Laura Kuenssberg has every reason to be livid: she has been let down by the BBC
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https://spectator.co.uk/article/laura-kuenssberg-s-new-show-falls-apart-on-the-launch-pad…
Ministers have stripped a council of control of its finances amid “serious concerns” about financial mismanagement after it invested nearly a billion pounds of public money in green energy schemes
Blaming the media is one of the laziest arguments you'll find on Twitter. Which is saying something because Twitter was, it seems, designed from the ground up to be the birthplace of lazy arguments, a museum of lazy arguments and the final resting place for most lazy arguments.
Don’t underestimate the damage this did, it won’t be forgotten for a long time. My partner is from overseas and people no longer look to Australia the same way
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tells #AMAgenda it was a mistake to tell international students to go home during the pandemic, suggesting Morrison’s directive has caused reputational damage.
“We cant have the arrogance to sit there and think people want to come to Australia”
pushing for an end to covid isolation rules altogether.
“We need to move to a system where people respect each other - if you are sick, you stay at home.
If you are not sick you go to work.
The state should not be enforcing these orders”
#AmAgenda
Great journalism changes lives.
Hedley Thomas is the best of the best.
I’m so proud to know him.
This is not the first time he righted such a wrong. Check out his back catalogue. It’s stunning.
Great journalism changes lives.
Hedley Thomas is the best of the best.
I’m so proud to know him.
This is not the first time he righted such a wrong. Check out his back catalogue. It’s stunning.
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Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi on energy consumption:
"The reality is that we should all look at our energy consumption. It is a difficult time."
First time a senior minister has suggested this?
Unless something much more radical than currently proposed is done typical energy users will need to find £500 a month this winter - triple what they had to last year. This will be much higher for many (before you shout at them, this often reflects larger families/home types)
Legendary Australian photographer Tim Page has died.
If you don’t know his name - you will know his work.
His work shaped the course of the Vietnam War.
He was fearless.
He was 78. Vale.
A tribute coming up on #AmAgenda
🚨Legendary Australian photographer Tim Page has died.
If you don’t know his name - you will know his work.
His work shaped the course of the Vietnam War.
He was fearless.
He was 78. Vale.
A tribute coming up on #AmAgenda
Finnish PM Sanna Marin, 36, said on Friday that she was taking the drugs test "for her own legal protection" after video of the "wild" party emerged on social media https://trib.al/GdVgJ6j
Anthony Albanese says a legal probe into Scott Morrison’s secret appointments has been completed, as Christine Holgate raises questions over a review into her Australia Post role.
🚨Scott Morrison was the secret Finance Minister when he was calling for a independent review into Christine Holgate.
Now that we know what we know - it doesn’t sound so independent does it?