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.
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
My 19 year old son just said he liked what I am wearing.
ALT: a woman wearing a hat and a floral shirt is standing in a crowd
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From soaring to sinking – Musk's Twitter takeover is the gift that keeps on taking, with the deal now dubbed as the 'worst for banks since the 2008 crash'.
Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition is backfiring spectacularly, trapping banks in debt, driving advertisers away, and threatening Tesla’s stability
Conservative leader favourite Robert Jenrick tells the Telegraph he’d put Boris Johnson in his cabinet.