Chat show pundits who love to talk about Magna Carta are going to be in for a hell of a shock if they think UK judges will turn around and say: “oh, I see, now we are out of the ECHR let’s do away with the right to asylum, due process, and the right to an appeal!”
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Why would leaving the ECHR stop the boats from coming? It’s a wild claim with no clear justification.
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It’s a wonderful line which I use every week - great bit of public transport infrastructure. We need more!
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The Elizabeth Line has racked up an incredible 100 million journeys. That’s about 600,000 trips a day across the line.
It’s already revolutionised travel across London and become the UK’s best used railway. Not bad for the first 8 months 
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To be fair Corbyn did help damage the economy but only because as Labour leader he totally failed to support the remain campaign & left Labour voters deeply confused about Labour’s position: theguardian.com/politics/2016/
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Jake Berry just suggested on #LauraKuenssberg that Corbyn “completely trashed the economy”. Remember when Corbyn was PM and trashed the economy with his chancellor, Kwasi?
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The only country that has ever left the the European Convention on Human Rights? Russia.
It’s not worth becoming a pariah state just to bung a few hundred million to the government of Rwanda to sell them some human beings, is it?
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Yes please
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I don’t remember seeing “let’s leave the EU so we can become human traffickers” on the side of a bus.
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The only country that has ever left the the European Convention on Human Rights? Russia.
It’s not worth becoming a pariah state just to bung a few hundred million to the government of Rwanda to sell them some human beings, is it?
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Good thread on the errant nonsense
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For anyone reading Liz Truss's mea culpa in The Sunday @Telegraph today, the idea Truss states that Kwarteng and the Treasury had not been warned of the budget's risks to financial stability was NOT TRUE. /1
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Next week some Taliban dudes in aviators and the latest smart casual looks for spring
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Insane the “paper of record” would put a member of a terrorist state on the front cover of their weekly magazine in a manner like this.
Incredibly tin eared. @thetimes
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I genuinely feel sorry for Rishi with two remorseless self-promoters as predecessors. Theresa May the model of how it should be done.
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Join @spectator TV 5pm Monday for Liz Truss’s first interview since leaving Downing Street
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This idea gets floated every month or two and the media writes it up as if it hasn’t been floated a hundred times before. It’s filler and positioning, it’s not going to happen.
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Here’s the reality of trying to leave the ECHR: it will never happen before the election, and the party that wins that election won’t do it, so it’s a silly debate for lawyers to get overly excited over but a distraction.
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AI appears to have been hard-coded with a sort of weird white liberal guilt
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AI has been programmed to hate white people
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Tadaaa!
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EXCLUSIVE: Sunak ready to get radical on the ECHR
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There go Biden’s chances of re-election
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Good thread on Truss
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Fascinating contradictions in the Truss account. Treasury was both pessimistic, orthodox, obstructive; but is also chastised for not warning Truss to slow down re LDIs. The "wider orthodox economic ecosystem" was also against her, but the CBI/IoD warmly welcomed the budget.
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*U*S*A* 🎯
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AP - US has downed the Chinese balloon off the Carolina coast and an operation is underway to recover the debris.
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Is the Telegraph using Liz Truss as a stalking horse to try and destabilise Sunak on behalf of another potential challenger?
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Also she was brought down by her terrible decisions and the response to them of THE MARKETS
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Front pages should be for news.
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All these Americans with guns, planes etc. and not one patriot has tried to take down the #Balloon
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Nations spy on each other, for sure, but when something novel is exposed like this, there's a political pressure to act: Joe Biden can't let Republicans call him soft on national security. It's slightly crazy in this case given all the satellite, but 🤷
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Is the argument then just about the spying been visible to the public? Ok to do it but for the love of god don’t let the bloody public see it!
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Before a Chinese spy balloon was discovered in the United States, American officials said a rival power may have used advanced technology that is not fully understood to surveil U.S. military sites.
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Watched ep1 of shrinking on - laughed a lot, love the premise, then literally shed a tear at the end. Absolutely brilliant stuff
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Never seen this before - it’s hilarious
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Here’s the thing - I’ve debated Keir Starmer on the human rights act, and he’s bloody good at it
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Great debate about human rights this afternoon to packed house with @RupertMyers and @joannaccherry at #altmagnacar
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You could see this coming from space
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This is transparently the fight they’ve been gearing up for all along: to paint Keir Starmer as the “Islington lawyer” on the side of criminals and terrorists and woke “human rights”. twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitic…
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Banning appeals seems like a direct challenge to the article 6 right to a fair trial, so presumably the conservatives are gearing up to fight the next election on the human rights act, to paint Starmer as a north london barrister on the side of the boat people.
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Of course in the 1960 U-2 incident the US claimed their plane was conducting weather studies, too
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What I was told, which rings true, is that he’s also incompetent. In my experience people are more aggressive when they don’t know what they’re doing
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NEW: Former chair Jake Berry tells me Rishi Sunak should suspend Dominic Raab:
“When you have 24 allegations outstanding against you… it would be very bizarre if you had someone in any other workplace who wasn’t suspended pending that investigation.”
theguardian.com/politics/2023/
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George Santos says he “is the Chinese Spy Balloon”
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In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 times as long as Liz Truss made it as Prime Minister.
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I’ve driven a hovercraft for effectively as long as Liz Truss was prime minister. You probably have too.
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If I was Rishi Sunak I would simply not listen to a word Liz Truss has to say about being Prime Minister.
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Busting That Chinese Spy Balloon Is Harder Than You Think
Great article on the challenges posed by spy balloons
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