How have the police managed to get themselves into a situation where their line is: if a police officer tries to arrest you, run away?
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Pirouetting around our fractured values
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"No, darling, I'm afraid we didn't keep any of the newspapers from the day you were born."
So kids, I've got some good news and some bad news. The good news is: Santa Claus is real.
I’m not sure how politically sustainable it is for a member of the Chancellor’s family to live in the Downing Street flat but to say she doesn’t for tax reasons.
I’m not sure why it’s so hard for very clever people to understand that if you pass a law banning people from doing quite trivial things, then if you do those trivial things yourself it isn’t trivial, it’s genuinely scandalous.
EU: asks for fork
UK: presents spoon
EU: this isn't what we asked for
UK: bends spoon
EU: this is still a spoon
UK: but we've shown flexibility
Oh thanks I hadn’t thought of wearing a jumper normally in the winter I just go round in fucking swimming trunks
Say what you like about Mussolini. That's one of the benefits of not living under Mussolini.
I can relate to this as I also cover the cost of any food and drink for personal consumption, even if it comes from my own kitchen.
The funniest thing now would be for Rishi Sunak to resign as a matter of personal honour over the fine, and then just wait and see what Boris Johnson does.
This was my favourite bit of the whole round: Liz Truss refuses to guarantee that people’s pensions are safe.
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This suggests a level of political stability and control over long-term infrastructure policy which I would not have expected of pirates.
Tory MP at PMQs: “I recently visited my local jobcentre”. This is sensible forward planning and I commend her for it.
Genuinely awestruck by the optics of a Prime Minister standing in front of a backdrop of police officers to say he’d rather be dead in a ditch than obey the law.
Lots of women: “I was sexually assaulted.”
Giles Coren and Rod Liddle: “Does this mean I can’t put kisses at the bottom of emails?”
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What if the recipients of my emails actually think that I want to kiss them, says Rod Liddle specc.ie/2gqWZas
Imagine criticising a politician for eating a sandwich.
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The hounding of Boris Johnson is ugly, ugly stuff. He could eat a sandwich and Remainers would probably find a picture of Mussolini eating a sandwich to make a comparison. Many voters can see through this slippery behaviour and will vote for him as payback come election
Really unfair of Sir Philip Rutnam to criticise Priti Patel publicly when she’s not in a position to defend herself because of the government’s BBC boycott.
Somehow the Telegraph has managed to illustrate a real issue with the least relatable case study imaginable, in every possible way.
Between them these two books cover everything to look for in the entire universe.
- I'm confident I didn't break the law.
- Yes you did!
- Honestly, I'm sure I didn't.
- If you did, then you'll have to resign.
- Yes, you're right, I will.
- This is outrageous, disgusting, despicable pressure on the police!
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WW2 in Colour is on Netflix. When did this happen?
I kind of feel like, if the justification for tuition fees is that graduates will earn substantially higher salaries than average, part of the deal is that they shouldn’t have to pay them back until they’re earning substantially higher salaries than average.
I am not convinced that “political parties are liable for costs incurred by independent organisations that their donors have also donated to” is a line the Tories want to go down.
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I’ve written to @Keir_Starmer to request he pays for the criminal damage the Just Stop Oil attacks on the Energy Security Department caused this morning
As the political wing of Just Stop Oil, it is the Labour Party not the taxpayer that should be paying the bill
I’ve added all of these up to see how much Corbyn’s plans could cost me, and it comes to *checks figures again* zero pounds.
This is why nobody ever gets shot in America.
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Takeaway from #LondonBridge incident: If law-abiding Londoners could carry firearms legally, it probably wouldn't have happened.
Amazing how bold the terrorists are when they know their victims will be unarmed.
Male Tory MPs taking off more clothes than is strictly necessary to be photographed getting a vaccination: an occasional series
I’ve seen the Joe Lycett bit on the Kuenssberg show and I - quite genuinely - don’t understand what he’s supposed to have done wrong, or what they expected him to do, or why it was damaging for the programme. It was fine.
I’m not sure there’s a more unedifying strike-related phenomenon than people who are paid more than train drivers arguing that train drivers are overpaid on the grounds that other people with useful jobs are paid less.
So Charles transferred Cornwall, the westernmost Duchy, to William… I guess you could say he… passed the Duchy on the left-hand side.
Really pleased to hear PM's repeated emphasis that we won't be leaving Europe *geographically*, because that would be terrifying and weird.
People laugh at the idea of a tunnel between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but it could be a decisive factor in preserving the union between GB and NI, just as the channel tunnel was for the UK and EU.
You don’t need to know anything about cricket, or care about it, to understand that this is a completely ridiculous thing to be able to do.
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Legendary Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, dies of suspected heart attack aged 52 bit.ly/3MnbcmN
One more chance to read my favourite Amber Rudd quote, on why she wanted to stand in Hastings:
Wonder if there are any foreseeable policy consequences of charging £50 for a GP appointment while keeping A&E free.
Wow she got over it quickly twitter.com/JoeVinson/stat
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I see your “Ukraine should simply surrender because war is bad” and I raise you “Russia should simply stop invading because war is bad”. Oh, apparently *my* position is unrealistic.
Now release your texts from Boris Johnson, in the spirit of transparency.
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And in the spirit of transparency here is a text to me from @Keir_Starmer: ‘Congratulations on your elevation to the House of Lords. All best wishes, Keir.’
