Rather extraordinary to publish this. “We wrongly thought the government’s case was going badly, so we increased our offer, which the government rightly rejected and went on to win far more”

I don't know where to start with this, but both of these people should know better. Linking Labour policy to a terrorist attack on Jews in this country. Just no. Not today, at least, fgs.

He knows it. They know it. They've always known it. Amongst themselves, they joke about it. They tell stories about it. They swap advice on how to deal with it. But most importantly, to everyone else, they lie about it.

Given the party’s official response to Labour conference is to accuse the government of trying to get them killed (including a baseless accusation Number 10 cut their security), I’d say it’s not so much “acceptable” as it’s mandatory.

This is the judgment on the PPE/Medpro claim. A cracking £122m win for the Government Legal Service And is wonderful to see the government bringing a claim in contract against a shoddy supplier. This does not happen often, and it should happen far more. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Walked past this earlier and noticed the lion or whatever it is for the first time

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

If Farage doesn't hate modern Britain, then perhaps someone could provide one single good thing he's ever said about it.

Reading this after putting my homer simpson socks on

Some interesting thoughts from Clough!

Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

oh Christ lads the yanks have discovered "who is working class" discourse. it's going to be a lot worse than ours because the poor bastards don't even have all that many words for a bread roll.

Sometimes it is important to state the obvious. Because it's not obvious to many.

This whole section really.

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference. “One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception. “The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid.

BRISTOL PARPMERCHANTS BEHOLD

Finished watching series 2 of Silo. Am not that into it tbh. Characters are thin, motivations are flimsy, and the choices people make are not often credible. Will probably pick it up again in s3 but... I am not exactly waiting with bated breath. Foundation and Alien Earth, more so.

I demand an immediate inquiry into Reform and Farage to find out if they have any links to the United Kingdom

Ian McShane is 83 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

There has been TWO mass shootings today and this is what he’s thinking about…

Keystone ICE

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

I'm sorry but I refuse point blank to believe that Philip Faircloth-Mutton is a real person.

Finally a red line has been drawn. Now Starmer and Labour need to stick to this. Huge majorities reject Reform’s proposals to rip up the rights of those who have come, contributed and made their lives here. The policy is extreme and caters to extremists.

When greedy guts Rick Waller could co-opt it about being porky, it cheapened this beautiful, powerful song and now we have this travesty.

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

"We have a debt crisis so I've joined the party that was in power for 14 years and under whom debt massively grew." "Commentator of the Year"

A) awesome B) please don’t use spades C) please don’t chicken out

George Galloway being detained is an opportunity to post his all time taken on Ukraine

You will find a full list of names here I remain baffled that Jimmy Carr for one still has a career. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyadh_...

This was so incredibly well played - a team for us all to be well and thoroughly proud of. 🐻

i found this for you:

WELL DONE, RED ROSES!!!

For context, downtown Portland is quiet (to the point of being boring), kids are going back to school, food carts and coffee shops are busy, people are gardening and riding bikes. Yes, there's some homelessness, but I don't think these guys are coming to build housing.

The Fabians thing is hilarious. Probably the first time a conspiracy has genuinely made me laugh out loud.

Signed up to apple TV, watched foundation and now on silo. Foundation excellent. Silo, hmm. Lovely to look at. Some shonky actors / lines. But s2 looking better than s1. Slow Horses next. Enjoyed the book.

Has factoid now reached the stage where it means "small fact" rather than "plausible but false claim repeated until it becomes received wisdom"? 😁 (another quiz question answer there)

I am not even particularly interested in trains but I am really interested in this. It's true. It's all true.

Also democracy is an very fragile thing based on rules everybody agreed to follow. If someone decides simply not follow the rules - entire thing can fall apart.

5 points up with fourballs to come. So Europe will go into the singles ahead... quite the performance.

This is quite the prediction.

Tediously often Wales is treated as some sort of odd cousin of little import while specifically English stuff is presented as "The News" in many big media contexts, and the upshot of that attitude laid bare here, as something of grave seriousness to all of Britain is sidelined/ignored

It should be noted that Tony Blair, along with the Irish Pm, bought peace to Northern Ireland 30 years of senseless violence that killed and injured thousands of innocent people. The last time I checked, Tony Blair has not been charged with any war crimes Netanyahu, on the other hand, was charged

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