Sunak could have stopped the boats long ago, putting smugglers out of business, saving lives, by taking up a French offer of facilities to process asylum applications in France Starmer could do it now If it was the boats and the deaths they wanted to stop #politicslive
Swearing alert! A good piece on why British English is so great for certain kinds of swear words. lithub.com/bell-ends-pi...
My book Gobsmacked! The British Invasion of American Englishāan outgrowth of the Not One-Off Britishisms blogālooks at several hundred words and phrases that have made their way across the pondāincā¦
Yes. This is spot on. Particularly as Starmer came in on a āclean politics upā ticket. For me there are two separate āgifts and donorsā issues. I donāt see much evidence that the Alli gifts are to purchase political influence. He is already in the Lordsā¦and has been for > a decade.
I donāt care where people exit to but thereās really no case for remaining on X at this point. You are providing free content and ad revenue to a malevolent proprietor.
Nearly a third of Elon Musk's posts on X last week were false, misleading or missing vital context. Musk has shown a willingness to elevate unfounded claims since he bought the platform in 2022, according to a New York Times analysis.
Almost a third of 171 posts last week from the X owner were false, misleading or missing vital context.
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Kemi Badenoch claims that Labour has more power in society than the Conservatives: āthey have the unions, the BBC [applause], charitiesā¦all we have is each other.ā BBC point complete nonsense. And of course, the Conservative Party famously enjoys no media support whatsoeverā¦
Interesting. Badenoch: āIāve never opposed any planning for any home. Every building that goes up, I think, thatās someoneās home. We shouldnāt be the party of opposing homes.ā
I visited the tomato souped painting a few days after and it was fine. Iām still reeling over the 20- and 24-month long sentences that the activists got.
Shadow Foreign Sec Andrew Mitchell is one of the Tory party's political survivors, returning as an MP in 2001 after losing his seat in 1997 He told me he's "very supportive" of Wes Streeting's NHS policies and won't oppose Labour "for the sake of opposing"
Shadow Foreign Secretary Andrew Mitchell has said he is āvery supportiveā of Labour Health Secretary Wes Streeting's approach to the NHS and insist...