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I don’t know whether Badenoch ever had a brain to fry… but if she did, she’s fried it. On X. She’s a joke.
Unprofessional. Bitchy. Idiotic. How very very very low the Tory party has sunk. Embarrassing.
Unprofessional. Bitchy. Idiotic. How very very very low the Tory party has sunk. Embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I don’t know whether Badenoch ever had a brain to fry… but if she did, she’s fried it. On X. She’s a joke.
Unprofessional. Bitchy. Idiotic. How very very very low the Tory party has sunk. Embarrassing.
Unprofessional. Bitchy. Idiotic. How very very very low the Tory party has sunk. Embarrassing.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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If only there had been some clues she was like this
December 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If only there had been some clues she was like this
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EXC - Angela Rayner is to lay a new amendment to the workers rights bill
She will urge the government to move the unfair dismissal changes to begin next year not 2027 but accept the union negotiated changes
MPs want to lay down a marker so the Lords don’t gut more of the bill
She will urge the government to move the unfair dismissal changes to begin next year not 2027 but accept the union negotiated changes
MPs want to lay down a marker so the Lords don’t gut more of the bill
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
EXC - Angela Rayner is to lay a new amendment to the workers rights bill
She will urge the government to move the unfair dismissal changes to begin next year not 2027 but accept the union negotiated changes
MPs want to lay down a marker so the Lords don’t gut more of the bill
She will urge the government to move the unfair dismissal changes to begin next year not 2027 but accept the union negotiated changes
MPs want to lay down a marker so the Lords don’t gut more of the bill
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Isn't it more conventional to stage a nativity play
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Isn't it more conventional to stage a nativity play
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anyway, what i want to know is: What does the head of the OBR's uncle think?
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
anyway, what i want to know is: What does the head of the OBR's uncle think?
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Is Richard Hughes 'honourable'? Not a clue. But what I do know is time and time again, someone in the British state fucks up, the head of the organisation quits, and the person who actually fucked up stays in the state and gets promoted.
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Is Richard Hughes 'honourable'? Not a clue. But what I do know is time and time again, someone in the British state fucks up, the head of the organisation quits, and the person who actually fucked up stays in the state and gets promoted.
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I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone
December 2, 2025 at 8:08 AM
I’m sure Andreas Whittam Smith would have wanted people to struggle to read his obituary in The Independent using a smartphone
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The government is expected to announce on Tuesday that it is scrapping jury trials for “either-way” cases, in which the defendant has the right to be tried in the magistrates’ or crown court...
#R4Today
#R4Today
David Lammy will respond today to Sir Brian Leveson’s review of the criminal courts. It seems the justice secretary is not going quite as far as originally reported. But he would not be the first to ask for more in order to claim credit for making concessions.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/lammys-res...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/lammys-res...
Lammy’s response to Leveson
Tactical withdrawal? Or political spin?
rozenberg.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The government is expected to announce on Tuesday that it is scrapping jury trials for “either-way” cases, in which the defendant has the right to be tried in the magistrates’ or crown court...
#R4Today
#R4Today
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
Reporter: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order
Leavitt: The latter is true
Leavitt: The latter is true
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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The one thing Donald Trump has always and will always be afraid of is the truth. And right now, he’s scared.
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The one thing Donald Trump has always and will always be afraid of is the truth. And right now, he’s scared.
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I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I wonder if it's time to retire the role of "political editor" altogether
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
Return most of the coverage to the Economics Editor, the Health Editor, the Home Affairs team & so on.
Leave the "who-said-what-to-whom" & "what-does-it-mean-for-the-polls" to others. The BBC doesn't need to foreground this.
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A lot of Brexiters seem very bothered that a politician might have lied...
December 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A lot of Brexiters seem very bothered that a politician might have lied...
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I am very suspicious of this 43 accesses by 32 IPs as I know I accessed it twice and I know at least half a dozen other people who accessed it at least once, probably more.
Do I really know a third of the people who got it early, directly? Or is this an undercount?
Do I really know a third of the people who got it early, directly? Or is this an undercount?
For the record, one of these was a sketchwriter who downloaded it to his phone for the LOLs.
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I am very suspicious of this 43 accesses by 32 IPs as I know I accessed it twice and I know at least half a dozen other people who accessed it at least once, probably more.
Do I really know a third of the people who got it early, directly? Or is this an undercount?
Do I really know a third of the people who got it early, directly? Or is this an undercount?
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This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
OBR PDFgate investigation is out. obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is somewhat nerdy/technical but reveals utterly woeful practices at the OBR – where they relied on free Wordpress plugins to protect some of the most sensitive economic data the UK publishes.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
Absolutely dismal stuff, and not just one junior staffer screwing up.
Grrr, please stop saying “as well” when you mean “either”
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Grrr, please stop saying “as well” when you mean “either”
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Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
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this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform
You know when a famous person dies and you're surprised because you'd assumed they must already be dead? That, but for Nadine Dorries defecting to Reform.
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this, but for Jonathan Gullis defecting to Reform
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‘Ask them to nail down exactly what it is that she’s done wrong.’
James O’Brien's summary of the Rachel Reeves ‘lying’ accusations in 37 seconds.
James O’Brien's summary of the Rachel Reeves ‘lying’ accusations in 37 seconds.
December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
‘Ask them to nail down exactly what it is that she’s done wrong.’
James O’Brien's summary of the Rachel Reeves ‘lying’ accusations in 37 seconds.
James O’Brien's summary of the Rachel Reeves ‘lying’ accusations in 37 seconds.
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I'm at a Kemi Badenoch event where *yet again* the Guardian has not got a question. Aside from broadcasters it was Mail, Sun and FT (the latter presumably only because we're at an accountancy body in the City). I've probably been to seven or eight such events with no question.
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I'm at a Kemi Badenoch event where *yet again* the Guardian has not got a question. Aside from broadcasters it was Mail, Sun and FT (the latter presumably only because we're at an accountancy body in the City). I've probably been to seven or eight such events with no question.
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From my post on whether Reform will kill the Tories. These two are group one:
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
From my post on whether Reform will kill the Tories. These two are group one:
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
samf.substack.com/p/last-rites
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Maybe it was last week's reemergence of rumours about Farage's youth that was the clincher.
Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform UK
He joins Daniel Jellyman
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Maybe it was last week's reemergence of rumours about Farage's youth that was the clincher.
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This is a great thread to start a conversation about what the government is trying to do and the scale of resource they are putting behind the project. Please do read in full. I have a few (hopefully productive) thoughts to add.
Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is a great thread to start a conversation about what the government is trying to do and the scale of resource they are putting behind the project. Please do read in full. I have a few (hopefully productive) thoughts to add.