Selmayr is currently the EU ambassador to Pope Leo. 😜

Starmer still faces more questions than answers after Olly Robbins’s quietly damning defence | John Crace Sacked civil servant told Commons committee there was pressure from No 10 to approve appointment of Mandelson

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Olly Robbins has definitely come out on top. Robbins 2, Starmer 0 (two own goals). Sacking him has backfired on Starmer. Olly much more convincing. Starmer’s claim that he would have blocked Mandelson appointment if he had known about security vetting doubts is in shreds 1/

Of course Olly Robbins is diligent, super smart, professional and competent. Some people seem surprised but shouldn't be. Recall he managed to negotiate a de facto Customs Union & Single Market for goods deal for the UK/NI - which the EU hated. He's the best the Civil Service had

The US decision to extend sanctions waivers for Russian oil is "difficult to understand", Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis says. "I had no indication that the new waiver was being prepared. But, indeed, a couple of days later, there was a new waiver."

There are many practical steps in Draghi’s report and some of them have already been implemented.

But in the end, the real vision for liberal societies is to remain open and let the people push from bottom up.

The vision is there I think?

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Too late to turn to Europe? How Keir Starmer’s Brexit reset ran out of road

What is missing from this pretty accurate long assessment of UK-EU ties is the bigger picture vision from either side as to the future of Europe in the age of unreliable superpowers - and that is what will have to change for the relationship to move on fundamentally. www.ft.com/content/2007...

Likely numbers will improve somewhat during the coming months as I can see big increases in staycation bookings.

Amazing long read about the death of the Florida orange, which also feels obliquely like a commentary on the extinction of long reads, like John McPhee’s magnificent “Oranges”, which it mentions.

The OfCom reply times are usually around 2 years.

This would encourage imports.

This only means Russia faces shortages of all sorts.

Every time an expert goes on a TV show should quote this poll 😜

He should invite both Netanyahu and Putin.

Then arrest them 😜

Good point: he should also invite Putin then promptly arrest him.

Many lives would be saved.

Four arrests made during Epsom rape protest, Surrey Police say Police say there is no evidence immigrants or asylum seekers were involved in the alleged rape.

Why isn’t this on page one?

It’s buried into a subsection of “local news”….

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And you can complain to the BBC here:

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

According to the Russian curriculum, the second war started on 22 June 1941, when Germany attacked Russia.

The September 1939 attack on Poland or the annexation of the Baltics or the war on Finland and the ultimatum to Romania are depicted as a defensive moves.

Mexico's Sheinbaum denies 'diplomatic crisis' with Spain after conquest row The Mexican president says there were never tensions over Spanish colonisation, which had become a thorny issue.

The world needs this relationship to work!!!

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One of the biggest problems with the education system IMO (alongside funding, which ruins everything when there's not enough of it) is that it's designed to produce obedient workers, not well rounded people.
Critical thinking skills in particular are ignored, while research skills are undervalued.

Usually it takes OfCom about 2 years investigate… and we have elections in 2 weeks…

This is deliberate.

Well, it’s a telenovela

Every week is exciting

But if you don‘t follow for several episodes you’ll see you haven’t lost the entire plot

2/2

They think we are really really dumb

In this BBC example it’s pretty obvious 😜

Wow

BBC admits 'mistake' in editing out laughter at Johnson in TV debate The broadcaster cut out laughter during leaders’ debate on Question Time in later news bulletin clip

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BBC admits 'mistake' in editing out laughter at Johnson in TV debate The broadcaster cut out laughter during leaders’ debate on Question Time in later news bulletin clip

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www.theguardian.com/media/2019/n...

BBC admits 'mistake' in editing out laughter at Johnson in TV debate The broadcaster cut out laughter during leaders’ debate on Question Time in later news bulletin clip

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www.theguardian.com/media/2019/n...

Not surprising.

This is what the BBC does during elections campaigns, supporting the far right.

Here’s another example (Ofcom investigated for 2 years but Theresa May got elected…) :

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

My dad used to buy newspapers and when I was about 14 he enjoyed me finding propaganda points in each of them.