Great! Would love to read it so would be nice if your people would fix the subscription service so I could actually log in, have my subscription recognised and read something!

The toxic people who don't think Shabana Mahmood doesn't belong in this country are white racists, not white liberals

But white liberals - like the mixed race, Asian or black liberals - have just as much right to disagree with Shabana Mahmood as they do with Theresa May or Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf

Worth remembering that the Windrush Lessons Learned Review identified how language/politics had an influence on how the Home Office operated. Producing the outcomes of that (continuing) scandal.

To help them get an education. Adults restrict all kinds of things to help kids. Alcohol, tobacco etc. It is not to punish them. Lots of children report they like it when there are no phones in schools

Some schools do ban phones and have the kids put them on lockers/pouches some don’t. I think the idea is that all use lockers. It’s not so much that they go in determined to break the rules it is that the distraction machine is right there with the as a temptation. Taking that away helps kids

now that’s a real blast from the past. Having to remember the phone numbers!

Not really. Because mostly they don‘t get caught so doesn’t really teach impulse control. Speaking as adult who should be doing something else right now but is currently looking at my phone

They get an exemption. I know a kid who has that very situation

Except there are no payphones now. I had 10p for the phone for an emergency or could make a reverse charge call. We had a pay phone in school!

My god daughter recently got a detention for this very thing. They can’t help it! Adults can’t help it - it happens in meetings all the time when you ask people to keep their phones off. Better for kids if they are locked away. If they need them for an emergency they can ask for them

that says nothing about the announcement. It says the appointment... They did not need to announce the appointment. If I am offered a job subject to references my new employer does not announce it until the references are complete and contract signed. I also don't tell my current employer!

he won't be brought down by the Epstein scandal. He will be brought down because he an incompetent Prime Minister..The Epstein scandal is merely the way it is being clearly elucidated to the public

Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

Is it worse to be the PM who overruled a failed vetting & lied about it, or the PM so un prime ministerial nobody bothered to tell him they were overruling the vetting? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks. The article alludes to fear of safe delivery and I think this is a major factor. When I was pregnant in my forties I was definitely going for a planned C-section due to this. Unfortunately I lost the baby and my experience of miscarriage management didn't change my view of the service

Do you have the source for this? I am not sure it is very high. Maybe a bit higher? Likely due to age and obesity which is also higher

I care about the lack of integrity. I care that he permits ministers to use the racist phrase Boriswave. I care just out of values but because I am mixed race and it is personal. I care about "Island of Strangers" but hey! also not his fault. And desire cannot improve services. It needs policy

the worst is that if there were a GE today, given the options, I would likely vote for him again! But I really wish I had spared my Achilles tendons the pavement pounding

Olly Robbins carrying the can for political misjudgement and dysfunction is now part of the UK constitution

If would be helpful to the running of the country if the PM had some interest in running the country. If his answer to everything is I didn't know then that is a problem. I campaigned and voted for him. He is not competent. He has no vision for the country which is needed at a time like this

I am planning on appointing someone who has publicly resigned twice in scandal. They resign a third time in even bigger scandal. The fallout should, however, not include me, the person who made the big call in the first place.

Totally untenable.

It's the cover up not the crime. It is unacceptable that everyone is losing their jobs to cover for a bad decision taken by the PM. He refuses to take accountability for any it. He did it he owns it. If he had taken that line I would agree. He did not. It is disqualifying

All of this about vetting is noise. The corruption was a feature not a bug. They knew who he was and appointed him because of it not despite it.They thought the dark arts would work with a corrupt president. They were cheered by many. But it blew up and Starmer should go.

the Rebecca Brooks defence

As I noted yesterday, if Labour had not lost so many votes to the Greens and Lib Dems they would be AHEAD of Reform in the polling and the narrative would look extremely different. I also suspect May will be Reform's ultimate peak in electoral success. But will Labour now be the beneficiaries?

I’ve had this for years but have only just noticed the Playboy on the shelf. Oh, Ladybird.

This also builds and develops infrastructure that a future government could use to persecute legal immigrants still further.

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast

Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com

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I grew up in the North East of England, where coal mines and slag heaps framed the views of the coast and countryside.

I 100% guarantee these are not as ugly and are safer to live near.

It just happens to be a problem when it’s on *their* doorstep.

This was a really terrific show and made me hope that one day Iran would be a place I could visit. I cannot see that day now and if it ever comes who knows what will be left. My heart breaks for the Iranian people

good that we are in the process of firing so many of them. We too can learn to do diplomacy like the US