@kathy17.bsky.social
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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
December 26, 2024 at 8:34 AM
There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.
You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.
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Sod this. You win by going both high and low. By taking on the lofty arguments and by practicing low politics. The two go together.
December 21, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Sod this. You win by going both high and low. By taking on the lofty arguments and by practicing low politics. The two go together.
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Well, you can only be expected to do so much to help dismantle a platform being used to undermine democracy. Leaving behind some Chelsea stuff is just too much to ask.
December 21, 2024 at 1:10 PM
Well, you can only be expected to do so much to help dismantle a platform being used to undermine democracy. Leaving behind some Chelsea stuff is just too much to ask.
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Time for a follow-up @pickardje.bsky.social ?
11 months ago Keir Starmer was asked about Mandelsons relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and he said he didn't know. Do you think he's bothered to find out?
December 20, 2024 at 6:52 AM
Time for a follow-up @pickardje.bsky.social ?
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Rachel Reeves in 2016: "I agree with the minister for pensions who said 'unfortunately, the govt has not given women enough time to change their plans'... I hope she will now stand by those who she spoke up for then, as I & other members will continue to do until we get that justice"
December 18, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Rachel Reeves in 2016: "I agree with the minister for pensions who said 'unfortunately, the govt has not given women enough time to change their plans'... I hope she will now stand by those who she spoke up for then, as I & other members will continue to do until we get that justice"
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Good news for Londoners.
Shame the Government isn't doing this for bus passengers across the country ...
insidecroydon.com/2024/12/13/t...
Shame the Government isn't doing this for bus passengers across the country ...
insidecroydon.com/2024/12/13/t...
TfL announces latest fares freeze on buses and trams for 2025
London’s tram and bus fares are to be frozen in 2025, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced. It is the sixth fares freeze for bus and tram passengers since 2016, with passengers continuing to…
insidecroydon.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Good news for Londoners.
Shame the Government isn't doing this for bus passengers across the country ...
insidecroydon.com/2024/12/13/t...
Shame the Government isn't doing this for bus passengers across the country ...
insidecroydon.com/2024/12/13/t...
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From the new MAC annual report published just now:
December 17, 2024 at 10:12 AM
From the new MAC annual report published just now:
Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Not quite sure how to reconcile 'thoughtful and moral' with his endorsements of Orban and Trump. The more thought he put into those interjections, the more one is forced to draw conclusions about his morals.
Here Turner describes Tim Montgomerie as "thoughtful and moral" - and then goes on to quote him saying he joined Reform to fight the "Islamification of Britain".
Times columnists absolutely fine with racism as long as it's the right sort of racism.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Times columnists absolutely fine with racism as long as it's the right sort of racism.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Suddenly Reform is starting to look plausible
If the PM doesn’t address concerns over scale of migration, Red Wall voters will reject his party as they did the Tories
www.thetimes.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Not quite sure how to reconcile 'thoughtful and moral' with his endorsements of Orban and Trump. The more thought he put into those interjections, the more one is forced to draw conclusions about his morals.
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Here's Michael Fabricant, who was handed a knighthood last year by Boris Johnson for "political and public service" to the nation, sharing a racist AI-generated video posted by the far-right group Britain First
December 5, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Here's Michael Fabricant, who was handed a knighthood last year by Boris Johnson for "political and public service" to the nation, sharing a racist AI-generated video posted by the far-right group Britain First
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How it started … How it’s going
Totally hilarious
Totally hilarious
December 3, 2024 at 10:35 AM
How it started … How it’s going
Totally hilarious
Totally hilarious
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Yesterday, I asked about the impact cuts to BBC world service have had to availability of impartial news in the Middle East
In a shocking example, closure of BBC Arabic radio led to Russia Today taking over the same frequency
Today’s evidence session continues investigating cuts to BBC World news
In a shocking example, closure of BBC Arabic radio led to Russia Today taking over the same frequency
Today’s evidence session continues investigating cuts to BBC World news
November 19, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Yesterday, I asked about the impact cuts to BBC world service have had to availability of impartial news in the Middle East
In a shocking example, closure of BBC Arabic radio led to Russia Today taking over the same frequency
Today’s evidence session continues investigating cuts to BBC World news
In a shocking example, closure of BBC Arabic radio led to Russia Today taking over the same frequency
Today’s evidence session continues investigating cuts to BBC World news
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I get the political calculation here. I'm just gonna point out that the predominance of research into European parties' efforts to outflank the far right like this has found that they merely legitimised the far right's political framing and led voters to opt for the "full fat" version.
