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Good. It is a fight worth picking & will briefly distract them from fighting with each other.
British PM Keir Starmer has confirmed his government will cap ground rents at £250 a year. The move will please his backbenchers.
But it sets up Labour for a gunfight with professional landlords and investors.
London Playbook breaks it down 👇
But it sets up Labour for a gunfight with professional landlords and investors.
London Playbook breaks it down 👇
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January 27, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Good. It is a fight worth picking & will briefly distract them from fighting with each other.
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Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.
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They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
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I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 4:04 PM
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
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'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'
January 24, 2026 at 9:30 PM
'The Minnesota man who was killed by federal agents on Saturday has been identified as Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse working in the intensive care unit at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, which serves veterans.'
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I worry that Trump’s latest partial climbdowns, pathetic & insincere as they are, will bolster Downing Street’s arguments for keeping him sweet when it’s surely time to go full Mark Carney.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I worry that Trump’s latest partial climbdowns, pathetic & insincere as they are, will bolster Downing Street’s arguments for keeping him sweet when it’s surely time to go full Mark Carney.