line, an Edward Line, a George Line, a Henry Line, a William Line, and if we need more we'll toss in Mary, Anne, and Matilda too.
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One thing I think we must ask here is: has any one decision maker actually read all 350k pages?
For 15 years, the UK has tried to dig a road tunnel under the Thames. No construction has happened, but the planning application is now more than 350,000 pages long, and the process has cost some £300 million.
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The Court Circular is one of those fantastic concepts that must never, ever, change!
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Just so no one worries: all Secretaries of State are legally capable of doing each other's jobs. So HM Government can essentially operate with one active Secretary of State and one(*) Treasury Lord
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As an actual expert (yes, really, I have a PhD in it) in mathematical models of complex systems: Dan is correct.
My MHD models were not brilliant, but even they were better than the near gibberish that is epidemiological modelling.
Worth remembering that at almost every single stage of the Covid crisis the modelling of the virus's growth has been wrong. Not just marginally wrong, but so spectacularly wrong as to have minimal practical utility for policy making.
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Dear UK media: I would strongly recommend paying some attention to the Netherlands and its politics approximately now.
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There is no legal impediment to His Majesty making an alien a peer.
There is an issue, however, with said peer being a minister or sitting in the Lords, per sec. 3, fifth unnumbered paragraph, of the Act of Settlement (12º & 13º Gul. III. cap. 2).
Baron Obama of Chicago, in the County of Cook, has been appointed First Secretary of State
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Sunak's obsession with refusing to speculate about the future (i.e. an exit plan) is exactly the right way to deal with journalists who have spent the entire lockdown demanding the very thing they were calling for be lifted.
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The UK, and GB and England before it have done this for over 600 years.
When a Parliament ceases to be, MPs go out of office too. It's very simple really - even Simon de Montfort would have understood it.
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The problem with every House of Lords reform proposal is that they are all worse, in some practical way, than the status quo at doing what they set out to do.
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I'm sure I should have known this already, but His Majesty is even more sound than even I thought.
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Having failed to actually achieve anything substantial in 2023 in the UK, Republic turns its sights abroad.
The son of the queen, that’s who. A man who has the arrogance to walk into public office because it was handed to him by his mum. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would refuse the position.
#NotMyKing
#IkkeMinKonge
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This whole thing is actually amazingly cheap, compared to just about every other part of the State.
If anything, we should be spending *more* on it!
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His Majesty is one of those rare people who just looks correct in a top hat :-)
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This isn't "high standards".
Raiding a house in a different postcode to that on the warrant is *rotten* behaviour, and the officers should be dismissed *and* charged with breaking and entering
There is no excuse for a mistake this rotten.
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Unless Canterbury was an idiot (becuse, ahem, the laws...) I can't imagine him going anywhere near this.
(and yes I'm focussing on this bit, the rest of you can argue about the rest!)
Meghan Markle revealed that before their official wedding, she and Prince Harry got married in a secret backyard ceremony with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“Just the three of us,” Harry later said.
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Parliament can, not HM Government. That distinction is not some triviality.
So yesterday the House of Lords agreed that the Government can legislate ‘facts.’
I hope people understand what this means.
Any Peer who voted for this, abstained or failed to turn up has been complicit in an act of pure & perfect totalitarianism.
#Rwandwa
#RuleOfLaw
#Kafka
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I believe HMG are trying to legislatively prohibit SQL injection attacks on the register of companies!
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Your regular reminder that the King is incapable (not merely immune, *incapable*) of being called as a witness, providing a witness statement, etc. Even if His Majesty wants to be.
This is not some great legal mystery, it's been the orthodox legal principle for centuries.
Taboo breaking Harry – giving evidence in court – has set a precedent his father won’t want to follow.
If the police investigation into alleged cash for honours ever ends up in court, Charles and his advisers will be determined to play no part in it.
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Now, that is how to read a proclamation! Bravo!
The Lord Mayor’s Common Cryer, Major Peter Oweh, read aloud the Royal Proclamation dissolving Parliament and declaring the calling of another at the Royal Exchange this morning.
Parliament will sit again after the General Election, which will take place on Thursday, 4 July.
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Hah. Haha. Once it suits them the ECHR wilts in the light of their righeous fury.
They demand it affect everything, then when it works against them they demand to subvert it. Hah.
There is a new line out there: seizing property breaches oligarchs’ human rights. First, freezing assets is not seizure. Second, no one is talking about acting outside the law. Third, at exceptional moments the law responds (& derogation from ECHR also possible if needed)
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@RevRichardColes
Home Secretary, for the intelligance services; Foreign Secretary historically on behalf of the BOTs and CDs, now on behalf of everyone in that box not otherwise represented.
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I see Dominic Grieve the great constituonalist has signed an amendment to change the franchise on the eve on an election.
Hypocrite much?
Proud to be co-sponsoring this crucial amendment today that will seek to extend the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds in the next General Election.
#Votesat16
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So, when people opposed Trump they were.......
The President represents a country. When you suggest Macron could be our enemy, you are saying it about France. This is weapons-grade idiocy - and let’s not forget Truss is currently the Foreign Secretary.
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Fair warning, I will not rest until Barons are named correctly.
See also below.
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Treason Felony. No, I'm serious, the Act 11° & 12° Vict. cap. 12 clearly covers actions which "intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament".
A pro-Palestinian activist told demonstrators he wanted “parliament to have to lock its doors” as concern grew about the safety of MPs. The director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) organised the rally outside parliament on Wednesday
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Yes. English law has this utterly damnabile doctrine that no one should get a windfall from compensation.
As a result, yes the same State that imprisoned him due to fakery gets to deduct the costs of that fakery
This doctrine, quo vide Post Office compensation, is immoral.