November 28, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I get the political calculation here. I'm just gonna point out that the predominance of research into European parties' efforts to outflank the far right like this has found that they merely legitimised the far right's political framing and led voters to opt for the "full fat" version.
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Absolutely fuck off, Farage. Fuck off until the end of time, and then fuck off some more.
November 28, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Absolutely fuck off, Farage. Fuck off until the end of time, and then fuck off some more.
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flashback to the year 2019:
More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU...but MP Kemi Badenoch says “we run the country based on elections and not petitions”.
www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...
More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU...but MP Kemi Badenoch says “we run the country based on elections and not petitions”.
www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...
November 27, 2024 at 5:44 PM
flashback to the year 2019:
More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU...but MP Kemi Badenoch says “we run the country based on elections and not petitions”.
www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...
More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU...but MP Kemi Badenoch says “we run the country based on elections and not petitions”.
www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...
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Farage skipped the big Commons vote on the smoking ban last night so he could present his GB News show for which he earns £100,000 a month, far more than his MP’s salary.
Servant of the people and all that.
Servant of the people and all that.
November 27, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Farage skipped the big Commons vote on the smoking ban last night so he could present his GB News show for which he earns £100,000 a month, far more than his MP’s salary.
Servant of the people and all that.
Servant of the people and all that.
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Donald Tusk: "The war in the east is entering its decisive phase. We all know it. We feel that the unknown is approaching. None of us knows the end of this conflict, but we know that it is currently taking on very dramatic dimensions."
kyivindependent.com/war-in-ukrai...
War in Ukraine at 'decisive stage,' risk of 'global conflict,' Poland's Tusk says
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's comments came in the wake of Russia's attack on Dnipro a day earlier.
kyivindependent.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Donald Tusk: "The war in the east is entering its decisive phase. We all know it. We feel that the unknown is approaching. None of us knows the end of this conflict, but we know that it is currently taking on very dramatic dimensions."
kyivindependent.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Generally excellent piece by @russincheshire.bsky.social here, but this bit probably deserves Pulitzer or something:
November 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Generally excellent piece by @russincheshire.bsky.social here, but this bit probably deserves Pulitzer or something:
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Not only do we have 1/5 of courts not sitting at a time of record backlogs, but for the past three days the Crown Court Digital Case System - the engine on which the whole system runs - has been broken.
November 21, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Not only do we have 1/5 of courts not sitting at a time of record backlogs, but for the past three days the Crown Court Digital Case System - the engine on which the whole system runs - has been broken.
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Alternatively - a person who didn't get to the very top, where she expected to be, and is now extremely bitter. She saw all this on the way up and said nothing until her lust for a peerage went unsated.
I don’t know whether Nadine Dorries is right about the Tory Party being rotten, corrupt and controlled by shadowy figures - but somewhere in the conspiracy theory is a woman who got near the top, peered in and is revolted. She admits many regrets. Worth watching youtu.be/_P3LuSRsibY
Nadine Dorries on Tory sleaze and scandal and her church abuse
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Alternatively - a person who didn't get to the very top, where she expected to be, and is now extremely bitter. She saw all this on the way up and said nothing until her lust for a peerage went unsated.
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Good stuff. This should stop the stock of social housing reducing as it has in recent years (along with new money for building).
NEW: MHCLG opens consultation on sweeping right to buy changes
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
🏠Council tenants to live in home for approx 10yrs (up fr 3) to qualify
🏠New-build social homes exempt
🏠1-for-1 replacement target for councils
🏠Discounts to fall further - to max of 20%
🏠Repaid if tenants sell w/in 10yrs, up from 5
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Good stuff. This should stop the stock of social housing reducing as it has in recent years (along with new money for building).
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With new figures showing that more than one in three children in the UK are now living in poverty, with deprivation hitting a record high, it's good to see the Times focusing on the people who are really struggling
November 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
With new figures showing that more than one in three children in the UK are now living in poverty, with deprivation hitting a record high, it's good to see the Times focusing on the people who are really struggling