“There’s no such thing as ‘Rejoin’. There’s not some fast-track ‘We made a mistake! Do-over! Do-over!' There is only ‘Join’ and it takes years of hard work at the best of times.” Not what many of you want to hear, I'm sure. But hear it, you need to. #Brexit
🆕 Quiet Riot: Sunday School 🇪🇺 KEIR'S BIG EURO-RESET 🇪🇺 @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social (yay! she's back!) untangle some very mixed signals from gov't, about what future it really wants with the EU. APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/2eGZ...
Naomi (SHE'S BACK! YAY!) and Alex try to look behind a wall of very mixed signals from Labour on the EU. Is there a siphosticated strategy in play? Or a tug of
You can’t demand that politicians are in touch with ordinary people then act outraged when they act like ordinary people…
Great news for Liz Truss that there is somebody in public life with a lower favourability rating... Prince Andrew on 5%.
"I'm so goth, I wear black nail polish at work." "You think that's goth? I got married in a graveyard." "You think that's goth?...
Nail-on-the-head!
"Dithering" seems unfair here. It was a deliberate and cynical political strategy to store up problems for the next government. Both cruel and damaging for asylum seekers, and hugely expensive for taxpayers. www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
Exclusive: Ministers under last home secretary refused to empower caseworkers to tackle crisis, say sources
This would be such a positive step forward for the UK if my experience of a compressed hours 4-day working week is anything to go by. Made me more efficient, effective and dynamic, and after a 3-day w/e started every Mon raring to go. www.theguardian.com/business/art...
Employees could work longer hours over fewer days under government proposals for flexible working
Does he have a similar turn-of-the-stomach reaction to the smell of processed peas as I do with Hobnobs?!
12-hr shifts on Sat + Sun on the HobNobs production line at McVities. Haven't touched one since.
Today Vance said Kamala Harris can go to hell and Trump, fresh from giving a cheery thumbs-up at an Arllington grave, basically called her a whore. If you are a political reporter or editor and all you are doing is clucking about "norms," you are failing the moment, the story, and the profession.