So let me get this right. If we put up #Betfred ‘s tax they’ll shut down all their shops. It can’t be that easy surely.

Reasons to be cheerful. One two three #lufc

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

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@alexdaviesjones.bsky.social Alex Davies Jones “I want to thank the police for their bravery” in arresting all those peaceful pensioners inc a blind man in a wheelchair. Respect to the police & the way in which they dealt with their obligations but somewhere in Wales a village is missing its idiot.

At this point, the entire press pool should walk out. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I think @robertshrimsley.bsky.social is much too kind to Jeremy Hunt here. In time, Hunt will come to be reviled as second worst chancellor in modern times after Kwarteng. In 1997, faced with similar circumstances, Ken Clarke put the national interest first. Hunt salted the earth. Shame on him

Occasionally you see something which sums up the madness that overcame our once serious country #Brexit

New Statesman cover this week. Online tomorrow. On newsstands Thursday.

#R4PM Who makes the decision to cut David Petraeus so we can give the ludicrous Grant Shapps or whatever he’s called today, the chance to make some cheap political point ref events in the Middle East? In what world would anybody be interested in what he has to say

This morning on #R4Today Ex Trump Advisor Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation said all the economists are wrong about the current Tax bill increasing the deficit as they were about the Tax bill in 2017, by about a trillion dollars. Any economists out there care to comment? @[email protected]

Guardian Business news. Half full and half empty

@colingorrie.bsky.social and ough. Impossible to understand or learn as a forinner. I went under the bough and through the trough although it was a bit rough because I needed some dough for a trip to Knaresborough

Just watched the 1st episode of BBC doc #Immigration:HowBritishPoliticsFailed Closes on Farage saying disparagingly, with a straight face, that post Brexit immigration policy was “more about rhetoric than reality, just about telling the British people what they wanted to hear”. Fucking Shameless