I am so ready

Just such a complete extremist mentalist. Who loses out if a dead person chooses to donate to someone who couldn't have been a mother otherwise her womb?!? Nobody!

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

Reform UK have suggested introducing a new ‘patriotic curriculum’ based on Christianity to give children ‘things to take pride in again’. However, there is already plenty that children and young people can and do take pride in. 🧵

Sadly a situation that's been allowed to happen time and time again

Sheffield Wednesday have perfected the art of misery Years of gross mismanagement led to the ultimate insult: relegation at Bramall Lane

I went to watch Sheffield Wednesday get relegated at Bramall Lane yesterday, the worst end to the worst story. This season hasn't even been sport, simply a long lesson for English football.

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Robert Jenrick announces Reform UK will keep the OBR and Bank of England independence, with an emphasis on fiscal discipline, signified by restoring the two child benefit cap.

The speech is essentially the same as every Tory chancellor's conference speech in the last 10 years.

and wait until you tell the Irish that they're British!

Encapsulates this government perfectly in this one sentence. ‘Fascinating to hear that Starmer is extremely proud of doing something that he last year suspended seven of his MPs for voting for.’

If you believe a president who pardons drug dealers is fighting a war on drugs I don’t know how to help you…

So many policy debates would be better understood (I’m not saying they would necessarily have better outcomes) if we used percentage figures. Tesco’s pre-tax profit of 4.5 per cent, for example.

Just to actually address some things that are driving me mad:

The government has pledged to bring down immigration and is relying on higher migration to make its budgets work.

They have reduced tax incentives for saving in pension schemes whilst perceiving those schemes as engines of investment.

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...

(from my presentation at the IMF last week)

Completely agree, I still have fond memories of that 2013/14 FA Cup run

I enjoyed it while it lasted but I did think we were over performing Vs what I expected this season

I’M SICK OF AMERICANS
SAYING UKRAINE HAS LOST

Nothing is further from the truth and there’s been a lot of American talk that the war is nearly four years old and the only thing that can happen is Ukraine loses. Where in the history books can you show me an example of a defending power who has

Imagine praising "Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that they have a rota to walk the Latino children" and not wondering where your humanity went?

"Second, we need to enforce the policy with a vigour that has reduced flows at America’s southern borders by 90 per cent, and in Denmark by 95 per cent. Crucial to the Trump programme is an aggressive policy of removals, including snatching suspected illegals off the street. One friend tells me Latino parents are now so afraid to be seen out and about that the other parents have a rota to walk the Latino children to and from school. It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain."

Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.

This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.

And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
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The House passed a resolution condemning socialism. Okay.

When are they going to pass a resolution condemning fascism?

WHY NATO DOESN’T NEED AMERICA

I worked for years inside the command structure and it’s barely changed in principle. The only reason there is a SACEUR who is American is because the US supplied the majority of the air and land power and it had nuclear weapons.
It’s land component is considerably

The disciplines theory of government Are legacy disciplines dragging the whole operation down?

Are a small number of legacy disciplines dragging the whole of government down? A provocation:

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Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n

Men will spend billions on building their own AI rather than go to therapy.

We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now Mehdi on the creepy dead pedophile who was threatening a creepy president, the latest from Marjorie Taylor Greene's revolt, and Gavin Newsom's ambitious attempt to unite the Democratic Party.

“We Should All Be Epstein Conspiracy Theorists Now”

My take on Trump and Epstein, and the pretty stunning email from Epstein suggesting he could bring down Trump.

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One line stuck out for me in @stephenkb.bsky.social 's excellent morning email today - "No other government since 1970 would have suggested that such a direct linkage between “immigration policy” and “the safety of ethnic minorities in the UK” was something we should accept." Not so sure on this.1/?

Can't wait for you to make them for me

It doesn't seem great that we have an MP - albeit one estranged from Reform - who is now promoting explicit Powellite racism and hanging out with white nationalist accounts on X.

Tbh I'm not sure he ever had the plot

Don Broco at Engine Rooms yesterday were incredible!

Although I sweat so much I got stuck in my T-shirt trying to take it off for T-Shirt Song