my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day
‘Betraying Brexit’ What a moronic mantra. What does it even mean? Having a functioning relationship with our own continent? Not being diplomatically incontinent? Finding ways to collaborate and improve travel and trade? Great. Brexit betrayed us. V happy to betray it right back.
Highly significant report from OBR basically finds that even if public investment is paid for by borrowing it pays for itself. And of course you get jobs, health, better transport, environment, schools, skills etc as a bonus. The timing of this ahead of the Autumn statement is significant.
📢 1.90 is rolling out now (3/11) Every post now has the ability to “detach” quote posts. Quote posts are great but sometimes they’re used to dunk on people. This tool gives you a quick way to remove your post from the quote, reducing the unwanted attention that a quote might bring.
Actually he did! But it was a few hours later so I’m desperately trying not to link the two things 😆
I love that - laughed at your joke. Normally they just roll their eyes! It’s lovely to see them maturing but it takes a bit of getting used to doesn’t it, I was waiting for the sarcastic comment to follow for a few minutes but it didn’t come!
Believe it or not - maturing! It was a passing comment said with real feeling, no strings attached (so far…..)
From Seldon's new biography of Liz Truss - she considered scrapping cancer treatment to pay for the tax cuts she had given. The question I keep asking, and will keep asking: Why is the selectorate system - via which this sequence of catastrophic leaders were chosen - still in place, unchanged? ~AA
Hey 👋 I am a bit hit and miss on here at the moment, trying to be here more than Twitter but to be honest I’m just not on social media as much these days. I guess it’s because a lot of my rage and fury has disappeared since the election 🤣