Doubly so because all RR's team have to do to prepare her is see what the right wing papers are putting out.

Yes. It feels like a cancer that we are just ignoring. I'm not sure how we defend against it though. Ban 'X'? Take GB News off the air? Would love to hear more ideas.

Well done Leeds, now let's keep it tigh.... shit

I think he had a chip on his shoulder and felt he wasn't respected as a northern working class person in academia. I'm guessing he missed out on a job/promotion and at some point decided to "sell out" (i.e. abuse his position as an academic to give some false authority to anti-immigrant viewpoints.

Nice work! Looks like a tricky period from around game 15 to 24. Can't see Farke surviving if that transpires.

He's a classic grifter. An academic who used to hold centre-left views (supported Sadiq Khan for instance) but saw an opportunity in becoming the go-to academic of the far right. No doubt it's been quite lucrative for Goodwin.

Not true. There is a trade border because they are not in the Customs Union.

Under the Ireland/NI protocol, NI remains in both the SM and CU while being outside of the EU and there is no trade border.

I'm quoting from the EU website:

"The single market includes the 27 EU member states and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein"

There is no conflation. The EEA nations are in the SM.

www.consilium.europa.eu/en/infograph...

Says who? You can be in the SM but not the EU, like the EFTA nations.

Oops, forgot to mention that I of course froze the income tax thresholds for a further 2 years.

..but £26bn is a decent chunk, while remaining tax neutral for most 'working people' - which could be argued to be honouring the spirit of the manifesto commitment (f not the letter).

Will be interesting to hear what the IFS come up with: ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-z...

@benzaranko.bsky.social

I would say I had learnt something new, but I'd probably have to listen to it again at slow speed for that to be true. What it certainly was is new and interesting to me!

which will inevitably include people from various ethnic groups.

So in a world where ad producers are forced to either over- or under-represent (given small numbers) the latter is clearly more congruous with people's everyday experience than the former.

So for an advert with 4 or less people to be "representative" it would invariably reflect the 81% of the population that is white with a person from an ethnic minority appearing every 2 or 3 adverts.

But most people will see hundreds or even thousands of other people in a typical week...

Surely there is a simple statistical explanation, i.e. what is the average number of people to appear in an advert? I suspect in most cases it will be 1 or 2 and in most cases, less than 5.

Given that 1 in 11 people in the UK has Asian ethnicity, 1 in 25 black and 1 in 20 other ethnic minority...

Like, our problem at the moment is that the EU is not going to be interested in accession or even single market membership if there's a high chance of a government being elected in 3 years that will just reverse it. There needs to be stability for which IMHO, proportional representation is needed.

I think it would be fair to call even a basic CU "bespoke" in that it would be specific to the UK and EU. The UK discourse in general has a problem with hubris, as if we can just decide to join the EU or any of its institutions without considering that the existing members might have an opinion.

As a technicality, you have to be in the single market to join "The" customs union. We can form an EU-UK customs union, much like the EU-Türkiye customs union.