This is - and I promise you I am not joking - one of the 10 points in Boris Johnson's 10-point plan for a successful Brexit.
Obamas in Havana are coming down the stairs.
Obamas in Havana are coming down in pairs.
News: Zoe arrived today, a bit early - we weren’t expecting to see her until late October. She’s very small but she and her mum are doing well so far. And Lewisham Hospital is full of brilliant, brilliant people.
These people stole my sister’s iPad and took this photo which they accidentally uploaded to the cloud. Please RT so we can find them.
As a tribute to Keir Starmer, I am eating a curry entirely legally.
I mean it’s *possible* that Russell Brand has shifted towards far right conspiracism just so that he can say it’s all a conspiracy when all this stuff comes out, but the simpler hypothesis, which fits the available evidence, is that he is and always has been a loathsome idiot.
THREAD: The tendency to cover PMQs as a straight who won/who lost contest is understandable, but it can understate its strategic value. Keir Starmer has done a decent job on the win/loss front in his first weeks, but he’s also been able to *use* PMQs effectively.
Danny Murphy just described Panama’s last couple of minutes as “their best passage”, which is harsh on the canal.
How on earth could a journalist have found this out, though? Who could possibly have revealed these private messages? It's a mystery!
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Boris Johnson is getting "tonnes" of MPs calling and texting saying if it all falls apart he is the only choice. He is biting his tongue
The Tory whips’ desire to open up Parliament so that Boris Johnson has his MPs behind him at PMQs will be understandable to Keir Starmer, who once bought a field just so that someone he loved could be comforted by the sound of braying donkeys.
Mess with French interests overseas and their navy will bring you a whole world of pain. twitter.com/Tom_Antonov/st
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Maybe it’s because we’d already left the EU by then, just a thought.
You’d have thought that before Rebecca Long Bailey decided to employ a Stalinist she’d have noticed the red flags.
Honestly if you can’t tell the difference between someone being voted in for a time-limited term by a local electorate who could have chosen someone else and someone being appointed for life without voters being consulted at any stage I don’t know how to help you.
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Your party just elected a 25 year old in Selby. Even younger than Owen and Kempsell.
Anything to say about that?
Is he not a law-maker too? twitter.com/nazirafzal/sta…
What about when Donald Trump said Barack Obama wasn’t born in the USA?
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Sadiq Khan has allowed an inflatable “Trump baby” blimp to fly in London. This is the biggest insult to a sitting US President ever. pscp.tv/w/bg5U6zEwMDg1
I hope they deliver his suspension letter by taxi.
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BREAKING: Derek Hatton suspended as Labour Party member after just two days - Mirror Online mirror.co.uk/news/politics/
Yes we have to take them too, they have the right to live in the UK.
That is… the legal status quo and has been for my whole lifetime.
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Starmer wants you to have ID to go into a nightclub, but not to vote.
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I mean, it’s difficult to distinguish this line from: we are no longer a functional public service.
Almost feel sorry for Michael Gove, whose judgement in 2016 that Boris Johnson wasn't up to the job of being prime minister has been completely vindicated but who has to keep on pretending he was wrong.
A big part of Rory Stewart’s appeal is in being a down-to-earth, ordinary bloke that the rest of us can relate to. For example, when he says “I am not a spy” it makes me think “I know just what that’s like because I, too, am not a spy.”
Snakes On A Plane is an action packed movie which also is a sobering warning about the dangers of snakes on a plane.
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London Has Fallen is an action packed movie which also is a sobering warning about the potential escalation of Islamic Supremacists efforts
Well, Jess Phillips’ claim that Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters lack self-awareness and are blinded to their own failings by a sense of moral superiority to everyone else has been comprehensively knocked on the head by their reaction to her interview, hasn’t it?
This "we offered them £60m but they said they wanted £65m so we told them to sod off and gave them £22m" would make the government look really terrible if people's actual lives and livelihoods were involved, so let's all hope they're not.
This must be the most effective use of an opposition day debate ever.
Why are there no right-wing comedians? twitter.com/LozzaFox/statu
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Dominic Raab rolling a joint to calm his nerves in the middle of the "no deal" press conference.
Zelensky wrote two speeches: one vowing to fight the Russian invasion and one saying it was brilliant. twitter.com/BenQuinn75/sta
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Currently more scared of testing positive for Covid than I am of getting Covid.
If only Keir Starmer had called for a circuit breaker lockdown a month earlier, to give the Government space to go through its cycle of saying no, attacking the idea, realising it has to do it and announcing its change of heart in time to make a difference.
Interesting claim from a Conservative MP that people who are working from home during a pandemic, following government advice, are in fact work-shy skivers.
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Not that I should be surprised by the lazy left but interesting how work-shy socialist and nationalist MPs tried to keep the remote Parliament going beyond 2 June.
John Craven, tired but happy after giving birth to a litter of pandas.
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The whole framing of this as “you thought No10 was a perk, but actually he pays *checks notes* £8,655 a year for a flat in central London and also has to cover the cost of his own food” is wild.
The real scandal is that in Holborn & St Pancras they say you could put up a donkey in a red rosette and it would win, and Keir Starmer literally has both a donkey and a red rosette and didn’t try it.
Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments.
First they came for Steve Bray, and I said nothing, because I was enjoying the silence.
Harry Leslie Smith twitter.com/danielcrosby/s
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