Astonishing that Andrew Malkinson would have to pay board and lodging to the Prison Service if he receives compensation for being wrongly imprisoned for 17 years. Jaw-dropping interview on
@BBCr4today
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My standing rule is that if MPs decide a "citizens assembly" is needed, they're clearly admitting their own lack of competence and must take a pay cut.
The strange thing about William Hague is that most of the people gushing at his columns today would've been the very same people frothing at the mouth calling him a fascist when he was leader of the Tories.
Anyway... Citizens Assemblies are a total con.
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The thing is, the fact trying to leave the EU has totally broken the British political system really is all the proof you need the member states are not independent, sovereign, entities.
If they were, leaving wouldn't cause this.
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I'm infamously not a fan of modern art, because most of it is pretty dire.
This, however, basically works. Can't quite decide if it's supposed to represent order amidst chaos, or a fixed point in the blur of the modern world. But it's nice.
Red is too loud, but the idea works!
🎨Today, The King unveiled a new portrait by
@RealJonathanYeo
at Buckingham Palace. The painting - commissioned by The Draper’s Company - is the first official portrait to be completed since His Majesty’s Coronation. It will hang in Draper’s Hall in London.
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The Queen of Denmark, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II, has just announced, without it seems any leaks or preannouncments, that she is abdicating on January 14th.
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I am, and this is a rare thing for me, lost for words
Instead, please read
@yuanyi_z
's adroit words about the sheer horror Parris is espousing.
No conservative could be so dismissive of human life, so Parris clearly never was one.
Matthew Parris says the quiet part out loud about euthanasia: “we simply cannot afford extreme senescence or desperate infirmity for as many such individuals as our society is producing.”
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Good. Proper ordering of the different parts of the State.
BREAKING:
Rishi Sunak WILL NOT recall Parliament tomorrow to discuss the British military intervention against Houthi positions in Yemen, which is expected to take place tonight
It means that there will be no debate or discussion in Parliament until Monday
Picking up disquiet
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I see that tweet has awoken all the Civil Service defenders. Weird they have so many, given how low key useless every department is...
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"And because of that, I get to decide that the elected representatives of the demos are not allowed to hold certain forbidden political views."
@Bren4Bassetlaw
For context, I am one of the thousands of public servants who spends every day sweating blood to keep alive a justice system which you have merrily desecrated; defunding and degrading at every turn, only ever speaking up to make false, ignorant attacks on lawyers and judges, and,
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Dear Lord.
I think the civil service is mostly useless (because it is) but if it wants to be less useless, knock this one up to £75k at least.
Is it any wonder when we're paying people £35k to work on cyber security?!
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I've found a loophole in the Town and Country Planning Acts: we just need to pay the Duchy to build every housing development everywhere 😜
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Parliament can indeed by Act put Blackburn Rovers in the Premier League....
.
@timfarron
tells MPs that the Rwanda bill declaring Rwanda safe via UK legislation is ridiculous/dangerous misuse of Parliament when the courts should decide.
If Rwanda is safe, he says, "I declare Blackburn Rovers back in the Premier League."
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No other nation would even contemplate just bulldozing a major part of its national heritage.
It would be like asking the French to dismantle the Eiffel Tower, or the Australians to demolish the Sydney Opera House.
Idea of knocking Palace of Westminster down or selling it off for flats because it’s projected to cost a kings ransom to refurbish has prompted a violently negative reaction in me. It’s an extremely important heritage building & must be preserved.
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You see, people think that privacy campaigners exaggerate......
We put Aguardio sensors in 290 showers around the University of Surrey campus and covertly tracked the length of showers for 39 weeks. We gathered data on over 86,000 individual showers. 4/
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Still a day or two to unearth some coronets too, just saying 😉
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The House of Lords should be hereditary (except the Lords Spiritual); Her Majesty has a right to decline the Assent; and HM Courts are subordinate to the Queen's Majesty in Parliament.
Name a political opinion ("political" in the very broadest sense) you hold which is all but guaranteed to result in this.
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Yes it can. An Act of Attainder is a perfect and good Act of Parliament. Horrific as it might be.
If Parliament wants to declare Dr Benjamin Lewis attainted by law and condemned thereof, my only recourse is, rightly, Parliament.
If this Government is right, then Parliament can dictate *any* fact to *any* court. Parliament could decide an individual’s criminal guilt.
Rwanda Bill is the most serious assault on rule of law since the Star Chamber.*
*what Braverman & her legal cronies call themselves. 2/
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The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis should be summoned to the Bar of the House next week, not a Select Committee, this needs more than that, and questioned by the whole House about why his force can't protect London's children getting to school.
Two Jewish schools in North London to close "in the interests of the safety of children"
For more on this and other news visit
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The thing everyone needs to understand is that we spent a lot of money that didn't exist in 2020 and 2021.
That is the cause of so many things today. It is ferocious bad luck Russia being a violent turnip has been thrown into it, but were you all assuming no inflation ever?
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Sir Edward Davey is part of (only part, to be clear) the reason why your energy bills are so high. Oddly, he's proud of that.
(He's also part of why you can't buy a house, and part of why you have a hosepipe ban, and part of why 2019 in Parliament was a total PITA)
"I'm very proud that you're looking at the person who basically stopped the fracking industry in this country."
Former climate change secretary Sir Ed Davey and fellow Lib Dem leadership hopeful Jo Swinson say they would ban fracking.
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Now, I want everyone to repeat after me one final time
"I promise never to use Excel for purposes for which it was not designed ever again."
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I seriously question the relevancy of words three and four in this headline
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This is fantastic -and as a few of you have told me is in the Court Circular
So I'll add this: Debrett's correctly notes that this is phrased as an invitation, but is actually a command, and that it is not socially acceptable to plead a prior engagement to His Majesty's command.
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